Why should geographers lost in the field read Roland Barthes?

The aim of this article is to propose a comparison that will enlighten the things that occur between geographers and their fields. By operating a transfer between text and field on the one hand, and fieldwork and criticism on the other, I want to claim that some tools emanating from literary critici...

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Published in:ACME an international e-journal for critical geographies 2011-01, Vol.10 (1), p.95-106
Main Author: Calberac, Yann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Barthes, Roland
Geography
Humanities and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary relations
Knowledge
Literary criticism
Literature
Reflexivity
Social science research
Social scientists
Structuralism
Texts
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Summary:The aim of this article is to propose a comparison that will enlighten the things that occur between geographers and their fields. By operating a transfer between text and field on the one hand, and fieldwork and criticism on the other, I want to claim that some tools emanating from literary criticism can be used by geographers to construct their field as a reflexive object and to analyze the conditions of the production of geographical knowledge. My demonstration is based on the Nouvelle critique i.e. the French structuralist criticism of the 1970s and especially on Roland Barthess famous article summing up his conception of text, entitled Texte (theorie du) (1975). The first part of the article focuses on Barthess theory of text, while the second part proposes a comparison between geographers fields and text. Reprinted by permission of the author
ISSN:1492-9732
1492-9732