Research Profile
Dr Jon Anderson
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 75308
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74845
Address:Room 2.71, Glamorgan Building
Qualifications
Ph.D. ‘Environmental Direct Action: making space for new forms of political community?’ School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK (1996-2000).
MSc, Environmental Policy and Management, University of Hull (1995-1996).
BA Hons, Geography, University of Hull. Class: 1 (1992-1995).
Research Interests
My research focuses on the relations between culture, place, and identity. I am particularly interested in the geographies, politics and practices that such relations produce. Four main strands have constituted this portfolio of interest, and a fifth strand is emergent from these.
1. Geography, Place and Culture
2. Rural Political Action
3. Environmental Action & Identity
4. Methodology & Place
5. Surfing Places
Additional Information
Recent News
Surfers are model global citizens, according to geographer and sea-kayaker Dr Jon Anderson from Cardiff University’s School of City and Regional Planning.
While people may think of surfers as nomads obsessed only with catching the perfect wave, Dr Anderson argues that they care passionately about coastal areas and the people around them. Surfers’ focus on protecting what is most dear to them – coastlines – is turning them into stewards of the sea.
Dr Anderson explained his ideas recently to more than 1,500 people at the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) annual International Conference.
A number of media interviews were conducted on these projects. The following is a radio interview with BBC World Service (31 Aug, 2011)
and a BBC TV News interview with George Alagiah (GMT, BBC World News, 31 Aug 2011).
Links to the presentations given at the Royal Geographical Society / Institute of British Geographers Conference in Kensington Gore, London, September 2011 can be found on Dr Jons Anderson's Spatial Manifesto Website.