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Dear all, Can I please second Lawrence Berg's message and extend it to all teachers of geography? As a student, it is really disturbing to see an academic be so openly abusive to a colleague. Whilst I totally understand the pressures that all academics face regarding publications, surely your primary role is as educators; be that through your written or taught work. Ms Kaucher took advantage of the Critical Geography Forum to launch a highly personal attack on Professor Gordon - and that is certainly no example to set to students (like me) who find the CGF a stimulating and thoughtful arena of academic debate. I think a student might be asked to apologise for this sort of thing; and rightly so. But one should hardly have to ask an educator to do so. Best wishes to all, Erica Pani > Dear CGF List members, > > I write to remind people of the purpose of the CGF List: > >> This list provides a forum for the discussion of critical and radical >> perspectives in geography. Discussions focus on the organisational and >> disciplinary framework of geographical research and teaching and on >> critical >> interpretations of geographical issues. > > It is NOT the place to attack individual members, but instead it provides > a > space to discuss critical theory, radical practices and their relationship > to Geography (as a discipline) and geographies (as places). This is not > to > suggest that we must all agree, but rather that we behave in a civil > manner > when we do not agree. > > Thank you all, > Lawrence > -- > Lawrence D. Berg, D.Phil. > Co-Director, The Centre for Social, Spatial & Economic Justice > Editor: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies > http://www.acme-journal.org > > Community, Culture and Global Studies > University of British Columbia > 3333 University Way > Kelowna, BC, Canada, V1V 1V7 > Voice: +1 250.807.9392, Fax: +1 250.807.8001 > Email: [log in to unmask] > WEB: http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/ccgs/faculty/berg.html > > > > > >