This document summarizes the key themes and discussions from the #gaconf22 conference on quotidian and everyday geographies. It reflects on personal geographies of childhood and influences, everyday geographies in the Anthropocene, and the importance of mundane experiences. It highlights several past GA presidents and figures who have contributed to the study of everyday life. Quotes emphasize how stories build community and the significance of appreciating small, ordinary things. The document explores everyday interactions with palm oil, cities, struggles with austerity, and networks/communities within geography. It promotes studying everyday spaces through the works of Georges Perec.
A presentation by Bruce Wyman and Rob Stein at the Museums and the Web 2014 conference in Baltimore, MD. The presentation documents the first year of operations and strategy for the DMAFriends program at the Dallas Museum of Art
A keynote for the 2015 We are Museums Conference in Berlin, Germany.
Museums… why should we care? Much has been written about the changes our culture is experiencing as institutions that once held a place of primary esteem have now somehow become less important than they once were. Museums are at the crux of this change and are wondering how we might preserve and bottle the relevance we hold with our audiences. At the same time, we find that relevance to be changing, ephemeral, and eroding.
How should museums answer these fundamental questions about our impact and why we matter at all? When challenged to defend the public investment and trust that we have stewarded for so many years, are we prepared to give a good account?
In this talk, Rob will expand on his seminal article about museum impact, Museums… So What? and will provide new insights and opportunities for museums to look towards to document and demonstrate actual real impact that museums provide and the tangible benefits museums can bring to their communities.
“Museums… so what?” will follow up on his much discussed article from the CODE|WORDS series on Medium.
https://medium.com/code-words-technology-and-theory-in-the-museum/
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Presented at Customs House Library, City of Sydney on 27 June 2013.
A presentation by Bruce Wyman and Rob Stein at the Museums and the Web 2014 conference in Baltimore, MD. The presentation documents the first year of operations and strategy for the DMAFriends program at the Dallas Museum of Art
A keynote for the 2015 We are Museums Conference in Berlin, Germany.
Museums… why should we care? Much has been written about the changes our culture is experiencing as institutions that once held a place of primary esteem have now somehow become less important than they once were. Museums are at the crux of this change and are wondering how we might preserve and bottle the relevance we hold with our audiences. At the same time, we find that relevance to be changing, ephemeral, and eroding.
How should museums answer these fundamental questions about our impact and why we matter at all? When challenged to defend the public investment and trust that we have stewarded for so many years, are we prepared to give a good account?
In this talk, Rob will expand on his seminal article about museum impact, Museums… So What? and will provide new insights and opportunities for museums to look towards to document and demonstrate actual real impact that museums provide and the tangible benefits museums can bring to their communities.
“Museums… so what?” will follow up on his much discussed article from the CODE|WORDS series on Medium.
https://medium.com/code-words-technology-and-theory-in-the-museum/
Libraries are providing social media classes to the community but how do they actively engage with it themselves? Mylee Joseph, Project Leader of the Innovation Project at the State Library of NSW, discusses how and why the State Library of NSW has used social media and explores the aspects of discovery, engagement and collecting.
Presented at Customs House Library, City of Sydney on 27 June 2013.
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Prepared by Karen Hildebrand.
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In the face of oft-reported declines in church membership, there is urgency for the church to recognize the possibilities of online spaces. The author of a PhD on the above topic developed the BIGBible Project in 2010. The Project blog curates contributions from #DIGIdisciples, questioning what it means to be a Christian in a digital age and in the digital environment. What do digital technologies allow us to do differently, and what can we learn from the past?
The conference paper will draw from the rich collection of over 2,750 #digidisciple posts to demonstrate the potential that the digital has offered the Christian sector, whilst also emphasizing continuity with the past.
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This slideshow presents the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2014. Outstanding books in the area of social studies are chosen annually by a committee sponsored by the Children's Book Council and the National Council of Social Studies. Karen Hildebrand, a member of the committee, prepared this powerpoint for conference presentations and professional development opportunities.
