Noel Castree

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Noel Castree
Born (1968-04-02) 2 April 1968 (age 57)
Bury, Greater Manchester,
UK
Education University of Oxford, (BA); University of British Columbia (MA, PhD)
Occupation(s)Geographer at University of Manchester (Marxist political economy, political economy of nature)
Years active1989–present

Noel Castree FAcSS (born 2 April 1968) is a British geographer whose research has focused on capitalism-environment relationships and, more recently, on the role that various experts play in discourses about global environmental change. He is the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Progress in Human Geography.

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Background

Castree was born in Bury, Greater Manchester, UK and has a BA in Geography from the University of Oxford (1989), and an MA (1992) and PhD from the University of British Columbia (1999). He has worked at the universities of Liverpool and Wollongong, as well as Manchester and UTS (Sydney).

Key contributions

His "principal interests are in the political economy of environmental change, regulation and contestation". He has sought to develop and apply Marxian approaches to understanding a range of environmental problems, with an emphasis on understanding the meaning and limits of 'commodification'.". [1] One of his main intellectual contributions to the discipline of geography is advancing the concept of "social nature", which mediates between social constructivist and materialist perspectives on the biophysical world that people interact with; another is explaining the 'neoliberalisation of nature' in the context of 21st century carbon-intensive capitalism. His more recent research focuses on who gets to speak for the Earth and humanity in light of growing concerns about a global environmental crisis e.g. in a book called What Future For the Earth? (2025). He has served twice as a managing editor of peer review journals, once for Antipode and more recently for Progress in Human Geography. He is also the founding editor of Environment & Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice (Sage publishers, launched in 2021).

Awards

He received a Governor General of Canada's Gold Medal while a graduate student at UBC. In 2005, he received the Gill Memorial Award from the Royal Geographical Society. [2] In 2008 he chaired the RGS-IBG conference held in London. In 2012 he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Science. In 2019 he won a lifetime achievement award from the publisher Taylor and Francis for the impact of his books, articles and chapters. In 2023 he received the Murchison Award from the Royal Geographical Society for 'influential research about the relations between societies and the physical environment'.

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