Name Gillian Rose | Role Geographer | |
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Books Doing Family Photography: the Domestic, the Public and the Politics of Sentiment | ||
Gillian Rose (born 1962) is a British geographer and geographic author. She is a professor and Associate Dean at the Open University. She is best known for her 1993 book, Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge.
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Education and Early Career
Rose earned her BA from Cambridge and her PhD from University of London. She taught at the University of Edinburgh before joining the faculty at the Open University.
Scholarly contributions
Rose's current research interests lie broadly within the field of visual culture. She is interested in the ways social subjectivities and relations are pictured or made invisible in a range of media, and how those processes are embedded in power relations. She also has long-standing interest in feminist film theory and in Michel Foucault's and feminist accounts of photography in particular.
Written from a Marxist and radical feminist perspective, Feminism & Geography stimulated a series of debates within geography about the nature of how geographic knowledge is constructed. Rose is known for defining identity as "how we make sense of ourselves" and explained how we each have different identities on different scales, for example, someone's local identity is probably different from their global identity. She also describes sense of place as the process of infusing a place with "meaning and feeling."
In recent years she has written three books that have proven less controversial: Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Materials (2001), Deterritorialisations: Revisioning Landscape and Politics (2003), and Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, The Public and The Politics of Sentiment (Ashgate, 2012).
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Awards and Recognition
Rose received the 2012 Murchison Award from the Royal Geographic Society for "publications on visual culture and geographic methodologies".