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In the Second World War, British propaganda posters were circulated using the techniques of persuasion, education, information, celebration, encouragement, morale boosting, and identification of enemies to encourage civilians to understand and undertake their responsibilities in ‘The People’s War’.
In the face of oft-reported declines in church membership, there is urgency for the church to recognize the possibilities of online spaces. The author of a PhD on the above topic developed the BIGBible Project in 2010. The Project blog curates contributions from #DIGIdisciples, questioning what it means to be a Christian in a digital age and in the digital environment. What do digital technologies allow us to do differently, and what can we learn from the past?
The conference paper will draw from the rich collection of over 2,750 #digidisciple posts to demonstrate the potential that the digital has offered the Christian sector, whilst also emphasizing continuity with the past.
http://ww2poster.co.uk/phd-research/phd-the-planning-design-and-reception-of-british-home-front-propaganda-posters-of-the-second-world-war-creative-commons-drbexl/
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need to download and teachers and students can master many of these tools in minutes.
Technology has never been easier or more accessible to all. See how you can
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members and among students in your library.
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7. “Everything is held together
with stories. That is all that
is holding us together,
stories and compassion.”
Barry Lopez
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
9. “Telling stories is one of the
ways we can begin the
process of building
community, whether inside
or outside the classroom.
We can share both true
accounts and fictional
stories that help us
understand one another”
(bell hooks, 2003)
11. “The mundane is just as
crucial and intrinsic to life
as the exceptional.
Finding the beauty in the
small, ordinary things
helps us appreciate the
extraordinary even
more.”
(Sebastian Hill, 2017)
https://medium.com/@magicsebi/an-attempt-at-exhausting-a-place-in-paris-
the-book-its-background-and-its-lessons-for-the-21st-4a7df0ef05bb
Image:
Sally
Parkinson
23. ‘Jammy’ Morris
(Joseph Acton Morris)
Latymer School,
Edmonton
Teacher and Deputy
Headmaster
Chair of Secondary
Schools Committee of GA
for 19 years
GA President, 1965
24. He hoped teachers would have the gift of
“Spell-binding children into learning”
35. Sheila Jones – 1975
Third female President
First female teacher President
GA Branch Officer
Presidential Address
You will all realise that this has been a very personal and consequently rather
superficial consideration of the challenges facing us today. I hope that you may
disagree with some, although not all of my opinions and if so, you may be provoked
into considering your own point of view and possibly in clarifying your own aims and
objectives. If so, then I will have achieved what I hope to achieve in the classroom,
that is, a statement made by Carl Sauer in one of his last conversations - "I tried to
encourage students to keep on thinking”.
42. 1986: Patrick Bailey
"Studying geography teaches us
a number of particular lessons
about the world and our place
in it. These lessons derive
directly from our observations
of the earth's surface and
mankind's activities upon
it. The lessons can be
learned from studying no
other subject and they are,
I maintain, the
justifications for including
geography in everybody's
school education.”
Image:
Alan
Parkinson
43. The estate suffers from serious social
deprivation and crime. Car theft
and joyriding are particularly
prevalent on the estate. Most schools
on the estate underperform, and
unemployment on the estate is high.
The estate has its own Police
Station adjacent to the North Point
shopping centre.
Source: Wikipedia
47. 1988-2008 “20 years or the same year 20 times?”
