• Marseille, encore un peu définie par sa division nord-sud

    http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/marseille/politique/37501-a-marseille-la-gauche-tient-tete-au-front-national

    OK, la division nord-sud n’explique pas tout à Marseille (voir bientôt à ce sujet les travaux de géographie urbaine de Gwenaëlle Audren, Marseille vue par le prisme de la carte scolaire et l’évitement, qui montrent que les choses sont plus fines et que la ville est complètement fragmentée), mais il reste quelques fondamentaux quand même - les résultats d’hier, par exemple. Ooooh la belle division nord-sud !!

    #géographie-électorale #départementales #Marseille #fragmentation-urbaine #géographie-urbaine

  • Retour sur la dernière conférence internationale de géographie critique (Francfort et Berlin, 16 20 août 2011)

    http://www.carnetsdegeographes.org/PDF/lect_04_02_Gintrac.pdf

    Par Martine Drozdz, Cécile Gintrac et Sarah Mekdjian

    La 6e conférence internationale de géographie critique s’est déroulée à Francfort du 16 au 20 août 2011. Pendant quatre jours, environ trois cents participants venus de nombreux pays se sont réunis pour débattre autour des « crises » (Causes, Dimensions, Réaction), thématique incontournable au moment même où la crise des dettes souveraines européennes s’intensifiait. Cette conférence fut la 6ème organisée depuis la création de cet évènement en 1997 à Vancouver, et la seconde à être organisée en Europe, et offrait un éventail varié des approches et des thématiques qui se retrouvent sous la bannière des géographies critiques.

    #géographie-critique

  • The Kilburn Manifesto: our challenge to the neoliberal victory | Stuart Hall | Comment is free | The Guardian

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/24/kilburn-manifesto-challenge-neoliberal-victory

    The crisis in the global economic system triggered by the banking collapse of 2006-08 has precipitated a new moment in the evolution of global capitalism. But its novelty is not generally understood.

    Some previous crises, most famously the great crash and depression of the 1930s, produced radical social change: the welfare state and New Deal, as well as the rise of fascism. In the past five years protest groups such as Occupy have appeared, and resistance to austerity has grown. Yet there has been no rupture in the system or its governing ideology. Indeed, elites have used the crisis in Europe and north America to advance the neoliberal project, as unrelenting attacks on living standards, the NHS and the welfare state in Britain show.

    #géographie-critique

  • IvI-Räumung Kommentar: Eine politische Schweinerei | Frankfurt - Frankfurter Rundschau

    http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt/ivi-raeumung-kommentar-eine-politische-schweinerei,1472798,22553052.html

    L’évacuation musclée par la police du «Institute for comparative irrelevance»...

    Begleitet von Protesten hat die Polizei am Montagmorgen das besetzte Institut für vergleichende Irrelevanz im Frankfurter Kettenhofweg geräumt. Was sich dort abgespielt hat, mag juristisch in Ordnung sein. Politisch ist es eine Schweinerei.

    Was sich am Montagmorgen im Kettenhofweg abgespielt hat, mag juristisch in Ordnung sein. Politisch ist es eine Schweinerei. Die Weltwirtschaft, der Euro und die europäischen Demokratien stecken tief in der Krise, in Frankfurt grassiert die Wohnungsnot, am 1. Mai wollen Neonazis durch die Stadt ziehen – und im ach so liberalen Frankfurt hat man nichts Besseres zu tun als das IvI zu räumen. Einen Ort, in dem sich junge Menschen seit zehn Jahren in einer Art autonomen Volkshochschule mit dem kapitalistischen und (post-)demokratischen Schlamassel auseinander setzen, in dem wir derzeit stecken. Sicher ist das IvI ungewöhnlich, etwas schräg und heruntergekommen. Aber hier wird ein kritischer Diskurs wachgehalten, den die Stadt braucht.

    #géographie-critique

    • Si je comprends bien, l’auteur du mandat d’expulsion est le gouvernement municipal composé de verts et chrétiens-démocrates. C’est loin les années 80 quand les verts faisaient partie du courant novateur en luttant pour une démocratie directe.

