Email: d.j.bell@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0 in UK) 113 34 37995
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RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Dr Bell's interests span critical human geography and cultural studies, and include cultural policy, urban and rural cultures, consumption and lifestyle, science and technology, and sexuality. Often in his work he tries to bring these different interests into productive contact. He is currently working on a number of publications and developing research projects on downshifting and new rural lifestyles, hospitality and the city, and sustainability and regeneration
CURRENT PROJECTS
Downshifting and New Rural Lifestyles
Sustainability and Regeneration
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
- Cities and Social Justice
- Citizenship and Belonging
PUBLICATIONS
- 'Fade to grey: some reflections on geography, policy and mundanity', Environment & Planning A, 39 (3), 2007, 541-554.
- 'Mobile homes' (with Joanne Hollows), Space & Culture, 10 (1), 2007, 22-39
- 'The hospitable city: social relations in commercial settings', Progress in Human Geography, 31 (1), 2007, 7-22.
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