Prof Jo Sharp
Professor of Geography
Biography
I am a feminist political geographer with varied research interests including postcolonialism, health, and critical geopolitics. Much of my early work sought to extend what is considered to be the geopolitical beyond the formal spheres of statecraft to include popular culture and the everyday, and this has continued through my more recent postcolonial work on subaltern geopolitics.
In the last 20 years, I have also worked on environment, gender and health projects in Africa. I have collaborated with local researchers and Bedouin women on a gender and development project in Wadi Allaqi in south-eastern Egypt, and am current working as part of an interdisciplinary team of epidemiologists, vets, modellers and social scientists to evaluate the key drivers of zoonotic disease (those which are transmitted from animals to humans) in northern Tanzania, understand the impacts of these diseases, and develop interventions that will be appropriate for the various affected communities. Together with researchers who use arts-based methodologies I am trying to develop collaborative, participatory approaches to research into environmental and health-based issues.
In 2022 I was named Geographer Royal for Scotland.
Selected publications
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Transforming gender, sex, and place: Gender variant geographies
Sharp, J., 16 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: New Zealand Geographer.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Open access
Feminist geopolitics and the global-intimacies of pandemic times
Sharp, J., 25 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Gender, Place and Culture. Latest Articles, 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Geographer Royal for Scotland 2022–28: an agenda
Sharp, J., 2022, In: Scottish Geographical Journal. 138, 1-2, p. 16-19 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Geographies of postcolonialism: spaces of power and representation
Sharp, J., 5 Dec 2022, 2nd ed. London: Sage. 200 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Research partnerships across international contexts: a practice of unity or plurality?
Perry, M., Sharp, J., Aanyu, K., Robinson, J., Duclos, V. & Ferdous, R., 5 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Development in Practice. 32, 5, p. 635-646 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on
Koopman, S., Dalby, S., Megoran, N., Sharp, J., Kearns, G., Squire, R., Jeffrey, A., Squire, V. & Toal, G., 28 Sept 2021, In: Political Geography. 90, 102421.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Still a long journey to decentralize geopolitics
An, N., Sharp, J. & Shaw, I., 1 Jul 2021, In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 11, 2, p. 270-274Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Towards a Confucian geopolitics
An, N., Sharp, J. & Shaw, I., 1 Jul 2021, In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 11, 2, p. 218-235Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
“He who relies on his brother's property dies poor”: the complex narratives of livestock care in northern Tanzania
Davis, A., Virhia, J., Buza, J., Crump, J. A., de Glanville, W. A., Halliday, J. E. B., Lankester, F., Mappi, T., Mnzava, K., Swai, E. S., Thomas, K. M., Toima, M., Cleaveland, S., Mmbaga, B. T. & Sharp, J., 3 Nov 2021, In: Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 8, 18 p., 749561.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Arts-based approaches to promoting health in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review
Bunn, C., Kalinga, C., Mtema, O., Abdulla, S., DIllip, A., Lwanda, J., Mtenga, S. M., Sharp, J., Strachan, Z. & Gray, C. M., 21 May 2020, In: BMJ Global Health. 5, 5, 15 p., e001987.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review