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 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
Further information
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 4 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.
