More than `Anglo-American', it is `Western': hegemony in geography from a Hungarian perspective

Abstract

The paper assesses the inequalities of the production of geographical knowledge mainly against the backdrop of the East–West relations, which still dominate Hungarian practice. However, it also offers examples of Anglo-American hegemony making itself felt more acutely; or of Hungarian geographers, at the receiving end of these dimensions of hegemony, producing hegemony in a different system of relations. Investigating the political economic power relations underlying this hegemony and the social agents involved in `hegemony-producing' helps establish potential strategies of putting an end to the inequalities of academic knowledge production. Some possibilities of these strategies are outlined.