Ash Amin,CBE,FBA,FAcSS(born 31 October 1955) is aBritish[1]academic known for his writing on urban and regional development, contemporary cultural change, progressive politics, and the collaborative economy. He holds the 1931 chair at theDepartment of Geography, University of Cambridge.[2]Since September 2015 he has held the post of foreign secretary of theBritish Academy.
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Early life
editAmin was born inKampala,Uganda.[3]and lived in the South Asian community of Kenya until the age of 16, when he emigrated with his family to settle in Britain. He finished his schooling atStratford Grammar Schoolin London. He graduated from theUniversity of Readingin 1979 with a degree in Italian Studies and then gained a PhD in geography from Reading in 1986.
Career
editHe 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 atNewcastle Universityin 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 forDurham University,where he was head of the geography department and the founding Executive Director of theInstitute of Advanced Study.In 2011 was appointed as1931 Chair in GeographyatUniversity of Cambridgeand became a professorial Fellow ofChrist's College.
Books
edit- 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
editAmin has held fellowships and visiting professorships at a number of universities, including theUniversity of Venice,theUniversity of Naples,University of Copenhagen,Erasmus University Rotterdam,Columbia University,theFederal University of Minas Gerais,Queen Mary College,London, and theUniversity of Uppsala. He has been held positions on theESRCResearch Priorities Board, the Race Advisory Board of theJoseph Rowntree Foundation,the Council of theEuropean Association of Evolutionary Political Economy,the Pro-Futura Programme of theSwedish Collegium of Advanced Study,the Advanced Grants Panel of theEuropean Research Council,and the Strategic Research Projects Board of theUniversity of Padova.
He has received various awards and membership to prestigious bodies such as:
- Life Corresponding member of the Italian Institute of Geographers
- Fellow of theWorld Academy of Art and Science
- Royal Geographical Society's Edward Heath Prize in 1998
- Academician of theAcademy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences[4]
- Fellow of theBritish Academy[5]
He was appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to social science.,[6]and on 30 January 2015 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences atUppsala University.[7]
References
edit- ^"15 Indian-origin men, women in Queen's New Year's Honours list".Ndtv.Retrieved11 March2016.
- ^"Department of Geography, Cambridge" Ash Amin ".University of Cambridge. 20 October 2014.Retrieved11 March2016.
- ^"Prof Ash Amin, CBE Authorised Biography | Debrett's People of Today".Debretts. 31 October 1955. Archived fromthe originalon 2 December 2013.Retrieved11 March2016.
- ^"Indexe6bf.HTML?fuse=academicians%CE%B1=all".Archived fromthe originalon 20 July 2011.Retrieved31 August2006.
- ^"Ash Amin – British Academy".Britac.ac.uk.Archived fromthe originalon 29 July 2012.Retrieved11 March2016.
- ^"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 fromthe originalon 5 July 2017.Retrieved2 February2016.