Gera, A. (2023). A Regionalist with Geographer Roots. Conversation with József Nemes-Nagy [Interview]. Modern Geográfia, 18(2), 97–108. https://doi.org/10.15170/MG.2023.18.02.06
József Nemes-Nagy was born in 1948 in Budapest, but due to his family ties, he spent a lot of time in Sárvár, Vas County. He studied Mathematics and Geography at the Eötvös Loránd University between 1966–1971, and received his doctorate in natural sciences in 1973. Afterwards he worked on spatial analysis and research at the Institute of Planning Economics of the National Planning Office. In 1994 he returned to the Department of Regional Geography (now the Department of Regional Sciences) at ELTE, where he became head of the department. He is credited with the reform of geography education and the consolidation of social geography and regional science in university education. The interview provides an opportunity to learn about his career, the professional challenges he faced before and after the change of regime, and the process that led to the regional science and social geography of today.
Keywords: human geography, regional science, spatial inequalities, network research, geography education
