Career

2006 – date Professor of Human Geography, Swansea University
2005 – 2006 Reader in Cultural Geography, University of Leeds
2000 – 2005 Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leeds
1991 – 2000 Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leeds
1989 – 1991 Lecturer in Geography, University of Huddersfield

Research Interests

I lead the School’s Social Theory and Urban Space research group and I am Director of the University’s Centre for Urban Theory . My personal research interests currently fall into three areas of contemporary human geography

• Geographies of the Consumer Society – urban consumption; new retail geographies; complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
• Media Geographies – filmic geographies and cinematic space; pre-cinematic visual technologies
• Social Theory and Space – particularly the contributions of Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman and their implications for spatial thought

Publications

Books

Clarke, D. B., Crawford Pfannhauser, V. and Doel, M. A. (eds) (2009) Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels & Motels on Film Lexington, Lanham.

Clarke, D. B., Doel, M. A., Merrin, W. and Smith R. G. (eds) (2009) Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories Routledge, London.

Clarke, D. B. (2003) The Consumer Society & the Postmodern City Routledge, London

Clarke, D. B., Doel, M. A., and Housiaux, K. M. L. (eds) (2003) The Consumption Reader Routledge, London

Clarke, D. B. (ed.) (1997) The Cinematic City Routledge, London [Chinese edition: Laureate, 2004]

Papers in Peer-reviewed Journals

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (2007) ‘Shooting space, tracking time: the city from animated photography to vernacular relativity’ Cultural Geographies 14(4), 589–609

Doel, M. A. and Clarke, D. B. (2007) ‘Afterimages’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25, 890–910

Clarke, D. B. (2007) ‘The City of the Future revisited or, the lost world of Patrick Keiller’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32, 29–45

Jones, S. and Clarke, D. B. (2006) ‘Waging terror: the geopolitics of the real’ Political Geography 25, 298–314

Poole, R., Clarke, G. P. and Clarke, D. B. (2006) ‘Competition and saturation in west European grocery retailing’ Environment & Planning A 38, 1229–1256

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (2005) ‘Engineering space and time: moving pictures and motionless trips’ Journal of Historical Geography 31(1), 41–60

Clarke, D. B., Doel, M. A. and Segrott, J. (2004) ‘No Alternative? The regulation and professionalization of complementary and alternative medicine in the United Kingdom’ Health & Place 10(4), 329–338

Poole, R., Clarke, G. P. and Clarke, D. B. (2003) ‘The battle for Safeway’ International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 31(5), 280–289

Poole, R., Clarke, G. P. and Clarke, D. B. (2002) ‘The dynamics of food retailing in Europe’ European Urban & Regional Studies 9(2), 167–186

Poole, R., Clarke, G. P. and Clarke, D. B. (2002) ‘Grocery retailers and regional monopolies’ Regional Studies 36(6), 643–659

Doel, M. A. and Clarke, D. B. (1999) ‘Dark Panopticon. Or, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes’ Environment & Planning D: Society & Space 17, 427–450

Ingham, J., Purvis, M. and Clarke, D. B. (1999) ‘Hearing places, making spaces: sonorous geographies, ephemeral rhythms, and the Blackburn warehouse parties’ Environment & Planning D: Society & Space 17, 283–305

Silcock, E., Clarke, G. P., Clarke, D. B. and Wrigley, N. (1999) ‘Grocery provision in the USA: room for expansion?’ International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 27(1), 8–21

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (1998) ‘Transpolitical urbanism: suburban anomaly and ambient fear’ Space & Culture 1(2), 13–36

Clarke, D. B. (1998) ‘Consumption, identity and space-time’ Consumption, Markets & Culture 2(3), 233–258

Langston, P., Clarke, G. P., and Clarke, D. B. (1998) ‘Retail saturation: the debate in the mid-1990s’ Environment & Planning A 30, 49–66

Clarke, D. B. and Bradford M. G. (1998) ‘Public and private consumption and the city’ Urban Studies 35(5/6), 865–888

Purvis, M., Clarke, D. B., Drake, F., Phillips, D. and Kashti, A. (1997) ‘Fragmenting uncertainties. Some British business responses to stratospheric ozone depletion’ Global Environmental Change 7(2), 93–111

