Sultana, Farhana 2014. "By Whose Words Shall We Know, and to What End? Genealogies and its Others in Geography" Dialogues in Human Geography 4(3), 335-338. (DOI)
DOI: 10.1177/2043820614544607Google Scholar
Cited by 5 · Google Scholar profile(OpenAlex, as of 2026-07-12)
Abstract
The discursive and material tensions between words and ideas within geography have real impacts on the lives of peoples and the places we describe and study, and thus we should not take such tasks lightly. Political geography is limited by relying on existing genealogies and the limits of Anglo-based language. Silences and gaps can be better addressed by engaging with scholarship and ways of being from ‘other’ places as well as enriching genealogies to include postcolonial and feminist scholarship. While we can argue over the tracing of keywords or problematic interpretations in genealogical interventions, we should also at the same time be accountable to what has been and is continued to be overlooked, ignored, erased, or captured.
Academia & Higher EducationDecoloniality & Coloniality
Cite this work
Sultana, F. (2014). By Whose Words Shall We Know, and to What End? Genealogies and its Others in Geography. Dialogues in Human Geography, 4(3), 335–338. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820614544607
Sultana, Farhana. 2014. "By Whose Words Shall We Know, and to What End? Genealogies and its Others in Geography." Dialogues in Human Geography 4 (3): 335–338. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820614544607
Sultana, Farhana. "By Whose Words Shall We Know, and to What End? Genealogies and its Others in Geography." Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 4, no. 3, 2014, pp. 335–338. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820614544607
Sultana, F. (2014) 'By Whose Words Shall We Know, and to What End? Genealogies and its Others in Geography', Dialogues in Human Geography, 4(3), pp. 335–338. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820614544607
- AI hype, crackling northern lights and more: take it all in with these holiday reads
- Towards Just Geographies of Academic Mobilities in an Unjust World
- Interventions on public geographies
- SAGE Open
- Reflexivity, Positionality and Participatory Ethics: Negotiating Fieldwork Dilemmas in International Research
- Doing Development as a Critical Development Scholar