Is there such a thing as a human geography of the tropics? An inquiry into Pierre Gourou's paradigm. — Human geographers have had difficulty to define tropicalism in any other fashion than that implicit in P. Gourou's model of interpretation. His model focusses on the landscape-producing capacity of cultures (civilisations), thus on details and precludes consideration of social and political circumstances. This interpretation places high value on immersion in field work and denies the value of any ideological or theoretical reflection which could give a knowledge basis for wise assessments. By identifying the object of geography in terms of relationships between cultures and milieux, this model excludes the question of interaction between p...
Dollfus Olivier. Pierre Gourou, Leçons de géographie tropicale. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Ci...
With regard to the development of a broadly understood political ecology, francophone and Anglo-Amer...
La géographie tropicale est apparue en Europe au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au moment o...
Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘u...
This essay places the work of the French geographer Pierre Gourou (1900-1999) in the critical contex...
Pierre Gourou's geographical system. — Pierre Gourou is known mainly, in France and abroad, for his ...
The creation in Paris, in 1893, of the chair of colonial geography, in those days entrusted to Mr. M...
This paper examines the fieldwork undertaken by the distinguished French geographer Pierre Gourou (1...
Abstract. - Fieldwork has always played an important role for geographers doing research in tropical...
This paper tries to find out how Pierre Gourou's very important research done about the tropics betw...
The analysis of the thought of Pierre Gourou on the tropical world during his long career reveals a ...
This five-part article explores the connection between the geographers and tropical experts Pierre G...
About some aspects of life-space in the tropical civilisation. Industrial societies tend to develop ...
Our dissertation starts by postulating that geography is a science that focuses on Man's terrestrial...
Lausent-Herrera Isabelle. Pierre Gourou : Terres de bonne espérance, le monde tropical. In: Espace g...
Dollfus Olivier. Pierre Gourou, Leçons de géographie tropicale. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Ci...
With regard to the development of a broadly understood political ecology, francophone and Anglo-Amer...
La géographie tropicale est apparue en Europe au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au moment o...
Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘u...
This essay places the work of the French geographer Pierre Gourou (1900-1999) in the critical contex...
Pierre Gourou's geographical system. — Pierre Gourou is known mainly, in France and abroad, for his ...
The creation in Paris, in 1893, of the chair of colonial geography, in those days entrusted to Mr. M...
This paper examines the fieldwork undertaken by the distinguished French geographer Pierre Gourou (1...
Abstract. - Fieldwork has always played an important role for geographers doing research in tropical...
This paper tries to find out how Pierre Gourou's very important research done about the tropics betw...
The analysis of the thought of Pierre Gourou on the tropical world during his long career reveals a ...
This five-part article explores the connection between the geographers and tropical experts Pierre G...
About some aspects of life-space in the tropical civilisation. Industrial societies tend to develop ...
Our dissertation starts by postulating that geography is a science that focuses on Man's terrestrial...
Lausent-Herrera Isabelle. Pierre Gourou : Terres de bonne espérance, le monde tropical. In: Espace g...
Dollfus Olivier. Pierre Gourou, Leçons de géographie tropicale. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Ci...
With regard to the development of a broadly understood political ecology, francophone and Anglo-Amer...
La géographie tropicale est apparue en Europe au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au moment o...