Introduction: Is there a ‘Nordic’ human geography?

Abstract

One widespread acknowledgement within contemporary human geography is about the contingent and contextual character of knowledge/s. Theoretically, Nordic human geography has been marked by a specific situatedness at the interstices of Anglo-Saxon and continental intellectual movements. In the production of knowledge within human geography the difference in languages, traditions and cultural and political histories are often blurred in hegemonic 'Western' discourses in which British/North American particularities achieve the status of universals. These differences are historically based and due to academic traditions and merits, the institutional settings and organisational structures of the universities, and economic and political-ideological conditions in the countries. Differences in philosophical and methodological approaches are overlaid by the described differences in 'national' discourses in the making of a web of different interests and ideas. The chapter also presents some of the key concepts discussed in this book.

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