Dr Ross Beveridge

  • Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies (Urban Studies)

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies with diverse teaching and research interests in the field of urban politics and governance.

An interdisciplinary urbanist, I studied History (University of Manchester) and International Studies (Newcastle University), before conducting EU-funded research on urban infrastructures in Europe and my doctoral project on the politics of urban development and privatisation in 1990s Berlin (Newcastle University). I joined Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2015 from the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Germany, where I had worked for 6 years in various research and teaching posts. Initially at Glasgow I held an Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Senior Research Fellowship, before moving to my current position.

My most recent book is How Cities Can Transform Democracy, co-authored with Philippe Koch (ZHAW Zurich) and published with Polity Press in 2022. 

I am a member of the editorial board for the journal Geography Compass and am co-founder and editor of the Urban Political Podcast, which addresses contemporary urban issues through discussions with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world.

Research interests

  • democracy and the city
  • urban activism and the state
  • municipalism
  • urban politics of environment, climate and infrastructure
  • public space, goods and ownership
  • German urban politics
  • theories of urban politics

Publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2009 | 2008 | 2005
Number of items: 37.

2024

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2024) What kind of democratic project is the “CITY”? and what does the new municipalism want to do with It? In: Coşkun, G., İnal-Çekiç, T. and Tombuş, E. (eds.) Reclaiming Democracy in Cities. Routledge. ISBN 9781003404736 (doi: 10.4324/9781003404736-4)

Beveridge, R. , Rudolph, D. and Naumann, M. (2024) The rise of 'infrastructural populism': urban infrastructure and right-wing politic. Geography Compass, 18(2), e12738. (doi: 10.1111/gec3.12738)

2023

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2023) Seeing democracy like a city. Dialogues in Urban Research, (doi: 10.1177/27541258231203999) (Early Online Publication)

Williams, J., Beveridge, R. and Mayaux, P.-L. (2023) Unconventional waters: a critical understanding of desalination and wastewater reuse. Water Alternatives, 16(2), pp. 429-443.

Beveridge, R. and Cochrane, A. (2023) Exploring the political potential of the local state: building a dialogue with Sheffield in the 1980s. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 55(3), pp. 790-809. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12908)

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2023) Progressive urbanism in small towns: the contingencies of governing from the Left. Urban Affairs Review, 59(1), pp. 43-72. (doi: 10.1177/10780874211055834)

2022

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2022) How Cities Can Transform Democracy. Polity Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781509545988

Beveridge, R. , Kip, M. and Oevermann, H. (2022) From wastelands to waiting lands: retrieving possibility from the voids of Berlin. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 26(2-3), pp. 281-303. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2040200)

2021

Beveridge, R. and Featherstone, D. (2021) Introduction: Anti-politics, austerity and spaces of politicisation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 437-450. (doi: 10.1177/23996544211004188)

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2021) Contesting austerity, de-centring the state: anti-politics and the political horizon of the urban. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 451-468. (doi: 10.1177/2399654419871299)

2019

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2019) Urban everyday politics: politicising practices and the transformation of the here and now. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(1), pp. 142-157. (doi: 10.1177/0263775818805487)

Beveridge, R. (2019) Intermediaries and networks. In: Davoudi, S., Cowell, R., White, I. and Blanco, H. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning. Routledge. ISBN 9781138894808

2018

Koch, P. and Beveridge, R. (2018) Postpolitische Stadt. In: Rink, D. and Haase, A. (eds.) Handbuch Stadtkonzepte: Analysen, Diagnosen, Kritiken und Visionen. Verlag Barbara Budrich: Opladen. ISBN 9783825249557

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2018) Depoliticization and urban politics: moving beyond the “post-political”. In: Buller, J., Dönmez, P., Standring, A. and Woods, M. (eds.) Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 189-208. ISBN 9783319642369

2017

Beveridge, R. , Moss, T. and Naumann, M. (2017) Sociospatial understanding of water politics: Tracing the multidimensionality of water reuse. Water Alternatives, 10(1), pp. 22-40.

