Dear Gavin, Susan, ICGG list members, Crit'ers and LeftGeog members,
There seems to be growing interest in some kind of 'merger' between the 
Critical Geography Forum and the LeftGeog list.  The co-moderators of the 
CGF are currently discussing some of the issues involved with a possible 
'merger' with LeftGeog.  Once we have identified any issues of concern, 
we will report these to CGF list members and ask you all for direction at 
that time.

My personal feeling is that some kind of coalition between the CGF and 
LeftGeog would be desireable... although I also suspect there is a good 
deal of overlap in membership already.

LeftGeog is the listserv for the Socialist Geography Study Group of the 
AAG, and this may pose some 'problems' in terms of the ability of a 
merged list to serve the specific requirements of the study group.  
Perhaps one solution would be for list administrators to 
'cross-subscribe' the lists such that postings to one list are 
automatically sent to the other.  At this stage, I am not certain that 
this option is technically possible, but we shall investigate further.

Another issue to be aware of revolves around the International Critical 
Geography Group mailing list.  This was set up as a separate list to 
serve the communications requirements of the newly formed International 
Critical Geography Group (which arose from the Inaugural International 
Conference of Critical Geography in Vancouver).  At the time the ICGG 
list was set up, it was felt a separate list would better serve members 
from non-Anglo backgrounds.  However, the ICGG list has very few members 
and it may be necessary to make some changes in order to better 
disseminate ICGG information (especially about the 2nd International 
Conference of Critical Geography in Taegu, Korea)

If CGF members have any comments, questions or concerns, please send them 
to the list for discussion.

Best wishes,
Lawrence
CGF co-moderator
ICGG Steering Committee member

>Hello All, 
>
>I just read the messages regarding Leftgeog and the Critical Geography
>Forum. If anyone is interested in subscribing to leftgeog you can send a
>message to [log in to unmask] and put "subscribe leftgeog" in the message
>(then to leave you simply send a message stating "unsubscribe leftgeog").
>If you have any problems doing this, feel free to contact me at the address
>above.
>
>On the topic of merging the lists, I'm all for facillitating more
>discussion among critical geographers, but I'm not exactly sure how this
>would work out on a practical/technical level. In addition, as Jim noted
>the Leftgeog list was initially set up here at UK (the other uk, that is)
>several years ago to create a discussion list for the Socialist Geography
>Specialty Group, so we'd need to run the idea of merging the lists by
>speciality group members. This is not to say that none of these issues can
>be worked around, but I figured they're worth mentioning.  It would be nice
>to see more interaction, especially since leftgeog has been a wee bit quiet
>of late (although it's also the summer break here and that also means
>there's usually less discussion).
>
>How do others feel?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Susan Mains.
>
>(Listserv Manager LeftGeog/GeogFem)
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>All
>
>1. I wonder how many cgf subscribers are members of the leftgeog 
>already?
>
>2. The volume of traffic on leftgeog is minimal in my experience, 
>perhaps both lists could do with mutual stimulation. 
>
>3. Does it really matter what  a list is called? but how about 
>International CGF?
>
>4. Why not try it and go back to how we are if it is deemed to be 
>unsuccessful?
>
>5. Could we all be privy to the 'problems' alluded to in bringing the 
>lists together.
>
>Gavin
>
>
>Dr Gavin Parker


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