M Keith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12925 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Keith |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Keith |
| ASSINATURA | KEITH M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9448-2674 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 259 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Eyre and Eton in Camden
This article analyses the colonial histories of three north London housing estates. A kilometre apart from each other and built under different social policy conditions, Hilgrove, Chalcots, and Alexandra Road Estates all share colonial histories. We trace the role of the slave-holding Eyre Estate in influencing the architecture of Hilgrove Estate; uncover how the Eyre Estate clashed with residents and the London Borough of Camden over Alexandra R…
Unraveling the dynamics of urban park visits
A Trail of Two Cities
A sensibility that evidences a capacity to adapt to and mitigate the impact of global climate change is key to contemporary state making. Bureaucratic documents are the primary artefacts through which this sensibility is performed. This article follows drains and plastics as two slippery “objects” through which the state performs such climate action in attempts to rationalize the city. Taking Delhi as our context, we critically analyze these two …
Climate change adaptation in south Asian cities
South Asian cities, home to nearly 700 million people, are rapidly urbanising while facing intensifying climate impacts such as heatwaves, flooding, and sea-level rise. This paper presents a scoping review of 622 academic publications from 2008 to 2022, analysing how climate adaptation policymaking has been approached through non-structural and structural measures. Of these, 129 publications were analysed in depth, revealing a strong connection b…
Social housing as a social infrastructure
This paper examines social housing as an “infrastructure of social infrastructures” through a case study of playgrounds on the Hilgrove Estate, north London. Drawing on ethnographic research, surveys and creative interventions, we interrogate normative assumptions about social infrastructure – particularly the claim that “good” infrastructure produces “good” sociality. While Eric Klinenberg’s influential work positions playgrounds as sites of loo…
What’s in a hyphen? Insights from the field on co-production as methodology
Drawing on our study of refugee women’s urban mobilities, we examine the mechanisms and infrastructure of arts-based co-production in geography. While co-productive approaches are often celebrated for their transformative potential, we interrogate this promise through a series of workshops culminating in a co-produced film with nine women who received bicycles through the charity, The Bike Project. We ask how the ‘co’ in co-production may obscure…
Beyond The Unfinished Politics of Race
This paper responds to three critical commentaries on the book The Unfinished Politics of Race. It engages with key aspects of the critiques and responds to the critiques and suggests some ways in which we can move forward in analysing the changing politics of race in British society
Urban Futures, Climate Migration, and Platform Logistics of 21st-Century City Systems
Recognizing the mutual construction of the climate crisis by both science and society reframes an understanding of the mobilities of climate migration in an era of planetary urbanization. Drawing on the conceptual language of the late anthropologist Jane Guyer, logics of complexity foreground the importance of logistical relations between urban infrastructures and the dynamics of emergence in complex systems. Emergence is an affordance of urban f…
Whose values? From the discrete to the continuous in how place and space matter in valuation studies
This collection provides some invaluable insight on the interface between the academic discipline of Geography and studies of values and valuation. This article suggests that the tension between the normative and the analytical dimensions of these terms in man pieces is best rooted in the subdiscipline of economic sociology associated with scholars such as Boltanski and Thevenot, Mackenzie, Muniesa and Stark. It goes on to highlight how the geogr…
Representing London
What does it mean to represent a city? We examine this question through drawing from and seeking to read across two somewhat distinct meanings of representation, stemming from cultural theory and political studies. The reason for approaching representation in this way is an interest in how elected representatives claim the city. Based on interviews with members of the London Assembly, we take a transversal cut across party and geographical lines …
Resistance and Response in Planning
Evaluating the impact of water protection policy on urban growth
Source water protection can be a greater challenge in cities where the hydric resource is deeply embedded within a rapidly growing urban area. In these types of cities, the delimitation of protection areas along water resources, as one of the main mechanisms for water resource protection, has a direct impact on the way the urban form evolves. On the one hand, narrow protection areas may not be enough to guarantee that the built city does not affe…
How do density, employment and transit affect the prevalence of Covid-19 pandemic? A study of 3,141 counties across the United States
London is avocado on toast’
This article examines the production, representations and reactions to the #LondonIsOpen campaign to ask how urban imaginaries are produced and what they entail for understanding the city. The analysis considers how the idea of a cosmopolitan, diverse and multicultural city is framed, what it includes and excludes and the distinct geographies of the city it produces. It draws on three data sources: documentary analysis of videos used in the campa…
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city
