Klaus Dodds

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Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was educated at Wellington College and the University of Bristol where he completed degrees in geography and political science. After taking up a position at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed to a lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1994.


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[edit] Research

Klaus Dodds is part of a new generation of critical ‘geopoliticians’ and focuses his work on, amongst others, the representation of space in visual media like internet, movies and pictures. He is also engaged in research about the geopolitics of the South Pole. Working with a number of London-based colleagues including Alasdair Pinkerton, Alan Ingram and Jason Dittmer, the critical geopolitics project is being advanced through forthcoming edited books, conference sessions and audio-visual presentations.


[edit] Selected Publications

His books include Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2007) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris 2002).


[edit] Professional Affiliations

He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.


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