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Staff Profile

Dr Kathryn Manzo

Senior Lecturer

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6454
  • Address: Room: 3.117
    Geography
    Daysh Building
    University of Â鶹´«Ã½
    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Roles and Responsibilities

Senior tutor, PGT (Geography) and GPS Exchange Coordinator (School)

Research

Research Interests

Kate Manzo is a lecturer in international development. Her research interests are in the politics of development in Africa. She has written about development theory and the political effects of development in practice. She has also examined the political implications of attitudes towards 'national' development in South Africa, Australia and Britain. Her current research focuses on the relationship between football and development in Africa; on the relationship between climate change and development; and on images of Africa in western media.

Postgraduate Supervision

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

GEO1010: Interconnected World
GEO2103: Globalisation, Culture and Development
GEO3106: Producing Africa: Globalisation and Representation (Module leader)

Postgraduate Teaching

GEO8017: Concepts in Action

GEO8016: Philosophies in Geography 

Publications

  • Articles

    • Manzo K, Padfield R, Varkkey H. . Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2019, 3(3), 857-884.
    • Manzo K. . Geoforum 2017, 84, 88-94.
    • Manzo K, Padfield R. . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2016, 41(4), 460-476.
    • Manzo K. . Soccer and Society 2012, 13(2), 173-187.
    • Manzo K. . Political Geography 2012, 31(8), 481-494.
    • Manzo KA. . Geoforum 2012, 43(3), 551-560.
    • Manzo K. . Area 2010, 42(1), 96-107.
    • Manzo KA. . Meteorological Applications 2010, 17(2), 196-208.
    • Manzo KA. . Antipode 2008, 40(4), 632-657.
    • Manzo KA. . Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports 2007, 2, 1-13.
    • Manzo KA. . The Development Education Journal 2006, 12(2), 9-12.
    • Manzo K. . Review of African Political Economy 2005, 32(106), 521-534.
    • Manzo K. . Area 2005, 37(4), 393-401.
    • Karvounis A, Manzo K, Gray TS. . Journal of Political Ideologies 2003, 8(3), 311-325.
    • Manzo KA. . Theory & Event: an online journal of political theory 2003, 7(1).
    • Manzo K. . Geoforum 2003, 34(4), 437-456.
    • Manzo K. . Journal of Environment and Development 2000, 9(3), 284-313.

  • Authored Book

    • Manzo KA. . Boulder, Co; London: Lynne Rienner, 1998.

  • Book Chapter

    • Manzo KA. . In: Slater D; Taylor PJ, ed. The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, pp.98-114.