Dr Mark Jackson

BA(Hons), MA, PhD(Alta)

Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies

Contact

Office: 2.4n
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9109
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: m.jackson@bristol.ac.uk

Research interests

Mark is a human geographer with interests in political economy and historical and cultural geography. His interests traverse the domains of postcolonialism, urban geography, social theory, political ecology, and political economy, with a focus on theories of modernity, urbanity, political ontology, materialities of economy, science and technology, and aesthetic representation. He welcomes postgraduates interested in interrogating relationships amongst these domains.

Mark is currently involved in a number of diverse interdisciplinary research projects, including: 1) critical absences in current writing on urban modernity; 2) global exhibition assemblages and Chinese urban imaginaries; 3) political ecologies of energy, built space and emergent thought in local Bristol contexts; 4) artificial islands as performative avatars of contemporary spatial desire and anxiety; 5) elemental assumptions in conceptualizing material geographies; and 6) historical complexity and the social determinants of land degradation in India.

He is also a contributing member of the University of Bristol's BRISK initiative and The Cabot Institute.

Teaching

Postcolonial Geographies; Postcolonial Urbanism; Nature, Culture, Power; Contemporary Debates in Human Geography; Geographies of Political Economy; Qualitative Methods; World in Crisis; Cultural Geography Field Course: Barcelona.

Selected publications

Mark S Jackson & Della Dora, V. 'Spectacular Enclosures of Hope: Artificial Islands in the Gulf and the Urban Present', in R. Shields, O. Park and T. Davidson (Eds.), Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire and Hope, (pp. 293-316), Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2011.

Mark S Jackson & Della Dora, V. '?From Landscaping to `Terraforming?: Gulf mega-projects, cartographic visions and urban imaginaries?', in Eds. J. Agnew, Z. Roca and P. Claval (Eds.), Landscapes, Identities and Development, (pp. 95-113), Ashgate, 2011. ISBN: 9781409405542

Mark S Jackson. 'Review of Vibrant Matter' Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett. Emotion, Space and Society, (pp. -), 2011.