Here's the text of a message I received from a new member of CGF: Grigoriy
Kostinskiy of the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow. Maybe there are members of CGF who would wish to make contact with
him. He sounds like an interesting bloke.
Christopher Ray
Centre for Rural Economy
University of Newcastle
(crit-geog-forum listowner)
>Dear Christopher,
>Thank you very much for your kind and encouraging electronic message! Ten
>days I was happy to know about the existence of the crit-geog-forum, to
>connect to it and to find a number of important pieces of information.
>I am a senior researcher at the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of
>Sciences, Moscow and is engaged in social and economic research (not in
>teaching). In 1993 I received a fellowship and spent two months at Glasgow
>University (to be more particular - at Journal of Urban Studies). It was a
>nice period of time, since I also had an opportunity to travel a bit and to
>get acquaintance with some geographers - Doreen Massey, John Gold, Tim
>Unwin, Arthur Morris among them. As for Newcastle, alas,I made just a
>half-an-hour stop on my way from Durham to Glasgow!
>My main interests lie predominantly in theory and methodology of geography
>and now
>I work on a book on the IDEA OF SPATIALITY OF GEOGRAPHY (the key words:
>space, place, territory, region, a tetrad of basic spatial notions, generic
>matrix of spatial thinking, archetype, cultural rootedness, mythopoetic and
>logical perspectives of geographical spatiality, naturalistic vs.
>culturological attitudes of consciousness). I would be pleased to establish
>contacts with the British scholars who are interested in the topics
>mentioned above. I would send my English text "Geographical matrix of
>spatiality" (16 pages) for whom it could be curious. I am interested in
>commentaries and bibliographical data (what is new in this Russia we
>experience a severe shortage of foreign literature).
>As a newcomer in crit-geog-forum network, I thought not to be excessively
>quick but maybe it's high time to start?!
>A week ago I found in the crit-geog-forum an extremely tempting information
>sent by Ian Cook (Lampeter) on the Conference "Cultural Turns/Geographical
>Turns" (September 16-18, University of Oxford). Of course,I am very
>interested to take part in this meeting (though it is orientated to British
>researchers, not foreiners) and even intend to address Ian Cook to put my
>name in the conference mailing list.
>Thanks again for the letter that instigated me to the spacious answer,
>With best regards,
>Sincerely,
>Grigoriy Kostinskiy
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