Professor Yi-Fu Tuan FBA

Social Geography Asian Philosophies and Systems of Thought (ie Confucianism, etc) Cultural Geography
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2001
Year of birth
1930
Year of death
2022
Subjects
Anthropology, Geography

Current post

John K Wright and Vilas Research Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Andrew Jordan FBA

The political and policy responses to environmental challenges, particularly in Europe and the UK.

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Professor Stephen Graham FBA

The changing nature of cities and urbanism; sociologies of technology, mobility and infrastructure; the digitisation of urban life; the politics of urban security and militarisation; the vertical dimension of cities

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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

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