Joe Doherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 77391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Doherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Doherty |
| SIGNATURE | DOHERTY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9979-9745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Jacob Doherty’s view
Social Justice and the City
This commentary seeks to explain the indifferent reaction to Social Justice and The City (SJTC) among the radical/Marxist denizens of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) campus in the mid-1970s. It explores what was considered useful about the book, but also why, in part because of its European and North American focus and emphasis upon the revolutionary potential of the city rather than the countryside, it arguably did not resonate as much as…
Mobilizing social reproduction
This article examines the everyday mobilities of mothers in Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire to analytically center mobility in the study of social reproduction. Yopougon, Abidjan’s largest commune, is on the cusp of a major overhaul of its transportation network intended to better integrate it into the city. Planned through a conventional vision of economic productivity that privileges commuting over other forms of travel, this restructuring risks deepen…
Motorcycle taxis, personhood, and the moral landscape of mobility
Capitalizing Community
Biomass briquettes have emerged as a development silver bullet, supposedly converting waste to wealth and tackling crises of unemployment, urban waste management, and rural deforestation. Briquettes have captured the imagination of international environmental NGOs operating in many African cities who promote briquette production, partnering with local Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to improve urban livelihoods and sanitation. Based on ethno…
Labor Laid Waste
Waste studies brings to labor history a suite of conceptual tools to think about precarious labor, human capital, migration, the material quality of labor in urban and rural infrastructures, and the porosity and interchangeability of workers’ bodies in the toxic environments in which they labor. In this introduction, we explore the conceptual insights that the study of waste offers for the field of labor history, and what, in turn, a focus on lab…
Filthy Flourishing
Thousands of marabou storks occupy Kampala, nesting in the city's green spaces and eating up to 2 kilos of organic matter daily, mostly rotting garbage found in the city's open dumps. Weedy birds, they flourish amid Kampala's garbage crisis. Storks are both waste infrastructure and waste themselves, rendered disposable by the same state-centric views of infrastructure that make informal waste pickers precarious, and cast out from the imaginary of…
Maintenance Space
In the name of cleaning up Kampala's political institutions and public space, a new municipal body, the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), was established in 2010, replacing an elected city council with a presidentially appointed executive director. To legitimize its highly contested and explicitly antipolitical authority, the KCCA made garbage collection and beautification its top priority, promising to deliver routine urban repair and munda…
Why Is This Trash Can Yelling at Me? Big Bellies and Clean Green Gentrification
Rasanblaj: n. assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits. For example, fe yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest).“Hey there, good looking!” On a
Life (and limb) in the fast-lane
Motorcycle taxis, dubbed boda bodas, constitute a vital aspect of Kampala’s transportation infrastructure, yet the industry is perpetually precarious, threatened with wholesale eviction. Moreover, drivers’ lives and bodies are continually put at risk by the city’s traffic. Through a relational approach to ontology, this article asks how the boda boda industry comes into being and endures, what forms of vulnerability it entails, and what experienc…
Neil Smith, 1954–2012
Peer reviewed
Mixing Housing Tenures
Mixing tenures is now a widely accepted policy designed to tackle problems of social exclusion in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. However, the evidence base for mixing tenures is fragmented and ambiguous. With few exceptions, studies of mixed-tenure effects have been small, one-off investigations of individual communities, providing only a rudimentary basis for comparative evaluation. In attempting to address these issues, a national-level, ecologi…
Preventing Homelessness among Substance Users in Europe
Prior to the 1970s, neither homelessness nor drug addiction was seen as issues of major concern in Europe. At most, they were of local interest and of particular importance only in some larger metropolitan centres. Over the last three decades they have come much more into public prominence and risen up in local and national policy agendas. At the level of the European Union (EU), however, while the use and abuse of drugs has attracted substantial…
Homelessness and Exclusion
Public space is an essential component of the daily life of homeless people, whether rough sleepers or hostel dwellers or others who are inadequately housed. During 2006 a group of researchers from the European Observatory on Homelessness considered the ways in which the increasing surveillance, regulation and control over public space, evident in all European cities, has impacted on the lives of homeless people. In this paper we chart the backgr…
Postmodernism and the Social Sciences
Preface - Introduction: The Context and Language of Postmodernism E.Graham, J.Doherty & M.Malek - Postmodern Anthropology? Or, An Anthropology of Postmodernity? R.Fardon - Social Science and Postmodern Spatialisations: Jameson's Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping R.Shields - Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale N.Smith - Discourse Discourse: Social Psychology and Postmodernity I.Parker - Development Psychology and the Postmodern Child E.Bu…
