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48
Citations
11465
World Ranking
3100
National Ranking
176

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Trevor J. Barnes is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and focuses research primarily within the social sciences, with a specialization in geography, planning, and development. Their interdisciplinary work extends into sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, history and philosophy of science, and philosophy.

The scientist's research topics include historical geography and geographical thought, data analysis and archiving, geography education and pedagogy, geographic information systems studies, regional economics and spatial analysis, historical geography and cartography, and historical studies and socio-cultural analysis.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Trevor J. Barnes include:

  • Towards a pragmatist economic geography, 2023, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History, 2020, The AAG Review of Books
  • Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond, 2020, The AAG Review of Books
  • Dictatorships and universities: The 1980 Turkish military coup d'état and Turkish geography, 2021, Political Geography
  • Writing economies and economies of writing, 2021, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space

Trevor J. Barnes frequently publishes in several academic venues, with multiple papers appearing in The AAG Review of Books and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. There are also publications in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, and Political Geography.

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a group of co-authors, including Everett L. Shock, Randall Debes, Eric Sheppard, Katelyn Weeks, and Kristopher M. Fecteau, with the number of joint publications ranging between two and three.

In recognition of their contributions, Trevor J. Barnes was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011, under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape

    Trevor J. Barnes;James S. Duncan

  • COVID-19 vaccine coverage in health-care workers in England and effectiveness of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine against infection (SIREN): a prospective, multicentre, cohort study.

    Victoria Jane Hall;Victoria Jane Hall;Sarah Foulkes;Ayoub Saei;Nick Andrews;Nick Andrews

  • SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of antibody-positive compared with antibody-negative health-care workers in England: a large, multicentre, prospective cohort study (SIREN).

    V J Hall;S Foulkes;A Charlett;A Atti

  • Retheorizing Economic Geography: From the Quantitative Revolution to the “Cultural Turn”

    Trevor J. Barnes

  • Logics of Dislocation: Models, Metaphors, and Meanings of Economic Space

    Trevor J. Barnes

  • ‘Nothing includes everything’: towards engaged pluralism in Anglophone economic geography

    Trevor J. Barnes;Eric Sheppard

  • A companion to economic geography

    Eric S. Sheppard;Trevor J. Barnes

  • Relocating resource peripheries to the core of economic geography's theorizing: rationale and agenda

    Roger Hayter;Trevor J Barnes;Michael J Bradshaw

  • The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis After Ricardo, Marx and Sraffa

    Eric Sheppard;Trevor Barnes

  • Placing ideas: genius loci, heterotopia and geography's quantitative revolution:

    Trevor J. Barnes

  • Between Regions: Science, Militarism, and American Geography from World War to Cold War

    Trevor J. Barnes;Matthew Farish

  • Reading Human Geography: The Poetics and Politics of Inquiry

    Trevor J. Barnes;Derek Gregory

  • Nazi Spatial Theory: The Dark Geographies of Carl Schmitt and Walter Christaller

    Trevor J. Barnes;Claudio Minca

  • Lives Lived and Lives Told: Biographies of Geography's Quantitative Revolution:

    Trevor J Barnes

  • ‘The Little Town That Did': Flexible Accumulation and Community Response in Chemainus, British Columbia

    Trevor J. Barnes;Roger Hayter

  • The New Industrial Geography : Regions, Regulation and Institutions

    Trevor J. Barnes;Meric S. Gertler

  • The place of locational analysis: a selective and interpretive history

    Trevor J. Barnes

  • Big Data, social physics, and spatial analysis: The early years:

    Trevor J Barnes;Matthew W Wilson

  • Geography’s underworld: The military–industrial complex, mathematical modelling and the quantitative revolution

    Trevor J. Barnes

  • Ideology and Bliss: Roland Barthes and the Secret Histories of Landscape

    Trevor J. Barnes;James S. Duncan

  • Remaking the Global Economy

    Trevor J. Barnes

  • Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape

    Steven C. Bourassa;Trevor J. Barnes;James S. Duncan

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Sheppard
Eric Sheppard University of California, Los Angeles
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Don Mitchell
Don Mitchell Uppsala University
Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
Paul Cloke
Paul Cloke University of Exeter
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Meric S. Gertler
Meric S. Gertler University of Toronto
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey The Open University
Michael Dear
Michael Dear University of Southern California
Keith Richards
Keith Richards University of Cambridge

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