Ash Amin

Increasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalisation, uncertainty, and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and the UK to Brazil, India, and Turkey, support has grown for a nativist politics attacking migrants, minorities, liberals, and elites as enemies of the nation. Is there a politics of belonging that progressive forces could...

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been...

Seeing Like a City means recognising that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organisation alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies...

Urban Lifelines explores the vulnerabilities that cities face in the wake of the climate crisis, health emergencies, uncontrolled artificial intelligence, escalating warfare, growing authoritarianism, and capitalist profligacy. These threats are particularly acute for unprotected urban populations who encounter a precarious future, as powerful elites attempt to leverage urban assets for their advantage amidst uncertainty. For the majority of city dwellers,...