King Edward VII, King’s Lynn, Norfolk
Image
by
Flickr
Normal
for
Norfolk
Gordon Stone
Christine Clark
Roger Davis
Mike & Elizabeth Walker
Mike Douglass
Alain Kyd
Adrian Francis
Laura McIntyre
Guy Nunnerley
Lucy Muncaster
48. Henry Jewson – image: Gordon Roberts – 2nd image: Ian Ward
52. 2003: SLN Geography Forum
Tony Cassidy – Radical Geography / ShareGeography
David Rayner – GeoResources
Noel Jenkins – Juicy Geography
Val and John Vannet
Ollie Bray
Victoria Ellis
Bob Lang
Rob Chamberts
Kenny O’ Donnell
Image:
Alan
Parkinson
57. Daniel Raven Ellison
Helen Leigh
Tom Morgan Jones
Also
David Rogers
Tony Cassidy
James See
Abigail Woodman
Image:
Alan
Parkinson
Image:
Tom
Morgan-Jones
58. "Should be compulsory reading for all university
geography students"
Professor Danny Dorling
National Trust Outdoors Book of the Year
Runner-up Education Writers of Year
Image:
Tom
Morgan-Jones
Image:
Alan
Parkinson
60. A person growing up in the 21st
century as a global citizen (and all
that implies) is at a disadvantage
without geographical knowledge –
economically, culturally and
politically.
How can we make any of the
personal decisions that already
confront us every day about
energy, food and water security
without geographical knowledge?
Professor David Lambert
2008-11 – APG team
69. Claire Kyndt
Jane Thomas
Tom Danby
Helen Melville
Alex Birkhamshaw
Edward Pearson
Matt Norbury
Kathryn Sudbury
Anthony Lowery
Emma Jewers
Alexandra Barnes
Seb Aguilar
Image: King’s Ely
76. ‘The questions we (geographers) ask are profound because of, not in
spite of, the everydayness of geographical concerns’
Tim Cresswell (2013)
77. Joe Moran
Anthropology / sociology / cultural history / ‘the bleeding obvious’
https://joemoran.net/books/queuing-for-beginners-extract/
January 1937
Tom Harrisson, Humphrey
Jennings and Charles Madge
– write a joint letter to the New
Statesman, inviting volunteers
to co-operate in a new
research project, an
‘anthropology at home’
83. Geographers are increasingly aware of the
impact of the diverse ways that societies and
environments can be abstracted and
represented, including during spatial data
creation, and the mappings they support.
Such awareness is also important in an
increasingly connected world, where many
everyday transactions result in a digital
record with some form of location
attached which are subsequently rendered
into maps and/or used to underpin spatial
analysis.
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/quality-code/subject-benchmark-statements
91. When I was kindly invited to write this blog, I felt a bit unsure about what I would or
could say. It’s been twelve years now of austerity cuts dismantling the most intimate
parts of life for some of the most marginalised people in the UK. It only seems to have
become, and be getting, much worse, as I write this in the midst of a cost of living
scandal. I wondered what I could add, what I could say about everyday geographies of
austerity, when so much has happened.
It was then I remembered just how important it is to consider not just what
happens, but also what doesn’t happen.
The moments lost, the stories not told, the things that don’t happen, because of
austerity.
93. Nearly every element of the process that now finds you reading these
words could have been touched or facilitated by palm oil: it could be an
additive in the paper, a stabilizer in the ink, or part of the resin in the
binding of the book; it is almost certainly either inside or essential to the
manufacture of one of the hundreds of the components of the digital
electronic device on which I am typing these words, and on which you
might be reading them.
It’s probable that one of the transport vehicles that conveyed these
artefacts to you burned hydrocarbons that included palm oil-derived
agrofuels.
And it must be taken as given that the body and brain that writes and
that reads has been reproduced, in part, through the metabolism of
palm oil. We have both used palm oil products to clean or care for our
skin.
We have ingested palm oil as a carrier of medicines. T
Though I suspect neither of us are intentionally investors in the palm oil
industry, we are nonetheless economically entangled with it. The money
that we receive for our labour is blood in the same ocean. Though it
https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/palm-oil/
94. Today, you and I find palm oil, palm kernel oil or derivatives of these
substances in an estimated 50% of the world’s supermarket foods,
predominantly in industrially produced, processed foods like packaged baked
goods, edible spreads, ramen noodles, dairy products, and snack foods.
But palm oil also enters us in trace amounts in a mind-boggling diversity of
preservatives, emulsifiers, stabilizers, coagulants and additives.
