Comparative epistemology of cultural approaches in French and Spanish geographies
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Abstract
In classical cultural geography, the facts of culture usually respond to an interpretation of the world divided into different areas. Cultural geography, although instituted as a branch of the discipline and retaining some stability, was losing coherence in the face of this division of the world in cultural areas. In fact, this field of geographic knowledge is today overflowed by a large number of works that, without necessarily claiming as their own, explore a set of objects and themes that must be attributed to them. Without pretending a circumscribed vision that defines a backyard, or a strict disciplinary limit imposed by cultural geography, these works «forget» more and more to register in a subfield of cultural geography. In this way, a «cultural approach» in geography is claimed (Claval, 2015), where we would move from a geography of cultures to geographies of culture. In the same, the objects are those that appear privileged against the potential behavior of humans. This article proposes tracks of comparative reading to understand the evolution of the cultural approach in the French and Spanish geographies from the synthesis of a special section organized in Granada with the motive of the First Spanish-French Geography Workshops. This session, organized by the authors, regroups the contributions of Josefina Gómez-Mendoza, Jean-Baptiste Maudet, Ana I. Escalona Orcao and Hugo Capellà i Miternique