Klaus Dodds
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Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Academia[]
He was educated at Wellington College and the University of Bristol where he completed degrees in geography and political science.[citation needed] After taking up a position at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed to a lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1994. He is the co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Book Series with Reece Jones.[1]
He is the author of ‘Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction’, published by Oxford University Press
Recognition[]
In 2005 Klaus Dodds was awarded the annual Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust for "an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics'"[2]
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Research[]
Klaus Dodds is a geopolitician and focuses his work on, amongst others, the representation of space in visual media like internet, movies and pictures. He is also engaged in research about the geopolitics of the South Pole.
Selected publications[]
His books include Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond (Palgrave 2017, with Lisa Funnell), Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2007) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris 2002).
References[]
- ^ "Routledge Geopolitics Series - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2005 Archived 2007-04-02 at the Wayback Machine Leverhume Trust. Accessed August 6, 2008. Award citation:"Klaus Dodds had made an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics’. His work ranges from historical investigations of British policy towards the South Atlantic and Antarctica in the post-war period, to studies of ‘popular geopolitics’ in the news media and film. He pioneered the study of geopolitical issues focused on Antarctica and southern Latin America, and this work has also had a substantial impact within the foreign policy communities of several countries, including the UK."
External links[]
- Klaus Dodds' Faculty Profile at the University of London
- Read an interview with Klaus Dodds by Theory Talks (May 2008)
- Radio interview with Klaus Dodds regarding the implications of an ice-free Arctic for geopolitics and security (November 2009)
- Google Books search on Klaus Dodds
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