Andrew J. Herod

Awarded by the 2008 Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG) Honors Committee for exceptional research.

Awarded for the best article published during 2000 in the field of adult and continuing education [Ben Salt, Ron Cervero, and Andrew Herod (2000): “Workers’ education and neoliberal globalization: An adequate response to transnational corporations?” Adult Education Quarterly 51.1: 9-31.]

[“AAACE’s Commission of Research sponsors the Imogene Okes Research Award to recognize persons whose research contributes significantly to the advancement of adult and continuing education. Begun in 1976 under the auspices of the AEA-USA, the award has been given [on a periodic basis] to…individuals on the basis of their published work.” (Commission of Professors of Adult Education guidelines).]

[“The Creative Research Medal is awarded by the University of Georgia Research Foundation as a recognition of outstanding accomplishment in research and creativity for a research project or creative activity with a single coherent theme. Faculty at the University of Georgia are nominated for the Creative Research Medal by their colleagues and chosen by a committee of distinguished faculty representing both the humanities and sciences. Each year individuals who have carried out a research project or creative endeavor of truly outstanding quality are honored this way.” (Creative Research Medal guidelines, UGA Research Foundation).]

2000 National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) Journal of Geography Awards Task Force Best Content Award.

Awarded for the best article published during 1999 in Journal of Geography [Andrew Herod (1999) “Using industrial disputes to teach about economic geography.” Journal of Geography 98.5: 229-241.]

1996 Royal Geographical Society/ Institute of British Geographers Young Research Worker.

1994 J. Warren Nystrom Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in Geography 1992-93, Association of American Geographers.

1993 The M.G. Michael Award, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia.

[“The M.G. Michael Award was established in 1944 to stimulate new initiatives in scholarship in all areas of the Arts and Sciences. Its primary purpose is to encourage the development of a new (and perhaps adventurous) idea or project during the coming year. The Award implies faith in that purpose and in the ability of the faculty member selected to plan and conduct the proposed research; it is not given in recognition of previous research accomplishments. Nevertheless, it does require evidence that recipients have been proficient researchers” (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences award guidelines).]

1993 Best Ph.D. Dissertation 1991-92, Industrial Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.

1992 Best Graduate Student Paper, Political Geography Specialty Group, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers.

1991 Best Graduate Student Paper, Conference of the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers.

Publications:

2006 Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (editors): The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy. Basil Blackwell: Oxford. (ISBN 1-4051-5636-8 hbk/ ISBN 13 978-1-4051-5636-8 pbk: vi plus 263 pages, 4 figs., 6 tables). [www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell] [Issue published simultaneously as a special issue of Antipode, 38.3]

[Chapters by: Andrew Herod and Luis L. M. Aguiar (Introduction + 3 section overviews); Luis L. M. Aguiar; Andries Bezuidenhout and Khayaat Fakier; Shaun Ryan and Andrew Herod; Patricia Tomic, Ricardo Trumper, and Rodrigo Hidalgo Dattwyler; Alyson Brody; Ana María Seifert and Karen Messing; Karen Søgaard, Anne Katrine Blangsted, Andrew Herod, and Lotte Finsen; Sheila Rowbotham; Marcy Cohen; Lydia Savage.]

1998 Andrew Herod, Gearóid Ó Tuathail, and Susan Roberts (editors): An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography. Routledge: London and New York. (ISBN 0-415-16931-3 hbk/ 0-415-16932-1 pbk: xiii plus 372 pages, 10 figs., 4 tables).

2007 Andrew Herod, Al Rainnie, and Susan McGrath-Champ: “Working space: Why incorporating the geographical is central to theorizing work and employment practices.” Work, Employment and Society 21.2: 247-264.

2007 Al Rainnie, Andrew Herod, and Susan McGrath-Champ: “Spatialising industrial relations.” Industrial Relations Journal (Britain) 38.2: 102-118.

2006    Andrew Herod and Luis L. M. Aguiar: “Cleaners and the dirty work of neoliberalism.” Antipode 38.3: 425-434. Introduction to special issue on “The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy,” Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod, guest editors, pages 425-434. [Published simultaneously in Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds.), The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy, pp. 1-10. Basil Blackwell: Oxford.]

2006    Andrew Herod and Luis L. M. Aguiar: “Section I Introduction: Geographies of neoliberalism.” Antipode 38.3: 435-439. [Published simultaneously in Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds.), The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy, pp. 11-15. Basil Blackwell: Oxford.]

2006    Shaun Ryan and Andrew Herod: “Restructuring the architecture of state regulation in the Australian and Aotearoa/ New Zealand cleaning industries and the growth of precarious employment.” Antipode 38.3: 486-507. [Published simultaneously in Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds.), The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy, pp. 60-80. Basil Blackwell: Oxford.]

2006    Andrew Herod and Luis L. M. Aguiar: “Section II Introduction: Ethnographies of the cleaning body.” Antipode 38.3: 530-533. [Published simultaneously in Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds.), The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy, pp. 102-105. Basil Blackwell: Oxford.]

2006    Karen Søgaard, Anne Katrine Blangsted, Andrew Herod, and Lotte Finsen: “Work design and the labouring body: Examining the impacts of work organisation on Danish cleaners’ health.” Antipode 38.3: 579-602. [Published simultaneously in Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds.), The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy, pp. 150-171. Basil Blackwell: Oxford.]

