The Development of Russian Social Geography: Challenges, Trends, Priorities

Abstract: Promoting the development of social geography (one of the most important components of present-day social sciences) is especially important for contemporary Russia. In the last 25 years Russian social geography has seen dramatic disciplinary changes. On the one hand, it has widened its scope. On the other hand, it has suffered from a growing contradiction between the popularization of the social geographic knowledge, the need to have a clear understanding of the factors and results of a multi-scale territorial social and economic dynamics, and the limits of the field (with its organizational structure, possibilities and practitioners desperately falling behind the times). The aim of this article is to analyze the post-soviet period of the development of social geography to identify the strengths and weaknesses that the discipline has de- monstrated, the challenges it still has to overcome and the priorities it has yet to formulate. It is shown how the traditional dimensions of soci

Object Details

• Alternative title: Развитие российской общественной географии: тренды, проблемные ситуации, приоритеты
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Baltic Region (2015) 2 ; 94-104

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2015
• Creator: Druzhinin, Alexander G.

Further information

• DOI: 10.5922/2079-8555-2015-2-9
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-51330-4
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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