CGF members,
Tim Cresswell has already preapred two keywords: Civilisation and Western.
James Sideway has volunteered to prepare an entry for Crusades.
Can I get other CGF members to volunteer for other entries please?
Please send your response to the list, so that others know what keywords
have been covered. We needn't worry about getting these keywords
'perfect', as these are teaching resources that most of us will adapt for
our own classroom needs. Also, we need to recognise that people are doing
this as a voluntary effort, with little time to complete the task... in the
spirit of co-operation, let's not get too picky about these things and
spend all our time being critical of other's efforts.
The original posting is attached below, including the list of potential
keywords.
best wishes,
lawrence
At 3:06 pm -0700 18/9/01, lawrence.berg wrote:
>Tim and CGF members,
>
>The Keywords project that Tim has suggested would make an excellent
>addition to the People's Geography Project Teaching Clearinghouse, which we
>are presently developing as part of the PGP's critical response to the
>recent events in America (and beyond).
>
>With that in mind, we would like to develop a keywords section for the
>Teaching Clearinghouse.
>I have volunteered to co-ordinate this (unless someone else would like to
>do it, in which case I'm more than happy to pass it on) and to prepare the
>materials in html format for the web.
>
>Can other CGF members volunteer to produce specific 'keywords'? Quite a
>number of you have made excellent suggestions for words to be included in
>the keywords document. many of you have the expertise to follow up with a
>short (250 - 500 word) definition.
>
>If you wish to volunteer, please send notification via the CGF list. that
>way others can see which terms need to be covered.
>
>here is Tim's original list along with a number of words suggested by other
>people (please feel free to suggest more words too):
>
>Afghanistan
>Assassination
>Calibrate
>CIA
>Civilisation
>Coalition
>Collatoral Damage
>Critical Geopolitics
>Crusade
>Democracy
>Freedom
>Fundamentalist
>Immigration
>innocent people
>Iran
>Islam
>Jihad
>Middle East
>Minimum wage
>Proportionate
>Racism (and anti-racism)
>Realpolitiks
>Sanctity of human life
>Security
>Self (and Other)
>Self-defence
>Skyscaper
>State Terror
>Terrorist
>War
>Western
>Wrath
>
>
>Thanks to all for considering this request.
>best wishes,
>lawrence
>
>
>
>At 5:29 am -0700 18/9/01, Tim Cresswell wrote:
>>Dear people
>>
>>Maybe a positive thing to do right now would be to produce a kind of
>>collective keywords decoder for use in classrooms etc. What I have in mind
>>is modelled on Raymond Williams keywords book - a document (on-line) that
>>allows us to analyse the press and the politicians in terms of the language
>>they are using. Think for instance of the word "crusade." We all have an
>>idea about where that word comes from and what it implies but some of us
>>(James!!) might know more than others and be able to contextualise it.
>>Similarly other words that are not so abstract (like "Pakistan") come to
>>mind. We are watching Pakistan transform before our eyes. Not so long ago
>>(1999) Pakistan was subject to economic sanctions from around the world
>>following a military coup. It was expelled from the Commonwealth Council
>>of Ministers and all US and UK aid was withdrawn. Now it is this
>>reasonable, rational, pro-western, "moderate" government etc etc. A
>>similar transformation happened with Saudi Arabia in the Gulf War.
>>
>>Other entries in this non-exsitant document include:
>>
>>Racism (and anti-racism)
>>Minimum wage
>>Skyscaper
>>Terrorist
>>War
>>Western
>>Fundamentalist
>>Security
>>Self-defence
>>Assassination
>>Democracy
>>Coalition
>>Calibrate
>>Proportionate
>>CIA
>>Iran
>>Collatoral Damage
>>Islam
>>Jihad
>>Civilisation
>>Immigrant (illegal)
>>allies
>>
>>Etc.
>>
>>Tim
>>
>>Tim Cresswell
>>Senior Lecturer
>>Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
>>University of Wales, Aberystwyth
>>Aberystwyth
>>Ceredigion SY23 3DB
>>United Kingdom
>>Tel: 44 (0)1970 622782
>>e-mail [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
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Lawrence D. Berg, D.Phil.
Associate Professor of Geography
& Research Liaison Co-ordinator
Office of Research Services
Okanagan University College
Vernon, B.C., Canada V1B 2N5
Ph: +1/250/545-7291 ext. 2264
Fx: +1/250/545-3277
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