Posted on 03/05/2016 11:13:14 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Take a look at this abstract from the journal
Progress in Human Geography:
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Glaciers, Gender, and Science:
A FEMINIST GLACIOLOGY: framework for global environmental change research
Mark Carey, M Jackson, Alessandro Antonello, Jaclyn Rushing
ABSTRACT
Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change.
However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied.
This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers.
Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology,
the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby
leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.
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The lead author of this tripe is the associate dean at the University of Oregon.
Meanwhile, the recent Paris Agreement on climate change contains the following paragraph:
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Acknowledging that climate change is a common concern of humankind, Parties should, when taking action to address climate change,
respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on
human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development,
as well as gender equality, empowerment of women and intergenerational equity.
Transglaciology? Wow.. Pull back the glacial sheets and be surprised. The Earth morphs who and as it will.. Regardless of man’s tiny little footprints on the sandy beaches of time infinitum.
Hahaaa...
Anyone can write like this with the assistance of certain on-line tools:
Educational jargon generator:
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Nonsense word generator:
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Fake word generator:
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You should send that discovery to the Progress in Human Geography Journal at once.
So did I LoL.
Intergenerational equity? What about the taxpayers vs the freeloading slackers?
Professor Irwin Corey influence!
The final paragraph of the grant abstract:
“Research results will be disseminated... The project also proposes five educational activities that will produce broader impacts for students, the university, and the general public:
(1) creation of a Science and Society Group, the foundational step to establishing a Center for the Study of Science and Society at the University of Oregon;
(2) development of an “Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program” science and society curriculum to teach undergraduates alongside prison inmates in the unique penitentiary environment;
(3) construction of a new Honors College course on the history of the earth sciences;
(4) employment and training of undergraduate students in specific research projects; and
(5) mentoring of a postdoctoral fellow.”
The half wits who produce this kind of stuff can only be thought of as societal parasites.
They feed off of the host and produce nothing productive for the host in return.
Taxpayers are the host.
It’s easy for me to say, I know, but it’s never too late to be what you might have been (those are not my words, but the name of who wrote this fails me at the moment).
DON'T EAT THE YELLOW SNOW.
I did, and they sent me a rejection letter just like the ones I get from The Atlantic when I send them a poem to publish.
“Thank you for your submission, but at this time, we are only accepting poems written by transgendered persons about deer peeing in the woods.”
Yeah, like transgendered people are stomping through the national forests contemplating what they have, or don’t have, between their legs while on the lookout for a deer with a full bladder.
And I’ve seen their poems. Oh, they are copycats.
“I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as deer pee”
Filthy plagiarists.
COMMENT on this study by another academic (black studies view):
Employing whiteness theory, I contend that the authors are attracted to the glacier because it is white, especially at the “peaks” of the mountains, while the brown run off is down “low.” White privileged hegemony has not been disrupted here but infects this study from start to finish.
The authors attempt to mask this by cultural appropriation of terms like “postcolonial analysis” and “feminist glaciology,” but they manifestly privilege slavery-oriented Western thinking.
Note that the lead author went into administration, rather than actually remaining part of the professoriate. The real rot in academe is concentrated among the administrators.
Ice is not just ice. The dominant way Western societies understand it through the science of glaciology is not a neutral representation of nature. The feminist glaciology framework draws attention to those who dominate and frame the production of glaciological knowledge, the gendered discourses of science and knowledge, and the ways in which colonial, military, and geopolitical domination co-constitute glaciological knowledge. Even in a globalized age where the place of women and indigenous people has improved markedly in some parts of the world, masculinist discourses continue to dominate, in subtle and determinative ways. Feminist glaciology advocates for a shift of preoccupations in research, policy, and public perceptions from the physical and seemingly natural, to a broader consideration of ‘cryoscapes’, the human, and the insights and potentials of alternative ice narratives and folk glaciologies.
I would have expected such in the annals of the Society to Stop Continental Drift or the Journal of Irreproducible Results, or some such parody, but this is patent insanity. Art has been largely rendered meaningless visual gibberish, but we do the same to science at out mutual peril.
What part of 'bulldozed into frozen oblivion' don't these people understand?
This represents a strong piece of evidence why we need to get rid of tenure.
I would like to know where Polar bears fit in the larger framework of postcolonial human-ice interaction.
Maybe there’s something to this study of feminists and glaciology - hasn’t everyone run into a frigid woman at one time or another?
Lunch. Hot lunch if they were running.
A male glacier will have icicles and a female will have a crevasse.
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