Public geographies II: Being organic
Public geographies II: Being organic
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DOI：
10.1177/0309132509356612
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
Askins, Kye
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作者：
Fuller, Duncan;Askins, Kye
这第二份关于“公共地理”的报告考虑了参与和参与公共/s的多样性，新兴和不断变化的空间。作为其重点，更“有机”，而不是“传统”的方法来做公共地理学，如第一次报告中所讨论的，它探讨了多种非正统的方式，其中跨学术公共领域的参与发挥出来，以及这种参与可能意味着地理/ers。该报告首先探讨了互联网在“促成对话”方面的作用，通过网站、维基、博客、文件共享网站、论坛等为公共地理创造了一系列机会，批判性地思考了技术如何启用/禁用某些类型的非正式参与活动。然后，它认为过程和实践的问题：如何与团体/社区/组织超越学术界的合作往往是计划外的，偶然的遭遇，有机地演变成研究/学习/教学的努力，但也是个人政治/立场带来的机构承担我们是否，作为学者，遵循我们可能偶然发现的线索。报告最后提出了一个具有挑衅性的问题--鉴于许多非学术界人士似乎正在开展一些令人惊叹和鼓舞人心的项目和活动，这些项目和活动是有思想的、批判性的，而且（可以说）是有机公共地理的例子，那么学术界的作用是什么？
This second report on 'public geographies' considers the diverse, emergent and shifting spaces of engaging with and in public/s. Taking as its focus the more 'organic' rather than 'traditional' approach to doing public geography, as discussed in the first report, it explores the multiple and unorthodox ways in which engagements across academic-public spheres play out, and what such engagements may mean for geography/ers. The report first explores the role of the internet in 'enabling conversations', generating a range of opportunities for public geography through websites, wikis, blogs, file-sharing sites, discussion forums and more, thinking critically about how technologies may enable/disable certain kinds of publically engaged activities. It then considers issues of process and praxis: how collaborations with groups/communities/organizations beyond academia are often unplanned, serendipitous encounters that evolve organically into research/ learning/teaching endeavours; but also that personal politics/positionality bring an agency to bear upon whether we, as academics, follow the leads we may stumble upon. The report concludes with a provocative question - given that many non-academics appear to be doing some amazing and inspiring projects and activities, thoughtful, critical and (arguably) examples of organic public geographies, what then is academia's role?