Nationality British-American Name John Pickles | Role Author | |
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Alma mater Mansfield College, OxfordUniversity of NatalPennsylvania State University Residence Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Books A History of Spaces, Theorising Transition Education People also search for Petr Pavlinek, Adrian Smith, Tom Shippey | ||
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. 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.