Impact: striking a blow or walking together?

Pain, R.

Impact: striking a blow or walking together?

Pain, R.

Authors

R. Pain

Abstract

If, in future reinventions of research audit, agonising about the state of the discipline and its governance is introduced as a new strand of assessment, every UK geography department will breathe a heavy sigh of relief: at last we can claim global excellence while keeping steady eye contact. It is easy to point out that many UK geographers are in fact privileged in comparison with others elsewhere. But while parochial in its focus, this set of statements on impact has some wider implications for how critical and radical geographers work in times of austerity, when, as Michelle Fine (2012, 3) puts it, “aggressive calls for ‘evidence’ reflect a Foucaultian deflection from deep accountability”.

Citation

Pain, R. (2014). Impact: striking a blow or walking together?. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(1), 19-23

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2014
Deposit Date	Apr 2, 2014
Publicly Available Date	May 8, 2014
Journal	ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
Print ISSN	1492-9732
Publisher	University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	13
Issue	1
Pages	19-23
Publisher URL	http://www.acme-journal.org/volume13-1.html