Jo,
All that I can say is that you are assuming that all differences
are equally important. I disagree. Raju
> Organization: Geography and
Topographic Science
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:31:17 GMT
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> Subject: radical geography
> From: "Joanne Sharp" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Dear all
> I am disappointed by the recent turn of discussion on the forum. I
> consider some of the Marxist reactions (particularly around about
> 1990 and in the last few days on the CGF) to the broadening of the
> notion of radical geography a really depressing development. Of
> course, exploring the tensions between historically materialist
> analyses and engagements based on gender, "race", sexuality and
> other expressions of culture and power is undoubtedly vital to a
> radical geography. But this involves dialogue not a series of
> proscriptive statements: the colonising of "radical" by Marxist
> geographers, as if this form of theorising automatically granted the
> author/speaker the moral high ground, can be offensive and is often
> patronising. What right have Marxists to suggest that other
> understandings and experiences of domination, exploitation and
> exclusion are somehow less valid?
> I'm sorry if this sounds angry, but I am tired of being told that my
> ideas and values are _automatically_ less valid than others. The
> forces of domination (whether capitalist, patriarchal or whatever) are
> clearly doing this already--it seems increasingly difficult to project
> radical alternatives of whatever nature--so why make the silencing
> of radical voices easier by destroying outright creative engagement,
> analysis and politics within this forum, and in the discipline?
> 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
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