  • International Critical Geography Group — ICGG

    http://econgeog.misc.hit-u.ac.jp/icgg

    Un site qui regroupe les reflexions de géographes critiques, mais qui semblent ne pas avoir été mis-à-jour depuis quelques temps ...

    The International Critical Geography Group (ICGG) is comprised of geographers and non-geographers committed to developing the theory and practice necessary for combating social exploitation and oppression. We have formed this international association to provide an alternative to the increasingly institutionalised and corporate culture of universities. We believe that a ’critical’ practice of our discipline can be a political tool for the remaking of local and global geographies into a more equal world.

    #géographie-critique #cartographie-critique #cartographie-radicale

  • Nicolás Wey Gómez, The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies - Steinberg - 2009 - Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography - Wiley Online Library

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00377_1.x/abstract

    Nicolás Wey Gómez, The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies

    Philip E. Steinberg

    Article first published online: 23 NOV 2009

    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00377_1.x

    © 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2009 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd

    #bibliographie #livre #cartographie-historique #géographie-historique #empire #explorations #découvertes

  • Comment bien s’informer sur le changement climatique ? Et que penser des immenses efforts que font les climato-sceptiques pour nous convaincre que le changement climatique n’est qu’une grosse illusion ?

    Voici une série de liens très riches, très informatifs sur la question, c’est un synthèse d’une des innombrables discussions passionnantes qui nourrissent la liste de « géographes critiques » (ou "criters pour les intimes...)

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    Owain Jones, de l’université de l’école d’art et de sciences sociales de Northumbria a eu quelques discussions avec des climato-septiques qui l’ont beaucoup troublé... Il n’est pas du tout familier avec le sujet, mais très intéressé et cherche à consulter les documents, les informations appropriés qui lui permettraient de lui donner une idée plus précise, d’affiner sa connaissance en la matière :

    Chris Gibson, professeur de géographie humaine à l’université de Wollongong en Australie recommande :

    The Critical Decade: Climate science, risks and responseshttp://climatecommission.gov.au/report/the-critical-decade

    John Finn, de l’université de Newport (Etats-Unis) poursuit :

    Check this good book, Global Weirdness
    https://www.randomhouse.com/book/209517/global-weirdness-by-climate-central

    one of the NY Times environmental reporters was recently on Fresh Air for a very accessible 20-minute interview where he discusses climate change, but also the false equivalency bias the is so prevalent in the news media’s reporting on climate change:

    http://www.npr.org/2013/03/21/174019103/temperature-rising-will-climate-change-bring-more-extreme-weather?ft=1&f=1007

    Ilan Kelman, chercheur au Centre international de recherche climatique et environnementale (Cicero) à Oslo en Norvège propose ce site :

    Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation
    http://www.skepticalscience.com

    Joe Smith, de l’Open university explique dans un long développement :

    The headline conclusion from my own work on this topic is that many of the 20-40% of the population of e.g. the US and UK who are not concerned about or not convinced by climate science findings are not driven by their assessment of the science. Rather they are positioned by prior ideological commitments (libertarianism of left or more usually right).

    Many have been made suspicious by what they see as short term ’tactics’ of a climate change lobby. Personally I think that some serious mistakes have been made in the ways in which climate research and policy have been presented and in some areas practiced, and feel that more plural and dynamic accounts of that work are needed.

    Below are links to a couple of blog posts that explore this question. I continue to feel that The most terrifying video you’ll ever see 2’

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE6Kdo1AQmY

    is a great resource for people who feel they are being log rolled on the science (also a nice example of what educators can do with the youtube medium). Funny and clever, and a robust argument a few years on from its production. Many millions of viewers on the basis of a well thought out argument but essentially free and (very) amateur production.

    http://www.realclimate.org
    is a good resource created by climate scientists. The hard nut contrarians mock it as campaigning. but the writers are I think all working climate scientists. Mostly US researchers I think.

    http://www.carbonbrief.org
    is more journalistic but rooted in the latest research. They make a point of fact checking key media reports. A European mostly UK bias.

    http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net
    Global stories but out of the UK. Another source recently created by a group of very experienced environment/science journalists is

