Dr Merle Patchett

Research summary

A cultural-historical geographer by training, my research broadly focuses on theories, histories, and geographies of practice. This focus has led me to engage empirically with a range of specialised skills (e.g. taxidermy and plumasserie), practitioners (e.g. artisans, artists and architects), and places of practice (e.g. museums, galleries and archives) and to develop practice-based methodologies.

I can categorise my work into four main themes:

1. Historical geographies of craftwork, skill and apprenticeship.

This body of work largely draws on my AHRC-funded PhD research into the development and practice of the craft practice of taxidermy. By examining ...

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Links

• Exhibition about the plumage trade
• Web-archive about an extinct antelope
•   Design and Architecture Competition/Exhibit

Recent publications

• Patchett, M, 2019, ‘The Biogeographies of the Blue Bird of Paradise: From Sexual Selection to Sex and the City’. Journal of Social History, vol 52., pp. 1061-1086
• Patchett, M, 2019, ‘Archiving’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

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