John Pickles
| John Pickles | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nelson, Lancashire, England |
| Residence | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Nationality | British-American |
| Fields | geography, phenomenology, globalisation, critical cartography |
| Alma mater |
Mansfield College, Oxford University of Natal Pennsylvania State University |
John Pickles currently serves as the Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Pickles attended the University of Oxford, where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Geography, with a minor in Geology, and a Master's degree in Geography. He later earned doctorate degrees from the University of Natal, South Africa, and the Pennsylvania State University, United States. Pickles is a scholar in the areas of critical cartography, phenomenology, and post-socialist spaces. He is the author of numerous books, including Phenomenology, Science, and Geography: Space and the Human Sciences, Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographical Information Systems, and A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.