Dr Sean Carter
Associate Professor in Political Geography and Deputy Head of Department
S.Carter@exeter.ac.uk
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Amory C356a
Amory Building, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ , UK
Overview
Sean teaches and researches in the broad field of Political Geography, with specific interests in the intersection between culture and geopolitics.
Broad research specialisms:
Political and Cultural Geography; Critical Geopolitics, especially geopolitics and visuality and ludic geopolitics; The geographies and politics of diaspora; Geographies of Authoritarianism
Qualifications
BA Geography and Development Studies (University of Sussex)
MSc Society & Space (Geography, Univeristy of Bristol)
PhD 'The Geopolitics of Diaspora' (Geography, University of Bristol)
Research group links
Research
Research interests
Sean’s research interests lies at the intersection of cultural and political geography. In particular, research has been undertaken in the area of popular culture and geopolitics, initially through an engagment with film and geopolitics; more recently through a major ESRC-funded project on 'Ludic Geopolitics'. Work is also ongoing on photojournalism as a particular way of framing and reporting on global geopolitical moments (specifically the early Cold War). Previous research has included work on the Geopolitics of Diaspora, with specific reference to the Croatian diaspora during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Sean is the Convenor of the department’s Space, Politics & Society research group, and is a past Chair of the RGS/IBG Political Geography Research Group.
Research projects
2013-2015 'Ludic Geopolitics' funded by the ESRC (Co-I), working with Dr Tara Woodyer, Portsmouth University (PI), and Prof Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway (CI)
Links
Publications
Books
Journal articles
Chapters
External Engagement and Impact
Committee/panel activities
Past Chair of the RGS/IBG Political Geography Research Group
Teaching
Modules
2023/24
- GEO3144 - Geopolitical Cultures
- GEOM105A - Research Methods and Design in Human Geography
- GEOM107 - Dissertation
- GEOM132 - Space, Politics and Power
Office Hours:
Term 2 Office Hours
Mondays 4.30-5.30 (except weeks 9 and 11: Tuesday 2.00-3.00 instead)
Fridays 2.00-3.00 (no Friday office hour in week 11)