Dr Joe Gerlach
MA (Oxon.), MSc (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.)
Expertise
Current positions
Associate Professor in Cultural Geography
School of Geographical Sciences
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Research interests
Joe's research interests cut across cultural and political geography, specialising in non-representational theory. Conceptually centred on the notion of 'micropolitics', his recent research examines a number of empirical concerns, from critical and participatory cartography, to non-human politics in Ecuador. Together with creative writings on the cultural geographies of Wales and the West Country, Joe's research has featured on BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent.
Research interests include:
- Non-representational theory
- Continental philosophy (especially Guattari and Deleuze)
- Micropolitics and minor theory
- Spinoza
- Ecuadorian politics and society
- Geohumanities
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
The Writing-Machine as Method
Supervisors
Poetic cartographies and ecosophic thought
Supervisors
On grounds and groundlessness
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
31/03/2020A brief word on ethics
GeoHumanities
Why Guattari?
Why Guattari?
Ecuador's experiment in living well
Environment and Planning A
Fragments (Formerly Tales from the Asylum)
Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts
Recent publications
04/04/2023Geophilosophy roundtable
Subjectivity
Passionate Speculations | Speculative Passions
Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics
Geophilosophy
International Encyclopedia of Geography
An untimely geographer: Friedrich Engels, ideas and geography in Oxford
Human Geography
Geopolitical Mapping Redux
Journal of Maps