    For more culturally informed understandings and explorations of climate change, you can hear a body of podcasts and download a book (track 11) on the subject here:
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/mediating-change-culture-climate/id407470205

    My posts around climate/contrarianism/knowledge politics include:

    http://citizenjoesmith.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/dont-shoot-the-pianist-offer-a-new-tune-or-climate-scienc
    argues for new approaches to public engagement and debate

    http://citizenjoesmith.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/climate-contrarianism-is-ideological-not-hypothetical
    explores the libertarian ideological foundations of many climate contrarians

    http://citizenjoesmith.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/why-climate-change-is-different-six-elements-that-are-sha
    Six elements of the new politics...

    Nicholas James (Open university) répond directement à Joe Smith (Open university) :

    ... However It’s an amalgam of politicians [in a global context], who seem intent on denying, ignoring or in the case of UK’s Education Minister Michael Gove forcing a removal of climate change and sustainable development from the National Curriculum.

    It is also a coming together but not quite ’epistemic community’ of many hundreds of scientists from sub-disciplines in the form of the IPCC trying

    a) to predict and
    b) to sythesise many complex findings from a wide array of sub-disciplines.

    It’s not easy. The IPCC has no authority and yet its integrity is regularly questioned. Within its discourse is the view that climate change [and its causes] are natural and anthropogenic in origin. This is compelling and makes sense [scientifically?] but it too easy for decision-makers to confuse and abuse the notion of ’uncertainty’. It is intrinsic to science, it is deeply part of climate systems but it should not really be confused with doubt!

    Et Joe Smith à Nicholas James :

    About IPCC, politics and uncertainty: I want to argue that the IPCC should always and now be understood as a long running review process that offers a risk assessment, and the policy/politics is about risk management. For sure its a messy boundary. Mike Hulme’s Why Do We Disagree About Climate Change is a good resource on that issue, but the assessment/management distinction helps I think. Many of the contrarian commentators are focused on the science, but are really motivated by the implications of the politics. I’d agree wholeheartedly that the implied suggestion from Nick that the assessment has been rather well run (though not always well communicated), while the risk management side feels like very early days.

    About getting rid of climate issues in UK govt curriculum, it is proving difficult to find out whether this is politically motivated (most assume it is and I conclude that Gove is explicitly ’’playing to imagined prejudices of a Tory right that recalls a globe half draped in the Union Jack.’). The only balancing point I have come across is Guardian journalist Leo Hickman’s argument about age appropriate learning. Former UK Govt. Climate Change Ambassador John Ashton’s reply to this is that in his experience young people seem to cope with the difficult knowledge around climate change rather better than adults. My own take on this is that, among other things, climate change is a good topic to explore why interdisciplinary perspectives are an important part of life, and geography is a good place to explore all this.

    I’m aware that this list doesn’t tend to run long threads, so I’ll stay out of this one now, but anyone interested in this is welcome to get in touch.

    Au tour d’Herman Douglas, géographe au Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian à Washington :

    One of the best and most entertaining presentations on the science of climate change I have heard is by Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences and Associate of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at The Pennsylvania State University.

    I first heard him present it here at the Smithsonian last fall, at the 40th anniversary of the launching of “Limits to Growth,” where members of the Club of Rome (Dennis Meadows, Lester Brown, Jørgen Randers and others) reviewed their predictions of 40 years ago.

    Alley presents a great deal of science and argues that there are eight pieces of evidence that climate change is human-induced, and that to invoke merely one of them leaves you open to criticism; but collectively they refute all arguments to the contrary.

    The program and main website for the Club of Rome meeting is here:
    http://www.si.edu/consortia/limitstogrowth2012

    Richard Alley’s webcast presentation is here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNxCqU9jbOM

    And his powerpoint is here:
    http://www.si.edu/Content/consortia/Richard_Alley.pdf

    He says he sometimes subtitles his course:

    “How to get rich AND save the planet or else.”

