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Over the last three decades, “new ecology” has been driving the quest for integrating the social and natural sciences in pursuit of understanding environmental issues. Geography as a discipline has the advantage of being placed at the centre of this interdisciplinary transformation. Historically, the traditional knowledge system has been evolving through land-labour integration and knowledge synthesis in geographical space. Starting with a discussion on geographical space as land-labour linkage, during transition, rural space as a knowledge system has been presented here as an area of major concern in political ecology. This paper highlights the importance of documenting facts over space relevant to a new political–ecological vision emerging with the rise of global civil society; and linkages with social movements that are dialectically relevant to knowledge synthesis as a new element in the narratives of threats, survival, and struggles.
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Mishra, A.P., Jha, P.C., Mondal, S. (2022). Geographies of Knowledge Synthesis and Interdisciplinarity. In: Rai, S.C., Mishra, P.K. (eds) Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Resource Management in Asia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16840-6_4
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