Michael Richard Handley Jones
Background and activities
Michael Jones is from 2015 Professor Emeritus. He continues to undertake research in historical geography, landscape studies, history of cartography, and autobiography as an approach to the history of geography. He is a founder member of the Department of Geography, which began in 1975.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2020) Guest editorial: History of cartography of the Nordic countries. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 74 (4).
- (2019) Feminist geographies in Norway from the turn of the millennium. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. vol. 26 (7-9).
- (2018) Anne Buttimer's The Practice of Geography: Approaching the history of geography through autobiography. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. vol. 100 (4).
- (2017) Reflections: On Publishing. Can research quality be measured quantitatively? On quality of scholarship, numerical research indicators and academic publishing - experiences from Norway. Fennia. vol. 195 (2).
- (2016) W.R. Mead 1915-2014. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 70 (2).
- (2015) Fighting fog - The case of creeping neoliberalism and weakening university democracy in Norway. Krisis: Tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie.
- (2015) Jens Christian Hansen 1932-2014. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 69 (1).
- (2013) "I do not know in Scotland a valley so beautiful ...": Samuel Laing's topographical-geographical observations in Central Norway, 1834-1836. Journal of the North Atlantic. vol. Special vol 4.
- (2012) Playing the indigenous card? The Shetland and Orkney Udal Law group and indigenous rights. GeoJournal. vol. 77 (6).
- (2012) Udal law and contested histories of land tenure and landscape in Orkney and Shetland. Latvijas Zinātņu Akadēmijas Vēstis A daļa: humanitārās un sociālās zinātnes. vol. 66 (3).
- (2012) The teleconference and its implications for geographical knowledge-sharing. Geography. vol. 97.
- (2011) Rhetoric and Reporting of Public Participation in Landscape Policy. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. vol. 13 (1).
- (2010) Two fires and two landscapes - a tale of two cities. Fennia. vol. 188 (1).
- (2008) Kartlagt kunnskap, makt og strid. Kartlegging av Slesvig-Holstens landskaper på midten av 1600-tallet. Ymer.
- (2007) The European landscape convention and the question of public participation. Landscape Research. vol. 32 (5).
- (2007) Multiple interfaces of the European Landscape Convention. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 61 (4).
- (2006) Landscape, law and justice - concepts and issues. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 60 (1).
- (2006) Nordfjord i 1594. Jul i Nordfjord.
- (2004) Tycho Brahe, kartografi og landskap: en betraktning med utgangspunkt i Nordfjordkartet fra 1594. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens årsbok. vol. 2003.
- (1997) Røros som verdenskulturminne : evaluering og utvidelse av verdenskulturminne Røros. Foredrag på Fortidsminneforeningens representantskapsmøte 6.-8. juni 1997 på Røros. Fjell-folk. vol. 22.
- (1997) Usages of the "cultural landscape" concept in Norwegian and Nordic landscape administration. Landscape Research. vol. 22 (3).
Books
- (2014) Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change. Ashgate. 2014. ISBN 978-1-4724-0934-8.
- (2011) Studenten som kom før faget: Etnolog Rigmor Frimannslund (1911-2006) - et minneskrift. Novus Forlag. 2011. ISBN 978-82-7099-609-4. Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning. Serie B, Skrifter (135).
- (2011) The European Landscape Convention: Challenges of participation. Springer. 2011. ISBN 978-90-481-9931-0. Landscape Series (13).
- (2008) Nordic Landscapes. Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe. University of Minnesota Press. 2008. ISBN 978-08166-3914-4.
- (2005) Landscape, Law and Justice. Novus Forlag. 2005. ISBN 82-7099-413-8.
- (2004) Landscape, Law and Customary Rights. 2004. Diedut / Sámi instituhtta (3/2004).
- (1985) Metode på tvers. Samfunnsvitenskapelige forskningsstrategier som kombinerer metoder og analysenivåer. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. 1985. ISBN 8251906733.
Part of book/report
- (2019) Medvirkning, makt og avmakt i universitetsdemokratiet. Universitetskamp.
- (2019) Kan forskningskvalitet måles kvantitativt?. Universitetskamp.
- (2018) William Richard Mead (1915-2014). Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies Volume 36.
- (2018) Aims, scope and practice of the European Landscape Convention. Novel Methods and Results of Landscape Research in Europe, Central Asia and Siberia. Monograph in 5 Volumes. Vol. 1: Landscapes in the 21th Century: Status Analyses, Basic Processes and Research Concepts.
- (2018) Landscape democracy: more than public participation?. Defining Landscape Democracy A Path to Spatial Justice.
- (2017) The contribution of Kristian Nissen (1879-1968) to knowledge of cultural and geographical margins in the north. Geography from the Margins.
- (2016) Landscape democracy and participation in a European perspective. Mainstreaming Landscape Through The European Landscape Convention.
- (2013) Notions of 'udal law' in Orkney and Shetland: From medieval Norse law to contested vestiges of customary rights within Scots law. Legislation and State Formation. Norway and its neighbours in the Middle Ages.
- (2012) Om faghistorie og selvbiografi. Et liv med geografi. Institutthistorie og selvbiografi - et faglig livsløp knyttet til utviklingen av Geografisk institutt i Trondheim.
- (2012) Udal Law. Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, volume 13: The Law.
- (2011) Om Agatunet - og om jordfellessap og jordskifte: Et forskningshistorisk innblikk. Studenten som kom før faget: Etnolog Rigmor Frimannslund (1911-2006) - et minneskrift.
- (2010) The heritage of landscape - driving force or counterforce?. Eighth Council of Europe Workshops for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention: Landscape and driving forces, Malmö, Sweden, 8-9 October 2009.
- (2008) Analysing landscape values expressed in planning conflicts over change in the landscape. Re-Marc-able Landscapes - Marc-ante Landschappen: Liber Amoricum Marc Antrop.
- (2008) Tycho Brahe (Tyge Ottesen Brahe) 1546-1601. Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies Volume 27.
- (2007) Jordskifte og kulturlandskap. Areal og eiendomsrett.
- (2007) Seasonality and Landscape in Northern Europe: An Introductory Exploration. Seasonal Landscapes.
- (2006) Stiklestad i kulturlandskapsperspektiv. Stiklestad og andre minnesteder.
- (2005) Human geographical landscapes: J.G. Granö's approach to landscape as scientist and artist. Rajanylityksiä. Boundary crossings. Temporal dialogues in Finnish landscape photography. Ajan ja paikan vuoropuhelu suomalaisessa maisemavalokuvauksessa.
- (2004) Tycho Brahe, cartography and landscape in 16th century Scandinavia. European Rural Landscapes: Persistence and Change in a Globalising Environment.
- (2003) The concept of culturallandscape: discourse and narratives. Landsdcape Interfaces: Cultural Heritage in Changing Landscapes.