2006    Andrew Herod and Luis L. M. Aguiar: “Section III Introduction: Cleaners’ agency.” Antipode 38.3: 603-607. [Published simultaneously in Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds.), The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy, pp. 172-176. Basil Blackwell: Oxford.]

2006    Andrew Herod: “Labour, space and capitalist restructuring.” Labor History 47.1: 102-108. Part of a Symposium on the book Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour by Bill Dunn (2004, Macmillan).

1995. “Trade unionism and the transition to the market economy in Eastern and Central Europe.” Proceedings of the Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union on "Latin America in the World: Environment, Society and Development." Havana, Cuba (15 pp.).

1994. “International labor organizing in the post-Cold War era.” Proceedings of the Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union on "Environment and Quality of Life in Central Europe: Problems of Transition." Prague, Czech Republic (15 pp.).

1991. “Restructuring the waterfront and the geographical practice of the International Longshoremen’s Association.” Proceedings of the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers, 1991, 51-57.

2000 Just in Time: The Geography of Workers’ Power. Pamphlet published by the People’s Geography Project (www.peoplesgeography.org/).

Teaching Interests:I teach several graduate and undergraduate level classes. At the graduate level, I regularly teach: "Seminar in Economic Geography;" "Seminar in Contemporary Social Theory;" and the "History of Geographic Thought seminar."

The Seminar in Economic Geography (GEOG8620) seeks to examine how the geography of capitalism is made. The seminar focuses on the relationship between the social structures of contemporary capitalist society and the spatial structures which these generate. Taking the theoretical ideas of geographers such as David Harvey, Richard Walker, Neil Smith, and others, the seminar addresses a number of contemporary issues in economic geography, such as the reemergence of the "regional question," how gender and class intersect in the spatial fashioning of the built environment, how labor law affects economic location in the United States, community and trade union responses to economic restructuring and deindustrialization, the supposed transition from a Fordist to a post-Fordist space-economy, and the role played by the state in economic development.

The Seminar in Geographic Thought and Methods (GEOG 8910) addresses the development of modern scientific thought and how it has shaped the discipline of geography. Specifically, we will focus on themes such as how space and time have been conceptualized, what we mean by the term "science," what are some of the different epistemologies (theories of knowledge) that have shaped the practise of geography and science, how we use "science" to make certain claims about the world, and how we decide that certain of these claims are more valid than others -or even if we can make such a claim. The history of scientific and geographic thought has often been presented as hagiography (in which scientific ideas are presented through an examination of the "great minds" of the past), as developmentalism (in which the ideas of one age are presented as following from those of earlier times in a linear fashion, linking the past with the present), or as teleology (in which scientific knowledge is thought to develop out of its own internal logic). This course, in contrast, will present a contextual approach to scientific and geographical ideas, by which is meant that it will examine how ideas developed at particular times in response to the changes and events taking place in the broader society. Implicitly, then, the course assumes an approach to science that sees knowledge not as an independent "thing" which, naturally, produces the "best" understanding of the world but, rather, as a cultural product which is always partial and contested. The production of knowledge through the doing of science is a social practise that is fraught with power relations and contradiction.

The Seminar in Contemporary Social Theory (GEOG8920) focuses on current debates about the social production of knowledge as it applies to understanding the spatiality of social life. Topics covered have included the role of space and spatiality in Western social thought, the intersections of race, class, and gender in the making of modern science, the historical geography of concepts of time and space, and debates concerning the role of space in Marxist political economy.

At the undergraduate level, I teach a 1000-level Introduction to Human Geography class, a 2000-level Multi-Cultural Geography of the United States class, and a 3000-level introductory Economic Geography class.

Introduction to Human Geography (GEOG1101) is a broad overview of a number of contemporary global issues viewed from a geographic perspective. Topics include: understanding representations of the earth as portrayed by cartography (including the use of propaganda maps as political tools), the geopolitics of rainforest destruction in South America, the legacy of colonialism for economic development and political (in)stability in Africa, and the break-up of Yugoslavia and the remaking of the Cold War geopolitical order.

Cultural Geography of the United States (GEOG2130H) focuses on issues such as the social construction of race, the making of myths about "nature" in early colonial America and how this shaped perceptions of the indigenous peoples of the continent, migration patterns and experiences of different racial and ethnic groups both to and within the continent, and principles of political boundary construction and how this has played out in recent court decisions concerning "majority-minority" Congressional districts.

Economic Geography (GEOG3620) deals with the political economy of global patterns of development and underdevelopment. The first part of the course deals with basic economic principles. It then moves on to examine the legacy of colonialism for understanding contemporary patterns of uneven development between the global north and south, and how the activities of transnational corporations are inaugurating a new international division of labor through their activities. Finally, the course examines the rise of the Pacific Rim economies, particularly Japan.

Andrew J. Herod

Professor of Geography, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, and Director, UGA à Paris Study Abroad Program

Ph. D., Rutgers University, 1992
M.A., West Virginia University, 1988
B. Soc. Sci. (First Class Honours), University of Bristol, 1986

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Andy Herod at El Mina, Ghana	Andy Herod and friend at the Giraffe Rescue Center, Karen, Kenya

Andrew J. Herod

Professor of Geography, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, and Director, UGA à Paris Study Abroad Program

Ph. D., Rutgers University, 1992 M.A., West Virginia University, 1988 B. Soc. Sci. (First Class Honours), University of Bristol, 1986

Research Interests

Awards and Honors

Publications:

Ph. D., Rutgers University, 1992
M.A., West Virginia University, 1988
B. Soc. Sci. (First Class Honours), University of Bristol, 1986