FIELDWORK
FOR HUMAN
GEOGRAPHY
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FIELDWORK
FOR HUMAN
GEOGRAPHY
RICHARD PHILLIPS AND JENNIFER JOHNS
Richard Phillips and Jennifer Johns 2012
First published 2012
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Richard Phillips is Professor of Geography at Sheffield University, where he leads fieldwork classes and teaches cultural geography and postcolonial criticism. He is the author of Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (Routledge, 1996) and Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography (Manchester University Press, 2006), as well as the editor for Muslim Spaces of Hope: Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West (Zed, 2009). His current research investigates Geographies of Curiosity.
Richard Phillips at a small dairy farm in Honduras
Jennifer Johns is an economic geographer teaching management and international business at the University of Liverpool Management School. She previously lectured at the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool and the School of Geography, University of Manchester and has taught on fieldtrips in the UK, France, US and Canada. Jennifer works on research issues of inter-disciplinary interest including globalisation, the agglomeration of economic activities, global trade and production networks.
Jennifer Johns in an Asian-themed shopping mall in Canada
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
Joseph Assan is a Lecturer in Development Practice at Trinity College Dublin. He has extensive fieldwork experience in Africa. Josephs research examines Political Ecology and the interaction between development policy and practice. He is the author of Livelihoods and Development, which will be published by Routledge.
Matt Baillie-Smith is a Reader in Sociology at Northumbria University. His research analyses development, NGOs, civil society and activism, particularly in relation to ideas of cosmopolitanism and citizenship. Recent work has explored international volunteering, activist biographies in South India, and NGOs and development education in the global North.
Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University. His most recent book is Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia (Continuum, 2010), a work that reflects a long-term interest in the paradoxes of modern radicalism. Alastair has pursued a vision of geography as the world discipline and fieldwork as one of its core methodologies (in What is Geography? Sage, 2008).
Tim Bunnell is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, where he is jointly appointed in the Department of Geography and at the Asia Research Institute. Following doctoral and postdoctoral research in Malaysia, he has worked on Liverpools historical connections to Southeast Asia and, more recently, on urban transformation in Indonesia.
Nick Clarke is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. His research and teaching focus on the cultural dimensions of globalisation. He loved fieldwork as a student and now leads a fieldcourse to Berlin, focusing on the production of urban space in twentieth-century Europe.
Bill Gould has been using fieldwork in teaching human geography and development studies since he taught A-level Geography in Uganda in the 1960s, and subsequently in the Department of Geography, Liverpool University, 1970-2007, with field classes with and for British and local students in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Andrew Gregory graduated from the University of Manchester with a BSc in Geography and MA in Economy and Society. He has since developed a career as a management consultant, beginning his employment with Accenture in July 2004. He is currently a Manager in Products Life Sciences.
Jennifer Grehan graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BA in Geography. She attended a ten-day residential fieldtrip to Vancouver in 2009. Jennifer is now working in law, having gained a trainee position at a leading law firm in Canada.
Peter Hopkins is Reader in Social and Political Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. His research tends to employ qualitative methods, including focus groups, interviews and participatory techniques focusing on issues relating to the geographies of youth, religion, race and masculinities.
Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He is currently directing a project on Consumer culture in an age of anxiety, funded by the European Research Council (http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/conanx). He previously directed a multidisciplinary research programme on Changing Families, Changing Food, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/familiesandfood).
Mark Jayne is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. His research interests include consumption, city cultures and cultural economies. He is the author of Cities and Consumption (Routledge, 2005) and co-author of Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces
