Specialist Subjects: Human Geography; Urban Theory; Poststructuralism; Continental Philosophy; Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Derrida.
Department of Geography, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP
Campus location: Room 220 of the Wallace building
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Working in our Social Theory and Urban Space research group, my current research interests include:
Clarke D B, Doel M A, Merrin W, and Smith R G (eds), 2009, Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge, London). ISBN 9780415464420
Clarke D B, Crawford Pfannhauser V, and Doel M A (eds), 2009, Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film (Lexington, Lanham, MD). ISBN 9780739128558
Smith R G, Clarke D B, and Doel M A, 2011, "Editorial: Baudrillard redux: antidotes to integral reality" Cultural Politics 7(3): 325–337. ISSN 17432197. DOI 10.2752/175174311X13069348235088
Clarke D B, and Doel M A, 2011, “Mushrooms in post-traditional culture: apropos of a book by Terence McKenna” Journal of Cultural Research 15(4): 389–408. ISSN 17401666. DOI 10.1080/14797585.2011.613219
Smith R G, and Doel M A, 2011, "Questioning the theoretical basis of current global-city research: structures, networks, and actor-networks" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(1): 24–39. ISSN 03091317. DOI 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00940.x
Rapport F, Doel M A, Hutchings H A, Wright S, Wainright P, John D N, and Jerzembek G S, 2010, "Eleven themes of patient-centred professionalism in community pharmacy: innovative approaches to consulting" International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 18(5): 260–268. ISSN 09617671. DOI 10.1111/j.2042-7174.2010.00056.x
Hutchings H A, Rapport F L, Wright S, Doel M A, and Wainwright P, 2010, "Obtaining consensus regarding patient-centred professionalism in community pharmacy: nominal group work activity with professionals, stakeholders, and members of the public" International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 18(3): 149–158. ISSN 09617671. doi:10.1211/ijpp/18.03.0004
Rapport F L, Jerzembek G S, Doel M A, Jones A, Cella M, and Lloyd K R, 2010, "Narrating uncertainties about treatment of mental health conditions" Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 45(3): 371–381. ISSN 14339285 doi:10.1007/s00127-009-0072-y
Rapport F, Doel M A, Hutchings H A, John D N, Wainwright P, Jerzembek, G S, Dobbs C, Newbury S, and Trower C S, 2010, "Through the looking glass: public and professional perspectives on patient-centred professionalism in modern-day community pharmacy" Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 11(1), Article 7. ISSN 14385627 <http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1301/2892>
Rapport F, Doel M A, and Jerzembek G S, 2009, "Challenges to UK community pharmacy: A bio-photographic study of workspace in relation to professional pharmacy practice" Medical Humanities 35(2): 110-117. ISSN 14734265. DOI 10.1136/jmh.2009.002105
Rapport F, Doel M A, and Jerzembek G S, 2009, "'Convenient space' or 'a tight squeeze': insider views on the community pharmacy" Health & Place 15: 315–322. ISSN 13538292. DOI 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.06.002
Doel M A, 2009, "Guest Editorial: Just excess. The joy of waste" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27(6): 956–965. ISSN 14723433. DOI 10.1068/d2706ed
Doel M A, 2009, "Miserly thinking/excessful geography: from restricted economy to global financial crisis" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27(6): 1054–1073. ISSN 14723433. DOI 10.1068/d7307
Rapport F, Doel M A, and Wainwright P, 2008, "The doctor's tale: enacted workspace and the general practitioner." Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 9(2), 2008, Article 2. ISSN 14385627 <http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/viewArticle/406/879>
Doel M A, 2008, "Dialectics revisited. Reality discharged" Environment and Planning A 40: 2631–2640. ISSN 0308518X. DOI 10.1068/a40314
Rapport F, Doel M A, and Elwyn G, 2007, "Snapshots and snippets: general practitioner's reflections on professional space" Health and Place 13(2): 532–544. DOI 10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.07.005
Doel M A and Clarke D B, 2007, "Afterimages" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(5): 890–910. DOI 10.1068/d436t
Clarke D B and Doel M A, 2007, "Shooting space, tracking time: the city from animated photography to vernacular relativity" Cultural Geographies 14(4): 589–609. DOI 10.1177/1474474007082295
Rapport F, Doel M A, Greaves D, and Elwyn G, 2006, "From manila to monitor: biographies of general practitioner workspaces" Health 10(2): 233–251. DOI 10.1177/1363459306061790
Doel M A, 2006, "The obscenity of mapping" Area 38(3): 343–345. DOI 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.688_2.x
Doel M A, 2005, "Deconstruction and Geography: settling the account" Antipode 37(2): 246–249.DOI 10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00491.x
Clarke D B and Doel M A, 2005, "Engineering space and time: moving pictures and motionless trips" Journal of Historical Geography 31(1): 41–60. DOI 10.1016/j.jhg.2003.08.022
Doel M A, in press for January 2012, "Double crossed." In GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson Eds C Abrahamsson and M Gren (Ashgate, Aldershot). ISBN 9781409412380.
Clarke D B and Doel M A, 2011, "Jean Baudrillard," "Zygmunt Bauman," and "Paul Virilio." In Key Thinkers on Space and Place, second edition, Eds P Hubbard and R Kitchin (Sage, London) pp. 40–46, 47–54, and 440–446, respectively. ISBN 9781849201025.
Doel M A and Clarke D B, 2011, "Gilles Deleuze." In Key Thinkers on Space and Place, second edition, Eds P Hubbard and R Kitchin (Sage, London). pp. 141–147. ISBN 9781849201025.
Doel M A, 2010, "Production" and "Seduction." In The Baudrillard Dictionary Ed. R G Smith (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh) pp. 171–174 and 186–189, respectively. ISBN 9780748639212.
Doel M A, 2010, "Representation and difference." In Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography Eds B Anderson and P Harrison (Ashgate, Aldershot) pp. 117–130. ISBN 9780754672791.
Doel M A, 2010, "Analysing cultural texts." In Key Methods in Geography, second edition, Eds N Clifford, S French, and G Valentine (Sage, London) pp. 485–496. ISBN 9781412935098.
Clarke D B, Doel M A, Smith R G, and Merrin W, 2009, "Introduction: the evil genius of Jean Baudrillard." In Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories Eds D B Clarke, M A Doel, W Merrin, and R G Smith (Routledge, London) pp. 1–14. ISBN 9780415464420.
Doel M A, 2009, "Commentary on Jean Baudrillard's 'On disappearance.'" In Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories Eds D B Clarke, M A Doel, W Merrin, and R G Smith (Routledge, London) pp. 35–37. ISBN 9780415464420.
Clarke D B, Crawford Pfannhauser V, and Doel M A, 2009, "Checking in." In Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film Eds D B Clarke, V Crawford Pfannhauser, and M A Doel (Lexington, Lanham, MD) pp. 1–12. ISBN 9780739128558.
Doel M A and Clarke D B, 2009, "The artistry of cities: Chris Ware's comic strips." In Parcitypate: Art and Urban Space Eds T Beyes, S-T Krempl, and A Deuflhard (Verlag Niggli AG, Sulgen, Zurich) 27 pp. [unpaginated]. ISBN 9783721207194.
Doel M A, 2008, "From animated photography to film: the formation of vernacular relativity in early English films (1895-1908)." In The Geography of Cinema—A Cinematic World? Eds C Lukinbeal and S Zimmermann (Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany) pp. 87–99. ISBN 9783515091992.
Doel M A, 2008, "Poststructuralist geographies: the essential selection." Reproduced in Theory and Methods: Critical Essays in Human Geography Ed. C Philo (Ashgate, Aldershot) pp. 485–510. ISBN 9780754627098.
Clarke D B and Doel M A, 2006, "From flatland to vernacular relativity: the genesis of early English screenscapes." In Landscape and Film Ed. M Lefebvre (American Film Institute/Routledge, New York) pp. 213–243. ISBN 9780415975551
Doel M A, 2006, "Dialectical materialism: stranger than friction." In David Harvey: A Critical Reader Eds N Castree and D Gregory (Blackwell, Oxford) pp. 55–79. ISBN 0631235108
Doel M A, Rees K G, and Davies T E C, 2005, "Negotiating culture and economy in high-technology industries: governance through intellectual property in new economic spaces." In New Economic Spaces: New Economic Geographies Eds R Le Heron and J W Harrington (Ashgate, Aldershot) pp. 177–191. ISBN 0754644502
Doel M A, 2009, "The man who fell to Earth and mistook himself for a map. Review essay: Gunnar Olsson's Abysmal" Progress in Human Geography 33: 280–285. ISSN 14770288. DOI 10.1177/0309132508100652
Doel M A, 2007, "Classics in human geography revisited. Commentary on: Micheal Dear's 'The postmodern challenge: reconstructing human geography'" Progress in Human Geography 31(5): 677–685. ISSN 03091325. DOI 10.1177/0309132507081497
Rapport F, Wright S, Hutchings H, and Doel M, 2011, "Patient-centred professionalism and its impact on community pharmacists" The Pharmaceutical Journal 2011; 286:112.
1987 BSc Geography, Bristol University 1991 PhD Geography, Bristol University
College of Science (Geography)
Swansea
TEL: +44 (0) 1792 513090 (Direct)
FAX: +44 (0) 1792 295955
E-MAIL: m.a.doel@swansea.ac.uk
Level 1: Global Shifts. Towards a New World Order? (Modernity & Postmodernity)
Level 2: Vancouver Field Course
Level 3: The Consumer Society
Level M: Social Theory & Space (Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida)
Level M: Consumer Culture: Modern & Postmodern
Level M: Contemporary Research in Human Geography
Postgraduate programmes combining taught modules with a research project
MRes Media Geographies
MRes Social Theory and Space
MRes Urban Studies
Postgraduate programmes entirely by research
MSc by Research (normally 1 year FT)
MPhil (normally 2 years FT)
PhD (normally 3 years FT)
I welcome interest from prospective research students in any of my research areas, and particularly those with strong interests in social and spatial theory.
"From whatever angle you approach it, the present offers no way out"
The Coming Insurrection
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