Owain Jones
BA (Geography), PhD (Geography), MA (Creative Writing), MSc (Society and Space), MA /Postgraduate Diploma (with Distinction) (Environmental Policy and Geography)
Research Fellow
Tel +44 (0) 1242 715315.
ojones@glos.ac.uk
Profile
Owain's research interests are in rural communities and rural childhood, landscape place and nature, landscape place and memory, and sustainable food chains. He has over ten years of post-doctoral research experience funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the UK Rural Economy and Land Use Programme.
Recent Publications
Book contributions
Jones, O. (2009 forthcoming) Dwelling. in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (HUGY), London: Elsevier
Jones O. (2009 forthcoming) Nature-Culture in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Geography, London: Elsevier (pp ).
Jones O. (2009 forthcoming) After Nature: Entangled Worlds in N. Castree, D. Demeritt, D. Liverman and B. Rhoads, (eds.), A Companion to Environmental Geography Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Jones O. (2009) Approaching the otherness of childhood; methodological considerations. In Van Blerk, L. and Kesby, M. (eds) Doing Children's Geographies: Methodological Issues in Research with Young People, London: Routledge, pp 195-212
Jones, O. and Cloke, P. (2008) Non-human agencies: trees, relationality, time and place, in C. Knappett and L. Malafouris, (eds.) Material Agency: towards a non-anthropocentric approach, Guilford: Springer. pp 79-96
Jones, O. (2008) Of Trees and Trails: place in a globalised world, in N. Clark, D. Massey, and P. Sarre (eds.) Material Geographies: A World in the Making, London: Sage in association with the Open University, pp 214-264.
Jones, O. (2007) Idylls and Othernesses: Depictions of Rural Childhood in Film. In R. Fish (ed.) Cinematic Countrysides, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Jones, O. (2007) Rurality and the Otherness of Childhood in a British context. In R. Panelli, S. Punch and E. Robson (eds.) Young Rural Lives: global perspectives on rural childhood and youth, London, Routledge, pp 193-204.
Jones, O. (2006) Non Human Rural Studies. In P. Cloke, T. Marsden and P. Mooney, (eds.) Handbook of Rural Studies, London: Sage, pp 185-200.
Refereed papers
Jones, O. (2008) True geography [ ] quickly forgotten, giving away to an adult-imagined universe. Approaching the otherness of childhood. Special issue on Methodologies of Researching Childhood. Children's Geographies, (ed.) R. Baker pp 195-212.
Jones, O. (2008) Stepping from the Wreckage: Non-representational theory and the promise of pragmatism in special issue on Pragmatism and Geography, Geoforum, edited by N. Wood and S. Smith, Geoforum, 39, 1600-1612.
Brown B., Laurier E,. Lorimer H,. Jones O., Juhlin O., Noble A., Perry M., Pica D., Sormani P., Strebel I., Swan L., Taylor A., Watts L. and Weilenmann, A. (2008) Driving and passengering: notes on the natural organization of ordinary car travel, Mobilities, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp 1 – 23.
Jones, O. (2007) Loudon's orders: Arnos Vale cemetery and the lively materialities of place, the Journal of Garden History, special issue on Arboretum edited by S. Daniels, C. Watkins and P. Elliot, pp. 149-171.
(2007) Jones, O. (2007) 'Idylls and Othernesses: Depictions of Rural Childhood in Film', in R. Fish (ed.) Cinematic Countrysides, Manchester, Manchester University Press, pp 177-194.
Jones, O., Williams, M., Wood, L., and Fleuriot, C. (2006) Investigating New Wireless Technologies and their Potential Impact on Children's Spatiality: A role for GIS, Transactions in GIS, 10(1), pp. 87-102.
Other publications
Jones, O. (2007) What kind of Grass? Comment, Artisan Foods, Vol. 3, (1), 2007, pp 10-11.
Jones, O. (2006) Biodiversity on your Plate, The Organic Way, issue 184, summer, 2006, p 63.
Jones, O. (2006) Eating Biodiversity. Small Farms Association newsletter, Small Farms Association vol. 8, (2), Summer 2005, p. 5.
Jones, O. (2006) 'Of Trees and Trails: place in a globalised world', in N. Clark, D. Massey, and P. Sarre (eds.) Life in A Globalised World, Milton Keynes: Open University, pp 214-264.
Conference proceedings
Dunn, R. M., Hopkins, A., Buller, H., Jones, O., Morris, C., Wood, J., Whittington, F. and Kirwan, J. (2007) Can biological diversity act as an input into sustainable rural development? A case-study using salt-marsh raised lamb. In: Hopkins J. (ed) High Value Grassland, BGS Occasional Symposium 38. Cirencester: British Grassland Society.
International presentations
(2009) Creative industries and sustainable rural development. ESF SCH/SCSS Exploratory Workshop, Exploring Creative Cities: The Cultural and Economic Values of Cultural Industry Clusters, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 28-30 May.
(2009) Close to: on the embodied, emplaced (and thus) geographical becomings of animals. Welfare Quality International Conference. Knowing Animals: cross-fertilization between natural and social sciences for understanding the quality of life of animals. Florence, March, 2009.
