ABSTRACT
Writing a country report on social and cultural geography in Greece has proven quite a tortuous exercise. On the one hand, geography is in many ways new in Greek universities, the academic and professional community of geographers is quite small and dispersed in various higher education departments and different fields within the discipline are in the making; in addition, research and writing in this field is by scholars who have ‘become geographers’ as a post-graduate degree, with undergraduate studies in other, related fields. On the other hand, it seems to me that much of the research and writing lie in-between different geographical fields, including social and cultural, and has not taken the form of an opposition between approaches identified with one field or the other, as seems to be the case in the Anglo-American literature.
