Richard Powell

Professor Richard Powell

Mid-Career Fellow 2015-16

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.

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Areas of interest

Cultural Geography Arctic Historical Geography Geopolitics History of Science Greenland Norway Nunavut Canada Denmark USA Northern Europe North America

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MCF2

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.

Biographical details correct as of 07.02.25

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