Dr Tariq Jazeel
| Room number: | E13 |
| Telephone (internal): | 27969 |
| Telephone (UK): | 0114 222 7969 |
| Telephone (International): | +44 114 222 7969 |
| Email: | T.Jazeel@Sheffield.ac.uk |
Tariq Jazeel graduated from the University of Sussex with a BA (Hons) in Geography and Environmental Studies in 1995. He completed an MA in Cultural Geography, and a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1998 and 2002 respectively, before working there briefly as a Teaching Fellow. Between 2003 and 2005 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Human Geography at The Open University. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Human Geography at The University of Sheffield in August 2005, and promoted to Senior Lecturer from January 2012.
Research Interests |
Human Geography and South Asian Studies, with specific interests in postcolonial and critical theory; spatial politics; landscape, built space and 'nature'; knowledge production |
Current research |
My research interests cluster around postcolonial social and cultural geographies, with particular reference to the spatial politics and constitution of identity and difference. In particular, I work on the connections and intersections between particular spatialities and the cultural politics of 'race', identity and difference, seeking particularly to develop engagements with colonialism, anti-colonial nationalism, and postcolonial formations in the Sri Lankan and South Asian contexts.I have published on the politics of Sri Lankan 'nature' and National Parks, Sri Lanka´s tropical modern architecture, literary geographies, and on various diasporic and 'multicultural' formations. Working through the methodological and strategic challenges of engaging the politics of 'non-western' texts has also stimulated a broader interest in the problematics, politics and responsibilities of knowledge production and comparison in postcolonial contexts. |
Teaching |
I teach a range of modules at the undergraduate level related to social, cultural and urban geography. The modules I teach encourage students to think carefully about our taken-for-granted relationships with the world around us. From exploring the power exerted by apparently innocent maps, to engaging 'natural' landscapes and environments in different cultural contexts, I'm keen to get students to think about the multiple and often contested ways that meaning is made of the world. I'm also keen on encouraging students to regard forms of popular culture – such as music, literature, film and TV – as constitutive of our geographical imaginations. As often as possible, I use examples and case studies from around the world, especially South Asia, to do this. At the Masters level, I teach a module Postcolonial Geography and Spatial Politics which encourages students to critically engage the ongoing presence of Eurocentric thought, power and privilege in the contemporary geographical imagination as well as in critical thought itself. Tariq teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including:
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Other information |
Tariq Jazeel is a member of the Editorical Collective for the journal Social Text, and is on the Editorial Board of the South Asian Journal for Culture and Geography Compass (Cultural). |