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Professor Steve Graham

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Professor in the Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 41857
Fax: +44 (0)191 33 41801
Room number: 408

Contact (email at s.d.n.graham@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Stephen Graham is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Durham. He holds a degree on Geography (Southampton, 1986), an M. Phil. In Urban Planning (Newcastle, 1989), and a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Policy (Manchester, 1995). Between 1989 and 2002 he worked in planning and economic development at Sheffield City Council.

From 1992 to Spring, 2004, he was a planning academic in Newcastle University, initially as a lecturer and later as a Reader, then Professor, of Urban Technology. Whilst at Newcastle he co-founded the Centre for Urban Technology (CUT), a major interdisciplinary research centre exploring the intersections of mobility, technology and urban life. In 1999-2000 he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also held Visiting positions at New York University’s Program for Metropolitan Studies, Salford University’s Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (2003 - 04) and Newcastle University’s Global Urban Research Unit.

As well as publishing a range of books, academic articles and book chapters, Professor Graham has acted as a consultant to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, acted on two international urban development juries, and won research awards from the ESRC, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the British Academy, and the United Nations. Between 2003 and 2005 he was a British Academy Reader undertaking a research project to find out how software code automatically sorts people’s life chances in the UK. Professor Graham has also acted on the Editorial Boards of a range of international peer-reviewed journals and book series.

Broadly focussing on networked urbanism, Professor Graham's research explores the urban implications of new technologies, the importance of mobility and infrastructure in urban life, the links between cities and surveillance, and the relationships between cities, war and terrorism. As well as working on the ‘splintering’ of urban spaces and infrastructures with his colleague Simon Marvin, he is currently working on the following themes:

* The intersections of urbanism and geopolitics

* How global urbanisation is affecting military doctrine

* The central role of cities and urban sites within the ‘war on terror’

* The intersections of war, terrorism and urban infrastructure

* The social implications of the intensification of urban surveillance since 9/11

* The hidden military and strategic histories of urban planning; and

* The largely unexplored histories behind ‘urbicide’ - the attempted denial, or killing - of cities

Research Groups

Centre for the Study of Cities & Regions

International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU)

Lived & Material Cultures

Politics - State - Space

Social / Spatial Theory

Social Well-being & Spatial Justice

Research Projects

Contested Borders: Non governmental public action and the technologies of the war on terror

Multispeed Cities and the Logistics of Living in an Information Age

Rethinking the digital divide: the software-sorted society

Research Interests

The geographies of cities, infrastructure and mobility

The geopolitical dimensions to urbanism

The implications of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for urban life

The intersections of cities, war and terrorism

The social implications of digital surveillance

Research Groups

Research Projects

Research Interests

  • The geographies of cities, infrastructure and mobility
  • The geopolitical dimensions to urbanism
  • The implications of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for urban life
  • The intersections of cities, war and terrorism
  • The social implications of digital surveillance

Selected Publications

Books: authored

  • Graham, S. Cities, War and Terrorism. Malden, Oxford, Victoria.: Blackwell; 2004. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. The Cybercities Reader. Routledge; 2004.
  • Graham, S. & Marvin, S. Città E Comunicazione Spazi elettronici e nodi urbani. Baskerville; 2002.
  • Graham, S. & Marvin, S. Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. London: Routledge; 2001. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Books: sections

