Showing posts with label Ron Johnston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ron Johnston. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 May 2020

Ron Johnston RIP

In the GA's manifesto for Geography "a different view" (which I shall talk about more when we get into the 2000s, there is a series of quotes.
One of them was from Professor Ron Johnston, who I heard today has sadly died.
ImageHe has a long and influential career and taught in a number of universities including the UK and New Zealand.
He was President of the Lincoln branch of the Geographical Association, 1978-83.

He wrote the obituary for former GA President Stan Gregory.
He won the AAG Lifetime Achievement Award.
He also co-wrote a piece for the Independent about another former GA President Michael Wise.

Updated:

Catch this video of him talking with Peter Haggett.

And read this piece from Derek Gregory on Geographical Imaginations.

Download 'a different view' as a PDF.

Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Thought for the Day

"...remove (your) blinkers, cast off (your) parochial myopia and once again teach the world as a mosaic of places, not as a series of examples of Von Thünen and Christaller.."

Ron Johnston (1984, 'The world is our oyster", Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 9:4: 441-59

Margaret Mackintosh RIP

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