Hi folks,
I have found the introductory posts on this new list very
illuminating, special thanks to the many people who have taken the time
to suggest readings - our library is now running hot!
Having taught in the resource and environmental economics area
for many years, the fundamental contradictions of the traditional [economic]
methodologies have always been very clear - and not just in relation to
the environment.
There are useful insights in institutional economics and
now ecological economics, but I guess {personally} it seems to me that a
good many [most] of the issues to which social scientists address turn on
questions of gender. And then the methodologies developed by humans [men]
to deal with these issues are in turn overtly male-centric. A colleague
here at LaTrobe, Gillian Hewitson, has written a nice paper on part of
this - I shall have to dig to find the reference.
So I guess my interest is to work towards a methodology which
addresses gender issues explicitly, in a more humanist way. [I am
reminded of the UN Report on gender equality, which concluded that at the
current rate of progress equality "should" be achieved in one thousand
years -- have we got that long?].
My feeling is that this has a lot to do with eco-feminism and
less to do with male aggression and domination [and females being more
like men -- the converse maybe?].
On some List organisational matters;
1. I would suggest that all posters in future make their NAMES and
AFFILIATIONS clear. I am sure there are many who share the total
frustration of reading an excellent long post -- only to find that no one
wishes to own it.
2. The discussion on "spirituality" is cute! [and I admit to being
a sceptic] -- but I would hope that folks could handle the discussion in
a more "genteel" manner. Some of the retorts on spirituality have been
downright *flaming* in my opinion.
So. Looking forward to a fruitful discussion.
Cheers
Andrew
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