Dan Flores
speaker
4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've all seen them everywhere in the West.
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Those bumper stickers on the nether end of a towering Ram or Ford 150 pickup proclaiming the driver is a native.
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As to where the attachment applies, it's almost always to a state, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Idaho, that's barely existed much more than a century ago.
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Nativity in these cases is usually intended to give the newcomers to understand that the pickup driver has kin who got to Idaho or Wyoming two or three generations before you did.
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So both truck and driver are due special privileges.
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In a part of America where people have resided for 23,000 years, that's maybe not the most convincing claim of nativity out there.
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But it is one version.
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All of us will probably agree from life experiences, if nothing else, that attachment to place is a fundamental of human life.
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Some of our earliest sensory perceptions of the living world around us are of place-based cues.
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The geographer Yifu Tuan's famous aphorism space plus culture equals place distills the whole equation.
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If you assume that space means the surrounding natural world and culture represents all the human creations we bring to bear, economics, technological ability, philosophies of meaning, language, and social life, you can quickly see how specific places come to be.
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In episode 25 of The American West, I offered up a deep time history of the Southern High Plains
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to show how over time these factors could produce a succession of different places.
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In that example, across 13,000 years, the same piece of ground featured a place characterized by mammoth and giant bison hunters and another of vast irrigated cotton fields.
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Both kinds of place-based life have been possible on the Southern High Plains.
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Applying an exercise like that is an intriguing way to look at places, a way to grasp what the possibilities are.
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But let's face it, we live out our daily lives in the 21st century.
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Even so, for all the similarities that the internet and advertising and popular culture lay down on every place everywhere...
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all of us are driving nearly identical automobiles and shopping in the same box stores no matter where we live, place-based life in the modern American West is actually quite distinctive from spot to spot.
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My stepdaughter, who grew up on the Wasatch Front in Utah, goes to college in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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