Dr Mark Whitehead

Reader
Photograph of Dr Mark Whitehead.

Contact

Email: msw@aber.ac.uk
Office: J4
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 609
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659
Personal Web Site:http://anthropocenedotcom.wordpress.com/

Responsibilities

  • Director of Learning and Teaching
  • Associate Editor of Environmental Values
  • Reviews Editor of Area
  • Human Dimensions Research Manager (Aberystwyth) Climate Change Consortium of Wales

Teaching Areas

Modules Taught

Module coordinator for:

  • Development And Environment (GG10310)
  • Geographical Perspectives On The Sustainable Society (GG27910)
  • Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience (GG37520)

 

Convenor of the Master’s module Environmental Policy and Sustainability

Research

Group Affiliation

Research Interests

Mark’s research and teaching focus on the intersections between environmental and political geography. He has a particular interest in ecological governance and urbanization. At the moment he is working on a Leverhulme Trust project exploring emerging forms of soft (or libertarian) paternalism in the UK. This three-year project (2008-2011) is analyzing the impact of behavioural economics and psychology on government policies concerning personal finance (particularly gambling and pensions), health (specifically food and sexual conduct), and the environment (particularly carbon management). He is also coinvestigator on an AHRC project entitled Mining Memories. This project is exploring the role of the international heritage industry in commemorating places of extreme environmental harm and destruction.

IGES Projects (Affiliated With)

Current PhD Students

Biography

Mark came to Aberystwyth in 1994 to study for a BSc degree in Geography.  He graduated with First Class Honours in 1997 and was awarded the James Fairgreave and Gregynog Prizes for Geography. He commenced his PhD, exploring the emergence of sustainable urban development planning in the UK, in October 1997, under the supervision of Mark Goodwin, Gordon McLeod, and Martin Jones. He was appointed a lecturer in the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences in 2000, before he successfully defended his PhD thesis in 2001. Mark was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer in 2007 and made a Reader in 2010.

Staff Publications

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters & Journal Articles

In Press

  1. Adey, P. Whitehead, M. and Williams, A. (in preparation). From Above: The Politics and Practice of the View From Above (Hurst, London)
  2. Jones, R. Pykett, J and Whitehead, M. (in preparation) Changing Behaviours: On the the Rise of Psychological State (Edward Elgar).

2011

  1. Keil, R. and Whitehead, M. (2011) 'Urban Politics and Sustainability' Mossberger, K and Smith, S. Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics (Oxford University Press.
  2. Whitehead, M.  (2011) 'Urban Sustainability and Economic Development' in Hutton, T. and Paddison, R. Handbook of Urban Economic Development (Sage).
  3. Whitehead. M. (2011)  'The Sustainable City an Obituary: Critical Reflections on the Future of Sustainable Urbanism' in Flint, J. and Raco. M (eds.) Sustaining Success: The New Politics of Sustainable Urban Planning (Policy Press, Bristol).
  4. Jones, R. Pykett, J. Whitehead, M. (2011) 'Governing Temptation: On the Rise of Libertarian Paternalism in the UK' Progress in Human Geography
  5. Mason, K. and Whitehead, M. (2011) 'Transition Urbanism and the Contested Politics of Ethical Place-Making' Antipode
  6. Whitehead, M. (2011) 'Environment Inc. and Panda Logos (Editorial)' Environmental Values 20.1 pages 1-5.
  7. Jones, R. Pykett, M. and Whitehead, M. (2011) 'The Geographies of Soft Paternalism: the rise of the avuncular state and changing behaviour after neoliberalism' Geography Compass.

    2010

    1. Jones, R. Pykett, J. Whitehead, M. (2010) 'Big Society's Little Nudges' Political Insight (December)
    2. Whitehead, M. (2010) 'Hollow Sustainabilities: Perspective on Sustainable Development in the Post-Socialist World' Geography Compass vol. 4(11) pp.1618-1634.
    3. Whitehead, M. (2010) 'Class and Nature' in Wharf, B ed. Encyclopaedia of Human Geography (Sage).

    2009

    1. Whitehead, M (2009) State, Science and the Skies: Environmental Governmentality and the British Atmosphere (Royal Geographical Society Book Series, Blackwell, Oxford).
    2. Whitehead M. 2009. The Wood for the Trees: Ordinary Environmental Justice and the Everyday Right to Urban Nature International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33: 19
    3. Whitehead M 2009. The Sustainable City in Kitchin, R and Thrift, N The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsivier.
    4. Mason, K and Whitehead, M (2009) 'Minding a Mendacious Methodology: Living and Working in a Transition Town' Qualitative Researcher (December).

    2008

    1. Whitehead M. 2008. Domesticating technologies: household reform, gender relations and the British clean air movement, 1912-1965 Social and Cultural Geography (Special issue Spatial Technologies/Technological Spaces) September.
    2. Dixon D and Whitehead M. 2008 Technological Trajectories: Reflections on Geography and Technology Studies Social and Cultural Geography (Special issue Spatial Technologies/Technological Spaces) September.
    3. Whitehead M. 2008 Charles David Keeling The Encyclopaedia of Climate Change and Global Warming. Sage.
    4. Whitehead M. 2008 Cold Monsters and Ecological Leviathan: on the relationships between states and the environment Geography Compass (March 2008).

    2007

    1. Whitehead M. 2007. The Architecture of Partnerships: Urban Communities in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Policy and Politics 31: 3-23.
    2. Whitehead M. 2007. The Death of Nature in Robbins, P Eds Encyclopaedia of Environment and Development. Sage.
    3. Whitehead M. 2007. Environmentality in Robbins, P Eds Encyclopaedia of Environment and Development. Sage.

    2006

    1. Whitehead M. 2006. The desert of the cartographic real: on John Pickles and the history of spaces. Area 38: 242-243.
    2. Whitehead M. 2006. Spatializing the Ecological Leviathan: states, nature and the production of regional space. Geografiska Annaler: Series B - Human Geography (with M Jones and R Jones) March.

    2005

    1. Whitehead M. 2005. Negotiating the networks of space, time and substance: a geographical perspective on the sustainable citizen. Citizenship Studies (With Bullen, A). 9: 499-516.
    2. Whitehead M. 2005. Between the Marvellous and the Mundane: everyday life in the socialist city and the politics of the environment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 23.

    Books

    2009

    1. Whitehead, M (2009) State Science and the Skies: Environmental Governmentalities of the British Atmosphere (Blackwell, Oxford - Royal Geographical Society Book Series).

    2008

     

    1. Whitehead M, Jones R, and Jones M. 2007. The Nature of the State: Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State. Oxford University Press, Geographical and Environmental Studies Series.

    2006

     

    1. Whitehead M. 2006. Spaces of Sustainability: Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society. Routledge.

    2004

    1. Whitehead. M. Eds. 2004. New Horizons in British Urban Policy: Perspectives on New Labour's Urban Renaissance. Ashgate: Aldershot. (with Johnstone, C).

    Miscellaneous

    2007

    1. Whitehead M. 2007. Spaces of sustainability : geographical perspectives on the sustainable society.