Geography has always ‘yearned for complexity’

В географии всегда была «тоска по комплексности»

Alekseev, Alexander (Алексеев, Александр) () and Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр) ()
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Alekseev, Alexander (Алексеев, Александр): Lomonosov Moscow State University
Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Russian Peasant Studies, 2020, vol. 5, 143-166

Abstract: In the interview, the Russian geographer A.I. Alekseev considers those facts of his bi- ography that determined his career in geography, key research projects and publications, and also discusses methodology and theory of geography. The interview focus- es on rural geography and regions in which Alekseev conducted his studies — from the Non-Black-Earth region and Kuban to the Far East and Altai. Alekseev paid special attention to the Soviet history of rural geography, theory and practice of decision-mak- ing in the Soviet agrarian transformations, rural-urban migrations, rural settlement and the ethnic factor in rural geography. He also considered teaching of geography in sec- ondary and higher school, the quality of geography textbooks and the change of generations in geography. The interview combines discussion of geographical theories with life stories of geographers who participated in the field rural research of Alekseev. The interview concludes with the issue of the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches in rural studies (‘complex research’) and with the aphorisms of classics of social-economic geography on the features of studying and understanding the rural development.

Keywords: economic geography; rural geography; theoretical geography; rural regions; rural settlement; N.N. Baransky; Yu.G. Saushkin; S.A. Kovalev; A.N. Rakitnikov; A.N. Chelintsev; A.A. Rybnikov (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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