Dr Ihnji Jon
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Ihnji Jon
Lecturer in Human Geography
Overview
Ihnji Jon is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University. I am an interdisciplinary scholar drawing on human geography, environment planning, and political philosophy. I am committed to expanding our discussions on political ecology with and beyond distributive justice, by bringing in feminist relational approach to identity, politics, and space.
Publication
2025
- Jon, I. 2025. On limit and love in times of environmental crises. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2024
- Woodley, E. et al. 2024. The future of geography field course pedagogy in UK Higher Education. Geo: Geography and Environment 11(2), article number: e00158. (10.1002/geo2.158)
- Jon, I. 2024. Reassembling the politics of "Green" urban redevelopment in East Garfield Park: A Polanyian approach.. Environment and Planning A 56(4), pp. 1005-1023. (10.1177/0308518X231221019)
- Jon, I. 2024. “Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy. Urban Geography 45(3), pp. 484-494. (10.1080/02723638.2023.2279415)
- Jon, I., Guma, P. and Simone, A. 2024. "Humanistic" city in the age of "Capitalocene". Annals of the American Association of Geographers 114(1), pp. 107-122. (10.1080/24694452.2023.2239893)
2023
- Jon, I. 2023. Bubble clash: Identity, environment, and politics in a multicultural suburb.. Dialogues in Urban Research 1(1), pp. 11-33. (10.1177/27541258221130318)
- Jon, I. 2023. Stories, contingent materialities, and moral inquiry: Response to Simone, MacLeavy, Kim and Lake. Dialogues in Urban Research 1(1), pp. 58-62. (10.1177/27541258231159127)
2022
- Jon, I. 2022. Is it true that we’re actually living in separate universes?. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 26(5-6) (10.1080/13604813.2022.2124728)
- Jon, I. 2022. Hope and care in dark times: a follow-up essay.. Planning Theory 21(4), pp. 407-411. (10.1177/14730952221131873)
- Jon, I. 2022. Reimagining the future with liminal agents : Critical interdisciplinary STS as manifestos for anti-essentialist solidarities. Culture, Theory and Critique 63(2-3), pp. 136-153. (10.1080/14735784.2022.2098152)
2021
- Jon, I. 2021. Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice. Urban Geography 42(10), pp. 1410-1414. (10.1080/02723638.2021.1940709)
- Field, C. and Jon, I. 2021. E-Scooters: a new smart mobility option? The case of Brisbane, Australia. Planning Theory & Practice 22(3), pp. 368-396. (10.1080/14649357.2021.1919746)
- Jon, I. 2021. The city we want: Against the banality of urban planning research. Planning Theory & Practice 22(2), pp. 321-328. (10.1080/14649357.2021.1893588)
- Jon, I. 2021. Cities in the Anthropocene. London: Pluto Press. (10.2307/j.ctv1sjwpwp)
2020
- Jon, I. 2020. A manifesto for planning after the coronavirus: towards planning of care. Planning Theory 19(3), pp. 329-345. (10.1177/1473095220931272)
- Jon, I. 2020. Reframing postmodern planning with feminist social theory: Toward “anti-essentialist norms”. Planning Theory 19(2), pp. 147-171. (10.1177/1473095219851214)
- Jon, I. 2020. Deciphering posthumanism: why and how it matters to urban planning in the Anthropocene. Planning Theory 19(4), pp. 392-420. (10.1177/1473095220912770)
- Jon, I. 2020. Scales of political action in the Anthropocene: Gaia, networks, and cities as frontiers of doing earthly politics. Global Society 34(2), pp. 163-185. (10.1080/13600826.2019.1676702)
- Jon, I. and Reghezza-Zitt, M. 2020. Late modernity to postmodern? The rise of global resilience and its progressive potentials for local disaster planning (Seattle and Paris). Planning Theory & Practice 21(1), pp. 94-122. (10.1080/14649357.2019.1692896)
- Jon, I. 2020. Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory. In: Wills, J. and Lake, R. eds. The power of pragmatism: Knowledge production and social inquiry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, (10.7765/9781526134950.00021)
2018
- Jon, I. and Purcell, M. 2018. Radical resilience: Autonomous self-management in post-disaster recovery planning and practice. Planning Theory & Practice 19(2), pp. 235-251. (10.1080/14649357.2018.1458965)
Articles
- Jon, I. 2025. On limit and love in times of environmental crises. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Woodley, E. et al. 2024. The future of geography field course pedagogy in UK Higher Education. Geo: Geography and Environment 11(2), article number: e00158. (10.1002/geo2.158)
- Jon, I. 2024. Reassembling the politics of "Green" urban redevelopment in East Garfield Park: A Polanyian approach.. Environment and Planning A 56(4), pp. 1005-1023. (10.1177/0308518X231221019)
- Jon, I. 2024. “Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy. Urban Geography 45(3), pp. 484-494. (10.1080/02723638.2023.2279415)
- Jon, I., Guma, P. and Simone, A. 2024. "Humanistic" city in the age of "Capitalocene". Annals of the American Association of Geographers 114(1), pp. 107-122. (10.1080/24694452.2023.2239893)
- Jon, I. 2023. Bubble clash: Identity, environment, and politics in a multicultural suburb.. Dialogues in Urban Research 1(1), pp. 11-33. (10.1177/27541258221130318)
- Jon, I. 2023. Stories, contingent materialities, and moral inquiry: Response to Simone, MacLeavy, Kim and Lake. Dialogues in Urban Research 1(1), pp. 58-62. (10.1177/27541258231159127)
- Jon, I. 2022. Is it true that we’re actually living in separate universes?. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 26(5-6) (10.1080/13604813.2022.2124728)
- Jon, I. 2022. Hope and care in dark times: a follow-up essay.. Planning Theory 21(4), pp. 407-411. (10.1177/14730952221131873)
- Jon, I. 2022. Reimagining the future with liminal agents : Critical interdisciplinary STS as manifestos for anti-essentialist solidarities. Culture, Theory and Critique 63(2-3), pp. 136-153. (10.1080/14735784.2022.2098152)
- Jon, I. 2021. Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice. Urban Geography 42(10), pp. 1410-1414. (10.1080/02723638.2021.1940709)
