!!John Pickles - Biography
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John Pickles is the D.W. Patterson Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of International Studies and Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He holds PhDs from the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Natal, and MA and BA (Hons) from Oxford University.  Until 2018, he served on the Scientific Advisory Panel to the International Geographical Union’s Initiative for the UN International Year of Global Understanding. From 2007-2012 he served as the research coordinator for the Apparel Sector Research Group of the Capturing the Gains Network dealing with social and economic upgrading in global production networks (capturingthegains.org) and sat on the University of North Carolina Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Labor and Licensing from 2005-2012.  He served as Head of the Department of Geography from 2007-2013. \\
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Professor Pickles has held distinguished visiting appointments at Queen Mary College University of London, Kliment Ohridiski University of Sofia (Bulgaria), University of Trieste (Italy), the Economics University of Bratislava (Slovakia), and the Paris Institute University of London, and has worked with colleagues in many European universities and institutes, including -internationally- the University of Manchester, University of West of England, Charles University (Czechia), and Center for Regional Studies (Budapest and Pecs, Hungary), University of Amsterdam, as well as at the Institute for Human Development Delhi, Peking University, Hanyang University (South Korea), University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Cape Town.\\
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For the past two decades he worked on three related areas of European geographical restructuring; the changing dynamics of European apparel production, work, and trade in global value chains; post-socialist economies and the integration of Central and East European countries into the EU; and migration routes and border management in Euro-Med. His books on cultural and geographical theory include: A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World (Routledge, 2004), Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographical Information Systems (edited, The Guilford Press), and Phenomenology, Science, and Geography: Space and the Human Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 1985). His books on economic geographies of post-socialist Europe include among many others (see attached CV) Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations (co-authored with Adrian Smith (RGS-IBG Book Series: Wiley,  2016), Environmental Transitions: Post-Communist Transformations and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe (co-authored, Routledge, 2002).\\
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Since 2016 he has focused more of his research and teaching on Paris with two-month residencies in 2017, 2019, 2023, and 2024. He taught summer courses in Paris in 2017 and 2019 when he was a visiting scholar at the Paris Institute University of London.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit jpickles}][{ALLOW upload jpickles}][{ALLOW comment All}]