Dr Carl Griffin

Dr. Carl J. Griffin (Extended Information)

Qualifications

BSc Hons (Geography, 1st Class) Bristol 1998, PhD Bristol 2002, PGCHET QUB 2010, FRHistS

Lecturer in Human Geography

Email: Carl.Griffin@qub.ac.uk

Address

Room 02037, Elmwood Building,
School of Geography, Archaelogy and Palaeoecology,
Queen's University Belfast,
Belfast, BT7 1NN
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 (0)2890 973394

Current Teaching:

GGY1005 - Human Geographies of the Modern World (convenor)
GGY2024 - Geographical Research
GGY2041 - Cultural Geographies (convenor)
GGY3001 - Dissertation
GGY3048 - Geographies of Social Movements and Social Conflict (convenor)

 

Current Administrative Roles:

Human Geography (SSC) seminar series coordinator

Study Abroad Programme Coordinator (Erasmus and BEI)

GAP External Relations Committee

Current Research: Society, Space and Culture

My research focuses on the geographies of popular protest and capitalist transformations in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. Current foci include examinations of the quasi-insurrectionary Swing Riots – for which a monograph is forthcoming with Manchester University Press; cultures of unemployment; the political ecologies of agrarian capitalism; and, the human/non-human technologies of forests and chases. I am currently writing a second book - under contract with Palgrave - examining laboring protest and politics in the longue durée. 

I passionately believe that quality research builds directly upon quality teaching. My students continue to inspire - and provoke - me into thinking about my interests in new, innovative ways. If you would like to explore any of these ideas at doctoral level, don't hesitate to get in touch.

Publications:

Selected publications (current REF census period)

The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest (Manchester University Press, forthcoming, 2012)

'Animal maiming, intimacy and the politics of shared life: the bestial and the beastly in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, (online early)

'The violent Captain Swing?', Past and Present, 2010, 209, pp.149-180. (Free access)

'Becoming private property: custom, law, and the geographies of ‘ownership’ in 18th- and 19th-century England', Environment and Planning A, 2010, 42, 3, pp. 747-762

'Placing political economy: organising opposition to free trade before the abolition of the Corn Laws', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2009, 41, 4, pp. 489-505.

'Protest practice and (tree) cultures of conflict: understanding the spaces of 'tree maiming' in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2008, 40, 1, pp. 91-108.

For a full list of publications click here

 

External Grant Funding:

British Academy, July 2010 - June 2011, 'Other Tolpuddles? Trade Unionism and Labour Regulation in the English Countryside'; £4,186; Award reference: SG091233   

ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2002-3: ‘Protest, Political Economy and Labouring Cultures’; £24,532; Award reference: T026/27.

 

Additional Information:

Treasurer - Historical Geography Research Group

Editorial Board - Geographical Journal

Committee Member - Southern History Society

Fellow (Elected) - Royal Historical Society