Noel Castree
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Noel Castree is a British
geographer
and associate professor in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester
whose research interests are in capitalism
-environment relationships.
His "principal interests are in the political economy
of environmental change, regulation and contestation. He has sought to develop and apply Marxian approaches to understanding a range of environmental problems, with an emphasis on understanding the meaning and limits of 'commodification
'." In 2005, Castree received the Gill Memorial Award from the Royal Geographical Society
.
One of his main contributions to critical geography
relates to the concept of Social nature
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
and associate professor in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
whose research interests are in capitalism
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system that became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism. There is no consensus on the precise definition nor on how the term should be used as a historical category...
-environment relationships.
His "principal interests are in the political economy
Political economy
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...
of environmental change, regulation and contestation. He has sought to develop and apply Marxian approaches to understanding a range of environmental problems, with an emphasis on understanding the meaning and limits of 'commodification
Commodification
Commodification is the transformation of goods, ideas, or other entities that may not normally be regarded as goods into a commodity....
'." In 2005, Castree received the Gill Memorial Award from the Royal Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...
.
One of his main contributions to critical geography
Critical geography
Critical geography takes a critical theory approach to the study and analysis of geography. The development of critical geography can be seen as one of the four major turning points in the history of geography...
relates to the concept of Social nature
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....
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Publications
- Castree, Noel and Gregory, D., David HarveyDavid Harvey (geographer)David Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . A leading social theorist of international standing, he received his PhD in Geography from University of Cambridge in 1961. Widely influential, he is among the top 20 most cited...
: a critical reader, Blackwell PublishingBlackwell PublishingWiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing, after Wiley took over Blackwell Publishing in...
, 2006. - Castree, Noel, Rogers, A. and Sherman, D., Questioning geography, Blackwell, 2005.
- Castree, Noel, Nature, RoutledgeRoutledgeRoutledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...
, 2005. - Castree, Noel, COE, N., WARD, K. and SAMERS, M., Spaces of work: global capitalism and the geographies of labour, Sage: London and New York, 2003.
- Castree, Noel and Braun, B., Social natureSocial natureSocial 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....
: theory, practice and politics, Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 2001. - Castree, Noel and Braun, B., Remaking reality: nature at the millennium, Routledge: London and New York, 1998.