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Earl
N. Phillips Distinguished Chair
of International Studies
Ph.D. The
Pennsylvania State University.
Ph.D.
University of Natal.
MA Oxford
University.
BA (Hons)
Oxford University
c.v. (.pdf)
Research Themes
Globalization
and development studies
Over the past twenty years, my
research has focused on geographies of globalization, political economy,
development, justice, and social action, particularly on economic
geographies of apartheid and anti-apartheid, and post-socialist regional
economic transformations. I am currently interested in geographies of
social movements and autonomous development .
Post-socialist
spaces
Much of my work over the past two
decades has focused on post-socialist economic transformations in Central
and Eastern Europe, especially Bulgaria
and SE Europe. I have been particularly
interested in issues relating to regional economic change, violence, and
ethnic minority populations and regions (e.g., Ethnicity,
Violence, and Regional Change, Theorizing
Transition; Bulgaria in
Transition; Environmental
Transitions).
Space, society, and science-technology studies
I am also interested in science and
technology studies and the ways in which mapping practices shape
socio-spatial life (e.g., Ground
Truth: The Social Consequences of Geographical Information Systems; Phenomenology,
Science, and Geography: Space and the Human Sciences). I have recently completed work on a new
book on the social history and geography of mapping: A
History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World
(Routledge 2004).
This work currently continues through the University Program in Cultural
Studies working groups on 'new cartographies in art and social movements'
and Expertise,
Science and Democracy.
Research
Projects
1.
Geographies of the global apparel industry
I am currently involved in two
National Science Foundation funded projects.?One deals with the changing geographies of post-MFA apparel
trade and production.?This is a
collaborative project with Meenu Tewari (UNC), Gary Gereffi (Duke
University), and Adrian Smith (Queen Mary College, University of London).
[http://www.unc.edu/depts/geog/garp/]?
The second focuses on the resurgence of apparel production and the
development of new geographies of out-sourcing, subcontracting, and trade
throughout Central and Eastern Europe [Global
Apparel/Clothing Europe]. This is a collaborative
project with Robert Begg (Indiana University of PA), Adrian Smith (University
of Southampton), Milan Bucek (Bratislava
University), and Poli Roukova (Bulgarian
Academy of
Sciences). I serve as a member of the UNC Licensing Committee, direct the
UCIS Supply
Chains Program, co-direct the Cultures
of Economies Research Group and participate
in the Collective
Violence and Conflict Resolution and Social
Movements Working Group. I also work closely with several Title VI Area
Studies Centers at UNC: the Center for Slavic, East European,
and Eurasian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Carolina Asia Center, and the University
Center for International Studies.
2. Alternative economies and autonomous development
This project focuses on the study of
diverse economic practices, trans-nationality, and local
development. It is part of the Cultures-of
Economies Research Group in the University Program in Cultural Studies. See also the undergraduate study abroad
program in development studies: Oaxaca Study Abroad
Program in Development and Anti-Development Studies.
3. Europe and trans-border geographies
This project
begins with Derrida’s claim for a ‘democracy-to-come?and Balibar’s call
for ‘open citizenship? to study the changing borders of Europe and the
on-going struggles over the boundaries of rights and freedoms within
Schengen and other Euro-spaces.
4. New cartographies in art and social
movements
http://www.countercartographies.org/
In
referring to the work of Foucault and post-Foucaultian social theory as
the ?new cartographer?(along with the new archivist), Gilles Deleuze
pointed to a mode of investigation and writing that sought, not to trace
out representations of the real, but to construct mappings that refigure
relations in ways that render alternative worlds. In this project, we
begin with this understanding of new cartographies/new mappings, and then
turn to the ways in which these new mappings are emerging within social
movement, activist, and artist projects to rethink economic practices and
institutions. In forging this research group, we are interested in
understanding how this particular genealogy of a new cartography is being
and can be mobilized to render new images (and practices) of economies,
how it is being deployed in community and alternative economic projects,
and how it is being used to understand the institutions and networks of
economic organizations such as corporations, military-state economies,
and the university.
