I totally agree, Tracey, everytime I hear the word 'man' used to
represent humanity in any context, I feel a little undone ('manking' in
particular!).
And if I can intervene, I always say that it is hight time we learned
not to leave half of humanity out of the equation. After all, words have
power!
When people tell me that it really 'does not matter, that it is only
words', I say 'Well, if that is the case then, why not use woman then,
for a change?
Then I get silly remarks: 'Oh well, it sounds strage'; 'Oh it does not
seem right', 'Then it feels like we are leaving a whole half out'.
Indeed, would love to start a worldwide campaign for change: everytime
you can intervene, do so, tell people to use 'humanity' instead of
'man', as humanity encompasses both men and women. Long live humanity
Yara
On 22/02/2013 21:49, Skelton, Tracey wrote:
> Was there a ban on women being part of this landscape transformation?
> When we have a suitably inclusive word 'human' why don't we use it and
> talk of 'human-made landscapes' because I am certain that women have
> played roles in these changes too.
>
> On 23/02/2013 05:28, "Deb Ranjan Sinha" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Jan Oosthoek" <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> Kielder: the story of a man-made landscape
>>
>> Episode 49 of the Exploring Environmental History podcast discusses
>> anthropogenic landscapes and environmental change. In England, one of the
>> most striking locations of such anthropogenic changes is Kielder Forest
>> and Water in Northumberland. Since the 1920s, this site has seen a
>> massive tree planting effort, creating one of the largest man-made
>> forests in Western Europe. During the 1970s a large dam and reservoir
>> were constructed at Kielder in order to create a secure water supply for
>> the industries at Teeside. As a result Kielder has witnessed significant
>> and dramatic environmental changes over the course of the twentieth
>> century.
>>
>> How did local people experience and perceive the landscape transformation
>> and the resulting man-made environment of Kielder? To find out the
>> Kielder Oral History Project was conducted. On this episode of the
>> podcast, the two researchers who carried out the Kielder Oral History
>> project, Professor David Moon of the University of York and Dr Leona
>> Skelton of Durham University, will discuss some of their findings and the
>> use of oral sources in environmental history
>>
>> Listen to the podcast on the Environmental History Resources
>> website at: http://www.eh-resources.org/podcast/podcast.html#49
>>
>> This podcast was simultaneously published on the Histories of
>> Environmental Change website: http://www.environmentalhistories.net/?p=657
--
Dr Yara Evans
Visiting Research Fellow
School of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/evansy.html
Treasurer
GEB/Brazilian Migration to the UK Research Group
www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/geb
http://geblondon.wordpress.com/
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