John Pickles currently serves as the Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Pickles attended the University of Oxford, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Geography, with a minor in Geology, and a master's degree in geography. He later earned doctorate degrees from the University of Natal, South Africa, and the Pennsylvania State University, United States. Pickles is a scholar in the areas of critical cartography, phenomenology, geography of media and communication and post-socialist spaces. He is the author of numerous books, including Phenomenology, Science, and Geography: Space and the Human Sciences, Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographical Information Systems, and A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.

John Pickles
Born
NationalityBritish-American
Alma materMansfield College, Oxford
University of Natal
Pennsylvania State University
Scientific career
Fieldsgeography, phenomenology, globalisation, critical cartography

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  1. ^ Nonini, Donald Macon (2007). The global idea of 'the commons'. Berghahn Books. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-84545-485-2.