Langston, P., Clarke, G. P., and Clarke, D. B. (1997) ‘Retail saturation, retail location, and retail competition: an analysis of British grocery retailing’ Environment & Planning A 29, 77–104

Clarke, D. B. (1997) ‘Consumption and the city, modern and postmodern’ International Journal of Urban & Regional Research 21(2), 218–237

Clarke, D. B., Doel, M. A., and McDonough, F. X. (1996) ‘Holocaust topologies: singularity, politics, space’ Political Geography 15 (6/7), 457–489

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (1995) ‘Transpolitical geography’ Geoforum 25(4), 505–524

Clarke, D. B. (1995) ‘Space, time and media theory: an illustration from the television–advertising nexus’ Environment & Planning D: Society & Space 13, 557–572

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (1994) ‘The perfection of geography as an aesthetic of disappearance: Baudrillard’s America’ Ecumene 1, 317–321

Clarke, D. B. and Purvis, M. (1994) ‘Dialectics, difference and the geographies of consumption’ Environment & Planning A 26, 1091–1109

Clarke, D. B. and Bradford, M. G. (1992) ‘Competition between television companies for advertising revenue: the Independent Television regions prior to deregulation.’ Environment & Planning A 24, 1627–1644

Clarke, D. B. and Bradford, M. G. (1989) ‘Uses of space by advertising agencies within the United Kingdom’ Geografiska Annaler 17B (3), 139–151

Book Chapters

Clarke, D. B. (forthcoming) ‘Alternative medicine’ in Southerton, D., Crane, D., Ekstrom, K., Jackson, P., Trentmann, F., Warde, A., Wilk R. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture CQ Press, Oxford.

Clarke, D. B. (forthcoming) ‘Baudrillard, Jean’ in Southerton, D., Crane, D., Ekstrom, K., Jackson, P., Trentmann, F., Warde, A., Wilk R. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture CQ Press, Oxford.

Clarke, D. B. (forthcoming) ‘Hyperreality’ in Southerton, D., Crane, D., Ekstrom, K., Jackson, P., Trentmann, F., Warde, A., Wilk R. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture CQ Press, Oxford.

Clarke, D. B. (forthcoming) ‘Seduced and repressed’ in Southerton, D., Crane, D., Ekstrom, K., Jackson, P., Trentmann, F., Warde, A., Wilk R. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture CQ Press, Oxford.

Clarke, D. B. (forthcoming) ‘Consumption’ in Smith, R. G. (ed) The Baudrillard Dictionary Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Clarke, D. B. (forthcoming) ‘Hysteresis’, in Smith, R. G. (ed) The Baudrillard Dictionary Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Clarke, D. B. (forthcoming) ‘Mirror’, in Smith, R. G. (ed) The Baudrillard Dictionary Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Clarke, D. B. (forthcoming) ‘Utopia’ in Smith, R. G. (ed) The Baudrillard Dictionary Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Clarke, D. B. (forthcoming) ‘Value’ in Smith, R. G. (ed) The Baudrillard Dictionary Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Clarke, D. B. (2010) ‘The seduction of space’ in Goodman, M., Goodman, D., and Redclift, M. (eds) Consumption and Space Ashgate, Aldershot, 57–78

Clarke, D. B. (2010) ‘The limits to value’ in Smith, S. J., Pain, R. and Jones, J.–P. III (eds) Handbook of Social Geography Sage, London, 253–268

Doel, M. A. and Clarke, D. B. (2009) 'The artistry of cities: Chris Ware's comic strips' in Beyes, T. P., Krempl, S. T., and Deuflhard, A. (eds) Parcitypate: Art and Urban Space Niggli, Sulgen, unpaginated

Clarke, D. B. (2009) ‘Media’ in Kitchin, R. and Thrift N. (eds) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Elsevier, Amsterdam, Volume 7, 1–8

Clarke D. B., Doel, M. A., Merrin, W., and Smith, R. G. (2009) ‘The evil genius of Jean Baudrillard’, in Clarke D. B., Doel, M. A., Merrin, W., and Smith, R. G. (eds) Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories Routledge, London, 1–14

