[Geowanking] what is in a name!

[Sophia Parafina]

Hmmm, perhaps I should scan and make available David Bell's paper at the 
1994 American Association of Geographers meeting entitled, "F*cking 
Geography" from the long defunct zine titled "Globehead, the journal of 
extreme geography" published by grad students in State College, 
Pennsylvania. (Please note that Globehead was probably the first to 
combine the words extreme and geography sequentially in print.  Long 
before the lame 2004 Bentley ad campaign that tried to portray CAD 
software as both extreme and geographical.)

In addition to such land mark articles (such as David Bell's) which 
sought to define the interface between geography and sex, Globehead also 
included favorite recipes from Geography exemplars such Thorsten 
Hagerstrand and Yi-Fu Tuan.  For those who have been fotunate enough to 
not suffer through a course in geographical epistemology, both 
Hagerstrand and Tuan are in wikipedia.

I dislike geowonkers because its trite and evokes the image of pasty 
males hunched over computers producing ugly maps.  To build from Jody's 
suggestion, geowackers could be an acceptable substitute, of course that 
to could also evoke images of pasty males hunched over ...

Of course for those that want to keep the name, I submit that 
questionable names can make it into mainstream.  Take for example the 
gps software called Fugawi, a term derived from the ever popular 
question, "Where the f*ck are we?!"

Enough inane ramblings for now.

sophia



Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

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> FWIW I agree with those who find the name rather fitting (and  
> funny).  :-)
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