Sharon Zukin’s scientific contributions

... In essence, this underground world of geographers functions as a contemporary manifestation of Foucault's (1995) panoptic gaze, where surveillance and especially selfregulation remain the norm, leading to a nuanced and clandestine form of knowledge production. At this point, the intricate nature of the critical turn in disciplinary knowledge production in a typical authoritarian context finds its meaning in the coexistence of these two dimensions: the arena where the traditional knowledge production process is refused, and the underground filled with geographical 'black boxes' that challenge the ideological prescriptions of the authoritarian system and thus remain hidden and concealed. ...

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Intricate critical turn: changing geographical knowledge production in an authoritarian context