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“Very flat, Norfolk” – geographies of place<br />Norfolk GA Branch<br />Presidential Lecture<br />15th March 2010<br />Ala...

“Place is one of the trickiest words in the English language, a suitcase so overfilled that one can never shut the lid...”...

http://www.animoto.com<br />From my photo album<br />

Who am I ?<br /><ul><li>Born in Rotherham, S. Yorkshire

Degree at Huddersfield Polytechnic, W. Yorkshire

PGCE at Hull University, E. Yorkshire

Taught for 20 years in King’s Lynn

Awarded 3 Innovative Geography teaching grants

June 2008: won Ordnance Survey Award “for excellence in secondary geography teaching”

July 2008: stopped teaching...</li></li></ul><li>What do I do ?<br /><ul><li>Started work in September as Secondary Curri...

Involves a range of project-based work and developing and delivering CPD for a range of audiences

Maintain 8 blogs, and a range of NING networks for GA members and other groups

In the last year have visited / spoken to groups in over 60 locations around the UK from Islay, to Somerset, to Canterbu...

Work with QCDA, publishers, TV companies, TES etc.</li></li></ul><li>

Where was I born ?<br />

Rotherham: sense of “place”<br />

Jamie Oliver<br />

“Childhood is a branch of cartography”<br />Michael Chabon<br />

What will I do today ?<br /><ul><li>Explore ‘images’ of Norfolk

Connect local with global, as part of the ‘Living Geography’ approach

Explore the concept of “place”

Take ‘a different view’ of Norfolk

Explore some contemporary geographical concepts with respect to Norfolk</li></li></ul><li>What does Norfolk ‘mean’ to peo...

Wordle of results...<br />

Noel Coward<br />

Image by Flickr user zaser<br />

Images of Norfolk<br />

http://www.geograph.org.uk<br />& FLICKR CC images<br />

On the seventh day God didn't rest. He looked at what he had created and thought: 'Oh dammit, England's gone all wrong. Th...

“Why would I want to go and live in bloody Norfolk for God’s sake ? Nothing good ever came out of Norfolk...”<br />

What do we mean by ‘place’ ?<br />What is your favourite place in norfolk & why ?<br />

“Geography” – GA journalAutumn 2008 issue“PLACE”Tim Cresswell<br />

Many think of place as relating to places, rather than the concept of place...<br />

Classic definition of place<br />place (pls)n.1.a. An area with definite or indefinite boundaries; a portion of space.<br...

10. Social station: He overstepped his place.<br />11. A particular situation or circumstance: Put yourself in my place.<b...

“The idea of place can be divisive, because it requires a boundary, and therefore an ‘inside’ and an ‘outside’...”<br />

“I’m not a tourist, I live here...”<br />

Yi Fu Tuan<br />“Place is security, space is freedom. <br />We are attached to one and long for the other.” <br />Geograph...

Eleanor Rawling<br />Geographers do not just see a place as an ‘objective thing’ in the world that can be described and ex...

Will Self<br />psychogeography<br />

Geography teachers often talk about the subject developing “a sense of place”…<br />

Norfolk Coast<br />

“the visceral essence of place”<br />Rachel Cook (2008)<br />

“a meaningful segment of geographical space”<br />

Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin<br />

Place is “socially constructed”<br />

Allan Smethurst“The Singing Postman”<br />

Dialect“ a sense of belonging to a place”...<br />

Flickr user: the ginger bloke<br />

How important is dialect in defining a place ?Is it used to help identify those who are from “elsewhere” ?<br />Image by F...

Changing places…<br />

Harry Hill<br />

Image by Flickr user Stewie D<br />

Impressions of place“REBRANDING....”<br />

Impressions of place“REBRANDING....”<br />

Impressions of place“REBRANDING....”<br />

How could we rebrand Norfolk ?<br />

Poppyland<br />

Nelson’s<br />County....<br />

“I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.”<br />“You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated odditie...

Kingdom Country ??<br />

Bernard Matthewsland<br />

http://www.worldclassnorfolk.com/<br />

Professor Doreen MasseyJunior Vice PresidentGeographical Association<br />

“local sense of the global” glocalisation...<br />

Today Norfolk, tomorrow the world<br />Global connections<br />

“a different view”<br />

Flickr user: Tim Caynes<br />

Norfolk: future places....<br />

Sea level rise<br />

Coastal erosion and abandonment<br />

Renewable energy...“The engine room....”<br />Image by Flickr user i_gallagher - CC<br />

Future crops ??<br />

Future connectivity...<br />

Future maps: CyberspaceBarbara HuiRings of Saturn<br />

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