Noel Castree

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(born 2 April 1968) is a British

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whose research has focused on

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-environment relationships and, more recently, on the role that various experts play in discourses about global environmental change. He is currently the

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of the peer-reviewed journal

Progress in Human Geography ''Progress in Human Geography'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of human geography, primarily publishing critical reviews of current research. The journal's editor-in-chief is Noel Castree. It was established in ...

Background

Castree was born in Bury, Greater Manchester, UK and has a BA in Geography (first class honours) from 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 ...

, and an MA (1992) and PhD from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

(May, 1999). He taught for 5 years at

Liverpool University , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

before joining the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

in 2000 and becoming a Professor of Geography in the School of Environment and Development in 2004. In January 2014 he joined the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2017, the university had an enrolment of ...

in Australia, in a new Department of Geography & Sustainable Communities. He returned to Geography at Manchester University in late 2017, before becoming an associate dean (research) at UTS in Sydney three years later.

Key contributions

His "principal interests are in the

political economy Political economy is the study of how Macroeconomics, economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and Economy, national economies) and Politics, political systems (e.g. law, Institution, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied ph ...

of environmental change, regulation and contestation". He has sought to develop and apply

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ian approaches to understanding a range of environmental problems, with an emphasis on understanding the meaning and limits of '

commodification Within a capitalist economic system, commodification is the transformation of things such as goods, services, ideas, nature, personal information, people or animals into objects of trade or commodities.For animals"United Nations Commodity Trad ...

'.". One of his main intellectual contributions to the discipline of geography is advancing the concept of "

social nature Social Nature is the core concept of a geographical work on the social construction of nature, entitled ''Social nature: theory, practice and politics'', which has been published by Noel Castree and Bruce Braun in 2001. It says that the concept of ...

", which mediates between social constructivist and materialist perspectives on the biophysical world that people interact with; another is explaining the 'neoliberalisation of nature' in the context of 21st century carbon-intensive capitalism. His more recent research focuses on who get to speak for the Earth and humanity in light of growing concerns about a global environmental crisis. He has served twice as a managing editor of peer review journals, once for ''Antipode'' and more recently for ''Progress in Human Geography''. He is also the founding editor of ''Environment & Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice'' (Sage publishers).

Awards

*In 1993 Castree received a Governor General of Canada's Gold Medal for his master's degree performance at UBC. In 2005, he received the Gill Memorial Award from the

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.2005 Medals' and Awards' Recipients
/ref> In 2008 he was nominated chair of the RGS-IBG conference held in London. In 2012 he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Science. In 2019 he won a lifetime achievement award from the publisher Taylor and Francis for the impact of his books, articles and chapters.

Publications

Books Authored *Castree, N., Charnock, G. & Christophers, B. 2022 ''David Harvey: A Critical Introduction To His Thought''. London and New York: Routledge. *Castree, N. 2014. ''Making sense of nature''. London and New York: Routledge. *Castree, N., Kitchin, R & Rogers, A. 2013 ''Oxford Dictionary of Human Geography''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. *Castree, N. 2005. ''Nature: the adventures of a concept''. London: Routledge
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*Castree, N., Coe N., K. Ward & M. Samers. 2004. ''Spaces of work''. London & Thousand Oaks: Sage. Edited *Castree, N., Hulme, M. & Proctor, J. (eds.) 2018 ''A Companion to Environmental Studies'' London: Routledge *Richardson, D., Castree, N. et al. (eds.) 2017 ''International Encyclopedia of Geography'' (in 15 volumes) Malden: Wiley Blackwell. *Castree N. and D. Gregory (eds.) 2011. ''Human Geography''. Major Works in Social Science, the Humanities and the Physical Sciences. London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage. *Castree N., P. Chatterton, N. Heynen, W. Larner & M. Wright (eds.) 2010. ''The point is to change it''. Antipode Book Series. Oxford and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. * Castree N., D. Demeritt, D. Liverman & B. Rhoads (eds.) 2009. ''A Companion to Environmental Geography''. Oxford and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. *R. Kitchin, N. Thrift, N. Castree, M. Crang and M. Domosh (eds.) 2009. ''International Encyclopedia of Human Geography''. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 2nd edition published 2019. *Castree, N., D. Gregory (eds.) 2006. ''David Harvey: a Critical Reader''. London and New York: Blackwell. *Castree, N., A. Rogers, D. Sherman (eds.) 2005. ''Questioning geography: essays on a contested discipline''. Oxford and New York: Blackwell. *Castree, N., B. Braun (eds.) 2001. ''Social nature: theory, practice and politics''. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell. *Braun, B. and Castree, N. (eds.) 1998. ''Remaking reality: nature at the millennium''. London & New York: Routledge.

References

External links

Curriculum Vitae of Noel Castree
* Academics of the University of Manchester University of Wollongong faculty British geographers Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences 1968 births Living people People from Bury, Greater Manchester Academic journal editors {{England-academic-bio-stub