?In the next year we plan to focus on
conceptual and technical issues involved in using these new mappings to
elaborate the topographies and topologies of economic relations and
power; using network and meshwork mappings to make new
relations/spaces/practices visible, including experimental mappings of
institutional and individual movements and flows. The purpose of these
mappings is partly to rethink and refigure the role of representation of
spaces, regions, and identities in thinking economies. It is also partly
an effort to investigate the possibilities for a cartography that responds
to the methodological and conceptual innovations deriving from genealogy,
schizoanalysis, situationism, and psycho-geography.
Most Recent Publications
John Pickles and
Adrian Smith. 2007.??/span>Clothing Workers after the Worker States: The Consequences for
Work and Labour of Outsourcing, Nearshoring and Delocalization in
Postsocialist Europe??SAGE Handbook of Work and Society:
Working Space Editors: Susan McGrath-Champ, Andrew Herod, Al Rainnie.
In press.
John Pickles. 2007.
Deconstructing Hegemonies and the Ethics and Politics of Theory. Discussion
forum on Matthew Sparke’s In the Space of Theory.?Edited by Jo Sharp.?Environment and Planning D: Society
and Space. In press.
John Pickles.
2007.?‘Geographical
Imaginations? in Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin and Gill Valentine
(eds).?Key Texts in Human Geography, SAGE publications, in press.
John Pickles and Adrian Smith. 2007. 'Post-socialist
economic geographies and the politics of knowledge production'. In Politics
and Practices of Economic Geography. Edited by Eric Sheppard, Trevor
Barnes, Jamie Peck, and Adam Tickell. SAGE, in press.
John Pickles. 2007.
Collectivism, Universalism, and Struggles Over Common Property Resources
in the ‘New?Europe. In The Global Idea of the Commons. Edited by
Don Nonini. Critical Intervention Series, Berghahn Press. Forthcoming.
John Pickles. 2007. ‘The spirit of post-socialism: what do we
understand by it??in J. Pickles (ed.) State and Society in
Post-Socialist and Post-Soviet Economies. Palgrave Macmillan. In press.
John Pickles (editor)
2007. State and Society in Post-Socialist and
Post-Soviet Economies. Palgrave Macmillan. In press.
John Pickles (editor)
2007. Globalization and
Regionalization in Post-socialist Economies: the Common Economic Spaces
of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. In press.
John Pickles. 2006.
Collectivism, Universalism, and Struggles Over Common Property Resources
in the ‘New?Europe. Social Analysis. 50(3), Winter, 178-186.
Guest Editor. Environment
and Planning A: Special Issue on Trade Liberalization,
Upgrading. and Regionalization in the Global Apparel Industry,
38(12).
John Pickles. 2006.
Trade Liberalization, Upgrading. and Regionalization in the Global
Apparel Industry. Environment and Planning A. December.?38(12): 2201-2206.
John Pickles, Adrian
Smith, Poli Roukova, Robert Begg, and Milan Bucek. 2006. Upgrading and
diversification in the East European industry: Competitive pressure and
production networks in the clothing industry. Environment and Planning
A. 38(12): 2305-2324
John Pickles. 2006.
On the Social Lives of Maps and the Politics of Diagrams: A story of power,
alchemy, seduction, and disappearance. Area 37 (4): 355-364.
John Pickles.
2006. Ground Truth 1995-2005. Transactions in GIS 10(5): 763-772.
Book blurb.?2007.?
Abysmal.?Gunnar
Olsson. University of Chicago Press..
Book blurb. 2006. Foucault.?Jeremy Crampton and Stuart Elden.?Ashgate Publishers.?
Book blurb.?2006. The Sovereign Map.?Christian Jacob.?University of Chicago Press.
Courses
International Studies Undergraduate Courses
Geography Undergraduate Courses
Graduate Seminars
Seminars in Political Geography:
Seminars in Social Geography
Seminars in
Economic Geography:
Graduate School
Scholars for Tomorrow Seminars
Books
2004. A History
of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.
Routledge.
2001. Ethnicity, Violence, and
Regional Change. Special Issue of Growth and Change.
2000. Environmental
Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern
Europe.
1998. Theorizing Transition:
The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations.
1998. Bulgaria in Transition: The
Environmental Consequences of Political and Economic Transformation.
1995. Ground
Truth: The Social Implications of Geographical Information Systems.
1989. Commonplaces,
Humanism, and Geography.
1987. Geography
and Humanism.
1985. Phenomenology,
Science, and Geography: Space and the Human Sciences.
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