HeyJaredChanging Places
The geography around us, with a particular focus on the Changing Places units of the UK A Level.
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Fordlândia (opens the original)
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Geographer Jon Anderson describes capitalism as ‘perhaps the most influential cultural practice of our time… Capitalism takes and makes place around the globe’. Perhaps one of the more extreme examples of capitalism taking and making places is the example of Fordlândia in the Brazilian Amazon.In 1876 a British explorer, Henry Wickham, smuggled about 70,000 rubber-tree seeds from Brazil and exported them around the world to British colonies. These seeds grew exceptionally well in places like Mala
Festival geography (opens the original)
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Places change over time. They change over different timescales. Some changes are so gradual they take years or decades to become evident – such as the growth and development of cities like Lagos and Chongqing or the impacts of deindustrialisation on Hull and Detroit. Other changes are much more rapid. Summer music festivals are a great example of the latter.John Agnew says we can think of places as made up of three elements: location, locale and sense of place. As a farmer’s field is turned into
Is Andy Burnham the most ‘Place’ Prime Minister? (opens the original)
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A week after he returned to Parliament, Andy Burnham gave a speech in Manchester setting out how he planned to govern as Prime Minister. In a speech lasting around half an hour, he used the word “place” 29 times. Keir Starmer, in his equivalent speech in 2024, used it once.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackc
How to Get the Most from Changing Places (opens the original)
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The start of a new school year is a good moment to explain what this Substack is about, why I write it and how I hope you will be able to get the most out of it.I began Changing Places because I love teaching that unit of the A Level Geography course. It is, I think, the unit that most challenges students to look differently at the world around them and see familiar places with fresh eyes. Its content is everywhere. The aim is always to show how geographical ideas can help us look in a different
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