The article presents the changes in the discipline of geography over 60 years as experienced both in fieldwork and in practice by a Norwegian geographer. Based on diaries and collections of memoirs, the author, Arild Holt-Jensen, presents his life story and how it has been impacted by people, places and special events. His intention is to show how geography and his own work reflect social, political and intellectual changes since the late 1950s. Initially, a regional geography approach was adopted in the fieldwork for his master’s thesis but the approach was challenged by new ideas and methods from both the spatial science school and model thinking. As a young lecturer in 1968, the author was shocked by the positivism debate and critical philosophy, and his spatial science and quantitative approach in his PhD project had to be adapted. His political engagement and interest in planning led him to research social exclusion in European neighbourhoods. His need to trace the identity of geography as a discipline resulted in a textbook that throughout the years has been updated by following up on research trends to the present. Thus, the book and the article show Holt-Jensen’s shifts in disciplinary identity and research practice.

本文介绍了挪威地理学家在实地考察和实践中经历的60年来地理学科的变化。基于日记和回忆录，作者艾里德·霍尔特·詹森（Arild Holt-Jensen）介绍了他的人生故事以及人物，地方和特殊事件对生活的影响。他的意图是展示自1950年代后期以来地理和他自己的作品如何反映社会，政治和思想上的变化。最初，他的硕士论文在野外工作中采用了区域地理方法，但是这种方法受到了空间科学派和模型思维的新思想和方法的挑战。作为1968年的一名年轻讲师，作者对实证主义的辩论和批判哲学感到震惊，他的博士项目中的空间科学和定量方法必须加以修改。他的政治参与和对规划的兴趣促使他研究了欧洲社区的社会排斥现象。他需要追溯地理学科作为一门学科的需要，导致编写了一本教科书，多年来一直通过跟踪最新研究趋势来对其进行更新。因此，这本书和文章显示了霍尔特·詹森在学科认同和研究实践方面的转变。