John A. Agnew

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John A. Agnew

John A. Agnew (born August 29, 1949 in Millom , England) is a British-American geographer and university professor.

Life

Agnew studied at the Universities of Exeter and Liverpool in England and Ohio State University in the USA. From 1975 to 1995 he was a professor at Syracuse University in New York. Agnew then taught at the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) on political geography , the history of geography, cities in Europe and the Mediterranean. From 1998 to 2002 he headed the geography department at UCLA. From 2003 to 2004 Agnew held a Guggenheim grant . He is currently Professor of Geography at UCLA.

In the 2008/2009 term, John Agnew also served as President of the American Association of Geographers , the largest professional organization for academic geographers in the United States. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2017 a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy . In the same year, the University of Oulu awarded him an honorary doctorate. Together with David Newman, Agnew publishes the journal Geopolitics . For 2019 he was awarded the Prix ​​Vautrin Lud .

Agnew is best known for his rediscovery of geopolitics as a scientific field of research as well as for his theoretical and empirical presentations on how the politics of a country can best be explained in terms of the geographic dynamics of “places” and how these are determined by both local and distant conditions .

Fonts (selection)

  • Place and politics. The geographical mediation of state and society . Allen & Unwin, Boston 1987, ISBN 0043201776 .
  • Mastering space. Hegemony, territory and international political economy . Routledge, London / New York 1995, with Stuart Corbridge, ISBN 041509433X .
  • Reinventing geopolitics. Geographies of modern statehood . Geographical Institute of Heidelberg University , Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-88570-504-4 .
  • American space / American place. Geographies of the contemporary United States . Routledge, New York 2002, with Jonathan M. Smith, ISBN 0415935318 .
  • Geopolitics. Re-visioning world politics . 2nd edition, Routledge, London / New York 2003, ISBN 0415310067 .
  • Hegemony. The new shape of global power . Temple University Press, Philadelphia 2005, ISBN 1592131522 .
  • The geography of the world economy . 5th edition, Hodder Education, London 2008, with Paul Knox and Linda McCarthy, ISBN 9780340948354 .
  • Globalization and sovereignty . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham 2009, ISBN 9780742556775 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 3 UCLA professors named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (accessed November 25, 2013)
  2. ^ Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research. British Academy , July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Agnew receives honorary doctorate from university in Finland. UCLA, May 23, 2017, accessed February 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Agnew, John A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Millom , England