Dr. S.R. (Simon) Ferdinand PhD
Veni postdoctoral researcher
Faculty of Humanities
Literatuurwetenschap
Visiting address
- Spuistraat 134
Postal address
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Postbus 1642
1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. My work explores the politics and poetics of geographical representation, focusing particularly on images of the Earth as a whole.
My current project, Untimely World Pictures: Challenging the Anthropocene Through Historical Representations of the Global Environment (2021-2025), is funded by a prestigious Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council.
I received an MRes in Theatre and Performance Studies (with distinction) from the University of Warwick in 2012 and PhD in Cultural Analysis (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam in 2017.
I am the author of a monograph, Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (Nebraska UP, 2019), and co-editor of Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (with Irina Souch & Daan Wesselman, Routledge, 2020) and Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (with Irene Villaescusa-Illán & Esther Peeren Palgrave, 2019).
I have taught art history at the University of Warwick, visual culture at Amsterdam University College, and globalization studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Born in Reading in the United Kingdom, I now live in Hoorn in the Netherlands.
For more, see www.simonferdinand.com.
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Publications
- refereed (12)
- academic (4)
- professional (5)
- popular scientific (1)
- recognitions (2)
- doctoral thesis (1)
2023
Ferdinand, S. (2023). Clashing Globes: Images of the Earth and Heidegger's Thinking of Modernity. Environment, Space, Place, 15(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1353/spc.2023.a903425 [details]
2020
- Ferdinand, S. R. (2020). Worlds Apart: Prehistories of the Overview Effect. Kunstlicht, 41(2/3), 19-24.
- Ferdinand, S., Souch, I., & Wesselman, D. (Eds.) (2020). Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290732 [details]
- Wesselman, D., Ferdinand, S., & Souch, I. (2020). Introduction: Interrupting Globalisation - Heterotopia in the Twenty-First Century. In S. Ferdinand, I. Souch, & D. Wesselman (Eds.), Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 1-18). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290732-1 [details]
2019
- Ferdinand, S. (2019). Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity. (Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth). University of Nebraska Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrnfr46 [details]
- Ferdinand, S. (2019). Being in the Globe: Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights at the Fringes of Modern Globalism. In S. Ferdinand, I. Villaescusa-Illán, & E. Peeren (Eds.), Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (pp. 63-84). (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2_3 [details]
- Ferdinand, S. (2019). Cartography at Ground Level: Spectrality and Streets in Jeremy Wood’s Meridians and My Ghost. In P. Dibazar, & J. Naeff (Eds.), Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City (pp. 137-159). (Cities and Cultures). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv9hvqjh.10 [details]
- Ferdinand, S., Villaescusa-Illán, I., & Peeren, E. (2019). Introduction. Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. In S. Ferdinand, I. Villaescusa-Illán, & E. Peeren (Eds.), Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (pp. 1-39). (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2_1 [details]
- Ferdinand, S., Villaescusa-Illán, I., & Peeren, E. (Eds.) (2019). Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2 [details]
2018
- Ferdinand, S. (2018). Seeing the self in the world: Attending to banal globalism in urban visual cultures. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 5(2), 249-254. https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs.5.2.249_1 [details]
2017
- Ferdinand, S. (2017). Drawing Like a State: Maps, Modernity and Warfare in the Art of Gert Jan Kocken. Environment and Planning D - Society & Space, 35(2), 319-338. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816658478 [details]
2016
- Ferdinand, S. (2016). The Shock of the Whole: Phenomenologies of Global Mapping in Solomon Nikritin’s The Old and the New. GeoHumanities, 2(1), 220-237. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2016.1157030 [details]
2022
- Ferdinand, S. R. (2022). The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor. By Veronica della Dora. Imago Mundi, 74(1), 125-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044180
2018
- Ferdinand, S. (2018). [Review of: A.J. Elias, C. Moraru (2015) The Planetary Turn : Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century]. Cultural Geographies, 25(2), 376. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474017732980 [details]
- Ferdinand, S. (2018). [Review of: M. Meissner (2017) Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth]. Urban Studies, 55(15), 3492-3494. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018796765 [details]
2017
- Ferdinand, S. R. (2017). Jason Weems, Barnstorming the Prairies. Visual Studies, 32(2), 198-200.
2015
- Ferdinand, S. (2015). [Review of: M. Dorrian, F. Pousin (2013) Seeing from above: the aerial view in visual culture]. Visual Studies, 30(1), 112-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2014.887320 [details]
2014
- Ferdinand, S. (2014). [Review of: H. Hawkins (2014) For creative geographies: geography, visual arts and the making of worlds]. Antipode, 2014(06). https://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/book-review_ferdinand-on-hawkins.pdf [details]
- Ferdinand, S. (2014). [Review of: N. Verhoeff (2012) Mobile screens: the visual regime of navigation]. Visual Studies, 29(1), 122-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2014.863036 [details]
2013
- Ferdinand, S. (2013). [Review of: K. Jannarone (2010) Artaud and his doubles]. NTQ : New Theatre Quarterly, 29(3), 305-306. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X13000547 [details]
- Ferdinand, S. (2013). [Review of: K. O'Rourke (2013) Walking and mapping: artists as cartographers]. Cartographica, 48(4), 337-338. https://doi.org/10.3138/carto.48.4.rev05 [details]
2019
- Ferdinand, S. R. (2019). Mons A Part: Prehistòries de l’effect de la Visió des de Dalt. In R. Domingo, M. Villafranca, & W. Correa (Eds.), Apunts Sobre la Impossibilitat de la Imagte del Món Institut D’Estudis Ilerdencs.
Prize / grant
- Ferdinand, S. (2020). Veni Grant.
- Ferdinand, S. (2018). Amsterdam School For Cultural Analysis Award for Best Dissertation.
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Ancillary activities
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English Academic Editing
Academic editing, consultation, & research for scholars, students, and museums.
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English Academic Editing
Ferdinand, S. (2023). Clashing Globes: Images of the Earth and Heidegger's Thinking of Modernity. Environment, Space, Place, 15(1), 1-31.