Clarke, D. B. (2009) ‘Spaces of anonymity’ in Escher, A. and Zimmerman, S. (eds) The Geography of Cinema: A Cinematic World Geographisches Institut der Johannes Gutenberg Universität, 101–113

Clarke, D. B. (2008) ‘The ruins of the future: on urban transience and durability’ in Cronin, A. and Hetherington, K. (eds) Consuming the Entrepreneurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle Routledge, New York, 127–142

Clarke, D. B. (2006) ‘Postmodern geographies and the ruins of modernity’ in Aitken, S. and Valentine, G. (eds) Approaches to Human Geography Sage, London 107–121

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (2006) ‘From flatland to vernacular relativity: the genesis of early English screenscapes’ in Lefebvre, M. (ed.) Landscape & Film American Film Institute/Routledge, New York, 213–243

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (2004) ‘Paul Virilio’ in Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., and Valentine, G. (eds) Key Contemporary Thinkers on Space & Place Sage, London, 308–313

Doel, M. A. and Clarke, D. B. (2004) ‘Gilles Deleuze’ in Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., and Valentine, G. (eds) Key Contemporary Thinkers on Space & Place Sage, London, 100–105

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (2004) ‘Zygmunt Bauman’ in Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., and Valentine, G. (eds) Key Contemporary Thinkers on Space & Place Sage, London, 31–37

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (2004) ‘Jean Baudrillard’ in Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., and Valentine, G. (eds) Key Contemporary Thinkers on Space & Place Sage, London, 25–30

Doel, M. A. and Clarke, D. B. (2002) ‘Lacan: the movie’, in Creswell, T. and Dixon, D. (eds) Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility & Identity Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 69–93

Doel, M. A. and Clarke, D. B. (2002) ‘An invention without a future, a solution without a problem: motor pirates, time machines, and drunkenness on the screen’, in Kitchin, R. M. and Kneale, J. (eds) Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction Continuum, London, 136–155

Clarke, D. B., Doel, M. A. and McDonough, F. X. (2002) ‘Holocaust topologies: singularity, politics, space’, in Beilharz, P. (ed.) Zygmunt Bauman Volume II, Part 3, Sage, London [Reprint of Clarke et al, 1996]

Doel, M. A. and Clarke, D. B. (2000) ‘Virtual worlds: simulation, suppletion, seduction, and simulacra’, in Gane, M. (ed.) Jean Baudrillard Volume II Sage, London 191–215 [Reprint of Doel and Clarke, 1999]

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (2000) ‘Cultivating ambivalence: the unhinging of culture and economy’ in Cook, I., Crouch, D., Naylor, S., and Ryan J. (eds) Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography Prentice Hall, Harlow 214–233

Clarke, D. B. (2000) ‘Space, knowledge and consumption’ in Bryson, J. R., Daniels, P. W., Henry, N. D., and Pollard, J. S. (eds) Knowledge, Space, Economy Routledge, London, 209–225

Doel, M. A. and Clarke, D. B. (1999) ‘Virtual worlds: simulation, suppletion, seduction, and simulacra’ in May, J., Crang, M. and Crang, P. (eds) Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space & Relations Routledge, London, 261–283

Clarke, D. B. and Doel, M. A. (1998) ‘Figuring the holocaust: singularity and the purification of space’ in Ó Tuathail, G. and Dalby, S. (eds) Rethinking Geopolitics Routledge, London, 39–61

Doel, M. A. and Clarke, D. B. (1997) ‘From ramble city to the screening of the eye: Blade Runner, death and symbolic exchange’ in Clarke, D. B. (ed.) The Cinematic City Routledge, London, 140–167

Clarke, D. B. (1996) ‘The limits to retail capital’ in Wrigley, N. and Lowe, M. (eds) Retailing, Capital & Consumption: Towards the New Retail Geography Longman, London, 284–301

Clarke, D. B. (1991) ‘Towards a geography of the consumer society’ in Philo, C. (ed.) New Words, New Worlds: Reconceptualizing Social & Cultural Geography Institute of British Geography, Lampeter, 88–101