Dr Ross Beveridge
- Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies (Urban Studies)
telephone:
0141 330 7660
email:
Ross.Beveridge@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
- urban activism and the state
- depoliticisation, anti-politics and the 'urban'
- urban politics of environment, climate and infrastructure
- public space, goods and ownership
- German urban politics
- theories of urban politics
Publications
2022
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 Naumann, M. (2021) Progressive urbanism in small towns: the contingencies of governing from the Left. Urban Affairs Review, (doi: 10.1177/10780874211055834) (Early Online Publication)
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)
Articles
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 Naumann, M. (2021) Progressive urbanism in small towns: the contingencies of governing from the Left. Urban Affairs Review, (doi: 10.1177/10780874211055834) (Early Online Publication)
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. (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. (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
Supervision
I am interested in supervising doctoral projects related to my specific research interests (see above) and in the broader field of urban politics.
Current PhD Students:
Alice Earley (2016-2020)
Community Enterprise, Regeneration and Gentrification.
Michael Scanlan: (2017-2021)
"Inclusive Populism": from Latin American phenomenon to fixture of European Politics
- Hwang, Jeongha
Grounding Creativity: Urban Politics and hidden actors in Dongdaemun fashion cluster’s restructuring
Teaching
Convenor (Post Graduate):
International Urban Challenges.