Gareth A Jones

Title

Reader in Development Geography

Departments

Department of Geography and Environment

Biography

Gareth joined the LSE in 1998 from the University of Wales, Swansea, having also spent time at University of California San Diego and the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla in Mexico. In addition to the LSE, Gareth is an Associate Fellow at The Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, and in 2004 was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Texas- Austin. Gareth is currently a joint editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=LAS|) and member of The British Academy Area Studies Panel for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has undertaken consultancy for the Department for International Development (DfID), UN-Habitat , UN Youth Unit (PDF|) and Government of South Africa, and has been a trustee and advisor to a number of Non-Governmental Organisations. Gareth has conducted research in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Ghana and South Africa. He is presently completing a joint book entitled Bringing Youth into Development (Zed, 2010) and has an advance contract with Temple University Press for a book tentatively entitled Street Corners in a Global World: veryday life and identities of Mexican street youth.

Gareth's main teaching contribution is to the MSc Urbanisation & Development, MSc Urbanisation and Development| (Graduate Prospectus entry).

Research interests

• The Enigmatic City: essays on culture and space in Mexico,
• The Multiplex City: representations of the Mexican city in the 'new cinema',
• Elite Space: gated communities and identities in Durban, South Africa
• Deconstructing the 'slum': art and the politics of slums,
• Everyday Life and Identities of Street Youth in Mexico (http://www.identities.org.uk) (PDF)
• Street Youth, Violence and Gangs in Latin America
• The Politics of Land and Law Reform in Mexico

Selected recent publications

• Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and juvenile justice in perspective (edited with D. Rodgers, Macmillan-Palgrave, New York)
• 'The Continuing Debate about Urban Bias: The thesis, its critics, its influence, and its implications for poverty reduction strategies', with S.E.Corbridge, Progress in Development Studies, Vol. 10, No.1. pp.1-18, 2010. 
• Baudelaire's Ghost: the slum as spectacle in an urban age, Environment and Planning D: Society and space, (forthcoming in 2010)
• 'Natural Neighbors: Indigenous landscapes and "eco-estates"in Durban, South Africa', with. R. Ballard, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol.100. (forthcoming in 2010).
• 'Whither Participatory Banking?: Experiences with village blacks in South Africa'. With A. Dallimore, European Journal of Development Research. Vol 21, 2: 344-36, 2009.
• 'Globalising Initiatives for Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction: Exploring "failure" with reference to education and work among urban youth in The Gambia and Ghana', with S.Chant. Geoforum, Vol. 40, 2: 184-196, 2009. (PDF)
• 'Bodies on the Line: Identity markers among Mexican street youth', with Herrera, E. and S. Thomas de Benitez, Children's Geographies, Vol.7. No.1: 67-81, 2009. (PDF) 
• 'Megaprojects: Beneath the pavement, excess', with M. Moreno, City, Vol.11, No.2: 143-163, 2007. (PDF)
• 'Tears, Trauma and Suicide: Everyday violence among street youth in Puebla, Mexico', with E. Herrera and S. Thomas de Benitez, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 26, No. 4: 462-479, 2007. (PDF)

Contact details

E-mail: g.a.jones@lse.ac.uk| 
Tel:  [44] (0)20 7955 7610
Fax: [44] (0)20 7955 7412
Room: S506, St Clement's Building, LSE