Online Place Branding: Is Geography ‘Destiny’ in a ‘Space of Flows’ World?

Geography decides destiny.

“The next activity we will do in today’s session is called the fantasy death exercise.” I look at the expectant faces in front of me. I always get a kick out of doing this exercise with medical students as it is a great immersion learning tool and fun to do. “The fantasy death exercise is sort of like guided imagery experience. Please close your eyes and keep them closed until I tell you to ope...

Thinking Topographically: Place, Space, and Geography

A place and space for a critical geography of precarity?

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Geography is not Destiny. Geography, Institutions and Literacy in England, 1837-1863

Geography made rural society in the south-east of England unequal. Economies of scale in grain growing created a farmer elite and many landless laborers. In the pastoral north-west in contrast family farms dominated, with few hired laborers, and modest income disparities. Did this geography driven difference in social structure influence educational outcomes in England 1810-1845? Using new micr...

Space of Flows, Politics of Place: