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Teaching About Home: Geography at Work in the Prewar Nagano Classroom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Kären Wigen

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Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the geography classroom as a crucible of nationalist ideology. In the past decade, scholars from around the world have exposed the chauvinism of national atlases (Black 1997; Fahlbusch, Rossler, and Siegrist 1989), assessed the citizenship models implicit in social-studies readers (Bailly 1998; Soysal 1998), traced the institutional linkages between geography and imperialism (Bell, Butlin, and Heffernan 1995; Godlewska and Smith 1994; Livingstone 1992), and explored the role of spatial images and metaphors in shaping national identities (Hooson 1994; Thongchai 1994).

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , August 2000 , pp. 550 - 574
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000

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