    #climat #changement-climatique #géographie-critique #géographie #climato-sceptiques

  • Controverse à propos de la venue de Jared Diamond à un énorme congrès de géographie aux Etats-Unis.

    https://dl.dropbox.com/s/it55ije6xi4995d/jareddiamond.jpg

    La liste de géographie critique s’est enflammée à propos de la venue de Jared Diamond au grand congrès annuel des géographes américains (AAG 2013) qui se tient cette année à Los Angeles.

    C’est Jamison Miller, du John Tyler Community College en Virginie (Etats-Unis) qui ouvre le bal :

    While I am in the middle of designing the last section of my Intro to Cultural Geography course, I am jollily uploading Jim Blaut’s 1999 article devouring Diamond, and the slew of 2003 articles from the special edition of Antipode on the same lines. I’m still figuring out how to explain how he is welcomed at the AAG to my students.

    Is anyone planning to oppose/heckle Diamond’s talk on what we can learn from freaking “traditional societies” at our AAG in LA?

    John Paul Catunga, géographe à l’universté de de Totonto poursuit en racontant son expérience (et son dégoût) lorsqu’il a participé au AAG 2007 :

    He also gave a keynote talk at the San Francisco AAG (2007) where he talked partly about Papua New Guinea coming into modernity with the arrival of an airport. I was then an MA student and was utterly shocked and livid. It was my first AAG and I was really not sure what avenues there were to voice my displeasure and concern.

    It remains one of the ugliest moments of any AAG for me.

    Why is he welcomed at the AAG? Probably in no small part because he is appointed to a department of geography and probably because he is well known and therefore “relevant”.

    This reminds me of David Harvey’s 1974 piece “What kind of geography for what kind of public policy?” in which he argues that we need to examine what kind of relevance we want geography to play, mentioning of course that Pinochet was a geographer...

    With all the commendable focus on geographies of racialization that the AAG has focused on recently, I sure hope we could be more reflexive: why we feature environmental determinist and racist scholarship in marquee events such as AAG keynotes?

    Filippo Celata, de l’Université de Rome propose avec une grande sagesse :

    ...Wouldn’t it be an option to listen to Diamond’s talk and to “oppose” him with critical questions?

    I attended to Krugman’s talk at the AAG in 2010 and even if I think his “geographical” theories are limited and dangerous, I have been happy we had the chance to tell him and to listen to his replies....

    Lire aussi

    Lunch with the FT : Jared Diamond
    By David Pilling

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/144fa854-82e2-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2P1DsRs8b

    #géographie-critique #géographie-radicale

    • Environmentalism and eurocentrism - J M Blaut
      http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/Blaut/diamond.htm

      Guns, Germs, and Steel is influential in part because its Eurocentric arguments seem, to the general reader, to be so compellingly “scientific.” Diamond is a natural scientist (a bio-ecologist), and essentially all of the reasons he gives for the historical supremacy of Eurasia and, within Eurasia, of Europe, are taken from natural science. I suppose environmental determinism has always had this scientistic cachet. I dispute Diamond’s argument not because he tries to use scientific data and scientific reasoning to solve the problems of human history. That is laudable. But he claims to produce reliable, scientific answers to these problems when in fact he does not have such answers, and he resolutely ignores the findings of social science while advancing old and discredited theories of environmental determinism. That is bad science.

      #sources

  • Tribute to a great critical geographer : Neil Smith who died in 2012

    here is a video clip from last year’s AAG to remind us all what a powerful speaker, scholar and activist we have lost: “The future now is radically much more open in a way that you could not have guessed in 2007 and 2008” (55)

    http://vimeo.com/38981359

    The panel was on Engel’s “Housing Question Revisited”. You can find Neil’s contribution from 35:13 to 58:35 and then again in the discussion onward (1:15:43).

    #géographie-critique

  • David Harvey et le matérialisme historico-géographique - Cairn.info

    http://www.cairn.info/revue-espaces-et-societes-2011-4-page-173.htm

    David Harvey et le matérialisme historico-géographique

    Anne Clerval

    Deux traductions récentes qui viennent combler un manque

    À l’automne dernier, deux traductions en français des travaux du géographe britannique David Harvey ont été publiées en France. L’un est un recueil d’articles et de chapitres de différents ouvrages parus en anglais, Géographie et capital, aux éditions Syllepse, et l’autre est la traduction d’un ouvrage paru en anglais en 2003, Le Nouvel impérialisme, aux éditions des Prairies ordinaires. Celles-ci avaient déjà traduit deux courts textes de cet auteur en 2008, sous le titre Géographie de la domination

    #géographie-critique #david-harvey

  • Spatial Statistics 2013, 4-7 June 2013, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Je sais qu’on peut pas aller partout, mais l’initiative en intéressera certains dont @simplicissimus

    http://www.spatialstatisticsconference.com

    Spatial Statistics 2013 : Revealing intricacies in spatial and spatio-temporal data with statistics

    Spatial statistics is a rapidly developing field which involves the quantitative analysis of spatial data and the statistical modelling of spatial variability and uncertainty. Applications of spatial statistics are for a broad range of environmental disciplines such as agriculture, geology, soil science, hydrology, ecology, oceanography, forestry, meteorology and climatology, but also for socio-economic disciplines such as human geography, spatial econometrics, epidemiology and spatial planning.

    The aim of the meeting is to present interdisciplinary research where applicability in other disciplines is a central core concept.

    #statistiques #data #géographie-quantitative #visualisation

  • ‘Then, like now…’ : The roots of radical geography, a personal account | AntipodeFoundation.org

    Aux racines de la géographie radicale

    http://antipodefoundation.org/2012/09/04/then-like-now-the-roots-of-radical-geography-a-personal-account

    ‘Then, like now…’: The roots of radical geography, a personal account
    Posted on 4 September 2012

    ’Roots of radical geography’ by Clark Akatiff, August 2012What follows is a version of the paper one-time Professor (but life-long professor) of geography Clark Akatiff presented at the 2007 AAG annual meeting in San Francisco. Clark’s reflections on the early days of radical geography in the 60s and 70s, his time in the wilderness beyond the academy, and on the present condition of the field, while not easily filed under ‘history of geography’, make a great read…

    #géographie-radicale #cartographie-radicale

  • About « Experimental Geographies

    Le site d’un géographe radical expériental

    http://experimentalgeographies.wordpress.com/about

    I’m a Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham having joined the school at the beginning of October 2004. I was actually born in Fredericton, New Brunswick though I grew up in Calgary. I moved to Vancouver to study and spent the better part of 10 years at the University of British Columbia. I also lived in Germany while I was working on my PhD spending time in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Mainz. I’m currently working on two book projects. One focuses on the historical and political geography of the German Hausbesetzerbewegung (squatter movement) from the 1960s onwards. The other explores the relationship between landscape and representation in contemporary photographic practice.

    I thought I’d set up this blog as an attempt to experiment with and think through different geographical approaches to aesthetics and politics.

    #cartographie-radicale #géographie-radicale

  • ‘New geographical frontiers’ thème de la conférence annuelle des géographes britanniques à Londres

    la frontière dans tous ses états et dans tous ses possibles sens

    http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Conference+theme.htm

    The Chair of Conference, Professor Jonathan Rigg (University of Durham), has introduced the theme of the conference and the overlapping areas of debate for delegates.
    New geographical frontiers

    The conference theme in 2013 is ‘New geographical frontiers’. This is one of those labels that is fairly open and can, therefore, be interpreted in a variety of ways. The frontier can be employed as a concept, a metaphor or as a point of empirical focus – and while it is a classic geographical preoccupation that has rightly been problematised, it should still command our attention. There is a set of underpinning questions which can be seen to come, loosely, under the rubric of ‘new geographical frontiers’: Where are the frontiers in geographical theory and methods and what contributions and innovations is geography making to wider debates and practices? Have we fully come to terms with the continuing call to think and research in inter-disciplinary ways, and can geography play a leading role in that initiative? What is geography’s impact and how can we further promote the role and place of geography in society and economy? Where are we, collectively, making a contribution but, equally importantly, where should we be making a contribution?

