Kevin Hetherington
I have worked on a range of spatial issues across the disciplines of Geography and Sociology for the past 20 years. I am currently Professor of Geography at The Open University (since 2005) and previously held a Chair in Cultural Sociology at Lancaster University. My recent work has focused on a number of areas:
Museum studies: I work at the theoretical/philosophical end of museum studies though I have in the past carried out empirical work on issues of access and disability in museums. Particular interests here include the spatiality of museum practice, theorizing museums, and museums, temporality and history. In 2003 I helped establish the on-line, open access journal museum and society with Susan Pearce and Gordon Fyfe and was co-editor of it until 2009. This is hosted by the Museum Studies department at Leicester University.
The remains of the past within the present: In some ways this is connected to my interest in museum and heritage issues but also to questions of cities, materiality and memory. I am interested in exploring issues of ruin, fragment and trace in the constitution of social and spatial practice. A co-edited book (with Robin Smith) Urban Rhythms was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2013. I am currently working on a book on the ways in which the past interacts with the present which I expect to be out in 2016. This will draw on revised versions of a number of pieces I have wirtten on this issue in the past as well as new material.
Consumption: I have had a longstanding interest in issues of consumption since my first publication of a chapter on the Stonehenge Free Festival as a site of consumption in Rob Shield's Lifestyle Shopping (1992). This interest takes in a co-edited book (1996) and my more recent Capitalism's Eye (2007) which engages with issues of consumer space, commodity fetishism and reception. I have also written on the issue of disposal within consumption practices.
Spatial theory: runs through all of my work on museums, the past, cities and consumption. It also takes in the work of Foucault, Benjamin, The Situationists, Actor-Networks, Michel Serres as well as a range of themes within cultural geography (haunting, the senses, the underdetermined, absent-presence).
I am a member of the research centre: OpenSpace (Open University). With Tony Bennett and Penny Harvey I co-edit the CRESC book series: Culture, Economy and the Social (Routledge).
From October 2015 I will be taking up the position of Pro-Vice Chancellor Research and Academic Strategy at The Open University. Previously I was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University (2012-15). Before that I was Associate Dean (Research) for Social Sciences (2008-11), and Head of Department in Geography (2011-12) at The Open University
You can find me on twitter @HetheringtonH2
Museum studies: I work at the theoretical/philosophical end of museum studies though I have in the past carried out empirical work on issues of access and disability in museums. Particular interests here include the spatiality of museum practice, theorizing museums, and museums, temporality and history. In 2003 I helped establish the on-line, open access journal museum and society with Susan Pearce and Gordon Fyfe and was co-editor of it until 2009. This is hosted by the Museum Studies department at Leicester University.
The remains of the past within the present: In some ways this is connected to my interest in museum and heritage issues but also to questions of cities, materiality and memory. I am interested in exploring issues of ruin, fragment and trace in the constitution of social and spatial practice. A co-edited book (with Robin Smith) Urban Rhythms was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2013. I am currently working on a book on the ways in which the past interacts with the present which I expect to be out in 2016. This will draw on revised versions of a number of pieces I have wirtten on this issue in the past as well as new material.
Consumption: I have had a longstanding interest in issues of consumption since my first publication of a chapter on the Stonehenge Free Festival as a site of consumption in Rob Shield's Lifestyle Shopping (1992). This interest takes in a co-edited book (1996) and my more recent Capitalism's Eye (2007) which engages with issues of consumer space, commodity fetishism and reception. I have also written on the issue of disposal within consumption practices.
Spatial theory: runs through all of my work on museums, the past, cities and consumption. It also takes in the work of Foucault, Benjamin, The Situationists, Actor-Networks, Michel Serres as well as a range of themes within cultural geography (haunting, the senses, the underdetermined, absent-presence).
I am a member of the research centre: OpenSpace (Open University). With Tony Bennett and Penny Harvey I co-edit the CRESC book series: Culture, Economy and the Social (Routledge).
From October 2015 I will be taking up the position of Pro-Vice Chancellor Research and Academic Strategy at The Open University. Previously I was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University (2012-15). Before that I was Associate Dean (Research) for Social Sciences (2008-11), and Head of Department in Geography (2011-12) at The Open University
You can find me on twitter @HetheringtonH2
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