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Archive All CAPE newsletters predating Issue 27 (Spring 1996) are available as
scanned PDF files thanks to the work of Andrew Sluyter in 2004. Following is a brief introduction to the
archive as well as a list of accessible newsletters.
Digital Facsimiles of the Paper Issues of the
Cultural Ecology Newsletter A Project of the
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group to Celebrate the Centennial of
the Association of American Geographers Edited by Andrew Sluyter
Copyright ã 2004 by the
individual authors and the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of
the Association of American Geographers Abridged by J. Anthony Abbott,
November 11, 2005 Introduction
to the Paper Issues of the Cultural Ecology Newsletter* Do you remember the paper Cultural
Ecology Newsletter (CEN) that showed up in your mailbox twice a
year, usually some shade of yellow, folded in half and stapled? It meant a
lot to me as I was joining this intellectual community as a doctoral student
at Texas during the 1990s. We still have a version of CEN, of course:
the web-based version that Bob Kuhlken founded in 1996, that fully replaced
the paper version in 1999, and that became the Cultural and Political
Ecology Newsletter (CAPEN) with the Spring 2002 issue. That
web-based newsletter offers the advantage of broad public access. This
facsimile project extends that same access to the paper issues of CEN,
complete sets of which become scarcer and more faded by the year. The
centennial of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in 2004 provides the
stimulus for that facsimile project. The histories of AAG specialty groups,
like Cultural and Political Ecology, reflect the intellectual dynamism of the
association as a whole. Specialty group newsletters, like CEN, provide
one record of the changing ideas and people involved in that dynamism. By
reproducing as digital facsimiles all the paper issues of CEN, as
listed in the following table, this project contributes a resource for
research on the intellectual and institutional history of the AAG.
Scanned
images of each of the paper CEN issues are saved as separate PDF
files, designated by the issue numbers listed in the foregoing table.
Opening, viewing, and printing those PDF files requires Adobe Reader® software, not included on this CD but freely available at www.adobe.com in the latest version. Once
that software is installed on your computer, you
can open any of the CEN facsimile issues by selecting its number in
the table. Two
of the issues contain newspaper clippings that I have eliminated from the
facsimiles for copyright reasons. Issue no. 4 contains a clipping of a
newspaper story at the bottom of page 3. The article, “Kenya plans school to
aid small farms,” is by John Worrall and comes from the 17 April 1984 issue
of The Christian Science Monitor. Issue no. 7 contains a clipping of a
cartoon at the bottom of page 2. The caption under the single panel reads,
“Ranching as a labor-intensive business,” the cartoonist is Jerry van
Amerongen, and the copyright is 1984 by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. As
a brief history of CEN, William E. Doolittle edited the first issue
(Fall-Winter, 1980-81) and called it Cultural Ecology Specialty Group of
the AAG Newsletter. By the second issue, though, the masthead had become Cultural
Ecology Newsletter, and that name persisted through to the last paper
issue. In 1984, CEN started coming out twice per year, typically
designated as the Winter-Spring and Summer-Fall issues, each of them about
half a dozen pages long. Donald J. Ballas took over as editor with the
Summer-Fall 1986 issue and, initially at least, dramatically increased the
page length. After one issue that Philip W. Porter edited in an interim
capacity, Kent Mathewson took on editorial responsibility for an unrivaled
dozen issues, from Winter/Spring 1989 to Spring 1994, the dual season designation
disappearing during his term. Various associate editors—Robert
Kuhlken, Christopher Coggins, Frederick Sunderman, Stanley Stevens, and Igor
Ignatov—assisted Mathewson. One of them, Robert Kuhlken, took over as
editor with the Summer 1994 issue and eventually oversaw the transition from
paper to web-based versions, with Spring 1996 becoming the first of the
on-line CEN issues. Beginning that year, Kuhlken produced paper
versions of only the Spring issues, the rationale being that they appeared just
before the national AAG meeting, announced the specialty group’s sponsored
sessions, and therefore should continue to be printed and mailed to those
members who did not use the Internet. When Simon Batterbury took over as
editor with number 32 (Fall 1998), the paper CEN essentially stopped.
Its last gasp, printed on metric stock because Batterbury then resided in
England, provided no more than a summary of the web-based issues (nos. 32 and
33). The current CAPE Newsletter continues to build on the heritage
of two decades of paper CEN issues. —Andrew Sluyter, Baton Rouge _______________________________ * My thanks to the Department of Geography
and Anthropology of the Louisiana State University for support to scan the paper
CEN issues; to those past chairs of the specialty group whose names appear on
the mailing labels of the facsimiles and who donated their copies to the
archive that passes from one chair to the next; to Paul Robbins, the current
chair, for the loan of that archive and enthusiasm for this project; and to
the former CEN editors who provided feedback on drafts of this essay. |
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