Professor Ash Amin FBA

Transformations in contemporary society/space relations; urban and regional development; re-imagining the economy; new forms of politics and citizenship; the idea of Europe; race and multiculturalism

Elected 2007

Portrait image of Professor Ash Amin FBA

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2007
Sections: Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/amin/

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

Seeing like a City

Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift - Published in 2016 by Polity Books

The Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left

Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift - Published in 2013 by Duke University Press

Land of Strangers

Ash Amin - Published in 2012 by Polity Books

The Social Economy

Edited by Ash Amin - Published in 2009 by Zed Books

Architectures of Knowledge

Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet - Published in 2004 by Oxford University Press

Cities: Re-imagining the Urban

Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift - Published in 2002 by Polity Books

Placing the Social Economy

Ash Amin, Angus Cameron and Ray Hudson - Published in 2002 by Routledge

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nicholas Thomas FBA

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Professor Karin Barber FBA

I am an anthropologist with a particular interest in popular culture, religion, and the verbal arts, both oral and written. Most of my research has been in the Yoruba-speaking area of Nigeria, and I am currently working on early Yoruba print culture.

Professor John Gledhill FBA

Social anthropology: thematic interests in comparative analysis of political life, power relations, social movements, the state, political economy, migration, conflict and security; regional specialisation in Latin American societies and history

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