Stephen Graham (urban researcher)

Stephen Douglas Nelson Graham (born February 26, 1965 in North Shields , England) is a British urban researcher and geographer . His work deals with the technical infrastructure of cities and their role within the " network society ", most recently with regard to armed conflict and terrorism . Graham has been Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University since 2010 .

Career

Stephen Graham in 1965 in the east of Newcastle upon Tyne located North Shields born. After graduating from the University of Southampton (B.Sc. in Geography ) and Newcastle University (M.Phil. In Urban and Spatial Planning), Graham worked for the Sheffield City Council from 1989 to 1992 . He then worked at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University until 2004 , where he was first a lecturer , later a reader and finally a professor. Graham received his PhD from the University of Manchester in 1996 with a part-time work Networking the City: A Comparison of Urban Telecommunications Initiatives in France and Britain , which remained unpublished. He was also a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2000 . Graham was Professor of Human Geography at Durham University from 2004 to 2010 before returning to Newcastle University to become Professor of Cities and Society .

In 2019 Aalborg University awarded him an honorary doctorate. In the same year, Graham was elected to the British Academy .

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In his first monograph Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places from 1996, co-authored with Simon Marvin , Graham dealt with the effects of technological developments in telecommunications on cities. The focus is on the complex interactions that arise in this way and turn cities into " amalgams " of fixed and mobile aspects. Building on this, in 2001 Graham and Marvin formulated the thesis, summarized in their second monograph under the title Splintering Urbanism , that the economic splitting and reconfiguration of infrastructural networks associated with technical development, mostly realized through deregulation and privatization , lead to the spatial "fragmentation" of cities. In the “network society”, as formulated by Manuel Castells , the unbalanced design of and unevenly distributed access to technical infrastructure is synonymous with the marginalization of parts of the population as the downside of so-called “premium network spaces”.

In late 2001, shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks , Graham and Marvin attended an international military conference in Israel, initially assuming it was a social science conference. Graham described attending this conference as a kind of key experience, as it was only when he realized that urban warfare had developed into a " techno-science " that had hitherto been neglected by the social sciences . Accordingly, the focus of his research shifted towards what he saw as the growing importance of cities in military operations. For Graham, an example of how the anti-urban stance of urban warfare is also reflected in domestic politics is the way in which the state authorities in New Orleans dealt with Hurricane Katrina . In 2010, his first monograph on the subject, Cities Under Siege, was published: The New Military Urbanism . In contrast to his previous works, Verso Books was published by a publisher whose publications are not aimed exclusively at academics. Accordingly, it received a broader response.

vandalism

In August 2012, Graham was arrested in Newcastle upon Tyne for scratching the paintwork of 24 luxury cars . The damage done was approximately £ 20,000.

Others

Stephen Graham was involved in the documentary Die Angst has 1000 Augen by Dagmar Brendecke and Walter Brun.

Publications

Monographs

• Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places . Routledge, London / New York 1996, ISBN 978-0-4151-1903-0 (with Simon Marvin; Italian Città e comunicazione. Spazi elettronici e nodi urbani . Baskerville, Bologna 2002, ISBN 978-8-8800-0309-0 . ).
• Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition . Routledge, London / New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-4151-8965-1 (with Simon Marvin).
• Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism . Verso, London / New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-8446-7315-5 .
• Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers . Verso, London / New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78168-793-2 .

Anthologies

• Managing Cities: The New Urban Context . J. Wiley, Chichester 1995, ISBN 978-0-4719-5533-7 (ed. With Patsy Healey, Stuart Cameron, Simin Davoudi, Ali Madani-Pour).
• The Cybercities Reader . Routledge, London / New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-4152-7956-7 .
• Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics . Blackwell, Malden 2004, ISBN 978-1-4051-1575-9 .
• Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails . Routledge, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-4159-9179-7 .
• Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context . Routledge, Abingdon / New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-415-74853-7 (edited with Colin McFarlane).

