Staff Profile
Joel Maddock-James
Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology
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I graduated with an MA in communications and media from University of Liverpool in 2017, where I wrote my dissertation on communicative capitalism, digital labour and the future of work. I began life at York St John in 2019 as a PhD researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant. In January of 2023 I submitted my PhD thesis, which provides a theoretical and analytical inquisition into the logistics network of Amazon in the UK, combining studies of platform capitalism and landscape urbanism to explain Amazon's remarkable spatial expansion in the post-industrial North East.
- School – York Business School
- Email – j.maddockjames@yorksj.ac.uk
Teaching
My teaching strengths lie in spatial sociology, political economy and mobilities studies. Amongst other subjects, I have delivered lectures on technologies of consumption and workplace automation.
I teach across a range of modules in the Sociology and Criminology department here at York St John. These include:
Introduction to Sociological Theory
Introduction to the Criminal Justice System
Crime and Deviance in the Contemporary World
Victimology
Preventing and Punishing
Researching and Presenting
Crime and the Economy
Ethnicity, Nationality and Social Control
Cultural Criminology
Sociology of Work
Technology and Society
Crime and Media
Death
Research
My research is disseminated across four interconnected areas of interest: commercial logistics, cargomobilities, supply-chain infrastructure, and space-time. I am particularly keen to study the geographies of e-commerce networks, the mobility of objects, the materiality of global commodity chains, and the effects of all these things on our perception of space and time.