(2006) Uncommon Ground: dwelling and affect (in) place/landscape as a meeting ground for art and geography. Sensi/eable Spaces: Space, Art and the Environment Conference at the University of Iceland, ReykjavÃk. June.
External presentations in the UK and other activities
(2009) Guest editor of Special Issue of the journal of Surveillance & Society Surveillance, Children and Childhood with Valerie Steeves (University of Ottawa) 2009.
(2009 ongoing) External PhD examiner, Dept of Geography , Kings College, University of London.
(2009) The Severn Crossings: displacement and parallaxes of memory, self and landscape around the Severn Estuary. Living Landscapes Conference. AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme, Aberystwyth, 18-21 June.
(2009) Re-Imagining Children in the City; Childhood in the 21st Century, multidisciplinary seminar series, Childhood Research Group, University of the West of England (March, 2009)
(2009) Long Views and Longing: Geographies of Memory in Landscape, Seminar on Landscape and Memory and Identity, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University (Feb 2009).
(2009) Convenor of Geography and Memory, Co-sponsored by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group and the Social & Cultural Geography Research Group. RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Manchester: 26-28 August.
(2009) Intimate Knowledge: Building local/lay knowledge and sense of place into Flood Resilience planning after the July 2007 floods in the UK, Valuing Place: Environmental Policy Formation and Enactment session, sponsored by the PERG Research Group, RGS/IBG annual conference 2009, Manchester. With Professor Lindsey McEwen : University of Gloucestershire & Dr Laurence Carmichael: University of the West of England.
(2009) The Parallax of Memory as experienced in the everyday landscape of train commuting. 'Life going on and on: time, embodiment, ageing', Co-Sponsored by: Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group and Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group. RGS/IBG annual conference 2009, Manchester.
(2008) 'Emptiness and presence in photographed and (un)remembered landscapes of the Severn Estuary, 'Perfomativity and Emptiness Closing Symposium' AHRC Landscape and Environment Network, Avonmouth.07 06 2008
(2008) 'Walking tidal time-spaces of the Bristol Channel shore; video and autoethnographies of memoried place': Plenary Paper, 'Rural Walking' session: Peripatetic Practices: A Workshop on Walking. Royal Holloway, University of London (ESRC sponsored), 31 03 2008
(2008) 'Slicing open the parturiency of emptiness', Symposium on Avonmouth Severn Beach Littoral Weekend Workshop. AHRC Landscape and Environment Network. 17 03 2008. Bristol.
(2008) 'Severn Beach: Margins and Registers'. Avonmouth Severn Beach Littoral Weekend Workshop. AHRC Landscape and Environment Network Event. 25-27th Jan 2008, Avonmouth.
(2007) 'Tasty Science: Interdisciplinarity within and beyond geography' RELU Interdisciplinarity session; RGS-IBG 2007 Annual Conference. With Buller, H., Morris, C., Kirwan, J., Wood, J., Whittingham, F., Hopkins, A., and Dunn, R.
(2007) "The Breath of the Moon"; vignettes of the lively temporalities of tides in the Severn Estuary. In, Lively non-human temporalities: towards rhythmanalysis of hybrid nature-society time-spaces (RGRG2). RGS-IBG 2007 Annual Conference.
(2007) 'Dark Matter: Memory, Writing and Landscape' Writing Landscape. An Interdisciplinary Symposium for Scholars Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. London: University College, London.
(2007) Relationality, materiality, non-humans, place and politics in Relationality: Concepts, Politics, Future (HPGRG2), RGS-IBG 2007 Annual Conference.
(2007) 'Keynote address' Childhood: Exploring Difference, Critiquing Crisis; RGS Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group Workshop Series: Workshop 2, Swansea University 18 May.
(2006) Eating Biodiversity - a means of meeting the ecological challenges of agriculture. British Ecological Society Annual Conference, September, University of Oxford, U.K. With Dunn, R.M., Hopkins, A., Buller, H., Morris, C., Wood, J.D., Whittington, F. and Kirwan, J.
(2006) The case of the missing ecologies: really embedding alternative/local food networks within nature in the pursuit of ecological and social sustainability, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 30 August - 1 September. With Buller, H., Morris, C. and Kirwan, J.
(2006) Forward to the new past? New formations of farmer knowledges in ecologically founded Alternative Agri-Food Networks (AAFNS) - RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 30 August - 1 September. With Buller, H., Morris, C, and Kirwan. J.
(2006) Further explorations of childhood, disorder and the visualized materiality of the city. The Material and Visual Cultures of Childhood and Youth Conference; Goldsmiths College, University of London; 5 - 6 May.
(2006) Loudon's orders: Arnos Vale cemetery and the lively materialities of place, AHRC sponsored International Conference on the History of Arboretums, Linnean Society, London, 6 - 8 September. Symposium of Arboretum.
(2006) The case of the missing ecologies: really embedding alternative/local food networks within nature in the pursuit of ecological and social sustainability. Departmental Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Exeter.
Public service activities
Founder member of the Priston Action Group for the Environment (PAGE).
