Wonderful, Jonathan. Thank you.
On 28/06/12 7:33 PM, "Jonathan Cloke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>There's a very interesting conversation on emotional geographies taking
>place on the Canadian Geographers list at the moment, which bears
>cross-posting.... See below
>
>Dr Jon Cloke
>LCEDN/MEGS Research Associate
>Geography Department
>Loughborough University
>Loughborough LE11 3TU
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>Office: 01509 228193
>Mob: 07984 813681
>________________________________________
>From: [log in to unmask] [[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Matthew Hatvany [[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 27 June 2012 19:07
>To: Lawrence Berg; CAG List
>Subject: Re: [Caglist] FW: 4th Conference on Emotional Geographies
>
>Dear Mr. Blatherwick,
>
>Just because emotions can not be measured in the traditional sense in the
>spatial sciences does not mean that they are not "real" and as much a
>part of the world as populations, transport systems, buildings and
>natural objects. Your ontological certainty as to what constitutes the
>"real world" is a form of epistemological reductionism that renders the
>world a flat plane made up of Cartesian coordinates. To be a "geographer"
>means to have a "holistic" vision of the world that takes into
>consideration the material and the immaterial. If I may, I am quite
>intrigued to know how you "chime in on spatial impacts of decision
>making" when it comes to people and places (like Ottawa, where you are
>headquartered) if you have not taken into account people's sentiments in
>regards to home, place of work, transport systems, environment,
>community, etc.? Frankly, the theoretical revolutions that have taken
>place in cultural geography since the 1990s have undoubtedly made
>geography considerably more relevant to decision makers who rely on the
>spatial sciences.
>
>I do not deny that your field of applied geography plays an important
>role in society it certainly does. But, because of the constraints
>imposed by your clientele (engineers, municipalities, politicians, etc.),
>applied geography is often in the business of simplifying spatial
>concerns to a limited number of variables. Is that a true reflection of
>the "real" world to which you make allusion? I think you'll agree that
>in most cases there is a lot of grey, complexity and, ultimately,
>uncertainty out thereŠ. As Canadian geographers, therefore, let us thank
>the generosity of Canadian society that we are a rich and intelligent
>enough nation to support a small corpus of "ivory tower types" who are
>purposely not constrained by external pressures and are encouraged to
>think independently and originally in order to explore geography in its
>fullness and not according to the political whims, economic imperatives
>or other exigencies of the "hour."
>
>Dr. Berg the geographical community has "got your back." Please
>continue to advocate your vital work. Geographers recognize that the
>world is a diverse place and must be analyzed in all of its rational and
>irrational complexity.
>
>Sincerely,
>Matthew Hatvany
>Département de géographie, Université Laval
>Member of the CAG
>
>De : Lawrence Berg <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>À : CAG List <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>Objet : [Caglist] FW: 4th Conference on Emotional Geographies
>
>Perhaps this is a good example of emotional geographies in action.
>
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>From: <[log in to unmask]>
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>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:00:50 -0700
>To: Lawrence Berg <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [Caglist] 4th Conference on Emotional Geographies
>
>Dear Lawrence:
>
>Please stop sending me this drivel. A conference on emotional
>geographies? Give me a break. As a professional in the applied
>geography field (for all you ivory tower types that means working in the
>real world) I can only shake my head in disbelief over what has been
>happening to my chosen profession since the mid '90s. You may not
>realize it but we are the ones who have to chime in on the spatial
>impacts of decision making, etc., etc. In other words, we matter.
>Period. This artsy-fartsy Birkenstock and Volvo crap puts all of us in
>the "largely irrelevant" category of the social sciences. Unacceptable,
>Mr. Berg.
>
>Regards,
>
>John Blatherwick,
>Principal
>Geospace Research Associates
>491 Edgeworth Avenue
>Ottawa, Ontario
>K2B5L2
>613.829.2629
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>________________________________
> From: Lawrence Berg <[log in to unmask]>
> To: CAGList <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:38:02 PM
> Subject: [Caglist] 4th Conference on Emotional Geographies
>
>
>4th Conference on Emotional Geographies
>Posted on behalf of Bettina van Hoven. Please contact her for details.
>Cheers,
>Lawrence
>
>Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional
>Geographies
>
>1-3 July 2013 at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
>
>
>
>CALL FOR SESSIONS
>
>The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional
>Geographies will be held 1-3 July 2013 at the University of Groningen,
>The Netherlands, hosted by the Faculty of Spatial Sciences. After the
>success of the first three conferences (in Lancaster, UK, 2002; Kingston,
>Canada, 2006; and Adelaide, Australia, 2010), this fourth conference
>provides a forum for a range of people from different disciplinary
>backgrounds as well as societal partners and artists to creatively
>explore the role of emotion in thinking about and experiencing space and
>society.
>
>
>
>We are facing spatial and social transformations as a result of climate
>change, financial crises, geopolitical instabilities and digital
>revolutions, which evoke emotional responses. These events led Vermeulen
>and Van den Akker (2010) to introduce the concept of metamoderism; a
>³spacetime that is Š neither ordered nor disordered² (p.12) and that is
>characterized by the oscillation ³between a modern enthusiasm and a
>postmodern irony, between hope and melancholy, between naïveté and
>knowingness, empathy and apathy, unity and plurality, totality and
>fragmentation, purity and ambiguity² (p.5-6).
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>
>
>We seek papers that investigate the multiplicity of spaces and places
>that produce and are produced by emotional and affective life,
>representing an inclusive range of theoretical and methodological
>engagements with emotion as a social, cultural and spatial phenomenon.
>Themes include but are not limited to: migration, landscapes,
>development, governance, arts, ageing, embodiment, cities, population
>decline, ruralities, wellbeing, real estate, non-human actors, memory,
>entrepreneurship, methods.
>
>
>
>Key note speakers:
>
>Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht)
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>Nigel Thrift (University of Warwick)
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>Divya Tolia-Kelly (Durham University)
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>
>
>Deadlines:
>
>Deadline for session proposals: October 15th, 2012
>
>Deadline for abstracts: January 20th, 2013
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>
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>Contact:
>
>Dr. Bettina van Hoven, Dept of Cultural Geography, University of
>Groningen. Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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