- Field, C. and Jon, I. 2021. E-Scooters: a new smart mobility option? The case of Brisbane, Australia. Planning Theory & Practice 22(3), pp. 368-396. (10.1080/14649357.2021.1919746)
- Jon, I. 2021. The city we want: Against the banality of urban planning research. Planning Theory & Practice 22(2), pp. 321-328. (10.1080/14649357.2021.1893588)
- Jon, I. 2020. A manifesto for planning after the coronavirus: towards planning of care. Planning Theory 19(3), pp. 329-345. (10.1177/1473095220931272)
- Jon, I. 2020. Reframing postmodern planning with feminist social theory: Toward “anti-essentialist norms”. Planning Theory 19(2), pp. 147-171. (10.1177/1473095219851214)
- Jon, I. 2020. Deciphering posthumanism: why and how it matters to urban planning in the Anthropocene. Planning Theory 19(4), pp. 392-420. (10.1177/1473095220912770)
- Jon, I. 2020. Scales of political action in the Anthropocene: Gaia, networks, and cities as frontiers of doing earthly politics. Global Society 34(2), pp. 163-185. (10.1080/13600826.2019.1676702)
- Jon, I. and Reghezza-Zitt, M. 2020. Late modernity to postmodern? The rise of global resilience and its progressive potentials for local disaster planning (Seattle and Paris). Planning Theory & Practice 21(1), pp. 94-122. (10.1080/14649357.2019.1692896)
- Jon, I. and Purcell, M. 2018. Radical resilience: Autonomous self-management in post-disaster recovery planning and practice. Planning Theory & Practice 19(2), pp. 235-251. (10.1080/14649357.2018.1458965)
Book sections
- Jon, I. 2020. Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory. In: Wills, J. and Lake, R. eds. The power of pragmatism: Knowledge production and social inquiry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, (10.7765/9781526134950.00021)
Books
- Jon, I. 2021. Cities in the Anthropocene. London: Pluto Press. (10.2307/j.ctv1sjwpwp)
Research
My current research programme includes green urban development, spatial consequences of circular economy (waste), and politics of knowledge-making.
Since receiving my interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Washington-Seattle (degree conferred in 2018), I have contributed to knowledge on how to rethink our ethical relationship with more-than-human environments. Through in-depth case studies, my work presented situated accounts of how societies (re)build relationships with nature in the face of extreme weather patterns, climate irregularities, and environmental degradation.
I am the author of Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics (Pluto Press, 2021), which a reviewer called 'a thoughtful and compelling argument for an anti-essentialist ecology that links environmental concerns with inequality and centres the necessary political action in the fertile complexity of cities.' The book uses in-depth case study method (across four cities: Tulsa, Darwin, Cleveland, and Cape Town) on how cities are reconfiguring their relationship with more-than-human environments, looking at how different policy actors (working in the fields of urban planning, environmental conservation, and economic development) mobilise the discourses of 'environmental crises' as a legitimate rationale for new collective social projects. For this work, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 60 policy actors, in addition to site visits and surveys of historical information, projecting new pathways of doing case study research.
Since then, I have worked closely on how concrete environmental problems interact with diverse socio-cultural spheres. My paper 'Bubble Clash: Identity, Environment, and Politics in a Multicultural Suburb' (Dialogues in Urban Research, 2023) presented a case study of a migrant suburb near several waste facility sites. It explored environmental justice issues as well as how tangible environmental problems (such as the sudden increase of the seagull population) invited multicultural communities to come together and collectively address the practical issues at hand.
I have recently contributed to the emerging dialogues on Polanyian economic geographies, focusing on developing an anthropological, or a 'life-world' approach to understanding economic problems. My article 'Reassembling the politics of “Green” urban redevelopment in East Garfield Park: A Polanyian approach' presented an in-depth case study of neighbourhood change in Chicago, underlining the role of environmental landscapes and their physical materialities as an important factor in land development.
I continue to work on formulating new visions for future climate politics, particularly focusing on the practices of meaning-making and new value generation in the aftermath of mass consumption and environmental degradation.
Teaching
I have been contributing to teaching Living with Environmental Change (1st year, ongoing), Property, Urban Development and Regeneration (1st year, ongoing), Infrastructure Development (3rd year, ongoing; module leader), Environment and Development (Master's, ongoing), Foundations in Social Sciences Research (Master's, ongoing), Research Methods (2nd year, 2022/2023, 2023/2024), and Research Dissertation (3rd year, ongoing; module leader).
Teaching accreditation
· Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, 2023.
Biography
I completed my interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Washington (Seattle; planning and geography), and master's degree at Sciences Po Paris (urban governance and politics). Prior to this post, I was a Lecturer in International Urban Politics at the University of Melbourne; and a Chateaubriand Fellow at École Normale Supérieure (Paris Ulm).
Professional memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising students in sustainable development, environment planning, more-than-human environments, and urban studies.
Contact Details
+44 29225 14556
Glamorgan Building, Room Room 1.78, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA