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Geographical Knowledges, Universities, And Academic Freedom, Noel Castree
Geographical Knowledges, Universities, And Academic Freedom, Noel Castree
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
I want to offer some perspectives on the university as an institution, on the conditions of knowledge production that should prevail in that institution, and on how those conditions affect the kinds of geographical knowledges circulating within and beyond universities. In recent years, there has been a lot of published debate in geography books, journals, e-lists, and newsletters about making the professional knowledges we collectively produce more `relevant'.
Western Environmentalism Today: Paradoxes, Problems And Challenges, Noel Castree
Western Environmentalism Today: Paradoxes, Problems And Challenges, Noel Castree
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
It's forty years since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the West and beyond. After a thrilling late 1960s infancy and a rather successful 1970s adolescence, the movement should have enjoyed an early adulthood full of achievement. Yet its development was thoroughly arrested as the 1980s gave way to the 90s. For many environmentalists, the apparent greening of governments, firms and consumers after the first Earth Summit was simply a sham. For instance, veteran American campaigner Tom Athanasiou (1996) regarded Rio and its aftermath as little more than "a long flatulence".1 Fifteen years on, however, there are suddenly …