Sarah Whatmore (geographer)
| Sarah Whatmore | |
|---|---|
| Born | Aldershot, Hampshire |
| Residence | Upton, Oxfordshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Human-Environment geography, critical geography |
| Institutions | Oxford University |
| Alma mater | University College London |
| Thesis | The 'other half' of the family farm: an analysis of the position of 'farm wives' in the familial gender division of labor on the farm (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Munton |
| Known for | Critical geography |
Sarah Whatmore (born 1959, Aldershot), FBA FAcSS is a Professor of Environment and Public Policy at Oxford University. She is a Professorial Fellow at Keble College, moving from Linacre College in 2012. She was Associate Head (Research) of the Social Science Division from 2014-2016, and becomes Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) of Oxford in January 2017.
Born in Aldershot, Hampshire into a military family, Whatmore moved often - including Germany, Cyprus, and Hong Kong. She studied geography at University College London (BA 1981), has an MPhil (Town Planning) in 1983 (Financial institutions and the ownership of agricultural land) and worked at the Greater London Council. She returned to UCL for a PhD supervised by Richard Munton (The 'other half' of the family farm: an analysis of the position of 'farm wives' in the familial gender division of labor on the farm, 1988) and lectured at Leeds University, Bristol University (1989-2001) and the Open University (2001-2004). She lives in Upton, Oxfordshire.
Whatmore began studying rural geography, gender and alternative food networks, moving into critical geographer of environmental issues at the end of the 1990s. She has questioned Marxist materialist approaches in favour of actor-network theory and feminist science studies. Her approach, laid out in her 2002 book Hybrid Geographies, attempts to develop what she terms "more than human" modes of inquiry, and question the relationship between science and democracy. Hybrid Geographies has been cited over 1,800 times. Her research focuses on the treatment of evidence and role of expertise in environmental governance, against growing reliance on computer modelling techniques. It is characterized by a commitment to experimental and collaborative research practices that bring the different knowledge competences of social and natural scientists into play with those of diverse local publics living with environmental risks and hazards like floods and droughts. Her ideas were developed further in Political Matter (Whatmore & Braun eds. 2010).
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