Dr Ack Rides Again: A Conversation with Radical Geography pioneer Clark Akatiff
Type: Virtual Panel
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 8:00 AM
End Time: 9:20 AM
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Sponsor Group(s):
History of Geography Specialty Group
, Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group
, Cultural Geography Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Joseph Palis
, Marilyn O'Brien
, Clark Akatiff
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Chairs(s):
Marilyn O'Brien,
; Joseph Palis, University of the Philippines-Diliman
Description:
"Dr. Ack Rides Again": Meet Clark Akatiff.
The History of Radical and/or Critical Geography has of late become a topic of discussion and research. In this session we celebrate the pioneering work of Clark Akatiff, aka Dr. Ack, in acidizing geography. We do this by gathering together friends and allies, and presenting the living link to many of the events that pushed Geography in a radical direction. What is envisioned is a 90 minute session which opens with a 10-15 minute meet and greet, and proceeds to a presentation by the man himself. Discussion during the presentation will be encouraged.
Clark Akatiff aka Dr. Ack
Born in 1937 in San Francisco, California
As an undergraduate at San Jose State became a Socialist and Anti-war activist. Grad School at UCLA, Marxism, FBI, Pete Seeger, PhD, LSD. Environmentalism. Family man. Studied with Spencer and studied Sauer. Geographer.
Tenure track Assistant Professorship at Michigan State University. The revelation of the dialectic Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft. A sense of mission as war raged. Being there when it mattered. "Wild" Bill Bunge meets Dr. Ack. The 1969 AAG meetings in Ann Arbor. Ron Horvath. Return to California out of work by ‘72, continued to play a role in the definition of radical socialist geography. Jim Blaut, founding of the Union of Socialist Geographers. Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Simon Fraser. The Conference on Alternate Geography. Howard Horowitz. San Francisco Bay Area Geographical Expedition. Ben Wisner. CA-SCL-131. "The March on the Pentagon" The durability of scholarship. Community Garden. Lots of music and pot. Living on Welfare and on the charity of friends and the wages of day labor.
The simplicity of truth. The long conversation between the living and the dead. A life of lost causes. Come to watch, come to hear. . . Come for the music, come for the laughs, come for the Kool Aid.
It will be a Happening.
Dr. Ack
Presentation(s), if applicable
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
| Role | Participant |
| Introduction | Marilyn O'Brien |
| Panelist | Michael Pretes University of North Alabama |
| Panelist | William Helmer |
| Panelist | Michele Abee Bellarmine University |
| Panelist | Deborah Che Southern Cross University |
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Dr Ack Rides Again: A Conversation with Radical Geography pioneer Clark Akatiff
Description
Virtual Panel
Contact the Primary Organizer
Joseph Palis - josephpalis@gmail.com
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