Dear forum,
Denis Linehan asked me to announce a paper that I sent to him
recently, in response to his 'call for papers' for the CGF website
from earlier this year. It is working (as I just checked), and I'm
curious now how many angry (or at least critical) replies I get for
misformulating or misunderstanding the thoughts of the various people
quoted (or for grammatical errors). Sorry for not replying right away
-- I won't have a chance to read my e-mail post (at
<[log in to unmask]> ) until September.
The essay was done for a last-(winter-)semester course taught by
Steve Hardy at the Department of English and American Studies,
Masaryk University, Brno (CZ), where I study. It is based on a few
books that I bought last summer when visiting Britain, plus some
other ones from the library back home (it is worth noting that the
Dept of English Studies in Brno has got more studies in critical
human geography than our poor Geography Dept -- I mean the one in
Brno, of course). Even though the bibliography at the end may seem
impressive at the first look, this is only because I felt obliged to
mention all works, including those just quoted in one of the few
'core' books. It was only later this spring that I got the chance to
study here in Britain for two months, and therefore (also) for the
first time see most of the studies whose thoughts I was then trying
to grasp.
This is, of course, by no means an apology -- there's no need to stop
being critical (and not even) about this essay.
Yours sincerely,
Tomas Prokes
Dept of Geography
Masaryk University,
Faculty of Sciences
Kotlarska 2
Brno
Czech Republic
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
P.S. Please note that I'm a student of the University of Leeds
(and user of this address -- [log in to unmask]) only till this
Saturday. Cheers!
P.P.S. I decided to send the essay to Denis, not so much for thinking
much of it (though -- perhaps uncritically -- I still think it's not
that bad, after all), but rather to enrich the 'collection' at the
CGF's website ( www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/crit-geog-forum/ ),
and (hopefully) encourage others to post their works. Given the
unfavourable exchange ratio between Czech 'koruna' and the British £
(or American dollars), it is quite difficult to get hold of any
recent geographical stuff back home. It is for these reasons,
therefore, that I was so happy when finding this geographical i-net
list last winter, and even more so when Denis Linehan offered posting
articles/papers on-line. It still remains my secret hope that I'll be
able to read more of them, and follow the latest developments in the
field, even after I'm back in the Czech Republic. Many thanks...
Tom.
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