Hi All:
I just wanted to offer a brief response to Randi's question.
Randi (25/9) stated:
>There seems to be a lot of people in academia on this list. What is
>beingdone to pass on knowledge? Where are people working out the
>issues and the program? I'm still looking for supporters on my
>campus.
I work with students and the community on multiple levels. For
example, I teach undergraduate and graduate classes which focus on a
variety of topics, including: Resource Policymaking; Sociocultural
Perspectives on Resource Management; and Women, Enviornment, and the
Rhetoric of Development. In each of these areas I try to provide
textual, documentary, and multi-media examples of issues in the
particular field. This includes sources such as: Dr. Seuss's __The
Lorax__, a permaculture video with Vandana Shiva, and local iwi Maori
representatives speaking about indigenous approaches to environmental
policy and stewardship.
In addition to the classroom work, I try to participate or initiate
projects with the community. The most recent example is establishing
a study regarding the connection between "social sustainability" and
the current levels, sources, and processes of welfare state grants to
single parents in Canterbury, New Zealand. Initiating such
research/projects means: (1) sharing information between local
groups/individuals (e.g., the single parents, community
organizations, governmental agencies) and the university/academia;
(2) providing some outputs useful to the people the study is for
(giving something TO the community is an essential part of my
research/projects on the community level); and (3) improving current
practices to empower and enable those in greatest need (presuming
they WANT and/or need such support).
With regard to the last point, it's become obvious in our region that
families DO require additonal support, yet governmental agencies are
less and less inclined to offer information or structural support.
This is where universities/academics can become useful conduits in
the process. (For an excellent article on this see, Thompson, John.
1995. "Particpatory Approach in Government Bureaucracies:
Facilitating the Process of Institutional Change." __World
Development__. 23:1521-1554). This type of work means direct contact
with people who have real concerns, thereby informing academic
theory, while simultaneously sharing information from academia with
the wider community.
I could go on, but I think I've filled my 3-screen limit! Anyone
else with ideas and suggestions?
Stefanie
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:34:54 +1200
From: "STEFANIE S. RIXECKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 10.0278 Mellon award for Women Writers Project (fwd)
FYI...Stefanie
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>
> 23 September 1996
>
> PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New
> York, recently awarded $400,000 to Brown University to help its Women
> Writers Project evaluate the impact of introducing electronic versions of
> rare texts on the costs of learning and scholarly behavior, as compared to
> more traditional means of scholarship.
>
> The three-year award, announced June 20, 1996, supports an initiative
> called Renaissance Women Online which compares the economics of online
> delivery of a key group of important texts by women to the costs of
> delivering them by traditional means. As part of the initiative, the Women
> Writers Project (WWP) will add 55 important texts by Renaissance women in
> English to its textbase of pre-Victorian women's writing, thus preparing
> for electronic delivery a coherent set of approximately 100 texts by
> Renaissance women. The costs of preparation and use will be measured as the
> WWP prototypes electronic delivery over the Internet. The major goal of
> Renaissance Women Online (RWO) is to evaluate the comparative economics of
> electronic and traditional delivery, with the two scenarios to be analyzed
> in detail and, where possible, compared quantitatively.
>
> Created in 1986 as a project and funded as an electronic archive in 1988,
> the Women Writers Project pioneered the use of Standard Generalized Markup
> Language (SGML) to create a versatile and long-lived scholarly resource.
> The WWP textbase currently contains 45 texts by English women writers of
> the Renaissance, as well as 155 other texts of pre-Victorian women writers.
> A spectrum of genres is represented, including sermons, poems, novels,
> plays and essays. The RWO initiative will concentrate on creating a group
> of Renaissance works which will address the needs of teachers and scholars.
>
>
> The WWP has long provided printouts of its texts; upon completion of the
> RWO initiative, the WWP also will offer electronic delivery of the textbase
> or access by universities, libraries and schools. Unlike stand-alone
> printed books, the electronic textbase offers a whole range of texts from a
> given period, in this case, the English Renaissance. Along with the ability
> to read difficult-to-obtain texts, Renaissance Women Online will support
> such advanced functions as discipline-specific retrieval, navigation,
> viewing and analysis.
>
> Dr. Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, RWO's project director, said, "A major impulse
> for the creation of the Women Writers Project was to make otherwise rare
> texts available at low cost to teachers and scholars. The RWO initiative
> will help us assess the actual costs of that enterprise, and compare it
> with the costs of more traditional scholarship. What we learn will have
> great significance for the scholarly and publishing world." As director of
> the Women Writers Project, DeBoer-Langworthy coordinates the input from
> over 60 Advisory and Research Board members around the world.