Postmodernism and the Social Sciences
The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines and, as such, products of the Enlightenment. Recent challenges to Enlightenment thinking thus carry with them the potential or threat
World Patterns of Modern Urban Change
Housing and development in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Geography, education and ideology in Tanzania
(1982). Geography, education and ideology in Tanzania. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 173-176
Ideology and Town Planning ‐ the Tanzanian Experience
Urban Places and Third World Development
Race, Class and Residential Segregation in Britain
Filthy Flourishing
Thousands of marabou storks occupy Kampala, nesting in the city's green spaces and eating up to 2 kilos of organic matter daily, mostly rotting garbage found in the city's open dumps. Weedy birds, they flourish amid Kampala's garbage crisis. Storks are both waste infrastructure and waste themselves, rendered disposable by the same state-centric views of infrastructure that make informal waste pickers precarious, and cast out from the imaginary of…
Mixing Housing Tenures
Mixing tenures is now a widely accepted policy designed to tackle problems of social exclusion in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. However, the evidence base for mixing tenures is fragmented and ambiguous. With few exceptions, studies of mixed-tenure effects have been small, one-off investigations of individual communities, providing only a rudimentary basis for comparative evaluation. In attempting to address these issues, a national-level, ecologi…
Life (and limb) in the fast-lane
Motorcycle taxis, dubbed boda bodas, constitute a vital aspect of Kampala’s transportation infrastructure, yet the industry is perpetually precarious, threatened with wholesale eviction. Moreover, drivers’ lives and bodies are continually put at risk by the city’s traffic. Through a relational approach to ontology, this article asks how the boda boda industry comes into being and endures, what forms of vulnerability it entails, and what experienc…
Motorcycle taxis, personhood, and the moral landscape of mobility
Maintenance Space
In the name of cleaning up Kampala's political institutions and public space, a new municipal body, the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), was established in 2010, replacing an elected city council with a presidentially appointed executive director. To legitimize its highly contested and explicitly antipolitical authority, the KCCA made garbage collection and beautification its top priority, promising to deliver routine urban repair and munda…
Homelessness and Exclusion
Public space is an essential component of the daily life of homeless people, whether rough sleepers or hostel dwellers or others who are inadequately housed. During 2006 a group of researchers from the European Observatory on Homelessness considered the ways in which the increasing surveillance, regulation and control over public space, evident in all European cities, has impacted on the lives of homeless people. In this paper we chart the backgr…
Mobilizing social reproduction
This article examines the everyday mobilities of mothers in Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire to analytically center mobility in the study of social reproduction. Yopougon, Abidjan’s largest commune, is on the cusp of a major overhaul of its transportation network intended to better integrate it into the city. Planned through a conventional vision of economic productivity that privileges commuting over other forms of travel, this restructuring risks deepen…
Labor Laid Waste
Waste studies brings to labor history a suite of conceptual tools to think about precarious labor, human capital, migration, the material quality of labor in urban and rural infrastructures, and the porosity and interchangeability of workers’ bodies in the toxic environments in which they labor. In this introduction, we explore the conceptual insights that the study of waste offers for the field of labor history, and what, in turn, a focus on lab…
Race, Class and Residential Segregation in Britain
Capitalizing Community
Biomass briquettes have emerged as a development silver bullet, supposedly converting waste to wealth and tackling crises of unemployment, urban waste management, and rural deforestation. Briquettes have captured the imagination of international environmental NGOs operating in many African cities who promote briquette production, partnering with local Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to improve urban livelihoods and sanitation. Based on ethno…
Why Is This Trash Can Yelling at Me? Big Bellies and Clean Green Gentrification
Rasanblaj: n. assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits. For example, fe yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest).“Hey there, good looking!” On a
Urban Places and Third World Development
Neil Smith, 1954–2012
Peer reviewed
Housing and development in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Race, Class and Residential Segregation in Britain
Urban Places and Third World Development
Ideology and Town Planning ‐ the Tanzanian Experience
Geography, education and ideology in Tanzania
(1982). Geography, education and ideology in Tanzania. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 173-176
Housing and development in Freetown, Sierra Leone
World Patterns of Modern Urban Change
Postmodernism and the Social Sciences
