Hmmm.
Maybe we (and not just human geographers) do need to worry?
Maybe we need more 'geography' books for non-'academic' audiences?
Maybe paper maps and atlases don't really (the horror!!) represent what
school and HE geography is all about nowadays...??
http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/
http://www.passion4geography.co.uk/
http://www.geography.org.uk/news/actionplanforgeography
http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/pgwg/symposium.htm
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carl Griffin
Sent: 04 September 2006 14:25
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Subject: Re: Take action to save geography - a message for human geographers
Peter,
I like the idea of subverting bookshop conventions but I'm not too sure we
need to worry about dedicated geography shelf space. Subjects such as
history and psychology may well have higher public profiles than geography
but in the vast majority of bookshops - including those in UK university
towns - their dedicated sections contain very few books targeted at an
academic audience. Indeed, those based - ironically or otherwise - in
other disciplines might fairly make the point that geography was the
extremely well represented on bookseller's shelves by virtue of the
enduring demand for paper maps and Atlases. Or don't such publications
count?
Geography works best when we ignore disciplinary boundaries, especially
those we have spuriously placed around ourselves. So let's place books
with geography - even space - in the title into the other sections we'd
most like to shake up. Or, better still, place 'geography' books in the
children's book section in the hope that something subconsciously enters
the minds of the browsing under 11's and in time they take GCSE and
A-level geography. Then we might save those geography departments whose
existence is increasingly precarious.
Carl.
Dr. Carl J. Griffin,
Research Fellow in Human Geography,
Oxford University Centre for the Environment,
University of Oxford,
South Parks Road,
OXFORD,
OX1 3QY
Tel: 01865 285185
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