Gillian Rose

Education

Rose earned her Bachelor from Cambridge and her Doctor of Philosophy from University of London.

Career

This page is about the geographer Gillian Rose. Foreign the philosopher, see Gillian Rose. She is a professor and Associate Dean at the Open University.

Education and Early She taught at the University of Edinburgh before joining the faculty at the Open University.

"I think one of geography"s greatest strengths-- one if its greatest pleasures-- as a discipline, is the way that it gathers together very different talents and skills, and puts them to work together in the task of understanding the world we all share."-- Professor Gillian Rose"s acceptance speech from the 2012 Royal Geographical Society Medals and Awards ceremony. Rose"s current research interests lie broadly within the field of visual culture.

She is interested in the ways social subjectivities and relations are pictured or made invisible in a range of media, and how those processes are embedded in power relations. She also has long-standing interest in feminist film theory and in Michel Foucault"s and feminist accounts of photography in particular.

Rose is known for defining identity as "how we make sense of ourselves" and explained how we each have different identities on different scales, for example, someone"s local identity is probably different from their global identity.

She also describes sense of place as the process of infusing a place with "meaning and feeling." In recent years she has written three books that have proven less controversial: Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Materials (2001), Deterritorialisations: Revisioning Landscape and Politics (2003), and Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, The Public and The Politics of Sentiment (Ashgate, 2012). Dorrian, M. and (eds) (2003) Deterritoralisations: Revisioning Landscape and Politics, Black Dog Press.

Achievements

• Rose received the 2012 Murchison Award from the Royal Geographic Society for "publications on visual culture and geographic methodologies".

Politics

She is best known for her 1993 book, Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. Written from a Marxist and radical feminist perspective, Feminism & Geography stimulated a series of debates within geography about the nature of how geographic knowledge is constructed. Rose, G. (1993), Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge, U of Minnesota Press.