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2017) The post-political trap: reflections on politics, agency and the city. Urban Studies, 54(1), pp. 31-43. (doi: 10.1177/0042098016671477)

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2017) What is (still) political about the city? Urban Studies, 54(1), pp. 62-66. (doi: 10.1177/0042098016671478)

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2017) Für ein Recht auf Infrastruktur! Stadtpolitische Konflikte um die Energie- und Wasserversorgung in Berlin. In: Flitner, M., Lossau, J. and Müller, A.-L. (eds.) Infrastrukturen der Stadt. Springer, pp. 67-87. ISBN 9783658104238 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-10424-5_4)

Beveridge, R. (2017) The (ontological) politics in depoliticisation debates: three lenses on the decline of the political. Political Studies Review, 15(4), pp. 589-600. (doi: 10.1177/1478929916664358)

2016

Becker, S., Röhring, A. and Beveridge, R. (2016) Energy transitions and institutional reconfiguration: reassessing structure and agency. In: Moss, T. and Gailing, L. (eds.) Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition: Power, Socio-Materiality and Space. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137505927

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, R. (2016) Another urban infrastructure is possible: contesting energy and water networks in Berlin. In: Coutard, O. and Rutherford, J. (eds.) Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South. Series: Routledge studies in urbanism and the city. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781317633693

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2016) Contesting neoliberalism in an ‘activist city’: working towards the urban commons in Berlin. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 64, pp. 88-93.

2015

Becker, S., Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2015) Reconfiguring energy provision in Berlin. Commoning between compromise and contestation. In: Urban Commons. Moving Beyond State and Market. Series: Bauwelt Fundamente (154). Birkhäuser: Basel, pp. 196-213. ISBN 9783038216612

Becker, S., Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2015) Remunicipalization in German cities: contesting neo-liberalism and reimagining urban governance? Space and Polity, 19(1), pp. 76-90. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2014.991119)

2014

Beveridge, R. , Hüesker, F. and Naumann, M. (2014) From post-politics to a politics of possibility? Unravelling the privatization of the Berlin Water Company. Geoforum, 51, pp. 66-74. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.09.021)

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2014) Global norms, local contestation: Privatisation and de/politicisation in Berlin. Policy and Politics, 42(2), pp. 275-291.

Beveridge, R. and Richter, A. (2014) Die post-politische Stadt. In: Belina, B., Naumann, M. and Strüver, A. (eds.) Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie. Westfälisches Dampfboot: Münster, pp. 53-58. ISBN 9783896919557

2013

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2013) The Berlin water company. From "inevitable" privatization to "impossible" remunicipalization. In: Bernt, M., Grell, B. and Holm, A. (eds.) The Berlin Reader. A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism. Series: Urban studies. Transcript: Bielefeld, pp. 189-203. ISBN 9783837624786

Beveridge, R. and Kern, K. (2013) The ‘Energiewende’ in Germany: background, developments and future challenges. Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review, 4(1), pp. 3-12.

2012

Beveridge, R. (2012) Consultants, depoliticization and arena-shifting in the policy process: privatizing water in Berlin. Policy Sciences, 45(1), pp. 47-68. (doi: 10.1007/s11077-011-9144-4)

Beveridge, R. (2012) A Politics of Inevitability: the Privatisation of the Berlin Water Company, the Global City Discourse and Governance in 1990s Berlin. VS Springer: Wiesbaden. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-531-94056-4)

Beveridge, R. and Monsees, J. (2012) Bridging parallel discourses of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): institutional and political challenges in developing and developed countries. Water International, 37(7), pp. 727-743. (doi: 10.1080/02508060.2012.742713)

2011

Beveridge, R. and Guy, S. (2011) Innovation to intermediaries: translating the EU Urban Wastewater Directive. In: Guy, S., Marvin, S., Medd, W. and Moss, T. (eds.) Shaping Urban Infrastructures: Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks. Earthscan: London, pp. 92-107. ISBN 9781849710688

2009

Beveridge, R. and Guy, S. (2009) Governing through translations: intermediaries and the mediation of the EU's Urban Waste Water Directive. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 11(2), pp. 69-85. (doi: 10.1080/15239080902891244)

2008

Beveridge, R. and Hüesker, F. (2008) Nichtöffentlichkeit als Prinzip. Die Teilprivatisierung der Berliner Wasserbetriebe. In: Wasser: Die Kommerzialisierung eines öffentlichen Gutes. Series: Texte (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) (41). Karl Dietz: Berlin, pp. 58-74. ISBN 9783320021351

Beveridge, R. and Moss, T. (2008) The Parrett Catchment Project: between rhetoric and reality. In: Moss, T. and Monstadt, J. (eds.) Restoring Floodplains in Europe: Policy Context and Project Experiences. IWA Publishing: London, pp. 286-314. ISBN 9781843390909

2005

Beveridge, R. and Guy, S. (2005) The rise of the eco-preneur and the messy world of environmental innovation. Local Environment, 10(6), pp. 665-676. (doi: 10.1080/13549830500321972)

This list was generated on Wed Apr 17 17:12:11 2024 BST.
Number of items: 37.

Articles

Beveridge, R. , Rudolph, D. and Naumann, M. (2024) The rise of 'infrastructural populism': urban infrastructure and right-wing politic. Geography Compass, 18(2), e12738. (doi: 10.1111/gec3.12738)

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2023) Seeing democracy like a city. Dialogues in Urban Research, (doi: 10.1177/27541258231203999) (Early Online Publication)

Williams, J., Beveridge, R. and Mayaux, P.-L. (2023) Unconventional waters: a critical understanding of desalination and wastewater reuse. Water Alternatives, 16(2), pp. 429-443.

Beveridge, R. and Cochrane, A. (2023) Exploring the political potential of the local state: building a dialogue with Sheffield in the 1980s. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 55(3), pp. 790-809. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12908)

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2023) Progressive urbanism in small towns: the contingencies of governing from the Left. Urban Affairs Review, 59(1), pp. 43-72. (doi: 10.1177/10780874211055834)

Beveridge, R. , Kip, M. and Oevermann, H. (2022) From wastelands to waiting lands: retrieving possibility from the voids of Berlin. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 26(2-3), pp. 281-303. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2040200)

Beveridge, R. and Featherstone, D. (2021) Introduction: Anti-politics, austerity and spaces of politicisation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 437-450. (doi: 10.1177/23996544211004188)

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2021) Contesting austerity, de-centring the state: anti-politics and the political horizon of the urban. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 451-468. (doi: 10.1177/2399654419871299)

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2019) Urban everyday politics: politicising practices and the transformation of the here and now. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(1), pp. 142-157. (doi: 10.1177/0263775818805487)

Beveridge, R. , Moss, T. and Naumann, M. (2017) Sociospatial understanding of water politics: Tracing the multidimensionality of water reuse. Water Alternatives, 10(1), pp. 22-40.

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2017) The post-political trap: reflections on politics, agency and the city. Urban Studies, 54(1), pp. 31-43. (doi: 10.1177/0042098016671477)

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2017) What is (still) political about the city? Urban Studies, 54(1), pp. 62-66. (doi: 10.1177/0042098016671478)

Beveridge, R. (2017) The (ontological) politics in depoliticisation debates: three lenses on the decline of the political. Political Studies Review, 15(4), pp. 589-600. (doi: 10.1177/1478929916664358)

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2016) Contesting neoliberalism in an ‘activist city’: working towards the urban commons in Berlin. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 64, pp. 88-93.

Becker, S., Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2015) Remunicipalization in German cities: contesting neo-liberalism and reimagining urban governance? Space and Polity, 19(1), pp. 76-90. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2014.991119)

Beveridge, R. , Hüesker, F. and Naumann, M. (2014) From post-politics to a politics of possibility? Unravelling the privatization of the Berlin Water Company. Geoforum, 51, pp. 66-74. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.09.021)

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2014) Global norms, local contestation: Privatisation and de/politicisation in Berlin. Policy and Politics, 42(2), pp. 275-291.

Beveridge, R. and Kern, K. (2013) The ‘Energiewende’ in Germany: background, developments and future challenges. Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review, 4(1), pp. 3-12.

Beveridge, R. (2012) Consultants, depoliticization and arena-shifting in the policy process: privatizing water in Berlin. Policy Sciences, 45(1), pp. 47-68. (doi: 10.1007/s11077-011-9144-4)

Beveridge, R. and Monsees, J. (2012) Bridging parallel discourses of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): institutional and political challenges in developing and developed countries. Water International, 37(7), pp. 727-743. (doi: 10.1080/02508060.2012.742713)

Beveridge, R. and Guy, S. (2009) Governing through translations: intermediaries and the mediation of the EU's Urban Waste Water Directive. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 11(2), pp. 69-85. (doi: 10.1080/15239080902891244)

Beveridge, R. and Guy, S. (2005) The rise of the eco-preneur and the messy world of environmental innovation. Local Environment, 10(6), pp. 665-676. (doi: 10.1080/13549830500321972)

Books

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2022) How Cities Can Transform Democracy. Polity Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781509545988

Beveridge, R. (2012) A Politics of Inevitability: the Privatisation of the Berlin Water Company, the Global City Discourse and Governance in 1990s Berlin. VS Springer: Wiesbaden. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-531-94056-4)

