ACME: an international e-journal for critical geographies is the leading open-access journal in human geography. It has been publishing for a decade now. Cheers,
Lawrence D Berg, DPhilUBC Centre for Social, Spatial & Economic JusticeVia iPhoneDear All,I am in the water sector and a group of visionaries academics created the journal of Water Alternatives where a bunch of professors, researchers and aspiring scientists like me haha, can publish their work and it is open for FREE to all the public. I dunno know if geography has this alternative? Would not know as I mostly read articles on my area, but I bring it up as an example we can all follow in all fields: Start creating journals with our own people and submit our work to them... it is a way to start the revolution!So here is the petition: To all the professors in the world, in all areas, please start funding your own journals and let's create a mass of alternatives that can end the concentration of science in a few, in the West and for those who can only pay or have access....Kind Regards to everyone!----Linda Estelí Méndez
Water Management in Rural Development
Wageningen Universiteit
Montpellier SupAgro
AGRIS MUNDUS Alumni
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http://www.iwe.wur.nl/UK/On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Cloke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Isn't that called 'pleading the Obama'? Like 'pleading the fifth'?
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Geography Department
Loughborough University
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Sent: 30 August 2011 16:09
Subject: Re: Academic journals
Any pragmatic 'early career/emerging scholar' cowards (like me) up for a creeping and inadequate reformism?
Aaron
On 30 August 2011 15:53, Tina Richardson <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:blog: www.particulations.blogspot.com<http://www.particulations.blogspot.com>
Yes, I'm up for a revolution (re: academic journals). In the meantime you may find this Leeds-based group interesting:
http://reimaginetheuniversity.wordpress.com/
Tina
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School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
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Quoting Dara Blumenthal <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>:
I'm entering the final stage of my PhD and am less and less enthralled
with playing the conventional publishing game. Is anyone else
interested in a revolt?
db
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University of Kent, Canterbury
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On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Tina Richardson wrote:
Interesting article.
Yes, often the editors/co-editors of these journals are PhD students
who are paid a nominal fee (well below minimum wage) to do all the
work. They feel obliged to do it 'for nothing' because everyone else
does, and they need it on their CV.
Tina
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School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
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Quoting Stephen Hall <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>:
Dear All
For those of us not in London this week and for those
serruptitiously reading crit geog forum on iphones (other
smartphones are available) whilst in sessions (which I cannot
condone) here is an interesting take on academic journals from
George Monbiot.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist
Stephen Hall
Department of Geography, University of Hull, HULL HU6 7RX
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Sent: Mon 29/08/2011 11:53
PhD student homepage<http://www.ges.gla.ac.uk:443/postgraduates/afranks>Subject: Re: maps creating reality
This all depends on how you understand 'map', surely, and how the
particular map in question is performed? Gregory et al in the 2009
Dictionary of Human Geography describe a map as "a representation of
all or a portion of the planet or some other vast environment",
offering further detail through examples such as Harley and Woodward
(1987, p. xvi) - 'graphic representations that facilitate a spatial
understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes or events
in the human world'. The most important parts of these
interpretations are surely a) that a map is a representation and b)
not all maps are graphic.
If you check out the recent CFP on this list regarding ANT, for
instance, it quotes Alcadipani and Hassard (2010, p. 4/5) on "how
'ordering effects' ... are performed into being". The third
important component following on from a) and b) above is c) that a
map is a representation that performs ordering effects into being
and so axiomatically it alters reality - all maps alter reality by
the ordering effect of being maps.
You can carry the ANT analysis further in looking at how the
performativity of maps "describes the process of establishing
relations between heterogeneous materials of humans and non-humans",
and is also relevant to the durability of the map and its
necessarily temporary nature - the imperial map of an African
country brought into being some hard and fast socio-cultural and
politico-economic effects that substantially changed the reality of
an area they performed a description of. As soon as the imperial
moment that drove their creation had passed, however, other maps
took over which performed to a change reality.
Just as a last thought, I was reading the series of pieces on Steve
Jobs and Apple that came out this week as a result of his
resignation. When Jobs and others brought out the Apple II series in
the late 1970s, surely what they did (among other things) was to
create a non-graphic map that permanently altered reality? A
PC/laptop/ipad is surely a supreme example of a non-graphic
mechanism that 'represents a vast environment', 'facilitates a
spatial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes or
events in the human world'?
Jon
Dr Jon Cloke
Lecturer/Research Associate
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
Office: 01509 228193
Mob: 07984 813681
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Aaron Franks
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
University of Glasgow
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