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ROUTES AND ROOTS OF GEOGRAPHICAL REALITIES: IDENTITY AS CATALYST

Southern African Geographical Journal, 1999
ABSTRACT The theme of the address focuses on preserving the identity of Geography as the discipline to understand everyday life. Routes taken in research and teaching are based on the discipline's historical roots, its perspectives, philosophy and methodology.
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Landscape and Identity

, 2020
In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media.
W. Darby
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Fused identities: an exploration of primary teachers’ geographical identities

International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2020
Teachers working with younger pupils in schools often teach their pupils multiple subjects; therefore, the relationship that the individual teacher has with each subject area is likely to be signif...
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Geographic Insights Into Political Identity

2010
Moving away from the conventional geopolitical analyses of territory, states, and nations, geographical research is now focused on the ways that political identities are constituted in and through spaces and places at various sites and scales. Many geographers attend to how power gets articulated, who gets marginalized, and what this means for social ...
Emily Gilbert, Connie Yang
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Franz Boas, geographer, and the problem of disciplinary identity

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2004
AbstractThis paper examines Franz Boas as an aspiring professional geographer during the 1880s: his Baffin Land research, his publications, his participation in geography organizations, and his struggle to attain a university appointment in geography.
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Job Categories and Geographic Identity

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012
Many previous explanations which explain geographic concentration of industries propose what I refer to as supply-side advantages to firms which co-locate geographically. I, instead, suggest an alternative, demand-side mechanism. I argue that in labor markets, particular types of work become associated with specific geographical locations.
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Geographical indications in Nepal: in search of identity

2019
In the multilateral trading system, GIs remain one of the most debated subject matters. The division and difference in fitting GIs within the policy space among the developed countries has further made the issue controversial. The developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) see GIs through the lens of sustainable development.
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Israeli Geographers in Search of a National Identity

The Professional Geographer, 2004
Zionist geographers in Israel were highly involved in institutionalizing Israel's national identity. In search for interpretative schemes, they were highly committed both to Western paradigms and to Zionist narratives. Until the 1970s, organicist models of regional geography were popular despite contradictions between the use of tragic and comic ...
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CONFLICT AND SHARED IDENTITY IN GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED TEAMS

International Journal of Conflict Management, 2001
Though geographically distributed teams are rapidly increasing in prevalence, empirical research examining the effect of distance on group process has not kept pace. In a study of 24 product development teams located within five companies, we attempt to bridge the gap between research and practice by comparing the amount of affective and task conflict ...
Mark Mortensen, Pamela J. Hinds
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Geographic Identity and Attitudes toward Undocumented Immigrants

Political Research Quarterly, 2019
This article examines the extent to which economic attitudes, political predispositions, neighborhood context, and socio-demographic factors influence views toward adult, undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States. We specifically examine how these factors differ for respondents living in various types of American urban, suburban ...
Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta   +1 more
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