One would hope that by now, in 2006, at least we as geographers could
refrain from gendered language - do people really still use the term 'man
made'?? - point 4. Feminist geography has been around for a good while now
- arguments about the power of language are not new.
Tracey Skelton
Quoting Dr Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> Well I guess both the principal strength and the principal weakness of
> geography is that one might argue that 'everything is connected to
> everything',
> hence both emphsaising the wide relevance of the subject but also
> highlighting
> its diffuseness and its being hard to pin down.
>
> However perhaps some (human) geographical 'key facts' might be....
>
> 1) A basic knowledge of the arrangement of the planet's features. OK I
> don't
> think we have to be aware of all the mountain ranges in France for
> example,
> but students ought to be aware of e.g. the spatial relation of the USA
> to
> Europe and the Middle East, oilfields, Iraq, Iran, etc, or where the USSR
> stands
> to China, as such affects human geog, political, economic, relations.
>
> 2) Knowledge of the Brandt Line, what is '1st World' and '3rd World', and
> the possible spatial exceptions eg Australia, South Africa, Albania
> maybe.
>
> 3) With the world's growing cities, a knowledge of basic urban theories
> eg
> Hoyt.
>
> 4) World climatoligical influences, natural and man made such as
> Greenhouse
> effect
>
> 5) Resource problems, what are key contested resources, oil, water, etc,
> where the resources are, where the consumers are - sadly not in the same
> place,
> so we have oil wars, potential water wars.
>
> No doubt left out some key sub-disciplines of geography here, but then
> its
> late evening, so...
> what else should be in here ??
>
>
> Dr Hillary J. Shaw
> School of Geography
> University of Southampton
> Highfield
> Southampton
> SO17 1BJ
> _www.fooddeserts.org_ (http://www.fooddeserts.org/)
>
>
> In a message dated 29/03/2006 17:37:35 GMT Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> does geography have 'key facts'?!?!?!??!!?
>
> Prof Ron Johnston FBA
> School of Geographical Sciences
> University of Bristol
> Bristol BS8 1SS
> UK
>
> phone +44 117 928 9116
> FAX +44 117 928 7878
> _http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/staff/information/johnston.htm_
> (http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/staff/information/johnston.htm)
>
>
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