> From: "Joanne Sharp" <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: Geography and Topographic Science
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:52:40 GMT
> Subject: Re: radical geography
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> Priority: normal
> I do not believe that all differences are equally important.I do not
> believe in such absolutes. In different situations economic,
> political, cultural...differences become more or less important--but
> rarely--ever?--would I be so confident to suggest that one difference
> would ALWAYS be more important than all others.
Jo. I entirely agree with you here. In several villages I have
studied, class seems to be less important in explaining
inequality than other things. (This is in part because class seems to
be more important at a larger spatial aggregate.) So, I tend to think
that at a more empirical level, it cannot be determined which has
more primacy. But a more abstract level, one can argue about primacy.
And I would argue that class is more important than any other thing.
But as always, we can disagree.
Raju
To me that
> seems very narrow minded. But, as you say, we disagree.
> Jo
>
> Dr. Joanne Sharp
> Department of Geography
> University of Glasgow
> Glasgow G12 8QQ
> tel: 44-(0)141-330-4782
> -5405 (direct)
> fax: 44-(0)141-330-4894
>
Raju J Das
Department of Geography
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
United Kingdom
Phone 01382 348073 work
01382 737097 home
Raju J Das
Department of Geography
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
United Kingdom
Phone 01382 348073 work
01382 737097 home
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