Bob Catterall
Biographic Data
| ID | 178165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bob Catterall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bob |
| FAMILY NAME | Catterall |
| SIGNATURE | CATTERALL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
City 's holistic and cumulative project (1996–2016): (1) Then and now: ‘It all comes together in Los Angeles
‘One of the things that really struck me ... was the remarkable prescience and cosmopolitan worldview in the journal from the very first issue.' (Elvin Wyly 2014)1C ity’s holistic and cumulative proj
What is to be done? Redefining, re-asserting, reclaiming and re-shaping land, labour and the city
‘How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of the everyday in a city?’ This seems a precise question. But it is one that nevertheless needs analytical exploration in time and space as well as redefinitions both of the crisis and of land, labour and the city. The question is posed by the research group ‘crisis-scape’ in a brief statement about their film, ‘Future Suspended: from the Olympic spectacle to the dawn of the authoritarian-f…
Landscape without figures
Towards the Great Transformation: (11) Where/what is culture in 'Planetary Urbanisation'? Towards a new paradigm
The present dominant paradigm in much writing on 'planetary urbanisation' with its exclusive emphasis on ' the urban' and consequent neglect/denial of 'the rural', thereby of the planet itself, and its minimal deployment of the concept of culture and of the humanities, reflects the somewhat ramshackle condition of urban studies and socio-spatial sciences with their uncritical and undertheorised notion of interdisciplinarity (sometimes incorrectly…
Towards the Great Transformation: (8) Relocating Egypt and the West
The Arab spring and the simultaneous Greek struggles and now the Turkish and Egyptian struggles of 2013 have been presented in ‘the West’ largely as opportunities for the ‘the East’ to catch up with modern, secular democratic society. But could it be the other way round? Could it be that Egypt, for example, in challenging the pieties and self-assurance of the West's positive characterization of itself has, as Nasser Abourahme claims in this issue…
Towards the Great Transformation: (10) Earthing ‘planetary urbanisation’
Where is the planet in much of the work on ‘planetary urbanisation’? Largely off-stage, it has to be said. The planet, then, has to be brought on stage and, so to speak, earthed. This instalment indicates some of the gaps, distortions and silences in the academic field of ‘planetary urbanisation’, and provides, developing a multidimensional, transdisciplinary (rather than interdisciplinary) approach, some necessary infilling and new/old orientati…
Towards the Great Transformation: (7) Locating Gezi Park
One of the major critical claims of this series is that the social and socio-spatial sciences, in their currently dominant form, cannot lead to an appropriate and continually tested strategy (praxis), effectively counter the normalized and naturalized forms and processes of late capitalist urbanization, normalized by mainstream theory in the service of established power, and their extrapolation into a ‘planetary future’. Critical urban theory pre…
Towards the Great Transformation: (5) Materialisms, old and new: theory, sources, and praxis (an introduction)
One of the major critical claims of this series is that the social and socio-spatial sciences, in their currently dominant form, cannot, for lack of a de-familiarising agenda, one that leads to an appropriate and continually tested strategy (praxis), effectively counter the normalized and naturalized forms and processes of late capitalist urbanization, normalized by mainstream theory in the service of established power, and their extrapolation in…
Towards the Great Transformation: (9) Where is the planet in ‘planetary urbanisation’
Where is the planet in much of the work on ‘planetary urbanisation’? Largely off-stage, it has to be said. This instalment seeks - drawing from some of the material introduced in this series, notably Patrick Keiller's film, Robinson in Ruins and David Abram's book, Becoming Animal, as well as from Adrian Atkinson's contribution in this issue, ‘Readjusting to reality 2 Transition?’, Andy Merrifield's recent book, The Politics of the Encounter: Urb…
Introduction: ‘Emerging Cities of the Third Wave’ Revisited: Part Two
Introduction: The global revolution as one of ideas
“I have never suggested that the phenomenon under discussion is a revolutionary ‘process’ as understood by various Marxist currents in the 1960s. [T]he primary feature of the unrest is mental rathe
Towards the Great Transformation: (6) Three ecologies
One of the major critical claims of this series is that the social and socio-spatial sciences, in their currently dominant form, cannot, for lack of a de-familiarising and recontexualising agenda, one that leads to an appropriate and continually tested strategy (praxis), effectively counter the normalised and naturalised forms and processes of late capitalist urbanisation, normalised by mainstream theory in the service of established power, and t…
Towards the great transformation: (4) Agrarian and urban rebellion, the 2008 crisis, art/philosophy/science, and Keiller's ‘Robinson Crusoe’
