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Professor Derek Gregory FBA

Social theory and human geography; colonial power, late modern war and military occupation in the Middle East; Orientalism and cultures of travel in Egypt, 1780-1920.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Geography
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
http://web.mac.com/derekgregory/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html

Current post

Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia at Vancouver

Past appointments

Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge University Lecturer in Geography and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

1973 - 1989

University of Cambridge

1973 - 1989

Publications

Geographical imaginations 1994

The colonial present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq 2004

War Cultures 2008

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Neil Wrigley FBA

Economic geography with distinctive focus on retail & consumption: specifically retail globalisation & its host-economy impacts; & policy & practice engaged research on retail access.

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Professor Tobias Kelly FBA

Political and legal anthropology, human rights, political violence, war and peace, cultures of evidence, law and society in Britain

Tobias Kelly FBA

Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak FBA

Development of humanities pedagogy beyond disciplinary outlines to produce a will to social justice; at Columbia University and elementary schools in Dalit India; through feminism, ecology, literary reading, global theory

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