The idea of the open city has been used both conceptually and analytically to understand the politics of the city. The contrast between the open city and the closed city relies, in part, upon an understanding of the global systems that enfold cities and, consequently, the politics that are - and are not - afforded cities. Notions such as the postpolitical city depend not on temporality where the city has ceased to be political, but a spatialisati…
Risk and Returns
The nature of research funding shapes knowledge outcomes, especially for urban research that is conducted in multiple sites and over multiple years. Recent unplanned cuts in the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) grants, alongside the rupture caused by Covid-19, created ethical and procedural issues for completing the PEAK Urban programme. Building on durable partnerships, setting principles for the reduced fund distribution and adjusting mod…
Beyond above and below
Spatial Accessibility Patterns to Public Hospitals in Shanghai
The spatial distribution of public hospitals is a crucial factor in patient access and thus important to health equity, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. In China, a major issue is to improve accessibility to public health care in the face of the limited space for further growth of cities. Therefore, this study assesses the current spatial accessibility patterns to public hospitals in Shanghai, using point density analysis and the com…
Exploring land use functional variance using mobile phone derived human activity data in Shanghai
Land use functions can categorize places where people perform different socioeconomic activities. This classification plays an important role in urban management, policy making, and resource allocation. However, due to the rapid changes of built environment and living demands, human activities might vary significantly, in space and time, even within the same land use function as conventionally defined, impeding the formulation of targeted and use…
A new urban narrative for sustainable development
Does local planning of fast-growing medium-sized towns lead to higher urban intensity or to sprawl? Cases from Zhejiang Province
Previous studies have frequently taken urban density as a surrogate for economic efficiency and applied composite scores such as urban intensity to assess the existing physical forms of towns. However, measures of intensity might nuance crude calculations of density while considering how such measures relate to future plans and the process of transformations. This paper used open source geospatial data and regulatory detailed planning to measure …
Comparing tweet sentiments in megacities using machine learning techniques
Delineating urban park catchment areas using mobile phone data
Urban parks can offer both physical and psychological health benefits to urban dwellers and provide social, economic, and environmental benefits to society. Earlier research on the usage of urban parks relied on fixed distance or walking time to delineate urban park catchment areas. However, actual catchment areas can be affected by many factors other than park surface areas, such as social capital cultivation, cultural adaptation, climate and se…
The future of the future city? The new urban sciences and a Peak Urban interdisciplinary disposition
In many domains we see a proliferation of claims made about how we can predict and measure the future city, how we make visible its form and shape its settlement. This paper synthesises contemporary debates in data analytics, anthropology, geography and the history of urban thought to consider the context of such claims making around urban futures and the promise (and promises) of attempts to make visible the urban as a ‘lab’ or ‘observatory’ thr…
Complicating the conceptual language of the Bengal diaspora
In celebrating the volume by Alexander, Chatterji and Jalais "The Bengal Diaspora - Rethinking Muslim Migration", this piece suggests that the text productively disturbs the central concepts of migration, diaspora and "Muslim". This opens up further discussion about how interdisciplinary scholarship might rethink the multiple temporalities and cartographies of transnational identification
New Labour’s White Heart
Angry Writing
The manner in which academic protocols fraudulently prohibit certain textual strategies whilst celebrating others is addressed. In particular it is suggested that, in focusing on aesthetics, reflexive anthropologists evade rather than resolve questions both of ethics and of epistemology. This contention can be understood in terms of the responsibility of the author/scriptor with reference to the presence of anger in academic prose and to The Sata…
The Return of Assimilationism
This paper develops a critique of the politics of race and multiculturalism under New Labour. It argues that as a political formation New Labour is fraught with incommensurable impulses and commitment with regard to issues of multiculturalism, nationalism, racial justice and racism. While there have been palpable shifts and important new legislative initiatives, one of the consequences is that the project of assimilation has been reinvigorated un…
Race, Riots and Policing
Part 1 Lost times, forgotten places: from bad to worse? - policing and British Black communities contested fictions - local histories and glimpses of the past. Part 2 1981: that summer in London - Shaggy dog and copycat rioters the riots in London as a moral panic blame, guilt and causes of riots the reality of insurrection? - empiricism and the search for the average rioter. Part 3 Grief: front line policing in the 1980s building stages for conf…
The future of the future city? The new urban sciences and a Peak Urban interdisciplinary disposition
