John Pickles

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John Pickles
Born
NationalityBritish-American
Alma materMansfield College, Oxford
University of Natal
Pennsylvania State University
Scientific career
Fieldsgeography, phenomenology, globalisation, critical cartography

John Pickles currently serves as the Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Pickles attended the University of Oxford, where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Geography, with a minor in Geology, and a Master's degree in Geography. He later earned doctorate degrees from the University of Natal, South Africa, and the Pennsylvania State University, United States. Pickles is a scholar in the areas of critical cartography, phenomenology, and post-socialist spaces. He is the author of numerous books, including Phenomenology, Science, and Geography: Space and the Human Sciences, Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographical Information Systems, and A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.

References

  1. ^ Nonini, Donald Macon (2007). The global idea of 'the commons'. Berghahn Books. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-84545-485-2.