{"id":189,"date":"2015-03-06T16:50:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/?p=189"},"modified":"2019-03-05T20:32:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T04:32:20","slug":"philosophic-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/2015\/03\/philosophic-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophic Geography and Study Abroad: Thinking Critically about the Map of the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"tx\"><em>Abstract:<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">This essay explores Andrea Smith&#8217;s concept of the privilege of self-reflexivity\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">and Larry Wolf&#8217;s writings about philosophic geography and Eastern Europe in\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">conversation with my study abroad experiences in Romania in 2013 and the Czech\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">Republic in 2014. I use these writers to critique my practice of approaching\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">the people I met while studying abroad as an occasion for the development of my\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">own self-reflexivity, as well as my tendency not to consider them as being in\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">possession of same kind of post-identity as myself. I then connect this\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">critique to the tradition of intellectual cartography in Eastern Europe and the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">problematic mental mapping of the other that scholars have long undergone in\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">this area. Finally, I consider alternatives to these epistemological stances\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">and reflect on how I attempted to implement them during my time in the Czech\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-url=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/hthorpe\/docs\/foss_philosophicgeography_nhntv1\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 323px;\" class=\"issuuembed\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.js\" async=\"true\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract:\u00a0This essay explores Andrea Smith&#8217;s concept of the privilege of self-reflexivity\u00a0and Larry Wolf&#8217;s writings about philosophic geography and Eastern Europe in\u00a0conversation with my study abroad experiences in Romania in 2013 and the Czech\u00a0Republic in 2014. I use these writers to critique my practice of approaching\u00a0the people I met while studying abroad as an occasion for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}