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 Harri Englund FBA

African-language political and moral thought; the historical-linguistic translation of freedom, equality and human rights; the racial and humanitarian politics of Christian missions in 19th-century Africa

Professor Penny Harvey FBA

Anthropology of state effects, infrastructures, engineering, materiality and communicative practice drawing on long term ethnographic research in Peru and more recently in the UK. Current focus on nuclear waste disposal, emergent publics and the politics and temporalities of place-making

Professor Peter Jackson FBA

Contemporary social and cultural geography; agri-food studies; moral economies and consumer practice

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