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Owain Jones FGS (born 1957, Newport, Wales) is a Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University (UK). He was previously Reader in Cultural Geography: Place, Nature and Landscape (previously Senior Research Fellow) at the Countryside & Community Research Institute (which is a joint Institute of the Universities of the West of England and Gloucestershire and the Royal Agricultural College and Hartpury College) 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; geographies of nature-culture and children's geographies. Within the former he focuses upon animal geographies,〔Jones O., (2008) ‘“The Restraint of Beasts”: rurality, animality, actor network theory and dwelling’, in P. Cloke (ed.) Country Visions, London: Pearson Education. pp 450–487.〕 place/landscape/dwelling,〔Jones O., (2006) ''Of Trees and Trails: place in a globalised world'', in N. Clark, D. Massey, and P. Sarre (eds.) Life in A Globalised World, Milton Keynes: Open University, pp 214–264.〕 and tidal geographies (and temporal rhythms of landscape).〔Jones O., (2010)''The Breath of the Moon’: The Rhythmic and Affective Time-spaces of UK Tides'', in T. Edensor (ed) Geographies of Rhythm, Oxford: Ashgate, pp 189–203.〕 == Biography == Jones undertook a BA in 3D Design/Construction at Bristol Polytechnic, graduating in 1981, an MA /Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Policy and Geography, University of the West of England, 1993, MSc. in Society and Space, University of Bristol, 1993, MA in Creative Writing, BSUC, 2004 and completed his PhD in the Dept of Geography, University of Bristol in 1997. He has conducted research variously funded by the ESRC, AHRC, and RCUK (RELU). He has also written on geography, non-representational theory and pragmatism.〔Jones O., (2008) ‘Stepping from the Wreckage: Non-representational theory and the promise of pragmatism’ in special issue on Pragmatism and Geography, Geoforum, edited by N. Wood and S. Smith, Geoforum, 39, 1600-1612〕 and geography and memory.〔Jones O., (2005) ‘An Emotional Ecology of Memory, Self and Landscape’, in J. Davidson, L. Bondi and M. Smith (eds.) Emotional Geographies, Oxford, Ashgate, pp 205–218.〕 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 (ANT);〔Bruno Latour (1993) ''We Have Never Been Modern''. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester/Wheatsheaf.〕 dwelling;〔Tim Ingold (2000). ''The Perception of the Environment. Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill''. London: Routledge.〕 hybridity;〔Whatmore, S. (2002). Hybrid Geographies: Natures, Cultures, Spaces. London: Sage.〕 new dialectics;〔Bruce Braun, (2006). ''Towards a new earth and a new humanity: nature, ontology, politics'', In N. Castree and D. Gregory (eds), David Harvey. A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 191–222.〕 new approaches to place;〔Doreen Massey(2005). ''For Space''. London: Sage. ISBN 1412903610.〕 and new ecologies. The importance of his work is reflected in the selection of an extract from the book “''Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees, and Trees in their Place'',〔Jones O., and Cloke P., (2002) ''Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees, and Trees in their Place'', Oxford: Berg, 252pp.〕 for the “Nature” section of ''The Cultural Geography Reader'' edited by Oakes and Price.〔T. S. Oakes and P. L. Price (eds) ''The Cultural Geography Reader'', London: Routledge.〕 This extract sits alongside other seminal writings on nature by Raymond Williams, Clarence J. Glacken, Alexander Wilson and others. Because of his work in this field, Owain Jones was selected to write the “Nature-Culture”〔Jones O. (2008). ''Nature-Cultures'' in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.), ''International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography'', London: Elsevier, vol 7: 309-323.〕 and “Dwelling”〔Jones O., 2008 ''Dwelling'' in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.), ''International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography'', London: Elsevier, vol 3: 266-272.〕 entries for the ''International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography''.〔R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.) (2009). ''International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography'', London: Elsevier.〕 Owain Jones's influential 1995 paper on discourses of rurality〔Jones O., (1995) "Lay Discourses of the Rural: Developments and Implications for Rural Studies", ''Journal of Rural Studies'', 11, 1, pp 35-49.〕 has been recently republished as part of the ''Journal of Rural Studies 25th anniversary.〔http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/S06_343.cws_home/vsijrurstud_rurality 〕 He has also been an invited speaker at a number of major international academic conferences on rurality,〔http://www.campoadentro.es/en/conferencia_internacional〕 human-animal interactions,〔http://www.uio.no/forskning/tverrfak/kultrans/aktuelt/konferanser/sentient-creatures/〕 and geographies of forests, places and landscapes.〔http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-7RXCB4〕 In the area of children's geographies Owain Jones has pioneered the idea of the "otherness of children".〔Jones O., (2008) “True geography () quickly forgotten, giving away to an adult-imagined universe. Approaching the otherness of childhood". ''Children’s Geographies'', 8, 2, pp 195–212..〕 This has been taken up by other academics such as Karen Lury.〔Karen Lury (2010) ''The Child in Film''. I. B. Tarus.〕 Owain Jones is also founder and Chair of Priston Festival, a community art and music festival near the city of Bath, Somerset, south west England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Owain Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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