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.

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2012
Subjects: Geography
Sections: Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/about/staff/nwrigley.page

Current post

Professor of Geography, University of Southampton

Publications

Deprivation, Diet, and Food-Retail Access: Findings from the Leeds ‘Food Deserts' Study Environment and Planning A (with D.L. Warm and B.M. Margetts), 2003, 35

Food deserts in British Cities: policy context and research priorities Urban Studies 2002, 39

Host economy impacts of transnational retail: the research agenda Journal of Economic Geography (with N.M. Coe), 2007, 7

Categorical Data Analysis for Geographers and Environmental Scientists 1985 (London: Longman; New York: John Wiley)

Retailing, Consumption and Capital: Towards the New Retail Geography 1996 (Longman, London). Edited jointly with Michelle Lowe. Reprinted 1998

Reading Retail: A Geographical Perspective on Retailing and Consumption Spaces 2002 (Arnold, London; Oxford University Press, New York). Jointly authored with Michelle Lowe, reprinted 2005

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Harriet Bulkeley FBA

Environmental governance and politics: climate change, especially cities, business and finance; low carbon transitions; urban sustainability; the nature of governing contemporary society; environmental justice

Professor Michael Watts FBA

The political economy of resources with a particular focus on the oil and gas and energy sectors, and on food and agriculture in the Global South (Africa in particular)

Professor Sherry Beth Ortner FBA

Social and cultural theory; historical anthropology; gender and feminist theory; anthropology of late capitalism/neoliberalism; film, media, and the culture industries; political activism. Sherpas of Nepal and anthropology of the Himalayas

Sherry Beth Ortner FBA (credit Timothy D. Taylor)

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