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portrait photo Professor Phil Hubbard
B.A., Ph.D (Birmingham)

Professor of Urban Social Geography

email: P.J.Hubbard@lboro.ac.uk
Tel : +44 (0)1509 222747
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930

Room NN.1.08, Martin Hall building, East Park

Career

2006 - Professor of Urban Social Geography
2004 - 2006 Reader in Urban Social Geography.
2002 - 2004 Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Loughborough University.
1999 - 2002 Lecturer in Human Geography, Loughborough University.
1997 - 1999 Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Coventry University.
1994 - 1997 Lecturer in Human Geography, Coventry University.
1993 - 1994 Lecturer in Human Geography, Cheltenham and Gloucester College.

Research Interests

I am an urban/social geographer whose current research focuses on questions of social inclusion/exclusion. Theoretically, my work combines psychoanalytical and post-structuralist ideas to explore the ongoing and contested making of social identities in different at different scales, from the body to the city. This interest is currently manifest in a number of specific empirical foci:

Sexuality, sex work and the city: funded by the British Academy, Joseph Rowntree and ESRC, this has involved an overview of how red-light landscapes are produced and maintained through legal representations, social discourses and material practices. This has laid the foundations for a wider, principally theoretical, exploration of heterosexuality and the city.

Exclusion and NIMBYism: working through instances of exclusion at different scales, this has involved a re-theorisation of NIMBYism which traces how white Oedipal identities are reproduced via exclusionary geographies. This has been detailed in studies of opposition to centres for asylum seekers in rural England and studies of the exclusion of sex work from local and national spaces.

Asylum and migration: I am co-convenor of the Making the Connections network, which explores questions of migration, diaspora and identity in relation to newly arrived communities, working through models of participatory arts and action-oriented collaboration (see makingtheconnections.info)

Studentification: I am interested in exploring issues of student occupation and community cohesion in university towns and am a member of Loughborough University’s Campus-Community liaison group.

I am currently also the Chair of the Social and Cultural Research Group of the IBG-RGS. see http://scgrg.blogspot.com/.

Undergraduate Teaching Current undergraduate teaching includes module tutorship of:

Geographies of identity (HG2): an introduction to debates about the relations of place, identity and difference, focusing on issues of development, nationalism, social exclusion and body management.

Exploring Everyday Geographies: an introduction to quantitative and qualitative method in the social sciences.

Independent geographic essay: a project-based part C module for students who wish to pursue independent work.

Course Convenor

Human Geography Research MSc

International Finance and Political Relations MSc

Select Publications

Coulmont, B. and Hubbard, P., 2009. Consuming sex: socio-legal shifts in the space and place of sex-shops. Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference 2009, 7th-9th April 2009 at Leicester De Montfort Law School.
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/4409

Hubbard, P., 2008. Here, there, everywhere: the ubiquitous geographies of heteronormativity. Geography Compass, 2 (3), pp. 640 - 658.
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/4408

Hubbard, P. ... et al, 2008. Away from prying eyes? The urban geographies of `adult entertainment'. Progress in Human Geography, 32 (3), pp. 363-381.
Restricted access until July
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/4407

Hubbard, P. and Whowell, M., 2008. Revisiting the red light district: still neglected, immoral and marginal? Geoforum, 39 (5), pp. 1743-1755
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/4406

Hubbard, P., Matthews, R. and Scoular, J. (2008) Regulating sex work in the EU: prostitute women and the new spaces of exclusion Gender Place and Culture 15 (2) 137-152.

Hubbard, P. (2005) ‘Going out of town? Audiences for multiplex cinemas in British cities’ Géographie et Cultures 53 (spring) 21-38 .

Hubbard, P. (2005) Accommodating Otherness: anti-asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege Transactions, Institute of British Geographers 30 (1) 52-65.

Hubbard, P. (2005) ‘Inappropriate and incongruous’: opposition to asylum centres in the English countryside Journal of Rural Studies 21 (1) 3-17 .

Hubbard, P. and Lilley, K. (2004) ‘P(l)acemaking in the modern city’ Environment and Planning D – Society and Space 22: 273-294.

Hubbard, P. (2004) ‘Revenge and injustice in the revanchist city: uncovering masculinist agendas’ Antipode 36 (4) 665-686.

Hubbard, P. (2004) ‘Cleansing the streets: hiding vice in the contemporary city’ Urban Studies 41 (9) 1687-1702.

Select books:

1. Hubbard, P. J., Kitchin, R., Bartley, B., and Fuller, D. (2002) Thinking geographically London, Continuum.

"Thinking Geographically offers students and faculty alike an elegant, concise, and thorough overview of contemporary theoretical concerns in geography" Professor Barney Warf, Florida State University.

2. Hubbard, P.J., Kitchin, R., Valentine, G. (eds) (spring 2004) Key Thinkers on Space and Place London, Sage.

" Key Thinkers on Space and Place is an engagingly written, well-researched and very accessible book. It will surely prove an invaluable tool for students, whom I would strongly encourage to purchase this edited collection as one of the best guides to recent geographical thought" - Claudio Minca, University of Newcastle.

3. Hubbard, P. (2006) Key Ideas in Geography: the city, Routledge . Though always at the heart of discussions in social theory, the definition and specification of 'the city' remains illusive. Here, Hubbard's fascinating book locates the concept of 'the city' within current traditions of social thought, providing a basis for understanding its varying usages and meanings (from website).

4. Hall, T., Hubbard, P. and Short, J.R. (2007) The Sage Companion to the City, Sage. An accessible guide to all areas of urban studies; the text offers both a contemporary cutting edge reflection and measured historical and geographical reflection on urban studies. It will be essential reading for students of any discipline interested in the city as an object of study.

Cover of Key Texts in Human Geography 5. Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. and Valentine, G. (2008) Key Texts in Human Geography, Sage. A unique resource for students, Key Texts in Human Geography provides concise but rigorous overviews of the key texts that have formed post-war human geography.