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Category Archives: Human Geography
Being-in-landscape: fieldwork at Blenheim
“Geography without fieldwork would be like science without experiments” (Bland 1996). Written in the Geography Teachers Handbook, this advice echoes the sentiments of Carl Sauer, American professor of Geography (1923-1957) who believed that fieldwork was the definitive activity of geographers. … Continue reading
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Tagged Blenheim Palace, Carl Sauer, Cultural landscapes, Fieldwork, Practice, representation
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Mountains: A Rather Special Landscape – by Josh O’Shaughnessy
First year geographers have recently studied landscapes and cultural geography. Recent events, including accidents in Scotland and the death of George Lowe, the last surviving member of the 1953 Everest team, have highlighted how mountains exert such a powerful sway … Continue reading
Urban Routes and Social Geographies
You will, by now, be aware that Professor Danny Dorling, is to join the SOGE in September as the Halford Mackinder Professor of Human Geography. Some of Professor Dorling’s key contributions to geography have involved mapping social inequalities, particularly within … Continue reading
New spaces of politics: Castells on the internet, the city, and political protest
There’s a short video from Manuel Castells, the Catalan sociologist, that should interest those of you doing Spaces of Politics. Castells pioneered at least two fields of inquiry. First, his book The City and the Grassroots (1983) energised the comparative … Continue reading
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The Geography Curriculum and Climate Change – Political Pedagogy?
This month the UK Government published its latest draft guidelines for school curricula applicable to children under the age of 14, and they made particularly interesting reading for geographers. To the outrage of some, climate change will be axed entirely … Continue reading
Still capturing the kinetic
I would like to share this photograph with you for the way the artist has played with ideas of relative mobility and stillness. Is your eye most drawn to the red-sailed yacht nearest the foreground which, in its sharpness, appears … Continue reading
The Old Ways
I was very pleased to receive a copy of Robert Macfarlane’s latest book The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot amongst the many kind gifts at my leaving do. Having enjoyed his first book, Mountains of the Mind, I was … Continue reading
Oxford and the 2011 census
I did not comment on the national census data released just over 10 days ago, despite some obviously interesting developments. It made no sense to me to refer to an entity called England and Wales, for which the data were … Continue reading
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Lead to Inspire: a case study on immigrant community empowerment in London
Prelim. Human Geography lectures in Hilary Term will introduce the topic of migration. In addition to journal articles and books, there are a range of sources that will be useful for exploring contemporary issues, e.g. UK Border Agency, International Organisation for … Continue reading
Hi-tech cities: London v. Berlin
A year ago to the day, Ali posted an article to the blog: Agglomeration: the promise of the Tech City. Focused on London’s growth as potential tech capital of Europe, he argued that “the next ‘Silicon – [insert geographical term … Continue reading
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Tagged Agglomeration, hi-tech, Silicon Allee
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European territories and identities: Catalonian sovereignty
SPS Michaelmas lectures have explored relations between space and political processes and raised questions on the form of the nation-state, centralised power and politics. This programme builds on the prelim. Human Geography lectures on territories and identities, which the first … Continue reading
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Tagged Catalonia, Convergència i Unió, identities, Nationalism, sovereignty, territories
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A MINI Fieldtrip
by Joshua O’Shaughnessy On Monday, first year geographers and their tutors made a visit to the BMW Mini factory in Cowley, partly with the aim of seeing somewhere other than central Oxford but also to gain an understanding of the … Continue reading
Posted in Events, GE: Human, Human Geography, Keble Geography, Oxford
Tagged BMW MINI Plant, British manufacturing, Oxford Cars Geography
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Understanding Contemporary China
From tonight Radio 4 will be broadcasting a four-part series on Understanding Contemporary China by Martin Jacques. These talks are part of its ‘A Point of View’ programme, broadcast at 20.50 but also available via BBC radio 4’s website. The … Continue reading
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The Rise and Fall of Oxford’s Manufacturing Industries
Later in term there’s a chance to visit the BMW MINI plant at Cowley, Oxford. It will be a good chance to add some local context to the kind of themes Professor McDowell will be exploring in her lectures on … Continue reading
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Tagged Oxford Cars Geography
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The Geography of Work: Oxfordshire’s Major Employers
Part of this year’s Prelims Human Geography course will be focused on the geography of work and the British economy. Linda McDowell will start by lecturing on how the labour market has changed over the past 40 years or so. … Continue reading
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Tagged geography, Oxfordshire, work
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