The below is setting my mind off on new tangents. The Geography Department
at SOAS is to be shut down (phased, but decisively closed, as I understand
it). This, in itself, is tragic (especially for an Area Studies institution
with such a fantastic library, staff and students).What do the staff there
make of having all this going on in their midst? I guess you just let
academic freedom take its course, and keep your thoughts to yourself.
Incidentally we should be debating threats to academic geography. Hasn't
Lampeter been chopped as well, or is that just the rumour mill working? Is
the RGS taking a stance, or helping out Departments threatened with closure?
Is it linked into falling undergraduate demand, or 'institutional reforms'?
Simon
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> Some brief info. on Stott
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> Philip Stott is well known as an anti-environmentalist, associated
> with both the right-wing Institute for Economic Affairs and the
> fundamentalist left groups around the now-defunct LM magazine
> (Revolutionary Communist Party and all that), particularly those who
> produced the 'Against Nature' series on Channel 4. He has changed his
> argument many times over the years from 'global warming isn't
> happening' through 'global warming is happening but it is natural' to
> 'global warming is happening and it could possibly be down to us but
> it's good' etc and various combinations thereof. ....
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