Years active 1989–present | Name Noel Castree | |
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Born 8 December 1968 (age 55) ( 1968-12-08 ) Bury, Greater Manchester,UK Occupation Geographer at University of Wollongong (Marxist political economy, political economy of nature) Books Making Sense of Nature, A Dictionary of Human, Nature, Spaces of Work Similar People Derek Gregory, Rob Kitchin, Erik Swyngedouw | ||
Noel Castree FAcSS (born 8 December 1968) is a British geographer whose research interests are in capitalism-environment relationships. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Progress in Human Geography.
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Background
Castree was born in Bury, Greater Manchester, UK and has a BA in Geography from the University of Oxford, and an MA (1992) and PhD from the University of British Columbia (May, 1999). He taught for 5 years at Liverpool University before joining the University of Manchester in 2000 and becoming professor of geography in the School of Environment and Development in 2004. In January 2014 he joined the University of Wollongong in Australia, in a new Department of Geography & Sustainable Communities.
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His "principal interests are in the political economy of environmental change, regulation and contestation. He has sought to develop and apply Marxian approaches to understanding a range of environmental problems, with an emphasis on understanding the meaning and limits of 'commodification'."
One of his main contributions to critical geography relates to the concept of "Social nature".
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