Joe Painter

FAcSS The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the Academy of Social Sciences to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the social sciences. Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used t ...

(born 1965) is a British geographer and academic, specialising in

political geography Political geography is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures. Conventionally, for the purposes of analysis, ...

. As of 2023, he is a

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in the Department of Geography at

Durham University Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by r ...

, part of the Politics-State-Space, IBRU Centre for Borders Research and Urban Worlds research groups. Painter read geography at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

between 1984 and 1987, achieving a

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. He then went on to achieve a

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from the Open University in 1991. Between 1991 and 1993 he was a geography 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 ...

, subsequently moving to Durham University in 1993. During the academic year 2004-05 Painter was on leave at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

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, where he was the Visiting Fellow in the Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS). As of 2023, he has (co-)authored four books about political geography, human geography and the geography of borders and co-edited a further two books. Painter has also become a member of various organizations and magazines: *Between 1996/9 he was editor of the magazine Area. *Since 1997 he has been a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board, Space and Polity and *Since from 2002 of the Canadian Geographer.

Areas of expertise

* Urban and regional politics and policy * Regional identity * Geographies of citizenship and democracy * Geographies of the state, governance and regulation * Political geographies of European integration * Social and political theory

References

External links

Painter's website
1965 births Living people Academics of Durham University Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences British geographers {{geographer-stub