Mark Paterson
- Associate Professor
Trained in Human Geography in the UK, Mark Paterson has been a sociologist at the University of Pittsburgh since 2016. He has taught qualitative methods courses at several universities, and been involved with field trips in Germany, Malaysia, and Singapore. He is especially interested in historical approaches to the senses and space, including multisensory methodological approaches to the city, the use of wearable devices and videography.
In the Department of Sociology I also teach and research on consumption, and am currently writing the third edition of Consumption and Everyday Life for Routledge. There are chapters on the history of department stores and shopping malls, on contemporary globalization and the phenomenon of ‘supply chain cities’, and discussion of theories of consumption and of everyday life which includes figures familiar to Urban Studies programs the world over, such as Simmel, Benjamin, Debord, De Certeau, and Bourdieu.
Education & Training
- PhD in Human Geography, University of Bristol, UK
- MA in Continental European Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK
- BA (Hons) Philosophy, University of Reading, UK
Representative Publications
Pykett, J. & Paterson, M. (2022) ‘Stressing the ‘body electric’: history and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress’, History of the Human Sciences. OnlineFirst DOI: 10.1177/09526951221081754
Paterson, M. (2021) ‘The Birth of Motion Capture: Transcribing the Phenomena of Bodily Movement Through the ‘Graphic Method’’, Multimodality and Society 1(2): 195-215. DOI: 10.1177/26349795211040323
Paterson, M. & Glass, M. (2020) ‘Seeing, feeling and showing “bodies-in-place”: Exploring reflexivity and the multisensory body through videography’, Social and Cultural Geography 21(1): 1-24. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2018.1433866
Paterson, M. (2017) ‘Architecture of Sensation: Affect, Motility, and the Oculomotor’, Body & Society 23(1): 3-35. DOI: 10.1177/1357034X16662324
Paterson, M. & Glass, M. (2015) ‘The World Through Glass: Developing Novel Methods with Wearable Computing for Urban Videographic Research’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 39(2): 275–287. DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2015.1010143
Paterson, M. (2011) ‘More-than-visual approaches to architecture. Vision, touch, technique’, Social & Cultural Geography 12(3): 263-281. Special issue ‘Practiced Architectures: Spaces, Performances, Events’, Eds. J. Jacobs and P. Merriman.
Paterson, M. (2009) ‘Haptic Geographies: Ethnography, haptic knowledges and sensuous dispositions’, Progress in Human Geography 33(6): 766-788.