Lowri Jones

Contact

• workRoom C20 Sir Clive Granger Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 84 68412
• fax0115 95 15249
• Lowri.Jones@nottingham.ac.uk

Teaching Summary

I currently teach on modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels on a range of topics related to my research interests in historical and cultural geography and the geographies of… read more

Research Summary

My principal research interests lie in the fields of historical and cultural geography, visual and material culture studies, and postcolonial theory. Working on geographical and ethnographic… read more

I currently teach on modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels on a range of topics related to my research interests in historical and cultural geography and the geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism. In particular, I contribute to the following team-taught courses:

First Year: Exploring Human Geography - four one-hour lectures on cultural & historical geography

• Geography, exploration & empire
• Cultures of empire & imaginative geographies
• Postcolonialism
• Material culture & collecting

Second Year: Cultural & Historical Geography - five two-hour lectures

• Cultures of Exploration & Empire
• Imperial Visions
• Cultures of Collecting
• Poetics & Politics of Museums & their Displays
• Material Geographies: Approaching Things

Second Year: Techniques in Human Geography - one two-hour lecture

• What is a Dissertation?

Third Year: Geographies of Violence - five two-hour lectures

• Imperialism, exploration & violence
• Indigenous resistance & the ethics of exploration
• Impure & worldly geography
• Epistemic violence: archives & histories
• Legacies of the past: postcolonial museum praxis

Masters seminars in Critical Human Geography

• Postcolonialism
• Scale
• Critical Human Geographies

Masters seminars in Philosophy of Social Science

• Clifford Geertz

Current Research

My principal research interests lie in the fields of historical and cultural geography, visual and material culture studies, and postcolonial theory. Working on geographical and ethnographic collections, my research has addressed, among other topics, the role of indigenous and local intermediaries in histories of exploration, the production and reception of geographical knowledge, and the poetics and politics of museum exhibitions.

Before coming to Nottingham I worked as a Research Assistant on an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project undertaken collaboratively between Royal Holloway University of London and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Led by Professor Felix Driver, the 'Hidden Histories of Exploration: Exhibiting Geographical Collections' project involved the dissemination of research to a wider public. Bringing a new perspective to the Society's archival collections, the project culminated in a major exhibition highlighting the role of local inhabitants and indigenous intermediaries in histories of exploration (RGS-IBG, 15 October to 10 December 2009). Other outcomes included a companion publication entitled The Hidden Histories of Exploration: Exhibiting Geographical Collections (Royal Holloway/RGS-IBG, 2009), and an online exhibition and research resource: hiddenhistories.rgs.org.