Dr Tilman Schwarze

Lecturer in Criminology (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

email: Tilman.Schwarze@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Tilman Schwarze is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow. He initially joined the School of Social & Political Sciences as a Research Associate before starting his new role as a Lecturer in Criminology in October 2021. Tilman holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews.

He has published on territorial stigmatisation, gang violence, and socio-spatial theory. His current research focuses on community development in gang-affected communities on Chicago's South Side, racial economy, comparative urban theory, and the criminalisation of drill music in the UK.

Tilman's current teaching focuses on qualitative research methods and introduction to Criminology at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Research interests

Tilman’s research draws on criminological, sociological and geographical scholarship to critically analyse the role of violence, crime, and stigma for shaping urban redevelopment processes. His most recent work, which also informed his latest monograph Space, Urban Politics and Everyday Life. Henri Lefebvre and the U.S. City (Palgrave, 2023), draws on socio-spatial theory for understanding urbanisation processes on Chicago’s South Side. Particularly using Henri Lefebvre’s extensive writing on space, the urban, everyday life and the state, his work demonstrates the contemporary relevance of Lefebvre’s oeuvre for critical inquiry into the role of territorial stigmatisation, public housing transformation, and racial economies in city building efforts in the United States.

Research groups

Criminology

Publications

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Number of items: 26.

2026

Donnelly, Faye and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (Eds.) (2026) Security and Space. In Pursuit of Interconnections. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529245684 (In Press)

Donnelly, Faye and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2026) In pursuit of interconnections between security and space. In: Donnelly, Faye and Schwarze, Tilman (eds.) Security and Space: In Pursuit of Interconnections. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529245684 (In Press)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2026) Space, ontological (in)security, and urban redevelopment: everyday lived experiences with urban transformation in south side Chicago. In: Donnelly, Faye and Schwarze, Tilman (eds.) Security and Space: In Pursuit of Interconnections. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529245684 (In Press)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408, Gillon, Fern and Fraser, Alistair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2026) Security from below? Young people, urban space and social policy. In: Schliehe, Anna and Hörschelmann, Kathrin (eds.) A Research Agenda for Critical Security Studies. Series: Elgar research agendas. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035311149 (In Press)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 and Dawson, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0649-676X (Eds.) (2026) The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre. Series: Anthem companions to sociology. Anthem Press: London. ISBN 9781839998317

Dawson, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0649-676X and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2026) Introduction: reclaiming Henri Lefebvre as a sociologist. In: Schwarze, Tilman and Dawson, Matt (eds.) The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre. Series: Anthem companions to sociology. Anthem Press: London, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781839998317

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2026) Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Luc Nancy, and an urban sociology of encountering the city. In: Schwarze, Tilman (ed.) The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre. Series: Anthem companions to sociology. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781839998317 (In Press)

Fraser, Alistair, Billingham, Luke, Gillon, Fern, Irwin-Rogers, Keir, McVie, Susan, Newburn, Tim and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2026) A violence revolution? with Tilman Schwarze. In: The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements, and Hope. Series: Clarendon studies in criminology. Oxford University Press, pp. 67-92. ISBN 9780198945468

2025

Wilson, David and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2025) Peripheral centrality as strategic resource in urban redevelopment: The Capitol Theatre and Flint, Michigan. In: Phelps, Nicholas A., Keil, Roger and Maginn, Paul J. (eds.) Peripheral Centralities: Instances of Anticipatory Urbanism. Jovis. ISBN 9783986121525

Fraser, Alistair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2025) Crime in the restive city: Globalisation, illicit labour and urban change. In: Oberwittler, Dietrich and Wickes, Rebecca (eds.) Handbook on Cities and Crime. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781800375703

2024

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2024) Review of Carolina Sternberg 2023: Neoliberal Urban Governance. Spaces, Culture and Discourses in Buenos Aires and Chicago. Cham: Palgrave. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, (doi: 10.56949/1XUH1988)[Book Review]

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2024) Henri Lefebvre. In: Eckardt, Frank (ed.) Handbuch Stadtsoziologie. Springer VS: Wiesbaden. ISBN 9783658424190 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-42419-0_49-1) (Early Online Publication)

Luger, Jason and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2024) Leaving post-industrial urban studies behind? Dialogues in Urban Research, 2(2), pp. 188-209. (doi: 10.1177/27541258241230058)

Luger, Jason and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2024) Urban post-industrialism's long shadow and lasting spell. Dialogues in Urban Research, 2(2), pp. 232-237. (doi: 10.1177/27541258241264007)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 and Jankowski, Krzysztof Zenon (2024) Rhythms, dressage and pacemaking in South Side Chicago: Examining the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center. Urban Geography, (doi: 10.1080/02723638.2024.2334175) (Early Online Publication)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 and Fraser, Alistair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2024) Critical approaches to gangs. In: Pyrooz, David C., Densley, James and Leverso, John (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society. Oxford University Press, pp. 269-286. ISBN 9780197618158 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197618158.013.25)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Irwin-Rogers, Keir, Gillon, Fern, McVie, Susan and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2024) Safe Space? The past, present and future of violence reduction in Scotland. Other. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

2023

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2023) “Missing the community for the dots”: newspaper crime maps, territorial stigma and visual criminology. Critical Criminology, 31, pp. 1155-1171. (doi: 10.1007/s10612-023-09720-w)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2023) Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and the U.S. City. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031460371 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-46038-8)

2022

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 and Fatsis, Lambros (2022) Copping the blame: the role of YouTube videos in the criminalisation of UK drill music. Popular Music, 41(4), pp. 463-480. (doi: 10.1017/S0261143022000563)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2022) Discursive practices of territorial stigmatization: how newspapers frame violence and crime in a Chicago community. Urban Geography, 43(9), pp. 1415-1436. (doi: 10.1080/02723638.2021.1913015)

Werner, Cosima and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2022) From ‘Hood’ to Good – Dealing with Stigmatizing Spatial Representations in Everyday Life. In: Third International Symposium on Platial Information Science (PLATIAL’21), Enschede, the Netherlands, 15–17 Dec 2021, pp. 31-34. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5767182)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 and Wilson, David (2022) Silencing, urban growth machines, and the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago's South Side. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 4, 835674. (doi: 10.3389/frsc.2022.835674)

Stevenson Murer, Jeffrey and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2022) Social rituals of pain: the socio-symbolic meaning of violence in gang initiations. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 35(1), pp. 95-110. (doi: 10.1007/s10767-020-09392-2)

2021

Luger, Jason and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2021) Cafés, cocktail coves, and “empathy walls”: Comparing urban and exurban everyday life through a Lefebvrian lens. Geoforum, 127, pp. 151-161. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.10.012)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2021) Gangs, space and the state: bringing Henri Lefebvre’s spatial theory to critical gang studies. In: International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies. Routledge: United States, pp. 89-107. ISBN 9781138616110 (doi: 10.4324/9780429462443-8)

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