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About the Author
Marcus Doel is Professor of Human Geography at Swansea University in Wales, where he is also the Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, and the Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Theory. Marcus is an alumnus of the University of Bristol, and held positions at Liverpool John Moores University and Loughborough University in England prior to his move to Swansea University in 2000. He is the author of Postculturalist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science (Rowan and Littlefield, Edinburgh University Press), the co-author of Writing the Rural: Five Cultural Geographies (Sage), and the co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge), Moving Pictures/ Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film (Lexington books), and The Consumption Reader (Routledge) amongst other works. Marcus has written and lectured widely on critical human geography, social and spatial theory and post-structuralism, and he has published over 100 articles and book chapters in the related fields. Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.
Reviews
'Writing the Rural breaks new ground in the study of rural spaces and cultures' - Planning Practice and Research
'This is a significant book, one marking a 'cultural turn' in the subdiscipline of rural geography which echoes similar turns being made elsewhere in and beyond human geography' - Environment and Planning
Book Information
ISBN 9781853961977
Author Paul J. Cloke
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 410g