O znaczeniu geografii jako nauki interdyscyplinarnej
The Role of Geography as Interdisciplinary Science

Author(s): Tomasz Zarycki
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: geography; spatial planning; cartography; critical social sciences
Summary/Abstract: The present text is devoted to the transformation of the role of geography, both in the general system of science and in the broader social context of recent decades. In particular, I point to the multidimensional crisis of this discipline of knowledge, which is interpreted in several ways. Meanwhile, geography as a well-rooted and multithreaded discipline can be considered as a space of interdisciplinarity in the best sense of the word. In such a role it allows avoiding many of the weaknesses of the currently developing spontaneously interdisciplinary movement. The text also indicates the important social role of geography as a science upholding public interest, especially in the use of common resources such as nature, space or the city. Therefore, the crisis of geography, especially in the Polish context, is interpreted as a phenomenon which is unfavourable both for the development of interdisciplinary science, and for social development, especially in the conditions of exacerbating pathologies connected with the so-called neoliberal tendencies in contemporary economy.

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