I simply can’t believe this entry on Fundamentalism by Bassam Tibi in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory (2010). It propagates as the process of “secular globalization” the so-called “Westphalian system of nation-states”, which is actually […]
Szerző: Zoltán Ginelli
Zoltán Ginelli is a geographer and historian of science. His research is in the geographies of knowledge, the history of geography, and global and transnational history. His main focus is on the historical relations between Eastern Europe and the Global South/Third World in the 19th and 20th centuries, including topics such as development and regional planning, (post)colonialism and racism, Cold War foreign policy, and travel writing. He lectured at various universities and colleges, and worked as an assistant researcher in the 1989 After 1989 and Socialism Goes Global projects at the University of Exeter (2015–2019). His current project, Postcolonial Hungary explores Hungarian semiperipheral colonial history from a world-systemic perspective. He is curating the exhibition Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South, and finishing his book based on 7 years of research about the global history of the quantitative revolution in geography.
zginelli@gmail.com
Muslims condemning things
There’s this great tumbler called Muslims Condemning Things, which is about samples of muslims and their communities condemning violence, oppression, terrorism, etc. It shows great evidence, and acts as an excellent reminder for us about biased Eurocentric […]
Medicalization of Women: Fixing the Fainting Woman, 1920
A historical fragment of the medicalization of women and the everyday practices of governing gender roles through “health treatment” in the early 20th century. Read in full here. “There’s seems little more appealing to the […]
When Europe Loved Islam
A very interesting Foreign Policy article on an important period of Western European and Muslim relations, worth to read. “Before the continent started banning hijab, European aristocrats used to change their names to Abdullah and Muhammad, and […]
Hungarian bilateral trade agreements with Australia (1968)
“A kontinensnyi Ausztrália éppúgy rá van utalva a külkereskedelemre, mint Magyarország. Éppen ezért érdekelt a kelet-európai országokkal – így Magyarországgal is – folytatandó kétoldalú kereskedelem minél erősebb fejlesztésében.” (1968) “The continent-sized Australia is just as reliant […]
A magyar gazdaságföldrajz és területi tervezés transznacionális története az államszocialista időszakban, 1949-1989
>>Scroll down for english version Az imént fejeztem be egy pályázathoz benyújtandó kutatási tervet, ami lényegében a doktori kutatásaim folytatását képezné a hazai empíria megkutatásával. A transznacionális történeti szemléletet követő kutatás az államszocialista időszak magyar gazdaságföldrajzának és területi tervezésének […]
Christaller in Africa
Peculiar or not so peculiar stories Previously I wrote about the stories of Károly Perczel and László Huszár. Both were Hungarian architects, urbanists and regional planners, but the latter was also involved in planning projects in the Third […]
The European Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union in Budapest (1971)
In my research, I am gathering all important international conferences and meetings attended by Hungarian geographers and spatial planners in the socialist era. One of the main networks between East and West were the International Geographical […]
Contribution of Arab geography to European “discoveries”
“Finally, maritime geography was the last kind discovered during the Ottoman Empire simultaneously with European “geography discoveries.” Columbus’ journey to the New World was motivated by Arab maritime geography. Vasco da Gama used Arab cartography […]
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