User:Hernste

Huib Ernste, is professor for Human Geography and chair of the Department of Human Geography, at the Radboud University Nijmegen, in the Netherlands (http://www.ru.nl/socgeo)

In the framework of a course 'Geographical approaches', and together with his students, he works on different entries for Wikipedia on various streams of thought which are relevant for Human Geography.

Huib Ernste was educated at the State University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, where he also worked for almost 15 years. Prof. Huib Ernste has been visiting professor at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, the University of Salzburg in Austria, the University of Califormia Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States, and the University of Münster in Germany.

He is mainly interested in social theoretic and methodological issues in Human Geography and is firmly rooted in an action theoretic perspective within Human Geography. Prof. Ernste sees his contribution to Human Geography mainly in 'boundary work' exploring the relationships (differences, communalities, complementarities) between different approaches in Human Geography and is therefore rather averse to any kind of scientific dogmatism, which usually blocks any constructive debate between approaches.