Mr Neil Gray
- Research Associate in Municipal Action, Public Engagement and Routes Towards Energy Transition (Management)
telephone:
0141 330 8140
email:
Neil.Gray@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Neil Gray is an urban geographer, currently working as a Research Associate on the Horizon 2020 project: 'Municipal Action, Public Engagement and Routes Towards Energy Transition'. He received a PhD in Geography from the University of Glasgow in 2015 and worked as the Director of Operations with the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) and as a Lecturer in Social Justice at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin before taking up his current position in June 2018.
Research interests
Neil is a member of the School's Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- The politics and political economy of land use
- Urban devaluation and revaluation
- Territorial stigmatisation
- Rent and its discontents or housing movements
- The spatialities of Italian autonomy
- The right to the city and its limits
Publications
2022
Gray, N. (2022) Rethinking Italian autonomist Marxism: spatial composition, urban contestation, and the material geographies of social reproduction. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 54(3), pp. 800-824. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12803)
Gray, N. (2022) Correcting market failure? Stalled regeneration and the state subsidy gap. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 26(1), pp. 74-95. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2017193)
2021
García-Lamarca, M. and Gray, N. (2021) Land remediation in Glasgow's East End: a “sustainability fix” for whose benefit? In: Anguelovski, I. and Connolly, J. J.T. (eds.) The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe. Series: Routledge equity, justice and the sustainable city series. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 100-110. ISBN 9781032024110 (doi: 10.4324/9781003183273-10)
Traill, H., Cumbers, A. and Gray, N. (2021) The state of European municipal energy transition: an overview of current trends. Documentation. mPOWER.
2020
Calderon, E., Gray, N. , Kallin, H. and Suytomel, E. (2020) An explanatory or mystifying concept: The use value of gentrification theory. In: Cupples, J. and Slater, T. (eds.) Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowman and Littlefield International: London. ISBN 9781786606402
Cumbers, A. and Gray, N. (2020) Marxist geography. In: Kobayashi, A. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA, pp. 413-424. ISBN 9780081022962 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10671-7)
2019
Gray, N. (2019) Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell. Urban Studies, 56(16), pp. 2565-2568. (doi: 10.1177/0042098019879829)[Book Review]
Huron, A. and Gray, N. (2019) Tenant and resident militancy for housing justice: An exchange between Amanda Huron and Neil Gray. Radical Housing Journal, 1(2), pp. 153-156.
Gray, N. and Simons, J. (2019) Interview with Bella Caledonia: "Rent and its discontents: The futures of housing activism". [Website]
Gray, N. , Simons, J. and Walker, B. (2019) Fighting for a living rent. Scottish Left Review, 110, p. 12.
Gray, N. (2019) Kentten Sağa “Kenti Almak” a: İtalya Laboratuvarı'ndan Öğrenme = From the Right to the City to ‘Take over the City’: Learning from Laboratory Italy. In: Kulak, Ö. and Torlak, S. (eds.) Önce Mekân Vardı = There is Space at the Beginning. Edebi Şeyler Publishing: Istanbul, pp. 167-210. ISBN 9786052325421
Gray, N. (2019) The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in Neoliberal Britain. Regional Studies, 53(10), pp. 1506-1507. (doi: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1642007)[Book Review]
2018
Gray, N. (Ed.) (2018) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London. ISBN 9781786605740
Gray, N. (2018) The futures of housing activism. In: Gray, N. (ed.) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London, pp. 201-207. ISBN 9781786605740
Gray, N. (2018) Rent unrest: from the 1915 rent strikes to contemporary housing struggles. In: Gray, N. (ed.) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London, xvii-xxxix. ISBN 9781786605740
Gray, N. (2018) Spatial composition and the urbanization of capital: the 1915 Glasgow rent strikes and the housing question reconsidered. In: Gray, N. (ed.) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London, pp. 49-67. ISBN 9781786605740
Gray, N. and Kallin, H. (2018) Interview with AntipodeFoundation.org: “Much More Than You Think: The Spatialities of Italian Autonomy” – Interview with Neil Gray, author of “Beyond the Right to the City: Territorial Autogestion and the Take over the City Movement in 1970s Italy”. [Website]
