As some may know, Duncan died suddenly ten days ago. In time, I am sure members of SCGRG will want to discuss how we might appropriately mark his contributions to the group as both member of the group, one-time Committee member and speaker at many SCGRG sessions and events. He was both an provocative and passionate geographer, and his passing makes British geographer seem a less fun place. He will be sadly missed. Our thoughts are of course with his family and friends at this time.
For those who want to share their memories of Duncan as teacher, colleague and friend, please see:
http://engaginggeography.wordpress.com/5-duncan-fuller/
The online news and announcements site of the RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Group
Useful links
Committee Members 2008-2009
- Chair: Phil Hubbard
- Secretary: Gail Davies
- Treasurer: Louise Holt
- Membership secretary: Peter Hopkins
- Amanda Claremont
- Ben Anderson
- David Crouch
- Elaine Ho
- Emma Roe
- Jamie Lorimer
- Jo Norcup
- Kezia Barker
- Russell Hitchins
Joining the SCGRG
Membership of the group is free. Either tick the form when you join the RGS-IBG as a Fellow, or simply email our Membership Secretary peter.hopkins@ncl.ac.uk to be added to our e-mail and news lists and to be kept informed of coming events
Mission statement
The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG): This group embraces researchers and activists interested in the way the world works to produce social and cultural difference, engaging with key social science debates concerning identity, subjectivity, citizenship and belonging. The group's collective work emphasizes, the connections between material and immaterial geographies, stressing that social injustice, poverty, and exclusion cannot be divorced from questions of representation and imagination. Likewise, it considers the shifting relations between cultural artifacts, practices and landscapes as they take shape in a mobile and seemingly global era. The group is committed to encouraging inclusive and accessible knowledges, destabilising hierarchical and centred knowledges in favour of those which foreground diversity and difference. As such, the group is keen to promote areas of geography that have often been Othered within the discipline, such as geographies of the lifecourse, the body, sexuality, gender, disability, ethnicity and religion, as well as geographies of the non-human and the 'animal'
The group promotes social and cultural geographies through regular events such as sessions at the RGS- IBG Annual Conference and conferences on contemporary issues in social and cultural geography. The group has an active postgraduate membership and is keen to support events aimed at new career and emerging researchers.
The group promotes social and cultural geographies through regular events such as sessions at the RGS- IBG Annual Conference and conferences on contemporary issues in social and cultural geography. The group has an active postgraduate membership and is keen to support events aimed at new career and emerging researchers.
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