Professor Richard Powell
Mid-Career Fellow 2015-16, Small Group Project 2016
Environment in the geopolitical imagination? Knowledge formations in Geopolitics, International Relations and Geography after 1945
This research proposed here attempts to recast fundamentally understandings about the legacies of environmental determinism in the structuring and disciplinary practices of the social sciences.
More informationNew Earth Thinking? Investigations of the Geo across the Social Sciences
A resurgent interest in the geo has emerged as a central concern across human geography, critical international relations and social theory. At the same time, the geosciences are increasingly the focus of significant input of capital and expertise across the world. This has resulted in a suite of important research into the socio-political constitution of the geo, or earth, across a number of disciplines.
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Biography
Richard Powell is Professor of Arctic Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Richard's research interests encompass historical and cultural geographies, the geopolitics of territory and resources, geographies of science, and the histories of the social and natural sciences. His fieldwork has focused on the Circumpolar Arctic (specifically Nunavut, Greenland and northern Norway), as well as Denmark, Canada, the US and the UK. He is currently working on a major, ERC-funded project on Arctic Cultures.
Richard's research interests encompass historical and cultural geographies, the geopolitics of territory and resources, geographies of science, and the histories of the social and natural sciences. His fieldwork has focused on the Circumpolar Arctic (specifically Nunavut, Greenland and northern Norway), as well as Denmark, Canada, the US and the UK. He is currently working on a major, ERC-funded project on Arctic Cultures.
Biographical details correct as of 18.05.26