Owain Jones

Who is Owain Jones?

Dr Owain Jones is a Senior Research Fellow at Countryside & Community Research Institute and member of staff of the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England. He works mainly in cultural geography and has published a number of peer-reviewed research articles in international geography and related social science journals.

He has two main areas of research and writing interests; children's geographies and geographies of nature-culture. Within the latter he focuses upon animal geographies, place/landscape/dwelling, and tidal geographies. Since completing his PhD in the Dept of Geography, University of Bristol, he has conducted research variously funded by the ESRC, AHRC, and RCUK. He has also written on geography, non-representational theory and pragmatism. and geography and memory.

His work is of significance in the area of geographies nature-culture. That is - a view of nature-society relations which seeks to understand the interdependency between the human and non-human world. This draws upon, and contributes to, a range of theories including Actor Network Theory; dwelling; hybridity; new dialectics; new approaches to place; and new ecologies.