    #frontières #murs #borders #grense #géographie #géographie-radicale #cartographie-radicale

  • Radical Geography Fieldwork : Pornification, pinkification, violence and gender inequality « #GuerrillaGeographyDay >>> Gender Representation – Feb 7th

    En effet assez radical...

    http://guerrillageographyday.com/2013/01/27/acting-on-gender-inequality

    January 27, 2013 By Daniel @RavenEllison

    Pornification, pinkification, violence against women, gender pay gaps and gender inequality issues are constantly in the news even if they’re not as popular as [shocking graph alert] Tom Cruise. Many of the inequalities that exist between male, female and transgendered people are hidden behind closed doors, inside accounting systems or within widely accepted, yet repressive everyday language. Gender inequalities can be both highly and intentionally visible, but unless we learn to think critically about what we see they too can pass us by and we become part of the passive system of tolerance for one of the greatest injustices the human race as ever inflicted upon itself.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftivist-collective/5690936543

    Flickr

    Guerrilla Geography Day on February 7th focuses on the theme of gender inequality and representation. Taking part consists of three steps./

    #cartographie-radicale #géographie-radicale

  • ACME : An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
    http://www.acme-journal.org/volume11-3.html

    La revue de géographie critique vient de rendre disponible son volume 11, avec notamment deux articles intéressants sur la cartographie radicale :

    1. Counter (Mapping) Actions : Mapping as Militant Research, pages 439-466

    2. Gramsci Is Not Dead : For a ‘Both/And’ Approach to Radical Geography, pages 512-524

    Volume 11, issue 3, 2012

    –=-=-=-=-=-=

    Edited by the ACME Editorial Collective

    Special Theme Issue
    Anarchist and Autonomous Marxist Geographies
    Guest edited by Nathan Clough and Renata Blumberg

    Toward Anarchist and Autonomist Marxist Geographies, pages 335-351
    Nathan Clough and Renata Blumberg

    Are “Other Spaces” Necessary? Associative Power at the Dumpster, pages 352-372
    Nicholas Jon Crane

    Anarchism, Geography, and Queer Space-making: Building Bridges Over Chasms We Create, pages 373-392
    Farhang Rouhani

    Organizing for Survival: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Anarchism through the Life of Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, pages 393-412
    Nik Heynan and Jason Rhodes

    At the Intersection of Anarchists and Autonomists: Autogestioni and Centri Sociali, pages 413-438
    Pierpaolo Mudu

    Counter (Mapping) Actions: Mapping as Militant Research, pages 439-466
    Counter Cartographies Collective, Craig Dalton, and Liz Mason-Deese

    Autonomist Marxist Theory and Practice in the Current Crisis, pages 467-491
    Brian Marks

    Bridging Common Grounds: Metaphor, Multitude, and Chicana Third Space Feminism, pages 492-511
    Cathryn Jesefina Merla-Watson

    Gramsci Is Not Dead: For a ‘Both/And’ Approach to Radical Geography, pages 512-524
    Mark Purcell

    Re-inscribing the Hegemony of Hegemony: A Response to Mark Purcell, pages 525-529
    Richard JF Day

    Frankenstein is Dead, pages 530-532
    Mark Purcell

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    Rose Street and Revolution: A Tribute to Neil Smith (1954-2012), pages 533-546
    Tom Slater

    #cartographie-radicale #géographie-critique

  • YOU ARE HERE: THE JOURNAL OF CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY | the School of Geography and Development(SGD) at the University of Arizona
    http://geography.arizona.edu/youarehere

    YOU ARE HERE: THE JOURNAL OF CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY

    For more information please contact:

    Gigi Owen Co-Editor
    Jesse Quinn Co-Editor

    you are here
    School of Geography and Development
    Univ. of Arizona, Harvill Building, Box 2
    P.O. Box 210076, Tucson, AZ 85721-0076

    Email: youarehere.arizona@gmail.com

    ABOUT THE JOURNAL

    you are here: the journal of creative geography is published by graduate students in the School of Geography & Development at the University of Arizona. The journal is an annual publication that seeks to explore the concept of place through articles, fiction, poetry, essays, maps, photographs, and art.

    you are here encourages submissions from geographers, historians, anthropologists, architects, scientists, writers, artists, and anyone else interested in exploring creative geography.

