Not sure I enjoy my query being called a fuddy-duddy joke on my 65th
birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
--On 30 March 2006 03:30 -0500 Nick James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> That's now got me interested in names, e.g. Hillary. My daughter, 10
> wishes to be refered to as a 'actor' not an actress. The phrase 'Third
> World' is offensive, discuss. I am still curious about R Johnston's
> original comment. I thought it was a fuddy-duddy joke! It's amazing what
> can spark-off a heated discussion 'late into the nights'!
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> In a message dated 30/03/2006 03:06:35 GMT Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> 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
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> Quoting Dr Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]>:
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>>
>> 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:
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>> 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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Prof Ron Johnston FBA
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
+44 (0)117 928 9116
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http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/staff/information/johnston.htm
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