Hi Duncan,
From your email I recognise some similarities with another session at this
year's IBG - Spaces of Knowledge, Communities of Knowing. The session
explores the various spaces and networks through which the individual or
group (expert or amateur) locate, acquire, manipulate and advance a
specialized repertoire of intelligence and skills. Papers will consider a
number of different spaces both 'real' and 'virtual' in order to understand
how expert/amateur ways of knowing are developed and negotiated. Looking at
(for example) the museum, the home and the marketplace as places where
knowledge can be enacted, taste-negotiated, identities created and skills
refined, as well as considering the ways in which members of these
communities negotiate their affiliation through the performance of a set of
rules, mores, rituals, conventions, materials and competences that engender
group identity and belonging.
The Academy is a space of knowledge and community of knowing. There are some
interesting cross-overs between these two sessions that I hope will be
discussed over the duration of, and beyond, the IBG.
Hilary Geoghegan
PhD Candidate
Department of Geography
Royal Holloway, University of London
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In the run-up to the 'geographies of the academy' ibg sessions, i'd like to
find out colleagues experiences of the spaces they occupy, both imaginary
(spaces of organisation, marketing, publicity) in terms of where your
'geography' (or whatever) division/department/school etc etc you are
'located' in is 'placed' in your institution, and actual, in terms of your
allocation of space in that context - with whom do you share institutional
space? Are you in the 'same space' as colleagues? Are you spread across
campus? Do you share office/admin space with 'others'? What are the
processes/forces at work in shaping your use/allocation of space? How are
these resisted? What are the implications of this for your work, for the
larger whole, for your department's (etc) identity...?
Views/comments/testimonies either to me or all as usual.
ta
Duncan
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PEANuT (Participatory Evaluation and Appraisal in Newcastle upon Tyne) -
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Mapping Tranquillity -
http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/map_tran
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Exploring solutions to 'graffiti' in Newcastle upon Tyne -
http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/graffiti
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'Local to me': Advancing Financial Inclusion in Newcastle upon Tyne -
http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/local/?v
iew=Standard
Geo-publishing.org - http://www.may.ie/nirsa/geo-pub/geo-pub.html
Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Making a Difference Beyond the Academy?
http://www.praxis-epress.org/availablebooks/radicaltheorycriticalpraxis.html
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