Madness as method in Ireland: Leaming from Sauer and Le Guin

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Language

English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 38: 23-29

Notes

I suggest that the Sauerian Berkeley School tradition of cultural geography anticipates an indigenous American relativist attitude in the present to which Le Guin has given expression, and that the tradition might be appropriately revitalized by free-thinking female cultural geographers attending great public universities like Berkeley to hold its own against the exotic wave of social geography (a.k.a. "new" cultural geography) that actively disparages the Berkeley School tradition in its own backyard. I want to share here my ideas about revitalizing a field work tradition rather than present the results of my field work. My ideas about the feasibility of revitalizing Berkeley School cultural geography generally align with those of Price and Lewis (1993). However, Le Guin, Joyce Carol Oates, Nora Ephron and other innovative and provocative female writers were the major influences on my specific ideas for how to revitalize that tradition. In particular, statements made by Sauer and Le Guin that appear as epigraphs to this essay directly shaped my field experience in Ireland.

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