Dear all:
Please find attached a call for founding members of the formally
constituted Critical Geography Forum. This is not meant to replace this
net community but to give it a more official footing in the eyes of the RGS
etc. It will enable us (for instance) to co-sponsor research groups and
provide a home for those who do not want to be in the RGS as well as a
second home for those who wish to stay in for strategic/tactical reasons.
CRITICAL GEOGRAPHY FORUM
Call for Founding Members
Following discussions at the Exeter meeting of the RGS/IBG and over the
internet it was agreed that it is time to constitute the Critical Geography
Forum as a "real" organisation. So, in addition to the already existing
net community, there is an organisation that you can join, support and
benefit from. The manifesto for the Critical Geography Forum is given
below. If you agree with these aims, then please consider joining the
organisation.
All you have to do is to contact either Tim Cresswell or Steve Pile
(addresses given below) stating that you wish to be a member, and providing
a full surface mail address, contact telephone number and email address
(where applicable). There are no membership fees. In order to help us
facilitate CGF activities it would be helpful it you could suggest
activities, seminars, events that we may be able to set into motion. The
expectation is that it will become an international forum following the
August meeting in Vancouver and other initiatives elsewhere.
Manifesto
The Critical Geography Forum is a network of geographers and others which
seeks to promote: (a) the development and dissemination of critical and
radical perspectives in geography; (b) critical and radical research,
publication and educational activities undertaken by geographers; (c)
links between academic geographers and radical political activists and
activities; (d) equality of opportunity;
by, among other things, (i) enabling communication and debate between
geographers in all kinds of educational and research institutions, between
geographers and others in related disciplines, and between academics and
the wider community; (ii) supporting the work of marginalised and
under-represented groups in geography; (iii) campaigning for reform in
educational and academic institutions; (iv) emphasising work which
improves understanding of, and seeks to combat, unequal and oppressive
power relations; (v) highlighting ethical and political issues in the
practice of geographical research and education.
Contact People/Addresses:
Tim Cresswell, Department of Geography, University of Wales, Lampeter,
Ceredigion SA48 7ED. Email [log in to unmask]
Steve Pile, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall,
Milton Keynes, MK76AA. Email [log in to unmask]
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