Dr Ian Cook
Associate Professor of Geography

Profile

Ian is a cultural geographer with longstanding interests in material geographies, multi-sited ethnographic research, connective aesthetics and critical pedagogy. He combines these in/as ‘follow the thing‘ work. In recent years he has added to these interests new media ecology and commodity activism, after experimenting with blogging as a means to write collaboratively about the geographies of food, and with web design to create followthethings.com, a spoof online shop, resource, database and fieldsite stocked with provocative ‘follow the thing‘ work by academics, students, filmmakers, artists, journalists and others. He writes as ‘Ian Cook et al‘ to acknowledge the collaborative nature of all of his work.

Ian is the department‘s Equality and Diversity rep, sits on both the College of Life & Environmental Sciences and University Athena SWAN committees, and is chief tweeter @exetergeography.

Career

Ian graduated from UCL in 1986 with a BSc in Human Sciences, from the University of Kentucky in 1992 with an MA in Human Geography, and from the University of Bristol in 1997 with a PhD in Human Geography. He began his academic career at the University of Wales, Lampeter (1993-9), then worked at the University of Birmingham (1999-2007), before moving to Exeter in August 2007.

Office hours

Ian‘s Term 3 office hours are from 4.30-5.30 on Mondays and 10-30-11.30 on Wednesdays.

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