Dr Joe Gerlach

Research summary

Joe's research interests cut across cultural and political geography, specialising in non-representational theory. Conceptually centred on the notion of 'micropolitics', his recent research examines a number of empirical concerns, from critical and participatory cartography, to non-human politics in Ecuador. Together with creative writings on the cultural geographies of Wales and the West Country, Joe's research has featured on BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent.

Research interests include:

• Non-representational theory
• Continental philosophy (especially Guattari and Deleuze)
• Micropolitics and minor theory
• Spinoza
• Ecuadorian politics and society
• Geohumanities

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Biography

Joe read for his MA, MSc and DPhil in Geography at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining Bristol in 2017, Joe held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford, where he was also a lecturer at Jesus College and Hertford College, and a Research Fellow and Tutor at Keble College.

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Selected publications

• Jellis, T, Gerlach, J & Dewsbury, J, 2019, ‘Why Guattari?: A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics’. Routledge, London & New York
• Gerlach, J, 2017, ‘Ecuador's experiment in living well: Sumak kawsay, Spinoza and the inadequacy of ideas’. Environment and Planning A, vol 49., pp. 2241-2260

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Recent publications

• Gerlach, J, 2018, ‘Nodes, ways and relations’. in: Sybille Lammes, Chris Perkins, Alex Gekker, Sam Hind, Clancy Wilmott, Daniel Evans (eds) Time for Mapping: Cartographic Temporalities. Manchester: University of Manchester
• Gerlach, J, 2017, ‘Middle Hope’. cultural geographies, vol 24., pp. 333-339

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