As
the common saying goes, change is the only permanent entity in this world.
Hence, we should see change with outmost vigour and attention since it only
marks room for improvements, and as Geography itself is a discipline as what
the paper suggested, it should be open to new and innovative ideas and
processes that has the capacity to further develop it.
The
controversy I was very interested at was the “Generational gap” issue that was
stated in the reading material, the way I see it, veteran geographers fail to
comprehend and appreciate new and fresh concepts being presented by new
geographers. I think one way to make a successful linkage between the “old” and
the “new” is through a uniform medium of communication, in other words, a functional
language, since we all communicate through the use of language, I do think that
if only the two parties can effectively exchange ideas through a well versed
language, the problem will be diminished, if not eradicated.
I
think now that we have the greater capacity to understand the still
unrealizable concepts of Geography, we have focused too much on the
sub-disciplines and even further dividing them to more contemporaries, we have
overlooked the whole picture and instead, focused on the individual and
categorized parts of it, it has been mentioned on the article that geographers
have been interested in categorizing the ideas we currently have in Geography
into more defined constituents. The problem is manifested by the time these
constituents will try to stabilize themselves and then they find out that there
already is a subject field very well related to it, like Geomorphologists with
Geologists, and Economic Geographers with Economists, and then a shaky solution
would be to further glue itself within the realms of Geography, which I think
is appropriate but not concrete.
Lastly,
I think one way of limiting the chaotic nature of the definition of Geography
is by admitting that there is indeed no definition that can exactly and totally
satisfy the ideas of all the esteemed geographers have combined, each will have
their own opinion on what should be included and what should be crashed-out,
but through a convention of a general thought, not necessarily going to the
specifics, we can all free ourselves from endless debates and argumentations.
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