Placing culture

A podcast on geography, the arts, and humanities

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This video is to accompany episode 7.

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This episode is an audio extract from my short film, "Odology," which is part of a series of films I am making based on the writings of J.B. Jackson. This is the second extract I have shared on this podcast. For more on the series: http://olympus_mons.typepad.com/landscape_in_frame

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This video is to accompany episode 6.

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This episode is an audio extract from my short film, "Landscape is ...", which is part of a series of films I am making based on the writings of J.B. Jackson. I plan on periodically posting audio from the films as I work on the series. For more on the series: http://olympus_mons.typepad.com/landscape_in_frame/

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In this episode I talk to Tim Cresswell, professor of history and international affairs and associate director for public humanities at Northeastern University (Boston, MA, USA), about becoming a poet, being a geographer and practicing creative geography. Our starting point is his article, “Geographies of poetry/poetries of geography,” cultural geographies 2014, Vol. 21 (1): 141-146 (read the abstract). 

Professor Cresswell has two published volumes of poetry, Soil (Penned in the Margins, 2013) and Fence (Penned in the Margins, 2015). You can read his poems in a number of other places online, including The Londonist, The Stockholm Review of Literature and Lemon Hound.  

Please note that the audio quality on this episode is variable. I apologize for the rough edges. Thanks for listening.

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This is a video to accompany episode 04.

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These are photos, of and from our backyard, to accompany episode 04.

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In this episode, I present an original reflection on sound and sense of place.

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A brief announcement about my summer plans for the podcast.

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In this episode I talk to Laura Sharp and Shelby Smith, both graduate students in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona, about editing the "Montage" issue of you are here: the journal of creative geography. We talk about the challenges and opportunities of editing a multimedia and multidisciplinary journal issue, the advantages of digital publishing for a periodical like you are here, and, of course, we discuss the risks and rewards of doing creative geography.

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In this episode, I talk to Soren Larsen, associate professor of geography at University of Missouri, and Matt Jacobson (matthew[dot]jacobson28[at]gmail[dot]com), a recent M.A. in geography from Missouri. The starting point for our discussion is their article, "Ethnographic fiction for writing and research in cultural geography," Journal of Cultural Geography, 2014, Vol. 31, No. 2, 179-193 (read the abstract). From there, we talk about methodological experimentation and academic career paths, different aspects of research, writing, and publishing processes, and, following the previous episode, we also discuss prospects for "creative geography."

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In the first episode of the podcast I talk to Stephen Daniels, Professor of Cultural Geography and Director of the AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme at the University of Nottingham, and Lucy Veale, Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham, about their short film, "Imagining Change: Coastal Conversations," and related article, "Imagining coastal change: reflections on making a film," cultural geographies 2014, Vol. 21 (3): 497-504 (read the abstract).

Our conversation moves from the film and article to other topics, including the role of the arts & humanities in addressing environmental questions, academics and public outreach, and the prospects for, and practice of, "creative geography."

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This is Stephen Daniels' and Lucy Veale's short film, "Imagining Change: Coastal Conversations," which we discuss in the first episode of the podcast. 

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This is a short message introducing the podcast.