TMGeographyIcons Presentation 24th April 2021

1. Alan Parkinson
#TMGeographyIcons21
Exploring the New
World Order

2. Why a ‘new world’?

3. Our World in Data - Coronavirus update
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

4. New PC Geographies -
over a year in the
writing
V11.0
About 200 pages
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEuZiEy
dbcxmBOs0lfs0_2_vzwIX-OLGljw-SS-M4UU/edi
t?usp=sharing

5. David Wolman - Wired piece
https://www.wired.com/story/amid-pandemic-geography-returns-with-a-vengeance/
THE PANDEMIC IS redefining
our relationship with
space. Not outer space,
but physical space. Hot
spots, distance, spread,
scale, proximity. In a word:
geography. Suddenly, we
can’t stop thinking about
where.

7. Since World War
II, the typical date
of Phoenix’s first
100-degree
studying has
shifted earlier by
about three
weeks, backing
up from May 17 to
April 28. On the
tail finish of the
season,
100-degree days
are sticking
round about 10
days later.
Heating up...

8. https://www.theguardian.co
m/environment/2021/apr/1
9/relentless-climate-crisis-i
ntensified-in-2020-says-un-
report

9. New York Times - Climate Futures
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/18/climate/climate-change-future-kids.html

10. Changing places

11. Holidaying at home...

12. “Short cuts mean long delays” J.R.R. Tolkien
Image:
iStock,
courtesy
of
ParcelHero

13. Ever Given everywhere - Garrett Dash Nelson
http://evergiven-everywhere.glitch.me/

14. Census 2021
But this census will nonetheless bestow
much-needed clarity on a society
buffeted by the pandemic. Uncertainty
about how many people are actually
living in the UK right now – let alone
where exactly they live – is higher this
year than it has been for many
decades. It’s thought that over a million
people left the country in 2020 who
would not normally have left, but we
don’t know how many really did and if
they left for good. This has serious
implications for the allocation of funding
across regions.
More importantly still, the 2021 census
will provide a clearer picture of the
inequalities that have come to light
since the beginning of the pandemic.
The isolation of the elderly, the
suffering in old industrial wards, and
the disproportionate impact of
COVID-19 on BAME communities will
all be better illustrated and
contextualised by this census.
http://www.dannydorling.org/?p=8252

15. https://www.ft.com/content/de721f35-d228-48de-b
d9f-d2168b16aba6?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3
-a635-873e61754ec6
Post-Brexit exodus

16. “Unspecified
carnage”

17. Curriculum changes to reflect these changes?

18. Writing the world
“An hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write” -
Robert MacFarlane

19. Geography and Relevance
John Allan Patmore - 1931-2018

21. "Geography teaches an appreciation and understanding of the
landscape around us and of those landscapes beyond our
personal experience.
It teaches both a knowledge and a sense of place, the
basic knowledge of the theatre of the world on which
mankind acts out its days.
It teaches the dimensions of reality and, far more important, the
concerns which underlie the character and the quality of our
continuing existence.”

22. “Geography is a subject, above all, of both head and heart.
With rigour and precision of technique and concept we seek to
measure, to describe and understand the mechanisms which
dictate the shifting patterns of the occupancy of earth. But
earth is home, shot through with beauty and with squalor,
opportunity and despair.
We cannot be detached from home: our attempted
understanding of its face is quickened by our wonder in its
delights and our concern for its condition: in wonder and in
concern, as much as in understanding, is the mark of
relevance in geography."
J Allan Patmore

23. And a reminder of the power of geography...
“Politicians are important, but
geography is more so. The choices
people make now, and in the
future, are never separate from
their physical context…
Geography is not fate - humans
get a vote in what happens - but it
matters.”
Tim Marshall

24. 2021-2 - GA President Conference Theme
Everyday Geographies