Dr Joe Gerlach
MA (Oxon.), MSc (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.)
Expertise
Current positions
Associate Professor in Cultural Geography
School of Geographical Sciences
Contact
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Research interests
Joe's research interests cut across cultural and political geography, specialising in non-representational theory. Conceptually centred on the notion of 'micropolitics', his recent research examines a number of empirical concerns, from critical and participatory cartography, to non-human politics in Ecuador. Together with creative writings on the cultural geographies of Wales and the West Country, Joe's research has featured on BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent.
Research interests include:
- Non-representational theory
- Continental philosophy (especially Guattari and Deleuze)
- Micropolitics and minor theory
- Spinoza
- Ecuadorian politics and society
- Geohumanities
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
The Writing-Machine as Method
Supervisors
On grounds and groundlessness
Supervisors
Poetic cartographies and ecosophic thought
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/01/2026Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Why Guattari?
Why Guattari?
Ecuador's experiment in living well
Environment and Planning A
Recent publications
01/01/2026Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Confabulations: a Geography without Clauses
Geography with John Berger
Posthuman cartographies
The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities
Passionate Speculations | Speculative Passions
Speculative Geographies
Geophilosophy roundtable
Subjectivity
