Editing Chris Philo

{{Short description|British geographer (born 1960)}}
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'''Chris Philo''' [[FAcSS]] (born 1960) is Professor of [[Geography]] at the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, the [[University of Glasgow]].

Philo graduated from the [[Sidney Sussex College]] of [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] and became a Research Fellow there. In 1989 he joined the Department of Geography at the [[University of Wales, Lampeter]], holding that post for six years, until 1995.  He then joined the [[University of Glasgow]] as a Professor, becoming head of the department in 2002. In 2006 Chris was replaced as Head of Department by Professor Trevor Hoey and was enlisted on the Geography and Environmental Studies RAE Sub-Panel.

His interests have been in the historical geographies of 'madness' and [[mental health]] and [[mental health care]] provision.  Later, he has contributed to the emerging, and increasingly significant, sub-discipline of [[animal geographies]], with eclectic writing on other topics.   A devotee of the work of [[Michel Foucault]], his research extended and localised [[Foucault's history of madness]] to England and Wales. Over a decade in the writing, his major work, based on an extensive PhD thesis, was published by a minor press in Wales as ''A Geographical History of Institutional Provision for the Insane from Medieval Times to the 1860s in England and Wales: The Space Reserved for Insanity''. Always a generous collaborator, he has co-edited numerous general anthologies of [[human geography]]. 

== Partial bibliography ==
* Lee, R., Castree, N., Kitchin, R., Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Radcliffe, S., Roberts, S. M. and Withers, C. (Eds.) 2014. ''The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography''. Sage.  
* Philo, C. 2008. ''Theory and Methods: Critical Essays in Human Geography''. Ashgate. 
* Philo, C. 2004. ''A Geographical History of Institutional Provision for the Insane from Medieval Times to the 1860s in England and Wales: The Space Reserved for Insanity''. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston and Queenston, USA, and Lampeter, Wales, UK.
* Cloke, P., Cook, I., Crang, P., Goodwin, M., Painter, J., Philo, C. 2004. ''Practising Human Geography''. Sage, London.
* Philo, C. & Wilbert, C. 2000. ''Animal Spaces, Beastly Places, New Geographies of Human-Animal Relations'', Routledge, London


==See also==
*[[Human geography]]
*[[Lampeter Geography School]]

== References ==
* [http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Reviews/LUreview.html "Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New Geographies of Human-Animal Relations"] Lisa Uddin, review in ''Invisible Culture'', [[University of Rochester]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090918104236/http://www.ges.gla.ac.uk:443/about/news "Professor Chris Philo is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh"], Latest News, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060514060952/http://www.ges.gla.ac.uk:443/staff/cphilo "Professor Chris Philo FRSE"], biography at University of Glasgow

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