Geografia wobec wyzwań systemowej reformy nauki w Polsce
Geography in the face of systemic science reform in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The article continues and broadens motives published by the author as a post-conference text ofa seminar organized by the Faculty of Geographic Sciences of the University of Łódź on 2 June 2015 (State,perspectives and strategy of socio-economic geography development in the next 15 years [until 2030. Intergenerational discussion]). Both the esteemed Jubilarian and the writer of these words participated in the discussion. More than 4 years have passed since then, during which there has been a governmental reform of science, as well as a certain generational change among geographers. The post-conference text presents, among other things, a conceptual and theoretical diagnosis, as a result of which a subject-methodological division of geography (geographical sciences) into physical, socioeconomic, humanistic and applied geography was proposed. The division was based on the fundamental differences between these sub-disciplines(treated so far in part as research directions or orientations), but also on the regularities of methodological and organizational development of other real sciences (physics, biology, chemistry, some social sciences).This article supports and broadens this point by addressing new opportunities for the expansion of geography and geographical sciences, related to the reforms of science in Poland. Among other things, an attempt has been made to answer the question whether and how, in the new institutional and organizational conditions,geography can be a ‘keystone’ and ‘catalyst’ for other scientific disciplines, dealing with the analysis of phenomena and processes in a geographical space.

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