Samuel Burgum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Burgum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Burgum |
| SIGNATURE | BURGUM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Urban Studies and Planning University of Sheffield Sheffield UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Grenfell Tower to the Home Front
The Grenfell fire was symbolic of an unequal urban landscape closely tied to material and aesthetic norms around property ownership and entitlement. The aim of this paper is to unsettle these norms by advancing a novel genealogical approach. Through systematic review of government archives seldom studied by property researchers, historical comparisons are mobilised to challenge the taken‐for‐granted way in which we approach property and ownership…
Occupying London
Just because there has been a crisis does not necessarily mean there is going to be a change. And yet why, exactly, did nothing change in the face of global resistances and movements which followed the financial meltdown of 2007/8. Based on ethnographic research with the Occupy movement in London - as a case study of one post-crash attempt to bring alternatives about - this book argues that change was ultimately foreclosed by widespread 'common s…
The branding of the left
Following a spate of appearances on political television programmes in 2013 that subsequently went viral, actor-comedian Russell Brand seemed to momentarily become the new popular face of radical left-wing politics. However, his professing of these ideas was also met with a surge of conflicting commentary, either supporting his accessible popular format or criticising his position as a celebrity in making such politics a trivial spectacle. This p…
Campus Politics, Student Societies and Social Media
The university campus has often been seen as an important site for the politicization of young people. Recent explanations for this have focused attention upon the role of the student union as a means to enable a 'critical mass' of previously isolated individuals to produce social networks of common interest. What is missing from these accounts, however, and what this article seeks to address, is how these factors actually facilitate the developm…
The dark side of modernity
Campus Politics, Student Societies and Social Media
The university campus has often been seen as an important site for the politicization of young people. Recent explanations for this have focused attention upon the role of the student union as a means to enable a 'critical mass' of previously isolated individuals to produce social networks of common interest. What is missing from these accounts, however, and what this article seeks to address, is how these factors actually facilitate the developm…
From Grenfell Tower to the Home Front
The Grenfell fire was symbolic of an unequal urban landscape closely tied to material and aesthetic norms around property ownership and entitlement. The aim of this paper is to unsettle these norms by advancing a novel genealogical approach. Through systematic review of government archives seldom studied by property researchers, historical comparisons are mobilised to challenge the taken‐for‐granted way in which we approach property and ownership…
The dark side of modernity
The branding of the left
Following a spate of appearances on political television programmes in 2013 that subsequently went viral, actor-comedian Russell Brand seemed to momentarily become the new popular face of radical left-wing politics. However, his professing of these ideas was also met with a surge of conflicting commentary, either supporting his accessible popular format or criticising his position as a celebrity in making such politics a trivial spectacle. This p…
Campus Politics, Student Societies and Social Media
The university campus has often been seen as an important site for the politicization of young people. Recent explanations for this have focused attention upon the role of the student union as a means to enable a 'critical mass' of previously isolated individuals to produce social networks of common interest. What is missing from these accounts, however, and what this article seeks to address, is how these factors actually facilitate the developm…
Occupying London
Just because there has been a crisis does not necessarily mean there is going to be a change. And yet why, exactly, did nothing change in the face of global resistances and movements which followed the financial meltdown of 2007/8. Based on ethnographic research with the Occupy movement in London - as a case study of one post-crash attempt to bring alternatives about - this book argues that change was ultimately foreclosed by widespread 'common s…
From Grenfell Tower to the Home Front
The Grenfell fire was symbolic of an unequal urban landscape closely tied to material and aesthetic norms around property ownership and entitlement. The aim of this paper is to unsettle these norms by advancing a novel genealogical approach. Through systematic review of government archives seldom studied by property researchers, historical comparisons are mobilised to challenge the taken‐for‐granted way in which we approach property and ownership…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (2 works) · 2008-2009 (1 work) · Action (physics (1 work)