Mike Kesby, who is having problems connecting to the cgf, asxked me to post
this on his behalf.
lawrence
Dear all,
A radical Marxist from Dundee,
Asked "can we more radical be?"
we all wrote to the forum
till tears came through boredom
But was one more worker "set free"?
Like the authors of the September issue of Area, I'd like to see the
discipline take a turn towards engagement with praxis at the millennium.
This does not mean abandoning theory (of what ever strain), but it does
mean seeking ways to apply it to, and develop it through, practice. I'm
sure Raju does this - but then so do/can others who start for different
positions.
Class 'race' and particularly gender and sexuality are important to
explaining the continued spread of HIV in Southern Africa. However,
neither the richness of our nuanced representations of this phenomena, the
rigour of our radical theoretical analysis, nor the depths of our self
reflexivity would seem as important as the question - does any of it make
any difference? Can the process of my research do anything to help
ordinary African people themselves tackle HIV?
I'm redrafting a paper on these themes which I hope Antipode will
reconsider when I'm done. I need to publish or will perish. But more
than this - I hope I find some provisional - working answers to my
questions.
And now, as Rich Johnson might say, back to the grindstone.
Mike Kesby
Uni St Andrews. Scotland
Lawrence D. Berg, Ph.D.
Department of Geography
University of Victoria
PO Box 3050
Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P5
Facsimile: (250) 721-6216, Telephone: (250) 592-2278
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwglobal/Berg/LDB.html
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