>
> Renaissance scholar Dr. Susanne Woods, a founder of the Women Writers
> Project and chair of the Executive Committee of the WWP's Advisory Board,
> said, "This exciting initiative fulfills the promise that the founding
> board envisioned in putting these important texts into electronic form.
> Even as WWP printouts and related projects have transformed the field of
> early Modern cultural studies, fully functional electronic access will
> change what we study and how we teach and learn in ways beyond current
> imagining." A longtime professor of English at Brown, Woods is former dean
> and now professor of English at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster,
> Pa.
>
> John Lavagnino, a scholar of Renaissance literature and textual criticism,
> is the RWO's project coordinator and will oversee day-to-day organization
> of the initiative and lead its prototyping of electronic delivery of these
> texts over the Internet. Evaluation will include quantitative data analysis
> and economic comparisons by Professor Walter Freiberger of Brown's Division
> of Applied Mathematics and Elli Mylonas of Brown's Scholarly Technology
> Group.
>
> * * * * END OF NEWS RELEASE * * * * *
>
> N.B. WWP staff members Syd Bauman, Paul Caton, Julia Flanders and Carole
> Mah also work on RWO. In addition, Professor Elizabeth Hageman of the
> University of New Hampshire heads up a three-member team of scholarly
> consultants to help select appropriate texts by women writers of the
> Renaissance for inclusion. Prof. Hageman is a member of the executive
> committee of the WWP's Advisory Board.
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>
> Carol DeBoer-Langworthy
> Director, Women Writers Project
> Brown University
> Providence, RI 02912 USA
>
>
>
>
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Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University, Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 06:49:01 -0700
From: Moonshadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abuse of women and animals
At 10:06 9/25/96 -0400, Ronnie Hawkins wrote:
>Anyway, in response to this string, I'd like to share the title of a new
>book I just got in the mail yesterday--_Animals & Women_, edited by Carol
>Adams and Josephine Donovan, Duke University Press, 1995. It includes a
>chapter by Carol Adams, "Woman-Battering and Harm to Animals," one called
>"License to Kill: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters' Discourse" by Marti
>Kheel, and many others that sound very good. So far, from what I've read,
>the book looks GREAT. I'd be interested in hearing from any others on the
>list who have already read it, or who have further thoughts on these
>issues.
I just got that book too! *grin* ... and certainly plan on sharing my
thoughts with the list. Carol Adams, of course, wrote "The Sexual
Politics of Meat," which is an interesting exploration of how the
consumption of meat is linked to how womyn are viewed.
Hmmmmmmm ... I just realized this post is my de-lurking post!
Who am I? Well, I go by Moonshadow often, am a 40 year old activist
womyn, vegetarian, living near San Francisco in a little rural town
on the ocean. I take my issues passionately; Issues such as saving
the last old growth redwoods (Headwaters), lesbian/gay/bi rights,
third world issues--in Nicaragua particularily, reproductive choice
for womyn, as well as other Peace and Justice issues.
.......... Moonshadow
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:05:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antoinette Szymanski)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Planets
>
>
> > But - really, folks. This guy does sound like a total nut. What does
> > he have against photography? Very few of us can afford a decent
> > telescope to view the planets - and, of course, NOTHING can even
> > compete with the space probes' photos! Indeed, what WOULD we do
> > without them!
>
> I've enjoyed reading all your comments on the planet article, and I think
> I should explain some of the author's points. (I don't have the book
> here, unfortunately)...I think he was saying that using the earth image in
> advertising cheapens it, and that having a graphic representation of the
> earth reduces it to a simple icon that we can manipulate as we please. He
> recalled that one of the astronauts blotted out the image of the earth
> with his thumb, and he saw this as an example of human domination over
> the planet. (However, if you read the quote that went along with the
> astronaut's story, you see it in a completely different way.
> Unfortunately I don't have that book with me either). Anyway, the author
> sees our ability to visualize the entire earth at once as a way to
> disconnect ourselves from it, a way to make it the "other." Since the
> photographs are taken from space, we have already managed to physically
> disconnect ourselves from the planet, and we cheapen the image by using
> it as a mere icon in advertising, etc. When I see Sprint or a pizza
> company using the earth image to sell their products, I begin to understand
> his argument.
> I'm afraid this wasn't very well thought out (I wish I had those
> books with me), but hopefully I've made my points.
>
> Jennifer Gilden
>
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:11:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Veronika Areskoug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Planets
How do I cancell this conference. As much as I enjoy it I don't have time
to read through all the messages everyday. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Lincoln University, Canterbury
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