John Pickles
John Pickles currently serves as the Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pickles attended the
University of Oxford, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in
Geography, with a minor in
Geology, and a master's degree in geography. He later earned doctorate degrees from the
University of Natal,
South Africa, and the
Pennsylvania State University, United States. Pickles is a scholar in the areas of
critical cartography,
phenomenology,
geography of media and communication and post-socialist spaces. He is the author of numerous books, including ''Phenomenology, Science, and Geography: Space and the Human Sciences'', ''Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographical Information Systems'', and ''A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World''.
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