After introducing an informal mapping of some aspects of the contemporary world and relevant notions and artworks, the series has so far concentrated on one of the artworks, Patrick Keiller's film Robinson in Space, exploring it through quotation, textual and visual, summary, interpretation and analysis. One particular life-form plays a dominant part in the film, lichen, with one associated activist image, that of Shakespeare's and Marx's ‘old mo…
For the possibility of another world: Tributes to Neil Smith (1954–2012)
‘Neil Smith was – and always will be - a magnificent intellectual giant of geography, urban studies and social science. He was a tremendously warm, unassuming, funny and mischievous person, who gave generously of his time and brilliance to nurture and encourage emerging scholars...So many people I know have devoted their lives to geographical/urban scholarship and activism because Neil's writings – passionate, honest, pure and truly beautiful – o…
Towards the Great Transformation: (1) Beyond ‘the urban revolution’
The previous series of ‘endpieces’ to issues of CITY (‘Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present’) were primarily concerned with two dimensions: the crisis of the model of development and urbanisation which ‘the West’ has exported to the Rest; and the, to some extent, unacknowledged crisis of urban studies, more broadly of the socio-spatial sciences and humanities, its/their failure to provide an adequate tracking of an…
Towards the great transformation: (3) Research, Marx's ‘Old Mole’, and ‘Robinson’/Keiller's Journey
Recently, there has in some circles been an influential return to Marxist political economy and historical materialism in and around an updated version of the critical theory elaborated by the Frankfurt School, and in partly overlapping circles of largely post-Marxist (the post-ness is too often taken-for-granted) discussions, there has been talk of assemblage and of ‘new materialisms.’ This series, in seeking to build a bridge between and beyond…
Towards the great transformation: (2) Nature, Marx's ‘Old Mole’, and ‘Robinson’
What kinds of investigation could serve as an approach to social transformation that questions the project of planetary urbanisation and its representation as ‘the urban revolution’? Do they suggest that it will require a rediscovery of sentient nature informed by and informing a new materialism, and a related reconstruction of communalism, even a rediscovery of ‘the city’ (and ‘the country’, which is perhaps the rural and agrarian dimension of ‘…
Towards the great transformation: (2) Nature, Marx's ‘Old Mole’, and ‘Robinson’
What kinds of investigation could serve as an approach to social transformation that questions the project of planetary urbanisation and its representation as ‘the urban revolution’? Do they suggest that it will require a rediscovery of sentient nature informed by and informing a new materialism, and a related reconstruction of communalism, even a rediscovery of ‘the city’ (and ‘the country’, which is perhaps the rural and agrarian dimension of ‘…
Introduction: Towards a renewal of critical praxis
Introduction: From a mainstream to a critical narrative
Introduction: Moving On
In the first part of this series to move with/against/beyond ‘ Cities for People, Not for Profit’ (CfP), we invited reviews from colleagues new to the book and/or the project, William Tabb, Mark Da
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (21) Work and action: from The Wire to Hamlet
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (22) Mediations, entrapment and counterrevolution
With a focus on the acute decline in the quality of social life that accompanies the model of socioeconomic development and associated urbanisation that ‘the West’ has exported to ‘the Rest’, this endpiece returns to notions of mediations (looking once again at Hamlet as currently mediated) that might deepen our understanding of its/our times, and to notions of entrapment and counterrevolution, and to the possibility of moving beyond such obstruc…
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (24) Whose space is this time? Insurrection, politics –– and ‘magic’
What remains a constant in this series is the crisis of the model of development and urbanisation which ‘the West’ exported to the Rest and in which it now, though reluctant to face the fact, finds itself entrapped, still haunted and incapacitated by spectres, able to assume, invoke but not deliver civilisation and ‘the city’. This deliberately eccentric series, excentric to the established pieties of the social sciences, returns to some of the n…
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (23) The Greek crisis
What appears to be a Greek crisis is a focus for the penultimate episodes of this series of ‘Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis’, initiated in 2001 as a response to 9/11. That event, the destructive incursion into US space, and the unfolding events that revealed its impact on Western consciousness, particularly as defined by powerful elites, was taken as at least symptomatic of ‘the present crisis’. That destructive incursion define…
Towards the Great Transformation: (11) Where/what is culture in 'Planetary Urbanisation'? Towards a new paradigm