In many domains we see a proliferation of claims made about how we can predict and measure the future city, how we make visible its form and shape its settlement. This paper synthesises contemporary debates in data analytics, anthropology, geography and the history of urban thought to consider the context of such claims making around urban futures and the promise (and promises) of attempts to make visible the urban as a ‘lab’ or ‘observatory’ thr…
Public sociology? Between heroic immersion and critical distance
This article attempts to disrupt some of the ways in which engaged social science at times is forced to choose between the technocratic workings of the state and the political world of civil society. In disrupting the common sense distinction between `critical distance' and `heroic immersion' in the everyday life of the city, the piece tries to reframe an understanding of what the `public sociology' powerfully advocated by Michael Burawoy, when c…
Islam and the New Political Landscape
In this article we consider the forms of democratic participation that revolve around issues of religious faith and Islam. The context of such work is one in which a concern with the levels of participation in the political institutions of Western Europe and North America feature prominently in both journalistic and academic debate. The article speaks to debates that are concerned with the efficacy of specific forms of participation. In doing so …
Between Being and Becoming? Rights, Responsibilities and the Politics of Multiculture in the New East End
Shifting markers of identity in East London's diasporic religious spaces
This article discusses the historical and geographical contexts of diasporic religious buildings in East London, revealing - contrary both to conventional narratives of immigrant integration, mobility, and succession and to identitarian understandings of belonging - that in such spaces and in the concrete devotional practices enacted in them, markers and boundaries of identity (ritual, spatial, and political) are contested, renegotiated, erased, …
Technology, Race and Neo‐fascism in a Digital Age
Les AA. soulignent que l'Europe et l'Amerique du Nord connaissent une vive resurgence du racisme et de l'antisemitisme. Ils montrent que les mouvements neofascistes et racistes utilisent des technologies de pointe, notamment Internet, en ce qui concerne la dissemination de leurs idees. Ils se demandent si ces technologies contribuent a creer les mouvements neofascistes. Ils s'efforcent de savoir comment ces derniers concilient l'utilisation de te…
Shouts of the street
For a long time the street has occupied a cherished place in the lexicon of urbanism. Romanticised as the site of authentic political action, celebrated and reviled as the font of 'low' culture or feared as a signifier of dangerous territorialisation, the street can be gazed at, walked through and appropriated time and again in representations of the city. This paper looks at some of the tensions in the notions of spatiality that are both masked …
Emergent publics, critical ethnographic scholarship and race and ethnic relations
This article asks what might be the possibilities and the limits of what academic research might strive for when we engage with the politics of race. It argues for a reflexive engagement with the historically sensitive production of critical ethnographic knowledge. Ethnography and the anthropological tradition, challenged in much politically progressive literature on race and ethnicity as a form of exoticism, a medium of orientialism and a field …
Black politics and the web of joined‐up governance
In the past decade we have seen the emergence of new forms of ethnic minority political mobilization. In this paper we explore one aspect of this transformation, namely the emergence of organizations such as the National Civil Rights Movement (NCRM) and the National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR). We argue that such organizations are part of a transitional public sphere within ethnic minority politics that seeks to provide links between mainstrea…
Does local planning of fast-growing medium-sized towns lead to higher urban intensity or to sprawl? Cases from Zhejiang Province
Previous studies have frequently taken urban density as a surrogate for economic efficiency and applied composite scores such as urban intensity to assess the existing physical forms of towns. However, measures of intensity might nuance crude calculations of density while considering how such measures relate to future plans and the process of transformations. This paper used open source geospatial data and regulatory detailed planning to measure …
Shifting contours of migration
In the call for articles for this issue of CJRES, we asked for articles that would address the phenomena of the increase of intra- and international migration of people, whether as economic migrants, refugees or asylum seekers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As well as growing numbers of migrants and their increasing diversity, the nature of movement itself had changed in many cases from a permanent movement to settle in a new location…
Comparing tweet sentiments in megacities using machine learning techniques
Que s'est-il passé ? ». Les émeutes de 1980 et 1981 dans les cités britanniques. Un essai d'analyse
« Que s'est-il passé ? ». Les émeutes de 1980 et 1981 dans les cités britanniques. Un essai d'analyse. Michael KEITH Les troubles de 1980 et 1981 ont été utilisés comme symbole et avertissements ultimes par des groupes très divers de la société civile, se servant d'arguments extrêmement variés. C'est l'échec à prendre en compte les problèmes d'explication qui conduit à donner aux émeutes des significations manifestement biaisées, dans la mesure o…
What’s in a hyphen? Insights from the field on co-production as methodology
Drawing on our study of refugee women’s urban mobilities, we examine the mechanisms and infrastructure of arts-based co-production in geography. While co-productive approaches are often celebrated for their transformative potential, we interrogate this promise through a series of workshops culminating in a co-produced film with nine women who received bicycles through the charity, The Bike Project. We ask how the ‘co’ in co-production may obscure…
