Hi,

I find this color/rase/whatever based discussion and the tone of the language very disturbing. How do you define the color of one's skin anyway? Is there a color-palette available somewhere?

Do we have to develop criterias now to categorise people on the basis of skin color for the sake of preventing rasism and exclusion? This sounds terribly rasist to me by definition.

Cheers,

Tuna

 
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Manuel Aalbers
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Subject: Is Geography White? (WAS: temporary lectureship at Leeds Metropolitan University)

Between some "I'm more critical than you" remarks, I found Tim's remark below quite interesting. Can someone share similar or opposing experiences?
My old Geography Dept. in Amsterdam didn't look whiter than other social sciences in the city, but the few non-White people were usually in Development Studies and not in Geography "proper".
So, if Geography is white/r than related disciplines, why is this the case? Are we as a discipline, in whatever way, more excluding, less open? Or, is Geography less attractive and why? Is it considered less established or useful? In the Netherlands, ethnic minorities tend to be underrepresented in (research) univerisities, but less so in disciplines like Economics and Law because of the status of these disciplines.
Any thoughts?
Manuel
 
Manuel B. Aalbers, Ph.D.
Columbia University
New York


 
2008/7/2, Tim Edensor <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>:

Shameful  indeed

I used to teach Cultural Studies and before that  Sociology.

IN comparison, Geography is a desert of whiteness both in  tersm of students and academics.
It is interesting to consider why this  might be but it certainly makes our very very very
white chum's comments  doiuybly bizarre


Dr Tim Edensor