The present dominant paradigm in much writing on 'planetary urbanisation' with its exclusive emphasis on ' the urban' and consequent neglect/denial of 'the rural', thereby of the planet itself, and its minimal deployment of the concept of culture and of the humanities, reflects the somewhat ramshackle condition of urban studies and socio-spatial sciences with their uncritical and undertheorised notion of interdisciplinarity (sometimes incorrectly…
Towards the Great Transformation: (7) Locating Gezi Park
One of the major critical claims of this series is that the social and socio-spatial sciences, in their currently dominant form, cannot lead to an appropriate and continually tested strategy (praxis), effectively counter the normalized and naturalized forms and processes of late capitalist urbanization, normalized by mainstream theory in the service of established power, and their extrapolation into a ‘planetary future’. Critical urban theory pre…
Towards the Great Transformation: (9) Where is the planet in ‘planetary urbanisation’
Where is the planet in much of the work on ‘planetary urbanisation’? Largely off-stage, it has to be said. This instalment seeks - drawing from some of the material introduced in this series, notably Patrick Keiller's film, Robinson in Ruins and David Abram's book, Becoming Animal, as well as from Adrian Atkinson's contribution in this issue, ‘Readjusting to reality 2 Transition?’, Andy Merrifield's recent book, The Politics of the Encounter: Urb…
L.A. Blues, Japanimation, architecture and urban analysis: Some sources and resources
(1996). L.A. Blues, Japanimation, architecture and urban analysis. City: Vol. 1, No. 1-2, pp. 190-192
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (24) Whose space is this time? Insurrection, politics –– and ‘magic’
What remains a constant in this series is the crisis of the model of development and urbanisation which ‘the West’ exported to the Rest and in which it now, though reluctant to face the fact, finds itself entrapped, still haunted and incapacitated by spectres, able to assume, invoke but not deliver civilisation and ‘the city’. This deliberately eccentric series, excentric to the established pieties of the social sciences, returns to some of the n…
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (23) The Greek crisis
What appears to be a Greek crisis is a focus for the penultimate episodes of this series of ‘Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis’, initiated in 2001 as a response to 9/11. That event, the destructive incursion into US space, and the unfolding events that revealed its impact on Western consciousness, particularly as defined by powerful elites, was taken as at least symptomatic of ‘the present crisis’. That destructive incursion define…
Is it all coming together: Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (10) Spectres, spectacles, actors and actions within and beyond neoliberalism
Cities contain some of the more audacious examples of neoliberalism, but at the same time they are also among the principal sites and stakes for the generation of oppositional movements and alternative social visions. Cities may count as bastions of the market order, but they also define many of its most vulnerable flanks. (Leitner, Peck and Sheppard)1 Someone, you or me, comes forward, and says: I would like to learn to live finally... To learn …
Landscape without figures
Towards the great transformation: (3) Research, Marx's ‘Old Mole’, and ‘Robinson’/Keiller's Journey
Recently, there has in some circles been an influential return to Marxist political economy and historical materialism in and around an updated version of the critical theory elaborated by the Frankfurt School, and in partly overlapping circles of largely post-Marxist (the post-ness is too often taken-for-granted) discussions, there has been talk of assemblage and of ‘new materialisms.’ This series, in seeking to build a bridge between and beyond…
Towards the great transformation: (2) Nature, Marx's ‘Old Mole’, and ‘Robinson’
What kinds of investigation could serve as an approach to social transformation that questions the project of planetary urbanisation and its representation as ‘the urban revolution’? Do they suggest that it will require a rediscovery of sentient nature informed by and informing a new materialism, and a related reconstruction of communalism, even a rediscovery of ‘the city’ (and ‘the country’, which is perhaps the rural and agrarian dimension of ‘…
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (15) Elite squads: Brazil, Prague, Gaza and beyond
Is it all coming together? Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (4) Space‐time(s), Meanings, Trapped Situations and Mediations
Urban studies and the present crisis
The third sector and the stakeholder
Is there now a new and sustainable model for cities and, indeed, for society as a whole? Is that what all the talk about sustainability, empowerment, stakeholders, partnership, the third sector is essentially about? Or are these terms elements of a new rhetoric that seems, but only seems, to point in that direction? We publish here two extracts from our conference (of the above title) of 21–22 May 1996 which addressed these issues. Bob Catterall,…
