A Strange Disciplinary Chasm: Physical Geography, Human Geography, and the Journey to Post-Truth
Channel: Cristian Suteanu
Date: 2022-11-08

It starts from the fracture between physical and human geography, but it soon overflows their boundaries, and it goes way beyond any form of scholarship. There is something that targets the very heart of the present day. It supports shocking issues we can see around us, like the blatant distortion of truth. It enhances people’s anxiety and depression. It affects us all. Can we understand a little better why this happens? Can we figure out what we might do? (Cristian Suteanu, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies & Department of Environmental Science, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada; presentation made on October 26, 2022, in the School of the Environment)

0:00 Human geographers about physical geographers, and vice-versa
9:03 The three types of "lens"
10:38 Valuing change? Natural sciences vs humanities
17:07 Positivism - attempts at removing the barrier
12:42 Help from nonlinear science
22:57 Two radically different approaches to questions
30:42 Pluralism to postmodernism, and the nurturing of post-truth
33:31 In the land of post-truth
36:15 Beyond post-truth. Not just tolerance