Gray, N. (2018) Nothing exceptional: Scottish Housing Associations and the erasure of Scottish social housing. [Website]
Gray, N. (2018) Beyond the Right to the City: territorial autogestion and the Take over the City movement in 1970s Italy. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 50(2), pp. 319-339. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12360)
Gray, N. (2018) Neither Shoreditch nor Manhattan: Post-politics, 'soft austerity urbanism' and real abstraction in Glasgow North. Area, 50(1), pp. 15-23. (doi: 10.1111/area.12299)
2017
Gray, N. and Porter, L. (2017) The right to the city and its limits: contested property claims, urban exceptionality, and the fight for relational space in Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games 2014. In: Bruun, M. H., Cockburn, P. J.L., Risager, B. S. and Thorup, M. (eds.) Contested Property Claims: What Disagreement Tells Us About Ownership. Series: Social justice. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138550896 (doi: 10.4324/9780203712153)
2016
Gray, N. (2016) Researching the city edited by KevinWard London: Sage, 2014, 167 pp, FAQs, refs and index, £21.99 paperback ISBN 978-1-4462-0211-1. Area, 48(2), pp. 250-251. (doi: 10.1111/area.12234)[Book Review]
2015
Gray, N. and Porter, L. (2015) By any means necessary: urban regeneration and the “state of exception” in Glasgow's Commonwealth Games 2014. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 47(2), pp. 380-400. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12114)
2013
Gray, N. (2013) Book Review: Starring New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s, Stanley Corkin, 2011, Oxford: Oxford University Press 240 pp. £17.99 paperback. ISBN 9780195382808 paperback. Urban Studies, 50(9), pp. 1913-1915. (doi: 10.1177/0042098013485137)[Book Review]
Gray, N. (2013) ‘Neighbourhood inquiry’: for a post-political politics. Planning Theory and Practice, 14(4), pp. 551-555. (doi: 10.1080/14649357.2013.853470)
2012
Gray, N. (2012) Whose rebel city? Mute Magazine, 3(4), pp. 132-145.
Gray, N. (2012) Duck! You regeneration sucker. In: Powell, H. and Marrero-Guillamón, I. (eds.) The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State. Marshgate Press: London, pp. 164-169. ISBN 9780957294301
2011
Gray, N. (2011) State, Space, World: Selected Essays / Henri Lefebvre. Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden (Eds), 2009, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 344 pp. US$28.50 paperback, ISBN 9780816653164 hardback; 9780816653171 paperback. Urban Studies, 48(2), pp. 439-450. (doi: 10.1177/0042098010391297)[Book Review]
Gray, N. and Mooney, G. (2011) Glasgow’s new urban frontier: ‘civilising’ the population of ‘Glasgow East’. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 15(1), pp. 4-24. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511857)
Articles
Gray, N. (2022) Rethinking Italian autonomist Marxism: spatial composition, urban contestation, and the material geographies of social reproduction. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 54(3), pp. 800-824. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12803)
Gray, N. (2022) Correcting market failure? Stalled regeneration and the state subsidy gap. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 26(1), pp. 74-95. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2017193)
Huron, A. and Gray, N. (2019) Tenant and resident militancy for housing justice: An exchange between Amanda Huron and Neil Gray. Radical Housing Journal, 1(2), pp. 153-156.
Gray, N. , Simons, J. and Walker, B. (2019) Fighting for a living rent. Scottish Left Review, 110, p. 12.
Gray, N. (2018) Beyond the Right to the City: territorial autogestion and the Take over the City movement in 1970s Italy. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 50(2), pp. 319-339. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12360)
Gray, N. (2018) Neither Shoreditch nor Manhattan: Post-politics, 'soft austerity urbanism' and real abstraction in Glasgow North. Area, 50(1), pp. 15-23. (doi: 10.1111/area.12299)
Gray, N. and Porter, L. (2015) By any means necessary: urban regeneration and the “state of exception” in Glasgow's Commonwealth Games 2014. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 47(2), pp. 380-400. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12114)
Gray, N. (2013) ‘Neighbourhood inquiry’: for a post-political politics. Planning Theory and Practice, 14(4), pp. 551-555. (doi: 10.1080/14649357.2013.853470)
Gray, N. (2012) Whose rebel city? Mute Magazine, 3(4), pp. 132-145.
