Peter Jackson (geographer)

Peter Jackson, FBA, FAcSS (born 22 July 1955) is a British human geographer.

[1] Jackson graduated from Keble College, Oxford, with a BA in Social Anthropology and a PhD in Geography.

[1][2][3] According to his departmental profile, Jackson's research focuses on "commodity culture and the geography of consumption with a particular interest in food".

[2] His Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded research on consumption and identity in North London was published as Shopping, Place and Identity in 1998, another ESRC project on men's magazines was published in 2001, and three years later a third ESRC-funded project led to the publication of Transnational Histories three years later.

From 2009 to 2013, he was also director of "Consumer Anxieties About Food" (CONANX), a European Research Council programme, leading to publications in 2013 and 2015.