R. J. Johnston (1941–2020)
Author of The Dictionary of Human Geography
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- Legal name
- Johnston, Ronald John
- Other names
- Johnston, Ron
- Birthdate
- 1941-03-30
- Date of death
- 2020-05-29
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Commonweal school, Swindon
Manchester University (geography|1962|MA)
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (PhD|1964) - Occupations
- geographer
academic
bellringer - Organizations
- Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (lecturer)
Canterbury University, New Zealand (1967-1974|senior lecturer|reader)
Sheffield University (chair in geography|1974|head of department|1982-1985| chair of planning committee|pro vice-chancellor for academic affairs|1989)
Essex University (vice-chancellor|1992)
Bristol University (researcher|1995)
Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (president) - Awards and honors
- Royal Geographical Society (Murchison award|Victoria Medal)
Association of American Geographers (lifetime achievement award)
Vautrin Lud prize (1999)
British Academy (fellow|1999)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2011) - Short biography
- Ron Johnston, geographer and "historian of his subject, due to his magisterial account of Anglo-American human geography, Geography and Geographers (1979), and a prolific scholar who published about 40 books and 800 papers on a wide range of subjects, from the late 1970s, Ron specialised increasingly in elections. In books such as Geography of Elections (1979), co-authored by Peter Taylor, and Putting Voters in Their Place (2006), which he and I {Charles Pattie} wrote, Ron showed that voters' decisions are influenced not only by their personal beliefs, but also by where they live and work." (Guardian obituary, 2020-07-16).
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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This is a basic undergraduate-level textbook looking at the politics of human geography, examining political systems in the UK and USA, getting deep into the weeds of why more government money is spent in some places than others, and the difficulties of designing good systems for the sharing of resources. I got it for the bits about electoral systems and gerrymandering, but I stayed for the wider analysis of show more the role of state and local governments in society. It’s all stuff that I more or less knew, but it was helpful to have it laid out like this. It would have been good to see some nods towards gender and geography, and some more countries than the USA and UK, but it is what it is. show less
This is a basic undergraduate-level textbook looking at the politics of human geography, examining political systems in the UK and USA, getting deep into the weeds of why more government money is spent in some places than others, and the difficulties of designing good systems for the sharing of resources. I got it for the bits about electoral systems and gerrymandering, but I stayed for the wider analysis of show more the role of state and local governments in society. It’s all stuff that I more or less knew, but it was helpful to have it laid out like this. It would have been good to see some nods towards gender and geography, and some more countries than the USA and UK, but it is what it is. show less
This is a classic of the CATMOG series and should be required reading for all young geographers.
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