Trevor John Barnes, FBA (born 14 July 1956,

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, England) is a British geographer and Professor of

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at the

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Background

Trevor Barnes received his

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in 1983 at

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with a thesis under the supervision of

Eric Sheppard Eric Sheppard (born 1 October 1950) is a British and American geographer, currently Distinguished Research Professor of Economic geography at UCLA. Background Sheppard grew up in Cambridge, England, the son of Norman Sheppard and Kay McClean/S ...

titled ''The Geography of Value, Production, and Distribution: Theoretical Economic Geography after Sraffa''. Barnes began his career as a spatial scientist, but in recent years his interest has moved to the history of economic geography. His current projects concern the history of geography's

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;

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in economic geography; the institutional analysis of forestry with Roger Hayter; and

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. His co-edited volume, ''Writing Worlds'' helped initiate geography's turn towards questions of discourse; it has been widely cited by researchers studying the

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. In 2014 he was elected a

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Recognition

In 2019, Barnes was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Founder’s Medal for his "sustained excellence and pioneering developments in the field of economic geography". Barnes is considered by notable geographers as a "Key Thinker on Space and Place" and in 2011 was made a Fellow of the

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. In 2012, he was given the

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award at the

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.Ellen Churchill Semple Day
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Publications

* Sheppard, E., and Barnes, T.J. ''The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis After Ricardo, Marx and Sraffa''. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. * Barnes, T.J., and Duncan, J.S. (eds.) ''Writing Worlds: Texts, Discourses and Metaphors in the Interpretation of Landscape''. London: Routledge, 1992. * Barnes, T. J. ''Logics of Dislocation: Models, Metaphors, and Meanings of Economic Space''. New York:

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, 1995. * Barnes, T.J., Gregory, D. (eds.) ''Reading Human Geography: The Poetics and Politics of Inquiry''. New York: Wiley, 1997. * Barnes, T. J. and Hayter, R. (eds.) ''Troubles in the Rainforest: British Columbia's Forest Economy in Transition''. Victoria: Western Geographical Press, 1997. * Barnes, T. J. and Gertler, M. S. (eds.) ''The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and Institutions''. London: Routledge, 1999. * Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. J. (eds.) ''A Companion to Economic Geography''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. * Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., Sheppard, E., and Tickell, A. (eds.) ''Reading Economic Geography''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. * Tickell, A., Sheppard, E., Peck, J., and Barnes, T. J. (eds.) ''Politics and Practice in Economic Geography''. London:

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, 2007. * Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., and Sheppard, E. (eds.) ''The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography''. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

References

External links

Trevor Barnes
page at the

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