Eclectic and pragmatic: the colours of Dutch social and cultural geography |
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| Authors: | Sako Musterd Ben de Pater |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, Amsterdam 1018VZ, Netherlands;2. Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | In the Netherlands, human geography has traditionally been an applied, practical science. Close ties have always existed with spatial planning and regional-economic policy. With good reason, the first generation of planning specialists—in the 1960s—consisted largely of people trained as geographers. Geographers were also the socio-spatial engineers of the welfare state (de Pater 2001b; de Pater and de Smidt 1989). |
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| Keywords: | photographs family togetherness visuality mothering |
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