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Ash Amin,
Early life
Amin was born in
Career
He is a geographer, interested in the geographies of contemporary social, political and economic change and their effects on situated life, autonomy and identity. His research has been based mainly in Europe, but is increasingly focusing on informal settlements in the developing world. His career started at Newcastle University in 1982. He was a Research Fellow and Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies and also a Lecturer and later a Professor in the Department of Geography. In 2005 he left Newcastle for Durham University, where he was head of the geography department and the founding Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study. In 2011 was appointed as 1931 Chair in Geography at University of Cambridge and became a professorial Fellow of Christ's College.
Books
- Amin, A. and Thrift, N. 2016. Seeing Like a City. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Amin, A. and Thrift, N., 2013. Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left, Duke University Press
- Amin, A., 2012. Land of Strangers, Polity Press. v. 20, p. 1–8. http://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2012.732544
- Amin, A. and O'Neill, M. (eds.), 2009. Thinking About Almost Everything, Profile Books
- Amin, A. (ed.), 2009. The Social Economy, Zed Books
- Amin, A. and Roberts, J. (eds.), 2008. Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization, Oxford University Press. 324pp. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545490.001.0001
- Amin, A. and Thrift, N. (eds.), 2004. The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader, Blackwell
- Amin, A. and Cohendet, P., 2004. Architectures of Knowledge, Oxford University Press. p. 1–194. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253326.001.0001
- Amin, A., Massey, D.B. and Thrift, N.J., 2003. Decentering the Nation A Radical Approach to Regional Inequality, Compas. 45pp
- Amin, A., Cameron, A. and Hudson, R., 2002. Placing the Social Economy, Routledge. 147pp
- Amin, A. and Thrift, N., 2002. Cities: Re-imagining the Urban, Polity Press
- Amin, A., Massey, D.B. and Thrift, N.J., 2000. Cities for the Many Not the Few, Policy Press. 48pp
- Amin, A. (ed.), 1997. Beyond Market and Hierarchy Interactive Governance and Social Complexity, Edward Elgar Pub. 327pp
- Amin, A. (ed.), 1995. Post-Fordism A Reader, Wiley-Blackwell. 448pp
- Amin, A. (ed.), 1995. Behind the Myth of European Union Prospects for Cohesion, Routledge. 334pp
- Amin, A. and Thrift, N. (eds.), 1994. Globalisation, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe, Oxford University Press
- Amin, A. (ed.), 1991. Towards a New Europe? Structural Change in the European Economy, Edward Elgar Pub. 241pp
- Amin, A. and Goddard, J.B. (eds.), 1986. Technological Change, Industrial Restructuring and Regional Development, Allen & Unwin
Awards and fellowships
Amin has held fellowships and visiting professorships at a number of universities, including the
He has received various awards and membership to prestigious bodies such as:
- Life Corresponding member of the Italian Institute of Geographers
- Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science
- Royal Geographical Society's Edward Heath Prize in 1998
- Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences[4]
- Fellow of the British Academy[5]
He was appointed
References
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- ^ "Department of Geography, Cambridge " Ash Amin". University of Cambridge. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ^ "Prof Ash Amin, CBE Authorised Biography | Debrett's People of Today". Debretts.com. 31 October 1955. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ^ "Indexe6bf.HTML?fuse=academicians%CE%B1=all". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2006.
- ^ "Ash Amin – British Academy". Britac.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ^ "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 7.
- ^ "Two new honorary doctors at Uppsala University's Faculty of Social Sciences – Uppsala University, Sweden". Uu.se. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2016.