Palm oil’s unique chemical composition and extreme cheapness makes it a
perfect base or additive to industrially produced foods to afford a long shelf
life and facilitate transit through globe-spanning networks of trade.
Globally, 72-million metric tons of refined palm oil was consumed in 2020,
roughly 20 pounds per human being. Its intensive cultivation has transformed
our planet: over 27 million hectares of the earth’s surface is under palm oil
cultivation, an area greater than the size of New Zealand and approximately
equivalent to all the agricultural land in France.
https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/palm-oil/
97. The streets of a
city are:
“a vascular
network of the
imagination”
Walter Benjamin
“The Arcades
Project”
McCracken,
Scott.
"The
Completion
of
Old
Work:
Walter
Benjamin
and
the
Everyday."
Cultural
Critique,
no.
52
(2002):
145-66.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1354677
Walking…
101. Georges Perec’s
geographies
Free download
from UCL Press
& back to Georges – who can help us explore it…
https://monoskop.org/images/b/b0/Perec_Georges_Species_of_Spaces_and_Other_Pieces.pdf
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/116894
103. “What can we know of the world?
What quantity of space can our eyes
hope to take in between our birth and
our death? How many square
centimeters of Planet Earth will the
soles of our shoes have touched? To
cover the world… will only ever be to
know a few square meters of it….
perceiving that the earth is a form of
writing, a geography of which we
had forgotten that we ourselves are
the authors.”
Georges Perec
105. Lauren Elkin –
notes on a Parisian
commute
“The use of the everyday to
understand the
unimaginable is not
arbitrary, it was precisely
the right to an everyday
that the terrorists robbed
their victims of.”
Charlie Hebdo attacks 2015
110. Presidential Address
The State of the Art (1988)
Remembering his own schooling in 1940s
“His discursive and unplanned lessons frequently took off from
an item in that morning’s ‘Manchester Guardian’; geography was
about colonialism as well as commodities. I suspect that the
biographies of many professional geographers probably contain
such characters. What they shared, of course, was
personal enthusiasm. They had sustained their own
enjoyment of, and curiosity about, places. Hence they
were able to infect at least a proportion of the pupils they
encountered…”
113. Zachris Topelius, 19th Century
Finnish Historian
“no science can stand
still while the materials
of its study are
continuously
developing”
from Bill Mead’s ‘A Commonplace Geography’
114. NYT – Tim
Urban
Feb 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/covid-
pandemic-depressing-math.html
Tim Urban – February 2022
115. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/covid-
pandemic-depressing-math.html “The past couple of
years has left us with
a joy deficit.
When we picture a
post-Covid world, we
imagine having our
old lives back.
But we can actually
go a step further and
make up for the
missed experiences,
flipping the deficit
into a surplus.
If Covid has given us
anything, it’s a rare
chance for a reset.
Let’s take it.”
116.
117. Thanks so much for supporting the GA this day, and
everyday… to the speakers, delegates, GA staff and
trustees, students, stewards and all involved in putting on
this hybrid event. See you in Sheffield in 2023.
118. Images
A – Southwold, Suffolk from the Pier
B – Catbells and the Newlands Valley, Lake District
C – Inaccessible Pinnacle, Red Cuillin, Skye, Scotland
D – Leie and Sint-Michielsbrug, Gent, Belgium
E – ‘Roche Moutonnee’, Nant Ffrancon valley, Snowdonia
F - The Oculus, Manhattan, New York
G – Mer de Glace, Chamonix-Mont Blanc, France
119. References / Reading
Simon Catling (Ed.) (2017) ‘Reflections on Primary Geography’
Chapter by me: ‘You can take the boy out of Yorkshire’
Richard Mabey (2013) ‘A Good Parcel of English Soil’- Penguin Books Ltd.
