Sarah Whatmore

Sarah Whatmore is a prominent British human geographer whose work focuses on the relations among people, other living beings, technologies, and physical environments. Her research has been vital in moving geography toward more-than-human theoretical frameworks.

Published in 2002, "Hybrid Geographies" is Whatmore's seminal text that challenged the rigid, traditional divisions between nature and society. The book became highly influential in the field for using actor-network theory to explore how humans and non-humans interact to shape the world.

Sarah Whatmore is a Professor of Environment and Public Policy at the University of Oxford. She also holds a position at St John's College, where she leads research on environmental governance and the politics of flood risk management.

It is a subfield that Sarah Whatmore helped popularize, which argues that geography must account for the active role of non-human entities like animals and technologies. This approach insists that these non-human elements fundamentally shape human practices and physical environments.