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

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

with a thesis under the supervision of

Eric Sheppard Eric Sheppard (born 1 October 1950) is a British and American geographer, and Professor of Economic geography at UCLA. Background Sheppard grew up in Cambridge, England and studied geography at the University of Bristol under Peter Haggett (g ...

titled ''The Geography of Value, Production, and Distribution: Theoretical Economic Geography after

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''. 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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; epistemological pluralism in economic geography; the institutional analysis of forestry with Roger Hayter; and creative industries. 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 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

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: The Guilford Press, 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.

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnes, Trevor John 1956 births Living people Alumni of University College London University of Minnesota alumni Canadian geographers British geographers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada University of British Columbia faculty Academics from London Economic geographers Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Founder's Medal

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