Ian Cook is Associate Professor of Geography at the
University of Exeter
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in the UK, and formerly senior lecturer in geography at the
University of Birmingham
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, and lecturer at the
University of Wales, Lampeter
University of Wales, Lampeter () was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest Academic degree, degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited degree awarding powers sinc ...
.
Background
BSc in Human Sciences, University College London, 1986; MA Human Geography,
University of Kentucky
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1992; PhD, University of Bristol, 1997. His cultural geography PhD was highly autobiographical, and took several years to be awarded. He began his academic career at the University of Wales, Lampeter (1993-9), then worked at the University of Birmingham (1999-2007), before moving to Exeter in 2007.
Contributions
Geographies of commodification, particularly tracing the paths of reference to exotic fruit and fashion items. Cook argues that commodities are connected to the home and bodies, but their origins are often overlooked; we should learn where commodities come from. Ethnographic methods of inquiry, and new media and blogging.
He has written more widely on human geography, including one major textbook.
Publications
*Ian Cook and Mike Crang. 2007. ''Doing ethnographies''. London: Sage.
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Paul Cloke, Ian Cook, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin, Joe Painter & Chris Philo. 2004. ''Practising human geographies.'' London: Sage
*Ian Cook, Simon Naylor, James Ryan, David Crouch (eds.). 2000. ''Cultural turns / geographical turns: perspectives on cultural geography''. Harlow, Longman.
* Ian Cook et al., 2004, ''Follow the Thing: Papaya,'' Antipode 36, 4: 642-664
See also
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Lampeter Geography School
University of Wales, Lampeter () was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest Academic degree, degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited degree awarding powers sinc ...
References
Living people
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Academics of the University of Exeter
British geographers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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