Professor David Nally
David Nally is a University Professor of Historical Geography and a Director of Studies in Geography at Ë®¹ûÅÉAV College.
Academic interests
I have research interests in American philanthropy, political ecology and global agriculture, and the historical geography of empire. I also have a longstanding interest in social theory and the history of ideas.
Degrees obtained
- BA Joint Hons, History and Geography, University College Cork.
- PhD in Geography, University of British Columbia.
Awards and prizes
- The Rockefeller Foundation, Grant-in-Aid award, 2014.
- Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2013.
- CRASSH Early Career Fellowship, 2009.
Biography
I grew up in a rural setting in County Clare, on the west coast of Ireland, not far from the estuary of the River Shannon. I studied at University College Cork and the University of British Columbia in Canada before moving to Cambridge to take up a lectureship in Geography.
Other interests
Novels, film, music, various sports, countryside walks, cycling.
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Publications, links and resources
Example publications
Nally, D. (2011) , University of Notre Dame Press. 366pp.
Nally, D. Morrissey, J., Strohmayer, Ul., and Whelan, Y. (2014) , Sage.
Nally, D. (2015) Governing Precarious Lives: Land Grabs, Geopolitics, and 'Food Security'. Geographical Journal, v. 181, p.340-349. .
Nally, D. and Taylor, S. (2015). The Politics of Self-help: The Rockefeller Foundation, Philanthropy and the 'Long' Green Revolution. Political Geography, v 49, p 51-63. .
Nally, D. (2016) Imagine All the People: Rockefeller Philanthropy, Malthusian Thinking and the ‘Peasant Problem’ in Asia. In: Mayhew, R. (ed) New Perspectives on Malthus: 250th Anniversary Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nally, D. (2016). Against Food Security: On forms of Care and Fields of Violence. Global Society, v. 30, p.558-582. .
Nally, D. and Brooks, C. (2018). From the Teen to the Green Revolution: American Philanthropy and Youth Club Work in Northern Europe. Journal of Historical Geography, v. 61, p.27-43. .
Nally, D. and Kearns, G. (2020). Vegetative States: Potatoes, Affordances and Survival Ecologies. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.
