Chan, Wun Fung (2011) Mourning geography : a punctum, Strathclyde and the death of a subject. Scottish Geographical Journal, 127 (4). pp. 255-266. ISSN 0036-9225
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This article documents the formal consultation held at the University of Strathclyde in 2011 which concluded with a decision to withdraw the geography programme from the academic curriculum. In examining the remains of this consultation, the article offers an understanding of the reactions of staff and students to the proposed closure through the theoretical work on mourning by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. With use of the notions of punctum and studium in particular, it tracks the discursive location, if not definition, of what was and is poignant about geography at this higher education institution.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 36660 |
| Keywords: | strathclyde, geography, barthes, punctum, consultation, closure, mourning, death of a subject, Geography (General) |
| Subjects: | Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > Geography (General) |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities And Social Sciences > Geography |
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| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2012 10:25 |
| Last modified: | 16 Aug 2012 16:08 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/36660 |
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