- Klaus Dodds
Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at
Royal Holloway, University of London . He was educated atWellington College and theUniversity of Bristol where he completed degrees in geography and political science. After taking up a position at theUniversity of Edinburgh , he was appointed to a lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1994.In 2005 Klaus Doods was awarded the annual Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhume Trust for "an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘criticalgeopolitics'" [ [http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/past_prizes/2005 Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2005] Leverhume Trust. Accessed
August 6 ,2008 . Award citation:"Klaus Dodds had made an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics’.His work ranges from historical investigations of British policy towards the South Atlantic and Antarctica in the post-war period, to studies of ‘populargeopolitics’ in the news media and film. He pioneered the study of geopolitical issuesfocused on Antarctica and southern Latin America, and this work has also had asubstantial impact within the foreign policy communities of several countries,including the UK."]Research
Klaus Dodds is part of a new generation of critical ‘geopoliticians’ and focuses his work on, amongst others, the representation of space in visual media like internet, movies and pictures. He is also engaged in research about the geopolitics of the South Pole. Working with a number of London-based colleagues including Alasdair Pinkerton, Alan Ingram and Jason Dittmer, the critical geopolitics project is being advanced through forthcoming edited books, conference sessions and audio-visual presentations.
Selected Publications
His books include "Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction" (OUP 2007) and "Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire" (I B Tauris 2002).
Professional Affiliations
He is a Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society .References
Links
* [http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/Dodds/ Klaus Dodds' Faculty Profile at the University of London]
* [http://www.theory-talks.org/2008/05/theory-talk-6.html Read an interview with Klaus Dodds by Theory Talks (May 2008)]
* [http://books.google.com/books?tab=sp&sa=N&hl=en&q=%22Klaus+Dodds%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N Google Books search on Klaus Dodds]
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