Dr Graeme Young

  • Lecturer in Social and Public Policy (Urban Studies)

telephone: Ex. 1741
email: Graeme.Young.2@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Graeme Young is a Lecturer in Social and Public Policy in the School of Social & Political Sciences. He received his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge in 2018.

Graeme’s research focuses on the political economy of informal economic activity and explores how political processes, economic institutions, legal and regulatory systems, and urban development projects shape informality in cities in the Global South; how the urban poor experience and respond to state power as they engage in the informal economy; and what the relationship between the informal economy and the state reveals about state power and the political economy of development more generally. Building on his research into informality in Uganda and South Africa, his current book project examines the governance of informal economies as a global phenomenon that is central to understanding the state, the market, and the lives of the urban poor.

Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, Graeme served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cape Town, and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law.

Research interests

  • Informal economic activity
  • Political economy of development in the Global South
  • Democratization and state power
  • Urban governance and development
  • Heterodox economics
  • Political, economic, and social rights
  • Peacekeeping and peacebuilding

Publications

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Number of items: 18.

2022

Sundstedt, A., Young, G. and Osborne, M. (2022) SHLC (Animation). [Audio]

2021

Young, G. (2021) Neoliberalism and the state in the African city: Informality, accumulation and the rebirth of a Ugandan market = Le néolibéralisme et l'Etat dans la ville africaine : informalité, accumulation et renaissance d'un marché ougandais. Critical African Studies, 13(3), pp. 305-320. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1999834)

Ozcelik, A. , Nesterova, Y. , Young, G. and Maxwell, A. (2021) Youth-led peace: The role of youth in peace processes. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Young, G. (2021) Development, division and discontent in informal markets: insights from Kampala. Review of African Political Economy, 48(168), pp. 196-216. (doi: 10.1080/03056244.2020.1841620)

Ahmad, S. , Baffoe, G. , Bhandari, R. , Young, G. and Osborne, M. (2021) Sustainable, healthy, learning cities and neighbourhoods. In: Venter, M. and Hattingh, S. (eds.) Learning for a Better Future: Perspectives on Higher Education, Cities, Business and Civil Society. Series: Centre for local economic development: topics in local development (vol.1). AOSIS: Cape Town, pp. 27-50. ISBN 9781928523970 (doi: 10.4102/aosis.2021.BK214.02)

2020

Nesterova, Y. and Young, G. (2020) Education Policies, Systems, and Progress in Africa and Asia : A Comparative Analysis of 12 Cities in Six Countries. Documentation. GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC).

Young, G. (2020) Demand: the forgotten side of informal economy policy. Other. Hungry Cities Partnership.

Young, G. (2020) Reconceptualizing informal economic governance: implications from Cape Town, South Africa. Discussion Paper. Hungry Cities Partnership.

Young, G. (2020) Urban informal economies in peacebuilding: Competing perspectives and implications for theory and praxis. Third World Quarterly, 41(11), pp. 1937-1956. (doi: 10.1080/01436597.2020.1799192)

Young, G. and Crush, J. (2020) The urban informal food sector in the Global South. In: Crush, J., Frayne, B. and Haysom, G. (eds.) Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 198-217. ISBN 9781786431509 (doi: 10.4337/9781786431516.00015)

2019

Crush, J. and Young, G. (2019) Africa's Urban Informal Food Sector in Comparative Perspective [Special Issue]. Urban Forum, 30(4),

Crush, J. and Young, G. (2019) Resituating Africa’s urban informal food sector. Urban Forum, 30(4), pp. 377-384. (doi: 10.1007/s12132-019-09374-4)

Young, G. (2019) The state and the origins of informal economic activity: insights from Kampala. Urban Forum, 30(4), pp. 407-423. (doi: 10.1007/s12132-019-09372-6)

Young, G. (2019) Political decision-making and the decline of Canadian peacekeeping. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 25(2), pp. 152-171. (doi: 10.1080/11926422.2018.1543713)

Young, G. and Crush, J. (2019) Governing the informal food sector in cities of the Global South. Discussion Paper. Hungry Cities Partnership.

2018

Young, G. (2018) De-democratisation and the rights of street vendors in Kampala, Uganda. International Journal of Human Rights, 22(8), pp. 1007-1029. (doi: 10.1080/13642987.2018.1492915)

2017

Young, G. (2017) From protection to repression: the politics of street vending in Kampala. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 11(4), pp. 714-733. (doi: 10.1080/17531055.2017.1378448)

2015

Young, G. W. (2015) Conceptualizing resistance in post-conflict environments. International Peacekeeping, 22(2), pp. 169-185. (doi: 10.1080/13533312.2015.1017081)

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Number of items: 18.

