Dr Laura Jones

Project Researcher / Administrator
Photograph of Dr Laura Jones.

Contact

Email: lgj@aber.ac.uk
Office: L1
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 639
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659

Research

Group Affliation

  • New Political Geographies

Research Interests

Critical/feminist geopolitics; spaces and practices of knowledge production; knowing place and locality; emotional politics; community participation; media geographies

IGES Projects (Affliated With)

  • Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of Globalisation (DERREG)

Other Projects

  • Welsh Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD)

Biography

In 2009, I was appointed as a researcher/administrator on two projects in IGES having completed my BA, MA and PhD in Human Geography at Aberystwyth. The first is working with Michael Woods (coordinator) on a European Union FP7 project on ‘Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization’ (DERREG), and the second, working on the Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), a HEFCW/ESRC funded collaborative project involving researchers across five Welsh universities (with Martin Jones, Michael Woods, Jesse Heley and Suzie Watkin at IGES).
 
I recently completed my PhD on ‘Practising post-9/11 conspiracy: a common-place geopolitics’ which examined how conspiracy has informed particular ways of understanding and practising geopolitics for both publics and politicians in the context of post-9/11 America.

Staff Publications

2010

  1. Jones, L. and Sage, D. 2010, forthcoming. New directions in critical geopolitics: an introduction. GeoJournal
  2. Jones, L. 2010, forthcoming. "How do the American people know..?”: Embodying post-9/11 conspiracy discourse. GeoJournal 

2008

  1. Jones, L. 2008. A Geopolitical Mapping of the Post-9/11 World, Aether: The Journal of Media Geography 3: pp37-57