How do density, employment and transit affect the prevalence of Covid-19 pandemic? A study of 3,141 counties across the United States
London is avocado on toast’
This article examines the production, representations and reactions to the #LondonIsOpen campaign to ask how urban imaginaries are produced and what they entail for understanding the city. The analysis considers how the idea of a cosmopolitan, diverse and multicultural city is framed, what it includes and excludes and the distinct geographies of the city it produces. It draws on three data sources: documentary analysis of videos used in the campa…
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city
The idea of the open city has been used both conceptually and analytically to understand the politics of the city. The contrast between the open city and the closed city relies, in part, upon an understanding of the global systems that enfold cities and, consequently, the politics that are - and are not - afforded cities. Notions such as the postpolitical city depend not on temporality where the city has ceased to be political, but a spatialisati…
Risk and Returns
The nature of research funding shapes knowledge outcomes, especially for urban research that is conducted in multiple sites and over multiple years. Recent unplanned cuts in the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) grants, alongside the rupture caused by Covid-19, created ethical and procedural issues for completing the PEAK Urban programme. Building on durable partnerships, setting principles for the reduced fund distribution and adjusting mod…
A new urban narrative for sustainable development
Complicating the conceptual language of the Bengal diaspora
In celebrating the volume by Alexander, Chatterji and Jalais "The Bengal Diaspora - Rethinking Muslim Migration", this piece suggests that the text productively disturbs the central concepts of migration, diaspora and "Muslim". This opens up further discussion about how interdisciplinary scholarship might rethink the multiple temporalities and cartographies of transnational identification
Architecture and society at an impasse
Short reviews
John Benyon (ed.) SCARMAN AND AFTER: ESSAYS REFLECTING ON LORD SCARMAN'S REPORT, THE RIOTS AND THEIR AFTERMATH, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1984, 292 pp., £7.60; $13.50. Daniel Kubat (ed.), THE POLITICS OF RETURN: INTERNATIONAL RETURN MIGRATION IN EUROPE, Center for Migration Studies, New York ‐ Centro Studi Emigrazione, Roma, 1984, 370 pp., n.p. Barbara Falk and Joy Harris (eds.), UNITY IN DIVERSITY: MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA, Victoria, T…
Squaring circles? Consultation and 'inner city' policing
It is suggested that the problems of ‘race’ and racism which culminated in the uprisings or riots of 1981 were used to justify the enactment of statutory police/ community consultation in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act of 1984 (PACE). Because of the nature of all bureaucratic institutions and the social basis of the conflict between police and British black communities this particular reform could at best play only a small beneficial role i…
Que s'est-il passé ? ». Les émeutes de 1980 et 1981 dans les cités britanniques. Un essai d'analyse
« Que s'est-il passé ? ». Les émeutes de 1980 et 1981 dans les cités britanniques. Un essai d'analyse. Michael KEITH Les troubles de 1980 et 1981 ont été utilisés comme symbole et avertissements ultimes par des groupes très divers de la société civile, se servant d'arguments extrêmement variés. C'est l'échec à prendre en compte les problèmes d'explication qui conduit à donner aux émeutes des significations manifestement biaisées, dans la mesure o…
Angry Writing
The manner in which academic protocols fraudulently prohibit certain textual strategies whilst celebrating others is addressed. In particular it is suggested that, in focusing on aesthetics, reflexive anthropologists evade rather than resolve questions both of ethics and of epistemology. This contention can be understood in terms of the responsibility of the author/scriptor with reference to the presence of anger in academic prose and to The Sata…
Hollow Promises
Hollow Promises
Part 1 Policies: rhetoric and reality hollow promises? issues and agendas in the inner city Merseyside development corporation, 1981-1989 physical regeneration, accountability and economic challenge London docklands development corporation re-investment in residential neighbourhoods the theory and practice of inner city programmes. Part 2 Misconceptions: urban social change, salvation and gentrification gentrification and regeneration women, gend…
Race, Riots and Policing
Part 1 Lost times, forgotten places: from bad to worse? - policing and British Black communities contested fictions - local histories and glimpses of the past. Part 2 1981: that summer in London - Shaggy dog and copycat rioters the riots in London as a moral panic blame, guilt and causes of riots the reality of insurrection? - empiricism and the search for the average rioter. Part 3 Grief: front line policing in the 1980s building stages for conf…
Books
J⊘rgen S. Nielsen, Muslims in Western Europe, Islamic Surveys Series Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992, 180 pp., £14.95 p.b. W.A.R. Shadid and P.S. van Koningsveld (Eds.), Islam in Dutch Society: Current Developments and Future Prospects, Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok Pharos, 1992, 203 pp., £23.67 p.b. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1992, 160…
Making the street visible
This article suggests that in attempting to generalise from the specific there is a danger that academic analysis of a subject such as 'racial violence' suppresses the significance of the context in which 'racial' antagonisms develop. The article examines the manner in which a vocubulary of urban space, drawing in particular on the rhetoric and realities of 'the streets', is useful in understanding the horrific events of late 1993 and 1994 in the…