    #géographie-radicale #géographie-créative #cartographie

  • Géographie radicale et critique

    Les mécanismes spatiaux de la domination sociale - Sciences - France Culture

    http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-planete-terre-les-mecanismes-spatiaux-de-la-domination-social
    19.09.2012

    A l’occasion du Colloque interdisciplinaire organisé par le laboratoire Analyse Comparée des Pouvoirs de l’Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée les 20-21 septembre , Planète terre interroge la critique radicale en géographie.

    On a souvent l’intuition que l’espace est neutre, qu’il est une surface. Pour les géographes et les chercheurs en sciences sociales du colloque, l’espace est tout sauf neutre. Si les inégalités sont le fruit d’une interaction entre dominants et dominés, alors l’espace est un acteur majeur des différentes sortes de dominations et d’exploitation qui structurent les sociétés contemporaines.

    #géographie #géographie-radicale #géographie-critique #cartographie-critique

  • Geography Awareness Week - National Geographic Education

    http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/collections/geographyawarenessweek/?ar_a=1

    Geography Awareness Week (GAWeek), celebrated every third week of November, is an awareness program focused on highlighting the importance of geo-literacy and geo-education. A new theme for each year is announced in midsummer accompanied by related online resources and activities, which are then available year-round.
    GAWeek 2012 - Declare Your Interdependence
    This year’s Geography Awareness Week theme explores the idea that we are all are connected to the rest of the world through the decisions we make on a daily basis, including what foods we eat and the things we buy.

    Have your students investigate their own interdependence by completing the “Global Closet Calculator”–an interactive game that aggregates the contents of their own closets by origin to generate a map showing their unique global footprint.

    Download and print this year’s poster to find global connections with students by investigating the geography of the pencil or doing a hands-on version of the global closet game.

    #géographie #géographie-critique #cartographie-radicale

  • guerrilla educators « #GuerrillaGeographyDay

    http://guerrillageographyday.com/educators

    ~ NO BALL GAMES ~ NO SKATEBOARDING ~
    ~ NO PHOTOGRAPHY ~
    ~ NO WEAPONS ~ NO SPITTING ~

    Who makes rules? Who decides what we can and can’t do? How do authorities influence our lives? Are decision makers always right? Why do people make and change places? How can I change a place for better or for worse?

    Join us for a radical education project in an international day of guerrilla geography action by challenging learners to question the rules that shape their world.

    #géographie #géographie-critique #cartographie-radicale

  • About « The Geography Collective »

    http://thegeographycollective.wordpress.com/about

    The Geography Collective’s gorilla

    We are a collective of Guerrilla Geography activists, teachers, therapists, academics and artists. We’ve come together to encourage (young) people to see and think about our world in new ways. We make books, websites, events, interventions, explorations and more. This short presentation by Daniel Raven-Ellison at the National Geographic Society will give you a good feel for what we are about. If you are interested in joining us click here.
    Email us: Daniel@TheGeographyCollective.co.uk

    #géographie #géographie-critique #cartographie-radicale

  • Via Noah Quastel de l’Université de Vancouver

    Au Canada - Un musée des civilisations transformé en musée de l’histoire pour glorifier les batailles... #bigfail précisent les membres de l’association des enseignants...

    Here is one little discussed gem, which certainly goes to the meaning of history and how we reflect on its narratives, brought to our attention by the Canadian University Teachers Association (hardly a bastian of hard line ’crits’) but which should give pretty deep cause to concern about anyone with a ’critical’ view of anything: The Canadian government is dis-assembling key exhibits on social and cultural history and transforming the (museum formerly known as) Museum of Civilization and replacing with a Museum of History, seemingly dedicated to glorifying military battles.

    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/Museum+Civilization+changes+mistake+university+teachers/7405788/story.html

    Noah Quastel LLB LLM
    PhD Candidate UBC Geography
    1127 Semlin Drive
    Vancouver, BC V5L 4K3
    Phone ; 778 709 4496

    #canada #musées #histoire #manipulation #perception #visuelisation #géographie-critique #cartographie-radicale