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 Michael Watts FBA
The political economy of resources with a particular focus on the oil and gas and energy sectors, and on food and agriculture in the Global South (Africa in particular)
Professor Ruth Mace FBA
The evolution of human behaviour and culture, especially demography and anthropology; the evolutionary ecology of reproduction, cultural phylogenetics, and the evolution of co-operative behaviour
Professor Sarah Franklin FBA FRSB FAcSS
Social study of new reproductive technologies and bioscience; histories and cultures of IVF; gender theory; new kinship studies; reproductive sociology; anthropology of reproduction
