Professor David Featherstone is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Glasgow. He studied for a BA in Geography at the University of Cambridge between 1993 and 1996 before volunteering with the land rights campaign The Land is Ours. He subsequently completed his PhD in the Department of Geography at the Open University between 1997 and 2001, where he worked with Doreen Massey and Steve Hinchliffe on a thesis entitled Spatiality, Political Identities and the Environmentalism of the Poor. He remained at the Open University for a further year as a Research Fellow working on a project examining the London Port Strikes of 1768.

Between 2003 and January 2009, he lectured in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool, before joining the University of Glasgow in February 2009 as a Lecturer in Human Geography. He is now Professor of Political Geography.

His research has made significant contributions to debates on the political geographies of globalisation and on the relationships between resistance, space, and politics. His work has also developed key concerns with subaltern political ecologies and the formation of transnational solidarity networks. Through detailed empirical research across a range of contexts, he has challenged existing understandings of the relationship between space, politics, and resistance by developing an account of networked forms of resistance and political activity.

Biographical details correct as of 13.05.26