Gillian Rose FBA (born 1962) is a British

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and geographic author. She is a professor of human geography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. Previously, she taught and served as Associate Dean at

The Open University The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...

. She is best known for her 1993 book, ''Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge''.

Education and early career

Rose earned her BA from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

and her PhD (1990) from the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. She also has taught at the

and

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

. Before joining the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

in 2017, she previously taught and served as Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at

and was also Head of the Geography Department there for four years.

Scholarly contributions

:: ''"I think one of geography's greatest strengths-- one if its greatest pleasures-- as a discipline, is the way that it gathers together very different talents and skills, and puts them to work together in the task of understanding the world we all share."''-- Professor Gillian Rose's acceptance speech from the 2012 Royal Geographical Society Medals and Awards ceremony. Rose's current research interests lie broadly within the field of

visual culture Visual culture is the aspect of culture expressed in visual images. Many academic fields study this subject, including cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, media studies, Deaf Studies, and anthropology. The field of ...

. She is interested in the ways social subjectivities and relations are pictured or made invisible in a range of

media Media may refer to: Communication * Media (communication), tools used to deliver information or data ** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising ** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass el ...

, and how those processes are embedded in power relations. She also has long-standing interest in

feminist film theory Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory influenced by Second Wave Feminism and brought about around the 1970s in the United States. With the advancements in film throughout the years ...

and in

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...

's and

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

accounts of

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

in particular. This work has formed a crucial link between

feminist geography Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society, and geographical space. Feminist geography emerged in the 1970s, when members ...

and

geography of media and communication Geography of media and communication (also known as communication geography, media geography and geographies of media) is an interdisciplinary research area bringing together human geography with media studies and communication theory. Research ...

. Written from a

Marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

and

radical feminist Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a Political radicalism, radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts, while recognizing that women's experiences are al ...

perspective, ''Feminism & Geography'' stimulated a series of debates within geography about the nature of how geographic knowledge is constructed. Rose is known for defining identity as "how we make sense of ourselves" and explained how we each have different identities on different scales, for example, someone's local identity is probably different from their global identity. She also describes sense of place as the process of infusing a place with "meaning and feeling." In recent years she has written three books that have proven less controversial: ''Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Materials'' (2001), ''Deterritorialisations: Revisioning Landscape and Politics'' (2003), and ''Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, The Public and The Politics of Sentiment'' (Ashgate, 2012).

Key publications

*Rose, G. (1993), ''Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge'', U of Minnesota Press. *Rose, G. (2001), ''Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Materials'', second edition, Sage. *Dorrian, M. and Rose, G. (eds) (2003) ''Deterritoralisations: Revisioning Landscape and Politics'', Black Dog Press. *Rose, G. (2003), 'Just how, exactly, is geography visual?' ''Antipode'', vol. 35, pp. 212–21. *Rose, G. (2003), 'Domestic spacings and family photography: a case study', ''Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers'', vol. 28, pp. 5–18. *Rose, G. (2004), 'Everyone's cuddled up and it just looks really nice': the emotional geography of some mums and their family photos', ''Social and Cultural Geography'', vol. 5 pp. 549–64. *Rose, G. (2005), 'You just have to make a conscious effort to keep snapping away, I think': a case study of family photos, mothering and familial space', in Hardy, S and Wiedmer, C (eds), ''Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal Through Politics, Home, and the Body'', Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 221–40. *Rose, G. (2012), ''Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, The Public and The Politics of Sentiment'', Ashgate

Awards and recognition

Rose received the 2012

Murchison Award The Murchison Award, also referred to as the Murchison Grant, was first given by the Royal Geographical Society in 1882 for publications judged to have contributed most to geographical science in preceding recent years. Recipients Source (1882–1 ...

from the

Royal Geographical Society The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...

for "publications on visual culture and geographic methodologies". In 2015, she was elected a fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

and, the same year, was also named an Andrew W Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the

University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria ( af, Universiteit van Pretoria, nso, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public university, public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was ...

, as well.

References

External links

Professor Gillian Rose
at the University of Oxford.
Rose's blog "visual/method/culture"
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