Rowan Jaines
School of Geography and Planning
Lecturer in Human Environmental Geography
Full contact details
School of Geography and Planning
F13
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
91̽»¨
S3 7ND
- Profile
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Rowan is a Lecturer in Human Environmental Geography, her work focuses on critical analyses of rural landscapes.
- Qualifications
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Rowan studied a Masters degree in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, and came to 91̽»¨ for her ERSC sponsored PhD research project "Geographies of Discontent: Petrified Unrest in the Fens of Eastern England" in the Department of Geography. The thesis focused on the application of the cultural materialism of German critic Walter Benjamin to a rural landscape in the East of England, and interrogated the spatial temporalities of class, labour and property.
- Research interests
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Rowan's research interests focus on critical geographies of the rural. In particular I am interested in "oppressed histories" that are concealed within seemingly "natural" landscapes. With a background in Anthropology and a principle interest in reading place as a cultural material, she's committed to working outside of discrete academic boundaries and in forging and collaborating in creative interdisciplinary scholarship.
Current research and teaching focuses on three interconnected strands:
1. The historic production of the urban rural divide.
2. Land ownership and democracy in UK rural landscapes.
3. Oppressed histories of the recent past in rural sites.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . The Sociological Review, 71(2), 387-405.
- . The Sociological Review, 71(2), 387-405.