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Professor Stephen Graham FBA

The changing nature of cities and urbanism; sociologies of technology, mobility and infrastructure; the digitisation of urban life; the politics of urban security and militarisation; the vertical dimension of cities
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Geography
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/staff/profile/stevegraham.html#background

Current post

Professor of Cities and Society, Newcastle University

Past appointments

University of Durham Professor of Human Geography

2004 - 2010

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Full-Time Visiting Professor

1999 - 2000

Newcastle University Lecturer, then Reader, then Professor

1992 - 2004

Publications

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

Stephen Graham - Published in 2016 by Verso

Infrastructural Lives

Edited by Stephen Graham and Colin McFarlane - Published in 2014 by Routledge

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism

Stephen Graham - Published in 2010 by Verso

Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructures Fail

Edited by Stephen Graham - Published in 2009 by Routledge

Cities War Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics

Edited by Stephen Graham - Published in 2004 by Blackwell Publishing

The Cybercities Reader

Edited by Stephen Graham - Published in 2004 by Routledge

Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructure, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin - Published in 2001 by Routledge

Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places

Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin - Published in 1996 by Verso

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Professor Robin Dunbar FBA

Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Anthropology

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Professor Neil Wrigley FBA

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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

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