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Third year undergraduates: GG3056, The Geographies of Commodities

This course is, unsurprisingly given its title, concerned with the geographies of commodities. Spinning lecture, discussion and seminar classes off of particular case studies (Nike trainers, Norwegian pizza, an Indian restaurant, Disneyland , a weekly shop in Tesco's, and a packet of mange touts, amongst others) the course focuses on four such geographies. First, geographies of exhibition, through which products are displayed to consumers in meaningful arrays. Second, geographies of production, where commodities are made through the geographical organisation of things and people who themselves are commodified as waged workers. Third, geographies of consumption, with a particular focus on what happens to commodities in the domestic realm. And fourth, geographies of (dis)connection, where we think about the relations between these other spaces, drawing on debates in realms as diverse as ethical consumption advocacy and material culture studies.

Postgraduate teaching: MA in Cultural Geography (Research)

I teach a module on ‘The cultural geographies of consumption' and I have run sessions on ‘Social research and validity', ‘Social research and reflexivity', ‘Ethnographic research', ‘Qualitative Data Analysis' and ‘Writing research'.