Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson, FBA, FAcSS (born 22 July 1955) is a British human geographer. Since 1993, he has been a professor of human geography at the University of Sheffield.

Career Jackson graduated from Keble College, Oxford, with a BA in Social Anthropology and a PhD in Geography. He then lectured at University College London from 1980 to 1993, the last year as a senior lecturer, before moving to the University of Sheffield to take up his professorship.

Contributions According to his departmental profile, Jackson's research focuses on "commodity culture and the geography of consumption with a particular interest in food". In 2019, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.

Selected works

Maps of Meaning (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989). (Co-authored with Daniel Miller, Nigel Thrift, Beverly Holbrook, and Michael Rowlands) Shopping, Place and Identity (Routledge, 1998). (Co-authored with Nick Stevenson and Kate Brooks) Making Sense of Men's Magazines (Polity Press, 2001). (Co-edited with Philip Crang and Claire Dwyer) Transnational Spaces (Routledge, 2004). (Editor) Changing Families, Changing Food (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Food Words: Essays in Culinary Culture (London: Bloomsbury, 2013). Anxious Appetites: Food and Consumer Culture (London: Bloomsbury, 2015). (Co-authored with Helene Brembeck, Jonathan Everts, Maria Fuentes, Bente Halkier, Frej Daniel Hertz, Angela Meah, Valerie Viehoff and Christine Wenzl) Reframing Convenience Food (Palgrave, 2018).