Articles (selection)

• The Ordinary City . In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 22, No. 4, 1997, ISSN  0020-2754 , pp. 411-429 (with Ash Amin).
• The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place and Information Technology . In: Progress in Human Geography 22, No. 2, 1998, ISSN  0309-1325 , pp. 165-185.
• Global grids of glass . In: Urban Studies 36, No. 5/6, 1999, ISSN  0042-0980 , pp. 929-949.
• Relational concepts of space and place: Issues for planning theory and practice . In: European Planning Studies 7, No. 5, 1999, ISSN  0965-4313 , pp. 623-646 (with Patsy Healey).
• Constructing Premium Network Spaces: Reflections on Infrastructure Networks and Contemporary Urban Development . In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24, No. 1, 2000, ISSN  0309-1317 , pp. 183-200.
• Bridging Urban Digital Divides? Urban Polarization and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) . In: Urban Studies 39, No. 1, 2002, ISSN  0042-0980 , pp. 33-56.
• Digitizing Surveillance: Categorization, Space, Inequality . In: Critical Social Policy 23, No. 2, 2003, ISSN  0261-0183 , pp. 227-248 (with David Wood).
• Lessons in Urbicide . In: New Left Review 19, No. 2, ISSN  0028-6060 , pp. 63-77.
• Postmortem City: Towards an Urban Geopolitics . In: City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 8, No. 2, 2004, ISSN  1470-3629 , pp. 165–196 (German: Postmortem City: Plädoyer für ein Geoppolitik des Urbanen . In: Informations on modern city history , No. 2, 2004, ISSN  0340-1774 , pp. 54–71.).
• Software-sorted geographies . In: Progress in Human Geography 29, No. 5, 2005, ISSN  0309-1325 , pp. 562-580.
• Cities and the 'War on Terror' . In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30, No. 2, 2006, ISSN  0309-1317 , pp. 255-276.
• Out of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance . In: Theory, Culture & Society 24, No. 3, 2007, ISSN  0263-2764 , pp. 1-25 (with Nigel Thrift).
• Besieged Cities: The Militarization of the Urban . In: Erlanger Contributions to Cultural Geography 3, 2013, pp. 1–9 ( online ).

Remarks

1. ↑ The place of birth Tynemouth given by Debrett's probably refers to the district of the same name , in which North Shields was in 1965.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Olivia Edward: I'm a geographer: Professor Steve Graham Archived from the original on December 1, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Geographical: the Royal Geographical Society magazine . April 2011, p. 82. ISSN 0016-741X . Retrieved February 4, 2012.  
2. ^ Professor Stephen Graham received honorary doctorate at Aalborg University, Denmark. Newcastle University, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, May 10, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019 . 
3. ↑ cf. Stephen Graham: Telecommunications and the future of cities: debunking the myths . In: Cities 14, No. 1, 1997, ISSN  0264-2751 , pp. 21-29.
4. ↑ Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin: Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition , 2001, pp. 33, 138-144.
5. ↑ ibid., P. 288.
6. ↑ cf. Stephen Graham: Constructing Premium Network Spaces: Reflections on Infrastructure Networks and Contemporary Urban Development . In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24, No. 1, 2000, ISSN  0309-1317 , pp. 183-200.
7. ↑ For an overview of the arguments in Splintering Urbanism , see Olivier Coutard: Urban Space and the Development of Networks: A Discussion of the "Splintering Urbanism" Thesis . In: Olivier Coutard, Richard E. Hanley and Rae Zimmerman (Eds.): Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems . Routledge, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-4153-2459-5 , pp. 48-64; A translated and revised version of the introductory chapter of the book can be found in: Timothy Moss, Matthias Naumann, Markus Wissen (eds.): Infrastructure networks and spatial development: Between universalization and differentiation . oekom, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86581-117-2 .
8. ↑ Stephen Graham: Remember Fallujah: demonizing place, constructing atrocity . In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space . 23, No. 1, 2005, pp. 1-10. ISSN  0263-7758 . doi : 10.1068 / d2301ed .
9. ↑ Stephen Graham: Cities Under Siege: Katrina and the Politics of Metropolitan America ( English ) In: Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences . June 11, 2006. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
10. ↑ Nicholas Lezard: Cities Under Siege by Stephen Graham - review ( English ) In: The Guardian . December 13, 2011. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
11. ^ Paul Sims: A university professor and the street of cars scratched with a better class of graffiti. Daily Mail Online, August 3, 2012, accessed August 30, 2012 . 

Web links

• Profile on the website of Newcastle University (English)
• Part 1 and Part 2 of a detailed interview