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Title: Community geography: Toward a disciplinary framework
Community geography is a growing subfield that provides a framework for relevant and engaged scholarship. In this paper, we define community geography as a form of research praxis, one that involves academic and public scholars with the goal of co-produced and mutually-beneficial knowledge. Community geography draws from a pragmatist model of inquiry, one that views communities as emergent through a recursive process of problem definition and social action. We situate the growth of community geography programs as rooted in two overlapping but distinct traditions: disciplinary development of participatory methodologies and institutional traditions of community engagement in American higher education. We then trace the historical development of these programs, identifying common themes and outlining several challenges that community geographers should prioritize as this subfield continues to grow.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1832252
NSF-PAR ID:
10281239
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Journal Name:
Progress in Human Geography
ISSN:
0309-1325
Page Range / eLocation ID:
030913252096146
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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