Role
I am convenor of the International Studies and Development Research Group in the School of Geography and Director of the Plymouth International Studies Centre
Qualifications & background
I joined the School of Geography at Plymouth in July 2006, having previously taught at Loughborough University, the National University of Singapore and the Universities of Birmingham and Reading.
I hold a PhD in Human Geography from Royal Holloway, University of London and an MPhil in International Studies from the University of Reading.
For further details, please see my CV: http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/research/CVJamesDSJuly21.pdf
Teaching interests
Please see research interests. My research and teaching are connected by a commitment to a critical perspective. I teach on a first year course about the geopolitics of 'globalization', second year courses on geographic thought and geographies of development, a third year course on southern Africa and a Masters module on globalization and regionalization.
Research interests
What interests me? As a geographer, almost everything!
However my main foci are:
Political and Development Geography and the History and Philosophy of Geographic Thought.
I am currently an Associate Editor of Political Geography and co-Editor of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
I have been lucky enough to serve as advisor to eight graduate students over the years.
Currently at Plymouth these include Veit Bachman and Fiona Ferbrache: contact them for more details of their research.
Graduate students are the life and soul of any lively research insitution: I would welcome more....
Publications
Here is a sample of my publications since the year 2000:
Books
Daniels P, Bradshaw M, Shaw D and Sidaway J (2008) (eds) An Introduction to Human Geography: issues for the twenty first century, third edition (Prentice Hall).
Johnston R J and Sidaway J D (2004) Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945, sixth edition (Arnold).
Papers
Sidaway J D (2007) Spaces of Postdevelopment, Progress in Human Geography 31 2 345-361.
Bunnell, T, Muzaini H and Sidaway J D (2006) World City Frontiers: Singapore's hinterland and the contested socio-political geographies of Bintan, Indonesia, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 1 3-22.
Sidaway J D and Power M (2005) ‘The tears of Portugal’: empire, identity, ‘race’ and destiny in Portuguese geopolitical narratives, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23 4 527-554.
Power M and Sidaway J D (2004) The degeneration of tropical geography, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 3 585-601.
Sidaway J D and Bryson J R (2002) Constructing knowledges of emerging markets: UK based fund managers and their overseas connections, Environment and Planning A 34 401-416.
Sidaway J D (2001) Rebuilding bridges: a critical geopolitics of Iberian transfrontier cooperation in a European context, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 19 6 743-778.
Sidaway J D (2000) Postcolonial geographies: an exploratory essay, Progress in Human Geography 24 4 573-594.
For a full CV with a list of all my publications please see: http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/research/CVJamesDSJuly21.pdf