Articles

Young, G. (2021) Neoliberalism and the state in the African city: Informality, accumulation and the rebirth of a Ugandan market = Le néolibéralisme et l'Etat dans la ville africaine : informalité, accumulation et renaissance d'un marché ougandais. Critical African Studies, 13(3), pp. 305-320. (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1999834)

Young, G. (2021) Development, division and discontent in informal markets: insights from Kampala. Review of African Political Economy, 48(168), pp. 196-216. (doi: 10.1080/03056244.2020.1841620)

Young, G. (2020) Urban informal economies in peacebuilding: Competing perspectives and implications for theory and praxis. Third World Quarterly, 41(11), pp. 1937-1956. (doi: 10.1080/01436597.2020.1799192)

Crush, J. and Young, G. (2019) Africa's Urban Informal Food Sector in Comparative Perspective [Special Issue]. Urban Forum, 30(4),

Crush, J. and Young, G. (2019) Resituating Africa’s urban informal food sector. Urban Forum, 30(4), pp. 377-384. (doi: 10.1007/s12132-019-09374-4)

Young, G. (2019) The state and the origins of informal economic activity: insights from Kampala. Urban Forum, 30(4), pp. 407-423. (doi: 10.1007/s12132-019-09372-6)

Young, G. (2019) Political decision-making and the decline of Canadian peacekeeping. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 25(2), pp. 152-171. (doi: 10.1080/11926422.2018.1543713)

Young, G. (2018) De-democratisation and the rights of street vendors in Kampala, Uganda. International Journal of Human Rights, 22(8), pp. 1007-1029. (doi: 10.1080/13642987.2018.1492915)

Young, G. (2017) From protection to repression: the politics of street vending in Kampala. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 11(4), pp. 714-733. (doi: 10.1080/17531055.2017.1378448)

Young, G. W. (2015) Conceptualizing resistance in post-conflict environments. International Peacekeeping, 22(2), pp. 169-185. (doi: 10.1080/13533312.2015.1017081)

Book Sections

Ahmad, S. , Baffoe, G. , Bhandari, R. , Young, G. and Osborne, M. (2021) Sustainable, healthy, learning cities and neighbourhoods. In: Venter, M. and Hattingh, S. (eds.) Learning for a Better Future: Perspectives on Higher Education, Cities, Business and Civil Society. Series: Centre for local economic development: topics in local development (vol.1). AOSIS: Cape Town, pp. 27-50. ISBN 9781928523970 (doi: 10.4102/aosis.2021.BK214.02)

Young, G. and Crush, J. (2020) The urban informal food sector in the Global South. In: Crush, J., Frayne, B. and Haysom, G. (eds.) Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 198-217. ISBN 9781786431509 (doi: 10.4337/9781786431516.00015)

Research Reports or Papers

Ozcelik, A. , Nesterova, Y. , Young, G. and Maxwell, A. (2021) Youth-led peace: The role of youth in peace processes. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Nesterova, Y. and Young, G. (2020) Education Policies, Systems, and Progress in Africa and Asia : A Comparative Analysis of 12 Cities in Six Countries. Documentation. GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC).

Young, G. (2020) Demand: the forgotten side of informal economy policy. Other. Hungry Cities Partnership.

Young, G. (2020) Reconceptualizing informal economic governance: implications from Cape Town, South Africa. Discussion Paper. Hungry Cities Partnership.

Young, G. and Crush, J. (2019) Governing the informal food sector in cities of the Global South. Discussion Paper. Hungry Cities Partnership.

Audio

Sundstedt, A., Young, G. and Osborne, M. (2022) SHLC (Animation). [Audio]

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Supervision

Graeme is interested in supervising research projects that examine the political economy of development, particularly those that explore the following themes:

  • The role of political processes, institutions, and ideologies in development
  • The origin, evolution, dynamics, and governance of informal economies
  • How and why international actors intervene in conflict and post-conflict environments

Teaching

URBAN5085

Governance and Markets

Course Coordinator

 

PUBPOL2010

Social and Public Policy 2A: Perspectives on Public Policy - Conflicting Ideas and Changing Agendas

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Photograph of Dr. Graeme Young