Mr Neil Gray

  • Research Associate in Municipal Action, Public Engagement and Routes Towards Energy Transition (Management)
  • Honorary Research Fellow (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

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

Grants

 

  • British Council/Newton Fund Expenses Bursary
  • ESRC, 1+3 PhD Scholarship, University of Glasgow

 


Publications

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Jump to: 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2015 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
Number of items: 12.

2019

Calderon, E., Gray, N. , Kallin, H. and Suytomel, E. (2019) 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. (Accepted for Publication)

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) 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. (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) 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)

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) ‘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) 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. 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)

This list was generated on Sun Jul 21 21:59:41 2019 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Edited Books
Number of items: 12.

Articles

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. 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

Calderon, E., Gray, N. , Kallin, H. and Suytomel, E. (2019) 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. (Accepted for Publication)

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. (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. 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

Edited Books

Gray, N. (Ed.) (2018) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London. ISBN 9781786605740

This list was generated on Sun Jul 21 21:59:41 2019 BST.