Staff profile

I am a cultural-historical and social geographer working across health humanities, critical public health and historical geography. My research examines how health, risk and embodied knowledge are produced through atmosphere, habit, material culture, memory and everyday life.

Much of my work has focused on smoking and vaping, using these practices to explore wider questions about addiction, harm reduction, temporality, sensory experience and the everyday spaces of public health. My first book, An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), develops a sensory and atmospheric history of smoking in twentieth-century Britain. Rather than approaching smoking only through policy, medicine or individual behaviour, the book examines how smoking was lived, sensed, regulated and remembered through everyday environments, social relations and material culture.

My current research builds on this work through a developing project on nicotine alternatives, harm reduction and atmospheres of health. This research asks how public health knowledge is translated, negotiated and contested in everyday life, especially in relation to smoking cessation, vaping, smoke-free spaces and vape-regulated environments. I am also developing related work on time and temporality in health geography, and on drawing, visual communication and the ways geographers learn to observe and represent space. My teaching is research-led and focuses on social, cultural and health geography, qualitative methods, fieldwork, and visual pedagogy.

I am particularly interested in helping students think critically about how geographical knowledge is made. I welcome enquiries from prospective students interested in cultural-historical geography, health geography, smoking and vaping, atmosphere, embodiment, temporality, public health, and sensory or archival methods.

Research Interests

• Cultural-historical geography
• Health humanities and critical public health
• Smoking, vaping and harm reduction
• Atmosphere, embodiment and sensory experience
• Addiction, habit and everyday life
• Time, temporality and historical geography
• Visual pedagogy, drawing and spatial communication
• Archival, qualitative and ethnographic methods

Authored book

• An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain
  
  Marković, I. (2025). An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350420274

Book review

• The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given
  
  Marković, I. (2019). The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given. The AAG Review of Books, 187-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548x.2019.1579569
• In the Mood . . .
  
  Marković, I. (2018). In the Mood . . . Cultural Politics, 14(2), 281-284. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-6609312
• Breathing air, sensing smoke
  
  Marković, I. (2017). Breathing air, sensing smoke. The Senses and Society, 98-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2017.1268830

Journal Article

• Where is the past? Time in historical geography
  
  Marković, I. (2024). Where is the past? Time in historical geography. Journal of Historical Geography, 84, 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.03.010
• Vaping like a chimney; skeuomorphic assemblages and post-smoking geographies
  
  Marković, I. (2021). Vaping like a chimney; skeuomorphic assemblages and post-smoking geographies. Social & Cultural Geography, 22(3), 376-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2019.1593491
• Fashioning Smoking Space: A Sensory Historical Geography of the Smoking Suit from Olfactory Barrier to Dernier Cri
  
  Markovic, I. (2021). Fashioning Smoking Space: A Sensory Historical Geography of the Smoking Suit from Olfactory Barrier to Dernier Cri. Geohumanities, 7(1), 235-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2021.1927795
• Out of place, out of time: towards a more-than-human rhythmanalysis of smoking
  
  Marković, I. (2019). Out of place, out of time: towards a more-than-human rhythmanalysis of smoking. Cultural Geographies, 26(4), 487-503. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019856421