Abstract This introduction to a special issue on Geography and Decolonisation examines the complex relationship between the discipline of geography and the process of post-war decolonisation. It argues that little attention has been paid to decolonisation within geographical thought and scholarship or to the role that geographers played in the dissolution of colonial empires. It discusses the semantic difficulties surrounding the term decolonisation and examines the ways in which it used in current projects to reshape the academy and the production of knowledge. Serving as an introduction to the five substantive papers in the special issue it identifies cross-cutting themes and sets out a case for further examination of the spatiality of decolonisation.

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地理和非殖民化

摘要 对地理与非殖民化特刊的介绍考察了地理学学科与战后非殖民化进程之间的复杂关系。它认为，在地理思想和学术中很少关注非殖民化或地理学家在殖民帝国解体中所扮演的角色。它讨论了围绕术语非殖民化的语义困难，并检查了它在当前项目中用于重塑学院和知识生产的方式。作为特刊中五篇实质性论文的介绍，它确定了跨领域的主题，并为进一步研究非殖民化的空间性提出了一个案例。