Preface - Introduction: The Context and Language of Postmodernism E.Graham, J.Doherty & M.Malek - Postmodern Anthropology? Or, An Anthropology of Postmodernity? R.Fardon - Social Science and Postmodern Spatialisations: Jameson's Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping R.Shields - Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale N.Smith - Discourse Discourse: Social Psychology and Postmodernity I.Parker - Development Psychology and the Postmodern Child E.Bu…
Postmodernism and the Social Sciences
The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines and, as such, products of the Enlightenment. Recent challenges to Enlightenment thinking thus carry with them the potential or threat
Homelessness and Exclusion
Public space is an essential component of the daily life of homeless people, whether rough sleepers or hostel dwellers or others who are inadequately housed. During 2006 a group of researchers from the European Observatory on Homelessness considered the ways in which the increasing surveillance, regulation and control over public space, evident in all European cities, has impacted on the lives of homeless people. In this paper we chart the backgr…
Preventing Homelessness among Substance Users in Europe
Prior to the 1970s, neither homelessness nor drug addiction was seen as issues of major concern in Europe. At most, they were of local interest and of particular importance only in some larger metropolitan centres. Over the last three decades they have come much more into public prominence and risen up in local and national policy agendas. At the level of the European Union (EU), however, while the use and abuse of drugs has attracted substantial…
Mixing Housing Tenures
Mixing tenures is now a widely accepted policy designed to tackle problems of social exclusion in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. However, the evidence base for mixing tenures is fragmented and ambiguous. With few exceptions, studies of mixed-tenure effects have been small, one-off investigations of individual communities, providing only a rudimentary basis for comparative evaluation. In attempting to address these issues, a national-level, ecologi…
Neil Smith, 1954–2012
Peer reviewed
Life (and limb) in the fast-lane
Motorcycle taxis, dubbed boda bodas, constitute a vital aspect of Kampala’s transportation infrastructure, yet the industry is perpetually precarious, threatened with wholesale eviction. Moreover, drivers’ lives and bodies are continually put at risk by the city’s traffic. Through a relational approach to ontology, this article asks how the boda boda industry comes into being and endures, what forms of vulnerability it entails, and what experienc…
Why Is This Trash Can Yelling at Me? Big Bellies and Clean Green Gentrification
Rasanblaj: n. assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits. For example, fe yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest).“Hey there, good looking!” On a
Capitalizing Community
Biomass briquettes have emerged as a development silver bullet, supposedly converting waste to wealth and tackling crises of unemployment, urban waste management, and rural deforestation. Briquettes have captured the imagination of international environmental NGOs operating in many African cities who promote briquette production, partnering with local Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to improve urban livelihoods and sanitation. Based on ethno…
Labor Laid Waste
Waste studies brings to labor history a suite of conceptual tools to think about precarious labor, human capital, migration, the material quality of labor in urban and rural infrastructures, and the porosity and interchangeability of workers’ bodies in the toxic environments in which they labor. In this introduction, we explore the conceptual insights that the study of waste offers for the field of labor history, and what, in turn, a focus on lab…
Filthy Flourishing
Thousands of marabou storks occupy Kampala, nesting in the city's green spaces and eating up to 2 kilos of organic matter daily, mostly rotting garbage found in the city's open dumps. Weedy birds, they flourish amid Kampala's garbage crisis. Storks are both waste infrastructure and waste themselves, rendered disposable by the same state-centric views of infrastructure that make informal waste pickers precarious, and cast out from the imaginary of…
Maintenance Space
In the name of cleaning up Kampala's political institutions and public space, a new municipal body, the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), was established in 2010, replacing an elected city council with a presidentially appointed executive director. To legitimize its highly contested and explicitly antipolitical authority, the KCCA made garbage collection and beautification its top priority, promising to deliver routine urban repair and munda…
Motorcycle taxis, personhood, and the moral landscape of mobility
Mobilizing social reproduction
This article examines the everyday mobilities of mothers in Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire to analytically center mobility in the study of social reproduction. Yopougon, Abidjan’s largest commune, is on the cusp of a major overhaul of its transportation network intended to better integrate it into the city. Planned through a conventional vision of economic productivity that privileges commuting over other forms of travel, this restructuring risks deepen…
Social Justice and the City
This commentary seeks to explain the indifferent reaction to Social Justice and The City (SJTC) among the radical/Marxist denizens of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) campus in the mid-1970s. It explores what was considered useful about the book, but also why, in part because of its European and North American focus and emphasis upon the revolutionary potential of the city rather than the countryside, it arguably did not resonate as much as…
Jacob Doherty’s view
Sociology (16 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Law (5 works)