Comments on: Academic Geographers Don’t Like the Pentagon’s New Map http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Catholicgauze http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html/comment-page-1#comment-13936 Catholicgauze Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html#comment-13936 <p>"They are evidence that ideologically-based research has found a comfortable hom in Geography"<br /> <br /> No poopy. Antipode is the journal of "radical geography" nuts that are trying to seize the AAG from the regular liberlas. At its website Antipode boats that it is "the only left-wing journal dedicated to exploring the geographical constitution of power and resistance"<br /> <br /> At the AAG convention two years ago they tried to pass resolutions supporting gay marriage and condemn the Iraq war. They also have a weird hatred for Plan Columbia. Marxists to the extreme.</p> “They are evidence that ideologically-based research has found a comfortable hom in Geography”

No poopy. Antipode is the journal of “radical geography” nuts that are trying to seize the AAG from the regular liberlas. At its website Antipode boats that it is “the only left-wing journal dedicated to exploring the geographical constitution of power and resistance”

At the AAG convention two years ago they tried to pass resolutions supporting gay marriage and condemn the Iraq war. They also have a weird hatred for Plan Columbia. Marxists to the extreme.

]]> By: Younghusband http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html/comment-page-1#comment-13937 Younghusband Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html#comment-13937 <p>As I have said before, Barnett is a child of PowerPoint, and the "map" is just a visual device used to assist in the communication of his ideas. He isn't Mackinder. To Barnett the Heartland is Connectivity. Tell the geography mullahs to calm down.<br /> <br /> Oh, and Barnett is a neoliberal imperialist. Boogie boogie boogie!!</p> As I have said before, Barnett is a child of PowerPoint, and the “map” is just a visual device used to assist in the communication of his ideas. He isn't Mackinder. To Barnett the Heartland is Connectivity. Tell the geography mullahs to calm down.

Oh, and Barnett is a neoliberal imperialist. Boogie boogie boogie!!

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html/comment-page-1#comment-13938 Dan tdaxp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html#comment-13938 <p>Younghusband,<br /> <br /> Indeed. HJ de Blij defines a core of Europe in the same way, seeing it as an effect of culture and economics, instead of the cause.<br /> <br /> While doing research, I found "The Powerpoint Society" which uses Barnett as a case study on the effects of PPT within the Pentagon<br /> <br /> Catholicgauze,<br /> <br /> Well, that means at least his fellow Marxists are on to him!<br /> <br /> That only those who he shares a academic background with, as well as an interest in economic determinism, bother to mention him is dispiriting.<br /> <br /> [1] <a href="http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202005-065041/unrestricted/PecePPthesis.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202005-065041/unrestricted/PecePPthesis.pdf</a></p> Younghusband,

Indeed. HJ de Blij defines a core of Europe in the same way, seeing it as an effect of culture and economics, instead of the cause.

While doing research, I found “The Powerpoint Society” which uses Barnett as a case study on the effects of PPT within the Pentagon

Catholicgauze,

Well, that means at least his fellow Marxists are on to him!

That only those who he shares a academic background with, as well as an interest in economic determinism, bother to mention him is dispiriting.

[1] http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202005-065041/unrestricted/PecePPthesis.pdf

]]> By: Shloky http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html/comment-page-1#comment-13939 Shloky Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html#comment-13939 <p>Just out of curiosity, when has academic press ever understood a new development when (or even soon after) it occured?</p> Just out of curiosity, when has academic press ever understood a new development when (or even soon after) it occured?

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html/comment-page-1#comment-13940 Dan tdaxp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/10/academic-geographers-dont-like-the-pentagons-new-map.html#comment-13940 <p>Shloky,<br /> <br /> True -- academics will work with what they are familiar with. That's why it's not surprising those who have picked him up have been, like Barnett, Marxist [1] theorists of the global south. [2] <br /> <br /> This isn't because of some noble aloofness -- academics will jump over themselves to get funding on something newsworthy -- but rather blindness and ideological aversion. Reading PNM would require tolerating a voice as far right as Tom Friedman's, and something not published in a journal, that that.<br /> <br /> We must wonder why we keep them around.<br /> <br /> [1] <a href="http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/10/22/marxism-barnettism-tpbm-s-marxist-roots.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/10/22/marxism-barnettism-tpbm-s-marxist-roots.html</a><br /> [2] <a href="http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/08/operationalizing-the-gap.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/08/operationalizing-the-gap.html</a></p> Shloky,

True — academics will work with what they are familiar with. That's why it's not surprising those who have picked him up have been, like Barnett, Marxist [1] theorists of the global south. [2]

This isn't because of some noble aloofness — academics will jump over themselves to get funding on something newsworthy — but rather blindness and ideological aversion. Reading PNM would require tolerating a voice as far right as Tom Friedman's, and something not published in a journal, that that.

We must wonder why we keep them around.

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/10/22/marxism-barnettism-tpbm-s-marxist-roots.html
[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/04/08/operationalizing-the-gap.html

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