Shouts of the street
For a long time the street has occupied a cherished place in the lexicon of urbanism. Romanticised as the site of authentic political action, celebrated and reviled as the font of 'low' culture or feared as a signifier of dangerous territorialisation, the street can be gazed at, walked through and appropriated time and again in representations of the city. This paper looks at some of the tensions in the notions of spatiality that are both masked …
Technology, Race and Neo‐fascism in a Digital Age
Les AA. soulignent que l'Europe et l'Amerique du Nord connaissent une vive resurgence du racisme et de l'antisemitisme. Ils montrent que les mouvements neofascistes et racistes utilisent des technologies de pointe, notamment Internet, en ce qui concerne la dissemination de leurs idees. Ils se demandent si ces technologies contribuent a creer les mouvements neofascistes. Ils s'efforcent de savoir comment ces derniers concilient l'utilisation de te…
Guest Editorial
Architecture and society at an impasse
Reports, Interviews, Reviews
New Labour’s White Heart
The Return of Assimilationism
This paper develops a critique of the politics of race and multiculturalism under New Labour. It argues that as a political formation New Labour is fraught with incommensurable impulses and commitment with regard to issues of multiculturalism, nationalism, racial justice and racism. While there have been palpable shifts and important new legislative initiatives, one of the consequences is that the project of assimilation has been reinvigorated un…
Black politics and the web of joined‐up governance
In the past decade we have seen the emergence of new forms of ethnic minority political mobilization. In this paper we explore one aspect of this transformation, namely the emergence of organizations such as the National Civil Rights Movement (NCRM) and the National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR). We argue that such organizations are part of a transitional public sphere within ethnic minority politics that seeks to provide links between mainstrea…
After the Cosmopolitan?
After the Cosmopolitan? argues that both racial divisions and intercultural dialogue can only be understood in the context of the urbanism through which they are realized. All the key debates in cultural theory and urban studies are covered in detail: the growth of cultural industries and the marketing of cities social exclusion and violence the nature of the ghetto the cross-disciplinary conceptualization of cultural hybridity the politics of th…
Public sociology? Between heroic immersion and critical distance
This article attempts to disrupt some of the ways in which engaged social science at times is forced to choose between the technocratic workings of the state and the political world of civil society. In disrupting the common sense distinction between `critical distance' and `heroic immersion' in the everyday life of the city, the piece tries to reframe an understanding of what the `public sociology' powerfully advocated by Michael Burawoy, when c…
Between Being and Becoming? Rights, Responsibilities and the Politics of Multiculture in the New East End
Urbanism and City Spaces in the Work of Stuart Hall
This article considers the manner in which city life informs some of the writing of Stuart Hall. The city appears as an ambivalent site of both freedom and sequestration and reconfigures the ways in which we think about articulations of race, rights and identity. The article interrogates tropes of the urban in three of Hall's most well known pieces of writing over the last 30 years; the co-authored volume Policing the Crisis, the original ‘New Et…
Islam and the New Political Landscape
In this article we consider the forms of democratic participation that revolve around issues of religious faith and Islam. The context of such work is one in which a concern with the levels of participation in the political institutions of Western Europe and North America feature prominently in both journalistic and academic debate. The article speaks to debates that are concerned with the efficacy of specific forms of participation. In doing so …
Shifting contours of migration
In the call for articles for this issue of CJRES, we asked for articles that would address the phenomena of the increase of intra- and international migration of people, whether as economic migrants, refugees or asylum seekers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As well as growing numbers of migrants and their increasing diversity, the nature of movement itself had changed in many cases from a permanent movement to settle in a new location…
Beyond European imaginaries? The paradoxical cartography of a Land of Strangers
This article suggests that a politics of difference demands a recognition of a paradox of universal welfare and a paradox of pirate modernities. The former rests on the fiscal cartography of institutional governance. The latter rests on a reframing of the notion of arrival in an age of globalisation. Both would benefit from an analytical blurring of perspectives that privilege the everyday world of cities of the Global South and those of the Glob…
Emergent publics, critical ethnographic scholarship and race and ethnic relations
This article asks what might be the possibilities and the limits of what academic research might strive for when we engage with the politics of race. It argues for a reflexive engagement with the historically sensitive production of critical ethnographic knowledge. Ethnography and the anthropological tradition, challenged in much politically progressive literature on race and ethnicity as a form of exoticism, a medium of orientialism and a field …
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