Geographical societies have been established for the last two centuries the first one being the French Société de Géographie founded in 1821. For a long time, geographical societies were engaged in supporting exploration and scientific travel, collecting geographical information, facilitating school curriculum, encouraging research, publishing geographical works, and providing institutional support for the development of the rapidly evolving discipline of what we may call modern geography. However, since the late 20th-century pervasive globalization, fading disciplinary boundaries, weakening cohesion among geographers just like spreading science washing in global media (e.g. unjustified claims regarding climate change, spread of Covid-19) have created severe challenges for geography. This paper aims to scrutinize the possible role of geographical societies in the contemporary development of the geographical discipline, in the production and diffusion of geographical knowledge at the national and global scale with new innovative solutions.
Mots clés : knowledge transfer|academic cooperation|science washing|globalization
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