Von der Länderkunde zu Regionalen Geographien

Ute Wardenga (SFB 1199 & IfL)

Publication Date

February 2019

Publisher

Braunschweig: Westermann

Language

German

Type

Article

Journal

Geographische Rundschau

Volume

71

Issue

1-2

Pages

46–51

Der Beitrag erzählt in der Reihe der Jubiläumsgeschichtsschreibungen der Geographischen Rundschau (GR) eine neue Geschichte. Sie handelt von dreierlei: erstens von der Transformation der Länderkunde zu Regionalen Geographien; zweitens von der Schulgeographie als Motor für die Entwicklung neuer Formen von Regionaler Geographie und drittens von der Geographischen Rundschau und ihrer pragmatischen Art, das Fach durch kluges Zeitschriftenmanagement voranzubringen.

Prof. Dr. Ute Wardenga (SFB 1199 & Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig University, Germany)
Ute Wardenga is an honorary professor of global studies at Leipzig University (Germany) and serves on the executive boards of the Centre for Area Studies and the Graduate School Global and Area Studies. Since 2012, she has been the deputy director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig where she coordinates the research group “History and Geography”. Ute Wardenga’s current research interests focus on geography as a space-related practice in the process of globalization and in this regard leads the SFB project C1, which compares international histories of geographical societies since the early 19th century. Most recently, she has co-directed the research project entitled “Digital Atlas of Geopolitical Imaginaries of Eastern Central Europe”, which explored the impact of cartographic and mass media representations of space in Eastern Central Europe since 1989.