Gray, N. and Mooney, G. (2011) Glasgow’s new urban frontier: ‘civilising’ the population of ‘Glasgow East’. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 15(1), pp. 4-24. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511857)
Book Sections
García-Lamarca, M. and Gray, N. (2021) Land remediation in Glasgow's East End: a “sustainability fix” for whose benefit? In: Anguelovski, I. and Connolly, J. J.T. (eds.) The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe. Series: Routledge equity, justice and the sustainable city series. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 100-110. ISBN 9781032024110 (doi: 10.4324/9781003183273-10)
Calderon, E., Gray, N. , Kallin, H. and Suytomel, E. (2020) An explanatory or mystifying concept: The use value of gentrification theory. In: Cupples, J. and Slater, T. (eds.) Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowman and Littlefield International: London. ISBN 9781786606402
Cumbers, A. and Gray, N. (2020) Marxist geography. In: Kobayashi, A. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA, pp. 413-424. ISBN 9780081022962 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10671-7)
Gray, N. (2019) Kentten Sağa “Kenti Almak” a: İtalya Laboratuvarı'ndan Öğrenme = From the Right to the City to ‘Take over the City’: Learning from Laboratory Italy. In: Kulak, Ö. and Torlak, S. (eds.) Önce Mekân Vardı = There is Space at the Beginning. Edebi Şeyler Publishing: Istanbul, pp. 167-210. ISBN 9786052325421
Gray, N. (2018) The futures of housing activism. In: Gray, N. (ed.) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London, pp. 201-207. ISBN 9781786605740
Gray, N. (2018) Rent unrest: from the 1915 rent strikes to contemporary housing struggles. In: Gray, N. (ed.) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London, xvii-xxxix. ISBN 9781786605740
Gray, N. (2018) Spatial composition and the urbanization of capital: the 1915 Glasgow rent strikes and the housing question reconsidered. In: Gray, N. (ed.) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London, pp. 49-67. ISBN 9781786605740
Gray, N. and Porter, L. (2017) The right to the city and its limits: contested property claims, urban exceptionality, and the fight for relational space in Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games 2014. In: Bruun, M. H., Cockburn, P. J.L., Risager, B. S. and Thorup, M. (eds.) Contested Property Claims: What Disagreement Tells Us About Ownership. Series: Social justice. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138550896 (doi: 10.4324/9780203712153)
Gray, N. (2012) Duck! You regeneration sucker. In: Powell, H. and Marrero-Guillamón, I. (eds.) The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State. Marshgate Press: London, pp. 164-169. ISBN 9780957294301
Book Reviews
Gray, N. (2019) Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell. Urban Studies, 56(16), pp. 2565-2568. (doi: 10.1177/0042098019879829)[Book Review]
Gray, N. (2019) The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in Neoliberal Britain. Regional Studies, 53(10), pp. 1506-1507. (doi: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1642007)[Book Review]
Gray, N. (2016) Researching the city edited by KevinWard London: Sage, 2014, 167 pp, FAQs, refs and index, £21.99 paperback ISBN 978-1-4462-0211-1. Area, 48(2), pp. 250-251. (doi: 10.1111/area.12234)[Book Review]
Gray, N. (2013) Book Review: Starring New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s, Stanley Corkin, 2011, Oxford: Oxford University Press 240 pp. £17.99 paperback. ISBN 9780195382808 paperback. Urban Studies, 50(9), pp. 1913-1915. (doi: 10.1177/0042098013485137)[Book Review]
Gray, N. (2011) State, Space, World: Selected Essays / Henri Lefebvre. Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden (Eds), 2009, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 344 pp. US$28.50 paperback, ISBN 9780816653164 hardback; 9780816653171 paperback. Urban Studies, 48(2), pp. 439-450. (doi: 10.1177/0042098010391297)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Gray, N. (Ed.) (2018) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London. ISBN 9781786605740
Research Reports or Papers
Traill, H., Cumbers, A. and Gray, N. (2021) The state of European municipal energy transition: an overview of current trends. Documentation. mPOWER.
Website
Gray, N. and Simons, J. (2019) Interview with Bella Caledonia: "Rent and its discontents: The futures of housing activism". [Website]
Gray, N. and Kallin, H. (2018) Interview with AntipodeFoundation.org: “Much More Than You Think: The Spatialities of Italian Autonomy” – Interview with Neil Gray, author of “Beyond the Right to the City: Territorial Autogestion and the Take over the City Movement in 1970s Italy”. [Website]
Gray, N. (2018) Nothing exceptional: Scottish Housing Associations and the erasure of Scottish social housing. [Website]
Grants
- British Council/Newton Fund Expenses Bursary
- ESRC, 1+3 PhD Scholarship, University of Glasgow