Nick
Some of us here at Wollongong have a book out next year with Edward Elgar 'Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life' . It has a chapter on mobiles which to some extent fits your bill but you may find the references useful. One of the interesting things that came out of the research we did for that was work on only the issue of the phones themselves but the significance of the footprint of the networks and growing data management and storage infrastructure.
I can send you the chapter if of interest.
Best
Nick Gill
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Megoran
Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 2:29 AM
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Subject: mobile phones and conflict
Dear Critters,
I've been asked to go into a school and do the following:
" give a workshop on "the political geography of the mobile phone" - although you may be able to think of a better title. The idea was to talk about the sources of elements and products that go into a mobile, and the links between the demand for these and conflict and war, especially in the Congo."
Aimed at 15 year- olds This is off my usual territory but sounds like a great idea. Does anyone have suggestions for resources (pedagogical, NGO report, or other), plus academic research they could point me to? If anyone has actually done this sort of thing and has some advice, that'd be great.
Thanks!
Peace - Nick
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Dr Nick Megoran,
Lecturer in Political Geography,
GPS Office, 5th Floor, Claremont Tower, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, United Kingdom NE1 7RU.
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"In our time of wars, of national self-conceit, of national jealousies and hatreds ably nourished by people who pursue their own egotistic, personal or class interests, geography must be - in so far as the school may do anything to counterbalance hostile influences - a means of dissipating these prejudices and of creating other feelings more worthy of humanity." Peter Kropotkin, 'What geography ought to be', 1885.
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