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The Places Where We Belong
Topics: Geographic Thought
, Regional Geography
, Cultural Geography
Keywords: geography Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract Day: Sunday Session Start / End Time: 2/27/2022 05:20 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/27/2022 06:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) Room: Virtual 9
Authors:
Bret Wallach, University of Oklahoma
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Abstract
Close to 50 years ago, I got a nice letter from a well-known geographer who, having read something of mine, wrote to say that, like me, his papers had always begun with him falling in love with a place. Sentimental nonsense? Perhaps, but his comment comes to mind as I finish a book-length manuscript (tentatively with the same name as this paper) summarizing what I've learned from a lifetime in this discipline. Not about the discipline or about research or about universities or pedagogy but about what travelling widely has taught me about what we make or should want to make of our lives. In this session I read the manuscript's opening pages, which introduce the theme of the work along with its narrative structure.
