Professor Ash Amin FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2007
- Subjects
- Geography
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Summary
Professor Amin is known for his work on the geographies of modern living: cities and regions as relationally constituted; globalisation as everyday process; the economy as cultural entity; race and multiculture as a hybrid of biopolitics and vernacular practices. He has held Fellowships and Visiting Professorships at a number of European Universities. He has been founding co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy, and is currently associate editor of City, and on the advisory board of a number of international journals. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently Emeritus 1931 Chair of Geography at Cambridge.
Current post
University of Cambridge Emeritus 1931 Chair of Geography
Past appointments
Department of Geography, Cambridge Head of Geography
2016 -
Department of Geography, Cambridge Professor of Geography
2011 - 2016
University of Durham Professor of Geography and Executive Director, Institute of Advanced Study
1994 - 2011
Department of Geography, Newcastle University Research Fellow and Research Associate, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies; Lecturer and Professor
1982 - 1994
Head of Geography, University of Cambridge
Publications
The Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left
Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift - Published in 2013 by Duke University Press
Architectures of Knowledge
Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet - Published in 2004 by Oxford University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Penny Harvey FBA
Anthropology of state effects, infrastructures, engineering, materiality and communicative practice drawing on long term ethnographic research in Peru and more recently in the UK. Current focus on nuclear waste disposal, emergent publics and the politics and temporalities of place-making
