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I am not a professional Geographer, but I depend on some of the work they do, and admire them for it. I am, though, a (recovering) Political Scientist, so I am trained in looking at the world as composed of what James Madison called "the evils of faction." Political Scientists of the early 21st century, have, of course, surrendered joyfully to the evils of faction. This is what we have in common with our friends in Geography.
"Geography in America" is a decennial census of Geography's major themes and subdisciplines. There are now two editions. Some subdisciplines, like geomorphology, are technical and isolated from the turmoil of other concerns in the disciplines. GIS, or GIScience, or Geomatics, is also technical, but very close to the Charybdis-like nature of the discipline. The fact that GIS can't even settle on a name for itself is spurred by charges, dating from the mid-1990s, that GIS was a white-male, Western, positivistic, and neo-capitalist project. Worse, it was hard to master. So, Geography does have its own Michael Moores.
In the 1990s Geography was adjusting to a quantitative revolution that dated from the 1960s. Since then it has become self-consciously focused on the academic trinity of race, class, and gender. Like many academics who date from the '60s, I have trouble with the concept of feminist, queer, and post-Fordist theories of land use. In fact, I find the word "queer" offensive. But, no one cares about offending white males, who are generally assumed guilty of Geography's capital thought-crime, "neo-liberalism." In my youth this was called "right-deviationism."
But, to me at least, this makes both editions of Geography in America so useful. These books are a Michelin Guide to a discipline with a wide mandate. Individually almost every chapter is a concise literature review of a subdiscipline. This is exceptionally useful for people like me, tourists in a neighboring discipline.
The downside is the overall tendencies of these books to indulge the tyranny of the special interest groups. This is not an exaggeration. After the 1960s Geography banished military geography. But, in the late 1990s Military Geography was rehabilitated. Geography is hardly alone in marginalizing the politically incorrect. Almost every academic discipline is coping with a thirty year long struggle with administrative notions of relevance. Geography is no exception, but it is ironic, if not amusing, that a discipline devoted to debunking a flat earth has to devote so much time to lip-synching questions other disciplines raise about globalism.
