Dr Chris Bear

Lecturer
MA, PhD (Aberdeen) Photograph of Dr Chris Bear.

Contact

Email: c.bear@aber.ac.uk
Office: K3
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 592
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659

Responsibilities

  • Degree Scheme Leader: L700 BA Human Geography
  • Member of Undergraduate Staff-Student Consultative Committee
  • Module Coordinator: Geographies of Food (GG35120)
  • Module Coordinator: Research Methods in Human Geography (GGM2240)
  • Acting Director of Undergraduate Recruitment

Teaching Areas

Modules taught

Contributes to:

  • Climate Change: Impacts, Perceptions, Adaptations (GG10810)
  • Key Skills for Geographers (GG13020)
  • Research Skills in Human Geography (GG25030)
  • Social and Cultural Geographies (GG25810)
  • Geography Fieldwork - New York (GG22420)
  • Geography Dissertation (GG34040)
  • MA in Regional and Environmental Policy
  • MSc in Food and Water Security

Research

Group Affiliation

Current Research Students

Biography

Chris is a cultural geographer with particular interests in human-animal relationships and geographies of knowledge. He completed his MA and PhD at the University of Aberdeen, where he was also a Teaching Fellow from 2002-2004. He worked in the University of Hull’s Geography Department from 2004-2008 (concurrently in Durham University's Anthropology Department from 2006-2008) and moved to IGES at the beginning of 2009. In 2010, he began work on an ESRC-funded project on Robotic and Information Technologies in livestock agriculture: new relationships between humans, cows and machines (with Lewis Holloway and Katy Wilkinson in Geography at Hull). He is Membership Secretary of the RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Group, and was on the organising committee for Geography and the New Empirics, a workshop-conference that took place at the Royal Geographical Society in January 2011.

Staff Links


Staff Publications

Peer reviewed journal articles

Eden S, Bear C forthcoming. The good, the bad and the hands-on: constructs of public participation, anglers and lay management of water environments. Environment and Planning A

Bear C, Bull J 2011. Editorial: Water matters: agency, flows, and frictions. Environment and Planning A, 43(10): 2261 – 2266. DOI

Holloway L, Bear C 2011. Commentary: DNA-typing and super dairies - changing practices and remaking cows. Environment and Planning A, 43(7): 1487-1491. DOI

Bear C 2011. Being Angelica? Exploring individual animal geographies. Area, 43(3): 297-304. DOI

Eden S, Bear C 2011. Reading the river through ‘watercraft’: environmental engagement through knowledge and practice in freshwater angling. Cultural Geographies, 18(3): 297-314. DOI

Eden S, Bear C 2011. Models of equilibrium, natural agency and environmental change: lay ecologies in UK recreational angling. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36(3): 393-407. DOI

Bear C, Eden S 2011. Thinking like a fish? Engaging with non-human difference through recreational angling. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 29(2): 336-352. DOI 

Eden S, Bear C 2010. Third sector global environmental governance, space and science: comparing fishery and forestry certification. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 12(1): 83-106. DOI

Bear C, Eden S 2008. Making space for fish: the regional, network and fluid spaces of fisheries certification. Social and Cultural Geography, 9(5): 487-504. DOI

Eden S, Bear C, Walker G 2008. The sceptical consumer? Exploring views about food assurance. Food Policy, 33(6): 624-630. DOI

Eden S, Bear C, Walker G 2008. Mucky carrots and other proxies: problematising the knowledge-fix for sustainable and ethical consumption. Geoforum, 39(2): 1044-1057. DOI

Eden S, Bear C, Walker G 2008. Understanding and (dis)trusting food assurance schemes: consumer confidence and the ‘knowledge fix’. Journal of Rural Studies, 24(1): 1-14. DOI

Bear C 2006. Salmon by numbers: quantification and understandings of nature. Scottish Geographical Journal, 122(3): 185-203. DOI

 

 

Selected conference papers

Bear C, Holloway L, Wilkinson K. 2011. Remaking agricultural collectives: robotic milking and the co-constitution of humans, dairy cows and technologies. Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference, Lampeter, September 2011

Bear C, Holloway L, Wilkinson K. 2011. Robotic milking and the emergent relational geographies of livestock agriculture - Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, April 2011

Bear C. 2010. Assembling the sea: hybridity, movement and uncertainty in the UK’s scallop fisheries – Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London, August 2010

Bear C, Eden S. 2009. River Readings: the environmental knowledge-practices of angling. Living Landscapes, Aberystwyth, June 2009

Bear C, Eden S. 2009. Rhythms on the river:environmental knowledge practices and spatiotemporal change in freshwater angling – Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, Manchester, August 2009

Bear C. 2008. Going with the flow? Place and event in anglers’ understandings of rivers– Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London, August 2008

Bear C, Whitman G, Carrithers M. 2007. Making anglers count: realities, rhetoric and quantification - Narrative, Numbers and Social Change CRESC Workshop

Bear C. 2006. Being Angelica: exploring post-species animal geographies – Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London, August 2006