Towards the Great Transformation: (10) Earthing ‘planetary urbanisation’
Where is the planet in much of the work on ‘planetary urbanisation’? Largely off-stage, it has to be said. The planet, then, has to be brought on stage and, so to speak, earthed. This instalment indicates some of the gaps, distortions and silences in the academic field of ‘planetary urbanisation’, and provides, developing a multidimensional, transdisciplinary (rather than interdisciplinary) approach, some necessary infilling and new/old orientati…
Towards the Great Transformation: (6) Three ecologies
One of the major critical claims of this series is that the social and socio-spatial sciences, in their currently dominant form, cannot, for lack of a de-familiarising and recontexualising agenda, one that leads to an appropriate and continually tested strategy (praxis), effectively counter the normalised and naturalised forms and processes of late capitalist urbanisation, normalised by mainstream theory in the service of established power, and t…
Towards the Great Transformation: (1) Beyond ‘the urban revolution’
The previous series of ‘endpieces’ to issues of CITY (‘Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present’) were primarily concerned with two dimensions: the crisis of the model of development and urbanisation which ‘the West’ has exported to the Rest; and the, to some extent, unacknowledged crisis of urban studies, more broadly of the socio-spatial sciences and humanities, its/their failure to provide an adequate tracking of an…
On 'the urbanism of nothing
The following informal discussion by e-mail arose in the process of discussing the issue title for 15.1. It began from a sense, frequently explored in City, that urbanism, at the same time as 'the urban revolution' or 'The Age of Cities' is being uncritically asserted, is on the edge of a possibly terminal crisis and that some(not all) manifestations described as 'rurban' are a sign of this. Maros Krivy's exploratory paper in that issue on 'Specu…
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: 17) Sites and moments: bringing black people and women (back?) in
Is it all coming together? Thoughts an urban studies and the present crisis: (16) Comrades against the counterrevolutions: bringing people (back?) in
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (12) Are the levees breaking? Apocalyptics versus Panglossians
We were under strict orders to remove only bodies. But there were lots of people on the roofs or leaning out of the windows of their houses. They were crazy with fear and thirst. They screamed, begged and cursed us. But we had a boatload of bodies, some probably infectious. So we saved the dead and left the living.’(Vincent, one of the workers charged with the task of removing dead bodies in post‐Katrina New Orleans)-super-1
Is it all coming together: Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (13) ‘No Country for Old Men’—or Women
The crime you see now, it’s hard even to take its measure. It’s not that I’m afraid of it... But I don’t want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don’t understand.’-super-1 'Despite the praise Nelson Mandela received from 'First World’ leaders for heralding great restraint through this transition in our troubled land, nothing could convince those same leaders to check their own ancient eye‐for‐an‐eye, knee‐jerk response and t…
Is it all coming together: Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (11) From Neoliberalism towards a paradigm for a New International
In order to be able to move beyond neoliberalism there has to be a theoretical paradigm that can contribute to charting the characteristic silences and blind spots that give plausibility to neoliberalism and implausibility to its contestation. The paradigm of normal social science that underlies mainstream urban studies, though valuable within limits, cannot ultimately chart such gaps and distortions. This essay—one of a series—seeks to sketch an…
Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (8)Dark Ages, prisons and escape routes
‘That cultures have been drastically formed and deformed by waging war is a commonplace observation. They must also have been drastically influenced and shaped, physically, socially, and psychologi
Is it all coming together: Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (9) The play’s the thing
‘The twentieth century is over. People vote, if they vote at all, not for wallets or Europe or schools and hospitals. They are too comfortable for that. They vote for a person they feel they know, whose response to events and the world they recognize and trust. Policies are for nerds and activists, the ectoplasm of the conference season ...’ (Simon Jenkins) 1 ‘The same reality whose glory was extolled—for its opulence, its self‐assurance, its amp…
The third sector and the stakeholder
Is there now a new and sustainable model for cities and, indeed, for society as a whole? Is that what all the talk about sustainability, empowerment, stakeholders, partnership, the third sector is essentially about? Or are these terms elements of a new rhetoric that seems, but only seems, to point in that direction? We publish here two extracts from our conference (of the above title) of 21–22 May 1996 which addressed these issues. Bob Catterall,…
