Mr Colin Fuchs

I am a doctoral research student at The Open University's Geography & Environmental Studies Department. I hold a BSc in Geography from the University of Bern, Switzerland and an MSc in Human Geography from Lund University, Sweden. My project is a Collaborative Doctoral Award under the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the AHRC, undertaken in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). I am supervised by Ben Newman, Colin Lorne and George Revill at the OU, and Catherine Souch and Sarah Evans at the RGS.

 

I am the Postgraduate Representative of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) and OU Representative in the OOC DTP's Student Liaison Group. I am a member of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography and an Associate Fellow of the RGS. I also work for the RGS in a professional capacity alongside my PhD.

My doctoral research examines the relational geographies of knowledge production through the unpublished archive of Doreen Massey (1944-2016). Massey's theoretical work on space, place and power helped enliven and transform debates across the discipline and well beyond, bringing many into the conversation over the difference that geography makes.

 

At Lund, I worked on a project relating to the archive of Torsten Hägerstrand and the International Dialogue Project (1977-88), in which he and Anne Buttimer conducted autobiographical interviews with senior geographers. The two archival projects reflect a broader interest in how geographical knowledge is produced and circulated, and in the epistemic and historical dimensions of the discipline’s intellectual development.