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Majd al-Shihabi 🏴 مجد الشهابي

I'm reading this 1956 essay by Carl O Sauer, titled "the education of a geographer". It's a beautiful meditation on the disciplinary incoherence of as a discipline, which was true back then, and is even more true today.

It strikes me is that I only came across the essay a few days ago, and I'm a PhD student in geography.

I feel that every university degree should have a required course about the history of the discipline it studies.

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sci-hub.seSci-Hub | THE EDUCATION OF A GEOGRAPHER. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 46(3), 287–299 | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1956.tb01510.x
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Majd al-Shihabi 🏴 مجد الشهابي

One of my favourite quotes from the text: """A geographer is any competent amateur -in the literal sense--of whatever is geographic; may we never wish to be less than that."""

This matches my experience, having come to geography from systems design engineering (which is just applied systems theory), through urban planning (which is just applied geography).

I always feel that I'm an amateur geographer, and this feels validating.

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