Mission:Explore (2006) The Geography Collective. Can of Worms. & further books in the Mission:Explore series
GA Presidents blog: http://gapresidents.blogspot.com
LivingGeography blog: http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
GeoLibrary blog: http://geolibrary2013.blogspot.com
Geography in/on Film blog: https://geography24timesasecond.blogspot.com/
Cultural Geography blog: http://cultcha.blogspot.com
New PC Geographies document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEuZiEydbcxmBOs0lfs0_2_vzwIX-
OLGljw-SS-M4UU/edit?usp=sharing
Nicholas Crane – ‘We are Here’
Sebastian Hill (2017) - https://medium.com/@magicsebi/an-attempt-at-exhausting-a-place-in-paris-the-book-
its-background-and-its-lessons-for-the-21st-4a7df0ef05bb
120. References / Reading
’a different view’ (2009) – Geographical Association
Georges Perec -’An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris’ (1999)
https://iitcoa3rdyr.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/perec_readings.pdf
Georges Perec – ‘Species of Spaces and other Pieces’ (
Charles Forsdick, Andrew Leak and Richard Phillips ‘Georges Perec’s Geographies’ (UCL Press)
Tim Urban: New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/covid-pandemic-depressing-
math.html
Storm, Michael. “Geography in Schools: the State of the Art.” Geography, vol. 74, no. 4, 1989, pp. 289–298.
JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40571737.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0305763800060212
121. Image credits 1
1,4: Microsoft PPT – CC licensed library
2: Tom Morgan-Jones (with thanks to Matt Podbury, Richard Allaway and David Rogers)
3: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quotidian - definition
5: Geography Lesson with AP Smith: Copyright: Ian Lyons
3, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 36, 42, 43, 50, 52, 53: Alan Parkinson – shared under CC license
10: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quotidian - definition
11: Sally Parkinson
18, 19, 21, 26, 30, 33, 38: Ordnance Survey
20: Show your Stripes http://showyourstripes.info
22, 37: Shirley Parkinson
23: Latymer Upper School, Edmonton – School archive
24, 25, : Geographical Association
39:
40: Sally Stow / Alan Parkinson
41: Conor Kostick
All Alan Parkinson images are available on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/geographypages/albums
122. Image credits 2
All Alan Parkinson images are available on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/geographypages/albums
49: Dave Shaw
51: Mark Jarvis / UsedInk
54: Chris Durbin
Editor's Notes
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I’m going to share some stories of geographers past and present and also consider our collective futures. We can make a difference to those futures everyday of course, and one of the actions that we can take each day is to read and immerse ourselves in scholarship
The theme of my Presidential year is Everyday or Quotidian geographies. It starts with the premise of geography being part of all of our lives. But we already know that, because we are in possession of that geographical lens which allows us to
LivingGeography
The first location of several which have shaped me. Feel free to write down the locations of these places.
How did I become a geographer? If geography is the study of things becoming, then everyday life is the story of how we become, and remain, geographers.
In 2008, I read this book by the philosopher Julian Baggini
On a holiday to the East Coast around
Mrs. Richardson
Folders printed with Wickersley High School on them…
Conor Kostick
This is an image of
Sunflower oil, energy costs - Ukraine
The everyday experiences we’ve had over the last few years…
The French author, Georges Perec, calls it the ‘infra-ordinary’: that part of our lives that is so routine as to become almost invisible, like infra-red light.[x] Perec spent his whole career trying to make the ‘infra-ordinary’ more visible by lavishing it with the kind of painstaking attention we normally reserve for earth-shattering events and grand passions. His book, Species of Spaces (1974), simply lists all the objects he can see in his apartment and neighbourhood. He urges his readers to do the same with the contents of their own lives, looking afresh at how streets are named, houses are numbered and cars are parked – and not to worry about whether these subjects have some pre-agreed significance. But this kind of research project is so unusual that when we read the findings – whether on the parked cars in a Parisian street or the size of the portions in a Bolton chippie – we experience both the shock of recognition and the shock of the new.