Civilisation’s last stand? Some sources & resources
Civilisation's last stand: Some sources & resources
(1996). Civilisation's last stand?: Some sources & resources. City: Vol. 1, No. 5-6, pp. 185-192
The third sector and the stakeholder
L.A. Blues, Japanimation, architecture and urban analysis Some sources and resources
L.A. Blues, Japanimation, architecture and urban analysis: Some sources and resources
(1996). L.A. Blues, Japanimation, architecture and urban analysis. City: Vol. 1, No. 1-2, pp. 190-192
For whom the bell tolls
Norman Lebrecht, When the Music Stops: Managers, Maestros and the Corporate Murder of Classical Music, Simon and Schuster, 1997 £7.99. Steve Bell, The IF... Files, Methuen, 1997 £9.99. Tan Dun, Symphony 1997: Heaven Earth Mankind, Yo‐Yo Ma and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Sony Classic, 1997
City life — infotainment, identity and action
“New York can probably survive in its post‐industrial form for many generations hooked up to the kidney machine of state and federal subsidies, more or less gradually losing population, jobs, housing — affording the modern novelistic Juvenals like Tom Wolfe a rich diet of decay on which to feed. What we will see, however, is at best a form of vegetation, not urban life with the possibilities it once had. It will be ‘New York'only in name.” (Rober…
Endreview: Margins
Endreview: New spaces
Urban studies and the present crisis
Endpiece Europe: When, Where and How
Still Running”: Derrida’s Tomorrow
Is It All Coming Together
Is it all coming together? Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (4) Space‐time(s), Meanings, Trapped Situations and Mediations
Is It All Coming Together
Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (7) Media and militants, violence and love
Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (8)Dark Ages, prisons and escape routes
‘That cultures have been drastically formed and deformed by waging war is a commonplace observation. They must also have been drastically influenced and shaped, physically, socially, and psychologi
Is it all coming together: Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (9) The play’s the thing
‘The twentieth century is over. People vote, if they vote at all, not for wallets or Europe or schools and hospitals. They are too comfortable for that. They vote for a person they feel they know, whose response to events and the world they recognize and trust. Policies are for nerds and activists, the ectoplasm of the conference season ...’ (Simon Jenkins) 1 ‘The same reality whose glory was extolled—for its opulence, its self‐assurance, its amp…
Is it all coming together: Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (10) Spectres, spectacles, actors and actions within and beyond neoliberalism
Cities contain some of the more audacious examples of neoliberalism, but at the same time they are also among the principal sites and stakes for the generation of oppositional movements and alternative social visions. Cities may count as bastions of the market order, but they also define many of its most vulnerable flanks. (Leitner, Peck and Sheppard)1 Someone, you or me, comes forward, and says: I would like to learn to live finally... To learn …
Is it all coming together: Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (11) From Neoliberalism towards a paradigm for a New International
In order to be able to move beyond neoliberalism there has to be a theoretical paradigm that can contribute to charting the characteristic silences and blind spots that give plausibility to neoliberalism and implausibility to its contestation. The paradigm of normal social science that underlies mainstream urban studies, though valuable within limits, cannot ultimately chart such gaps and distortions. This essay—one of a series—seeks to sketch an…
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (14) Another city is possible? Reports from the frontline
Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (12) Are the levees breaking? Apocalyptics versus Panglossians
We were under strict orders to remove only bodies. But there were lots of people on the roofs or leaning out of the windows of their houses. They were crazy with fear and thirst. They screamed, begged and cursed us. But we had a boatload of bodies, some probably infectious. So we saved the dead and left the living.’(Vincent, one of the workers charged with the task of removing dead bodies in post‐Katrina New Orleans)-super-1
Is it all coming together: Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (13) ‘No Country for Old Men’—or Women
The crime you see now, it’s hard even to take its measure. It’s not that I’m afraid of it... But I don’t want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don’t understand.’-super-1 'Despite the praise Nelson Mandela received from 'First World’ leaders for heralding great restraint through this transition in our troubled land, nothing could convince those same leaders to check their own ancient eye‐for‐an‐eye, knee‐jerk response and t…
Is it all coming together? Thoughts an urban studies and the present crisis: (16) Comrades against the counterrevolutions: bringing people (back?) in
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