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Castree was born in Bury, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom and has a Bachelor in Geography from the University of Oxford, and an Master of Arts (1992) and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of British Columbia (May, 1999).
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Noel Castree
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He taught for 5 years at Liverpool University before joining the University of Manchester in 2000 and becoming professor of geography in the School of Environment and Development in In January 2014 he joined the University of Wollongong in Australia, in a new Department of Geography & Sustainable Communities. His "principal interests are in the political economy of environmental change, regulation and contestation. He has sought to develop and apply Marxian approaches to understanding a range of environmental problems, with an emphasis on understanding the meaning and limits of "commodification"." One of his main contributions to critical geography relates to the concept of "Social nature".
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