[WS:] I thought for a while that you were some sort of intellectual, but I see that you are just like the rest of the talk show crowd - settle all disagreements with personal invectives.
Wojtek
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 10:44 AM 10/8/2010, Chuck Grimes wrote:
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>> The UCB Geography department is evidently loaded with Marxists.
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> Urban geography and planning departments are the real stronghold of academic
> historical materialism in the U.S. and have been for a long time. That's
> another reason all the fretting about pomo in the humanities deflating left
> criticism here is so bogus. People who believe that just aren't paying
> attention. (And Woj is so full of shit his eyes are brown).
>
> Check out these bios of faculty at the UCLA Department of Urban Planning.
> This is just two guys. There are plenty more where they came from. A lot
> of them got the PhD. at Berkeley:
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> http://publicaffairs.ucla.edu/faculty-index/urban-planning/1
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> Edward Soja
> Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning
> Urban Planning
>
> Ph.D. in Geography, Syracuse University
> Email: esoja at ucla.edu
> Phone: 310-825-4335 Ext#54335
> Bio:
>
> AREAS OF INTEREST:
> Critical Studies of Cities and Regions
> International Development
> Los Angeles/Southern California
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>
> Professor Soja teaches in the Regional and International Development (RID)
> area of Urban Planning and also teaches courses in urban political economy
> and planning theory. After starting his academic career as a specialist on
> Africa, Dr. Soja has focused his research and writing over the past 20 years
> on urban restructuring in Los Angeles and more broadly on the critical study
> of cities and regions. His wide-ranging studies of Los Angeles bring
> together traditional political economy approaches and recent trends in
> critical cultural studies. Of particular interest to him is the way issues
> of class, race, gender, and sexuality intersect with what he calls the
> spatiality of social life, and with the new cultural politics of difference
> and identity that this generates.
>
> In addition to his work on urban restructuring in Los Angeles, Dr. Soja
> continues to write on how social scientists and philosophers think about
> space and geography, especially in relation to how they think about time and
> history. His latest book brings these various research strands together in a
> comprehensive look at the geohistory of cities, from their earliest origins
> to the more recent development of what he calls the "postmetropolis." His
> policy interests are primarily involved with questions of regional
> development, planning and governance, and with the local effects of ethnic
> and cultural diversity in Los Angeles.
>
> Michael Storper
> Professor of Urban Planning
> Urban Planning
>
> Ph.D. in Geography, University of California, Berkeley
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>
>
> Bio:
>
> AREAS OF INTEREST:
> European Union
> International Development
> Latin America
> Politics
> Regional Political Economy
>
>
> Professor Storper's research and teaching interests fall into five, closely
> linked, areas:
>
> Economic geography, meaning the forces that affect the ways the economy
> organizes itself in geographical space. These forces are many and sundry,
> ranging from technology, industry structure and market structure, to
> institutions, effects of history, and policies. A core problem for me is the
> long-standing tension between the geographical concentration of activity and
> specialization of regional and national economies and the spreading out of
> activity into wider geographical spaces, both of which are occurring in the
> current wave of globalization.
>
> Globalization, meaning the ever-increasing geographical scale of economic
> processes, and some of the associated processes of change in the scale at
> which management of firms, markets, and institutions operate. I am
> interested especially in the locational processes described above, and how
> they change the geographical distribution of economic activities and hence
> the composition of economies at different territorial scales and their
> development processes. Questions of interplace inequalities, polarization,
> convergence and divergence, can be seen strongly from an economic
> geographical perspective.
>
> Technology as a force in structuring economic geography and globalization.
> Technological change is a key motor of geography, because it changes the
> structure of transport and trade costs. It does this in complex ways, and
> many of them are indirect. My research also concerns technological
> competencies at different territorial levels, the geography of technological
> innovation, and how this affects development processes in regions and
> nations.
>
> Regions, especially city regions. The geographical concentration of activity
> is a key motor of the composition and functioning of urban and regional
> economies, their specializations, their labor markets, and their associated
> processes of physical and social development.
>
> Economic development: economic geography is a strong way into examining the
> process of economic development. Though geography is structured by
> development, development is also structured by the unfolding of broad
> economic-geographical forces. Comparative economic development can be seen
> through the lens of economic geography, which can also help understand the
> geographical differentiation of institutions, which in turn have strong
> effects on development.
>
> Beyond his core disciplinary skills in economic geography, his work on
> occasion draws on, and has links to, economics, sociology. and urban
> studies.
>
> Storper holds concurrent appointments in Europe, where he is Professor of
> Economic Sociology at the Institute of Political Studies ("Sciences Po") in
> Paris, and a member of its research Center for the Sociology of
> Organizations (CS0), and at the London School of Economics, where he is
> Professor of Economic Geography.
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