School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Ross Beveridge joins Urban Studies in March 2016 as the Urban Studies Foundation Senior Research Fellow. He has worked at Newcastle University and, for the last five years, the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Germany. His research brings together qualitative approaches from urban studies, political science and human geography and has mainly focused on the urban politics of environment, climate and infrastructure.

Recent and forthcoming publications in journals such as Urban Studies, Policy & Politics and Geoforum have addressed debates on: the depoliticisation "crisis" of urban politics; the democratic potential of reorganising public goods in German cities; 'right to the city' and urban infrastructural politics; globalisation, privatisation/ remunicipalisation and urban development in Berlin (1990s -); and urban sustainability and climate politics.

Currently, he is particularly interested in exploring the notion of a decline in democratic politics. To do this research considers more generally what counts as politics in cities today – how well specific ways of thinking about urban politics shape understandings and expectations of politics, and the relations they bare to contemporary political practices apparent in cities. While there is a clear theoretical dimension to this work, comparative research will be conducted on European cities. Other on-going research includes a consideration of climate politics and justice in de-industrialising cities and concepts and practices of the "public" in urban contexts. 

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First published: 1 March 2016