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School of Geography and the Environment

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School of Geography and the Environment

 School of Geography and the Environment

Dr Ali Rogers

Academic Profile

Ali Rogers is a social and urban geographer, with interests also in the history and philosophy of geography. He gained his BA and D.Phil. in Geography from Oxford University, and is currently Fellow by Special Election at Keble College and a College Lecturer at Hertford, and St Catherine's Colleges at Oxford. Ali is currently the Senior Dean of Keble College. Since 2003 he has been working with colleagues in the ESRC Centre for Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) for which he edits the working papers series. Before that he was a consultant for the ESRC research programme on Transnational Communities. He writes geography texts for university, school and general audiences. A second edition of The Student's Companion to Geography, edited with Heather Viles, was published in 2002. A new book, edited with Noel Castree and Doug Sherman called Questioning Geography, was published in 2005.

Ali is a founding editor of Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs, a journal published by Blackwell. The first issue was published in January 2001 and the journal is ranked in the top 15 for anthropology, geography and sociology in the Thomson ISI Citation Index. Recent highlights include special issues on Asian Transnational Families, Technology and the Social Worlds of Transnational Migrants and Sports and Globalization.

Since 1993 Ali has lived in South Oxford, where he is involved in community issues and plays for the Lake Street Irregulars, a modest football team. He may often be found at The Zodiac, Oxford's live music venue.

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

Ali contributes to the 'Earth Observation' course for the Preliminary Examination and coordinates human geography teaching for the Human Sciences degree.

Postgraduate teaching

Ali teaches in the 'Global and Local' module of the MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy.

Current graduate students include:
  • Alan Gamlen
    Diaspora engagement and transnational social cohesion: Impacts of New Zealand's emigration policies.
  • Ting Yu Kang
    Internet transnational communication and diasporic nationalism: Imaging China in online community.
D.Phil. students successfully completing since 2001:
  • Georgia Jettinger (2009)
    Feminisation of migrants associations and brotherhoods: Migrant women between Paris and Senegal.
  • Adam Ramadan (2009)
    Violent Geographies of Exile: Palestinian refugees and refugee camps in Lebanon.
  • Sarah Darby (2003)
    Making consumption visible: Feedback on domestic energy use.

Selected Publications

Books
Academic Publications
  • Rogers, A. (2005) Observations on transnational urbanism: Broadening and narrowing the field. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 31(2): 403-407.
  • Rogers, A. (ed.) (2005) Migration Futures, Report for the Global Commission on International Migration, COMPAS, Oxford University.
  • Rogers, A. (2004) A European Space for Transnationalism? In, P. Jackson, P. Crang and C. Dwyer (eds.) Transnational Spaces. London: Routledge. pp. 164-182.
  • Rogers, A. (2001) Citizenship, multiculturalism and the European city. In, Bridge, G. and Watson, S. (eds.) A Companion to the City. Blackwell, Oxford.
  • Rogers, A. (2001) The ethnic division of labour in Greater London: a spatial analysis of workplace-residence relations. In, Cross, M. and Moore, R. (eds.) Globalisation and the New City. Macmillan, Basingstoke.
General Publications
  • Rogers, A. (2001) Managing urban growth. In, C. Hart (ed.) Synoptic Geography. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Rogers, A. (2001) Is migration good for the economy? Geography Review, 14(4): 18-19.
  • Rogers, A. (2001) Global migration. Geography Review, 14(4): 5-7.