Book Sections

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2024) What kind of democratic project is the “CITY”? and what does the new municipalism want to do with It? In: Coşkun, G., İnal-Çekiç, T. and Tombuş, E. (eds.) Reclaiming Democracy in Cities. Routledge. ISBN 9781003404736 (doi: 10.4324/9781003404736-4)

Beveridge, R. (2019) Intermediaries and networks. In: Davoudi, S., Cowell, R., White, I. and Blanco, H. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning. Routledge. ISBN 9781138894808

Koch, P. and Beveridge, R. (2018) Postpolitische Stadt. In: Rink, D. and Haase, A. (eds.) Handbuch Stadtkonzepte: Analysen, Diagnosen, Kritiken und Visionen. Verlag Barbara Budrich: Opladen. ISBN 9783825249557

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2018) Depoliticization and urban politics: moving beyond the “post-political”. In: Buller, J., Dönmez, P., Standring, A. and Woods, M. (eds.) Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 189-208. ISBN 9783319642369

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2017) Für ein Recht auf Infrastruktur! Stadtpolitische Konflikte um die Energie- und Wasserversorgung in Berlin. In: Flitner, M., Lossau, J. and Müller, A.-L. (eds.) Infrastrukturen der Stadt. Springer, pp. 67-87. ISBN 9783658104238 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-10424-5_4)

Becker, S., Röhring, A. and Beveridge, R. (2016) Energy transitions and institutional reconfiguration: reassessing structure and agency. In: Moss, T. and Gailing, L. (eds.) Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition: Power, Socio-Materiality and Space. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137505927

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, R. (2016) Another urban infrastructure is possible: contesting energy and water networks in Berlin. In: Coutard, O. and Rutherford, J. (eds.) Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South. Series: Routledge studies in urbanism and the city. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781317633693

Becker, S., Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2015) Reconfiguring energy provision in Berlin. Commoning between compromise and contestation. In: Urban Commons. Moving Beyond State and Market. Series: Bauwelt Fundamente (154). Birkhäuser: Basel, pp. 196-213. ISBN 9783038216612

Beveridge, R. and Richter, A. (2014) Die post-politische Stadt. In: Belina, B., Naumann, M. and Strüver, A. (eds.) Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie. Westfälisches Dampfboot: Münster, pp. 53-58. ISBN 9783896919557

Beveridge, R. and Naumann, M. (2013) The Berlin water company. From "inevitable" privatization to "impossible" remunicipalization. In: Bernt, M., Grell, B. and Holm, A. (eds.) The Berlin Reader. A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism. Series: Urban studies. Transcript: Bielefeld, pp. 189-203. ISBN 9783837624786

Beveridge, R. and Guy, S. (2011) Innovation to intermediaries: translating the EU Urban Wastewater Directive. In: Guy, S., Marvin, S., Medd, W. and Moss, T. (eds.) Shaping Urban Infrastructures: Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks. Earthscan: London, pp. 92-107. ISBN 9781849710688

Beveridge, R. and Hüesker, F. (2008) Nichtöffentlichkeit als Prinzip. Die Teilprivatisierung der Berliner Wasserbetriebe. In: Wasser: Die Kommerzialisierung eines öffentlichen Gutes. Series: Texte (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) (41). Karl Dietz: Berlin, pp. 58-74. ISBN 9783320021351

Beveridge, R. and Moss, T. (2008) The Parrett Catchment Project: between rhetoric and reality. In: Moss, T. and Monstadt, J. (eds.) Restoring Floodplains in Europe: Policy Context and Project Experiences. IWA Publishing: London, pp. 286-314. ISBN 9781843390909

This list was generated on Wed Apr 17 17:12:11 2024 BST.

Supervision

I am interested in supervising doctoral projects related to my specific research interests (see above) and in the broader field of urban politics and governance.

 

  • Hwang, Jeongha
    Grounding Creativity: Urban Politics and hidden actors in Dongdaemun fashion cluster’s restructuring

Completed PhD Projects:

Alice Earley (2016-2020)

Community Enterprise, Regeneration and Gentrification.

Michael Scanlan: (2017-2021)

"Inclusive Populism": from Latin American phenomenon to fixture of European Politics

Teaching

 Convenor (Postgraduate):

 International Urban Challenges

 

Civis European University Module on Co-creating Urban Futures: Citizen Participation and Local Goverance

 

Convenor (Undergraduate):

Remaking Cities in a Global Age