Can anyone point me in the direction of:
a) a discussion of the phrase 'going native' in a
historical/imperialist/racist sense - its background, usage, meaning etc etc
b) its use within the context of doing research, and when it was first used
in this sense (the earliest ref i have so far is malinowski, 1922)
thanks!
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Dr. Duncan Fuller
Division of Geography and Environmental Management
Lipman Building
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pauline Marne [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 08 July 2002 15:39
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: programme closures
>
> Whilst here have been a couple of replies discussing the closure of
> geography and other programmes at other universities, I am somewhat
> disheartened at the lack of concern that people (not just on the critical
> geography list but in my own institution which faces it head on) appear to
> have towards compulsory redundancy. Perhaps many of you are thinking that
> Salford is not a renowned geography department, perhaps not like the
> places many list members have the fortune to work in? Whilst it is a
> small department, it has a core of very research active staff despite lack
> of resources and a series of "restructurings" which have all but seen the
> name "geography" disappear. What does this disappearance of "geography"
> mean?? Everybody might be talking and writing about the spatial but who
> apart from geographers puts the two together anyway!
>
> Surely the really important thing here is not just what is being closed
> down but how they are doing it - via compulsory redundancy and the not
> quite so compulsory "voluntary" redundancy where you just get scared into
> jumping without being pushed. This has important implications for
> 'critical' geography - certainly there are geographers in my department
> who, whilst they may not be human geographers publishing in the field of
> critical geography, are highly 'critical' - these very people
> coincidentally enough have been offered up as sacrificial lambs in a
> faculty which has deficits all over the place but which has decided that
> geography must go.
>
> Perhaps this does not concern people either because perhaps it supports
> the recent debate over activism in geography which some believe has all
> but disappeared (unless one is writing about it in a five star journal
> that is)!
>
> In my own institution it is scarcely believable how many academics are
> just keeping their head down hoping that whatever is happening at the
> moment just passes them by - that is very unlikely. If they succeed in
> making staff compulsarily redundant at Salford then watch out because it
> really could be you next.
>
> As our local AUT President quoted recently:- "For evil to triumph all
> that is necessary is for good men (and women!!) to do nothing".
>
> Pauline
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