  • Graham, S. Cities and the "War on Terror". In: Sorkin, M. Indefensible Space. New York and Oxon: Routledge; 2008:1-28. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. Imagining Urban Welfare. In: Cowen, D. & Gilbert, E. War, Citizenship, Territory. London.: Routledge; 2008:33-56. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. Surveillance, urbanization, and the US "Revolution in Military Affairs". In: Lyon, L. Theorizing Surveillance: The panopticon and beyond. Willon Publishing; 2008:247-268.
  • Graham, S. Demodernizing by Design. In: Gregory, D. & Pred, A. Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror and Political Violence. New York & London.: Routledge; 2007:309-328. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. Inter-City Relations and the 'War on Terror'. In: Taylor, P.J., Derudder, B., Saey, P. & Witlox, F. Cities in Globalization. Oxon.: Routledge; 2007:219-235.
  • Wood, D.M. & Graham, S. Permeable Boundaries in the Software-sorted Society: Surveillance and Differentiations of Mobility. In: Sheller, M. & Urry, J. Mobile Technologies of the City. London & New York.: Routledge; 2007:177-191.
  • Graham, S. Urban Metabolims as a Target: Contemporary War as Forced Demodernization. In: heynen, N., Kaika, M. & Swyngedovw, E. In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. Oxon.: Routledge; 2006:245-265.
  • Graham, S Strategies for Networked Cities. In: Albrechts, L. & Mandelbaum, S.J. The Network Society: A New Context for Planning. Oxon.: Routledge; 2005:95-109. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. Cities as strategic sites: Place annihilation and urban geopolitics. In: Graham, S. Cities, War and Terrorism. Blackwell; 2004:31-53.
  • Graham, S. Constructing premium network spaces: Reflections on infrastructure networks and contemporary urban development. In: Hanley, R. E. Moving Goods, People and Information. Routledge; 2004:225-244.
  • Graham, S. Constructing urbicide by bulldozer in the Occupied Territories. In: Graham, S. Cities, War, and Terrorism. Blackwell; 2004:192-213.
  • Graham, S. Excavating the material geographies of cybercities. In: Graham, S. The Cybercities Reader. Routledge; 2004:138-142.
  • Graham, S. Flowcity: Networked mobilities and the contemporary metropolis. In: Nielsen, T., Albertsen, N. & Hemmersam, P. Urban Mutations. Copenhagen: Danish Architecture Centre; 2004:163-183.
  • Graham, S. Introduction: Cities, warfare and states of emergency. In: Graham, S. Cities, War and Terrorism. Oxford: Blackwell; 2004:1-26.
  • S. Graham Planejando Lugares Ciberneticos: Cidades, Novas Tecnologias de comunicacao, e o Futuro do Planejamento. In: S. Schiffer Globalizacao e Estrutura Urbana, Fapesp - Fundacao De Amparo A Pesquisa Do Estado. 2004.
  • Graham, S. & Marvin, S. Planning cybercities? Integrating telecommunications into urban planning. In: Graham, S. The Cybercities Reader. Routledge; 2004:341-347.
  • Graham, S. The end of geography or the explosive of place? Conceptualising space, time and information technology. In: Barnes, T., Peck, J., Sheppard, E. & Tickell, A. Reading Economic Geography. Blackwell; 2004.
  • Graham, S. The software-sorted city: Rethinking the 'digital divide'. In: Graham, S. The Cybercities Reader. Routledge; 2004:324-332.
  • Graham, S. Wars of the cities. In: del Caz, R., Rodriguez, M. & Saravia, M. El Derecho a La Seguridad. Valladolid: Blanca; 2004:81-85. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. Lessons in Urbicide. In: New Left Review. 2003.
  • Graham, S. & Marvin, S. Planning Cyber-cities? Integrating Telecommunications into Urban Planning. In: Helten, F. & Fischer, B. Envisioning Telecity: Towards the Urbanisation of ICT. Peter Lang Pub. Inc; 2003:23-59. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. Communication Grids: Cities and Infrastructure. In: Sassen, S. Global Networks, Linked Cities. New York: Routledge; 2002:71-92. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. Urban Network Architecture and the Structuring of Future Cities. In: Thomsen, H. The Copenhagen Lectures Future Cities. Fonden Realdania; 2002:110-122.
  • Graham, S. Telecommunications and the future of cities: Debunking the myths. In: Holmes, D. Virtual Globalization: Virtual spaces/Tourist spaces. London: Routledge; 2001:157-172. (Additional information)
  • Amin, A. & Graham, S. Cities of connection and disconnection. In: Allen, J., Massey, D. & Pryke, M. Unsettling Cities. Routledge; 1999.
  • Amin, A. & Thrift, N. Globalisation, institutional 'thickness' and the local economy. In: Healey, P., Cameron, S., Davoudi, S., Graham, S. & Madani-Pour, A. Urban Management. Belhaven; 1994.

Edited works: contributions

Journal papers: academic

  • Graham, S. & Thrift, N. Out of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance. Theory, Culture & Society. 2007;24:1-25. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Graham, S. War and the City. New Left Review. 2007;44:121-132.
  • Graham, S. Cities and the 'War on Terror'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2006;30:255-276. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Vigar, G., Healey, P. & Graham, S. In search of the city in spatial strategies: Past legacies, future imaginings. Urban Studies. 2005;42:1391-1410.
  • Graham, S. Remember Fallujah demonising place, constructing atrocity. Environment and planning D society and space. 2005;23:1-10. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Graham, S. Software-sorted geographies. Progress in Human Geography. 2005;29:562-580. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Graham, S. Switching cities off: Urban infrastructure and US air power. City. 2005;9:169-194.
  • Graham, S. Beyond the 'dazzling light': From dreams of transcendence to the 'remedition' of urban life. New Media and Society. 2004;6:16-26.
  • Graham, S. Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geoploitics. 2004.
  • Graham, S. Postmortem City: Plädoyer für eine „Geopolitik des Urbanen”. IMS: Informationen zur modernen Stadtgeschichte. 2004;2:54-71.
  • Graham, S. Postmortem city: Towards an urban geopolitics. City. 2004;8:165-196. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. Vertical geopolitics: Baghdad and after. Antipode. 2004;36:12-23.
  • Graham, S. & Wood, D. Digitizing surveillance: categorization, space, inequality. Critical Social Policy. 2003;23:227-248.
  • Graham, S. Bridging Urban Digital Divides? Urban Polarisation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). Urban Studies. 2002;39:33-56. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Graham, S. Bulldozers and bombs: The latest Palestinian-Israeli conflict as asymmetric urbicide. Antipode. 2002;34:642-649.
  • Graham, S. CCTV: The Stealthy Emergence of a Fifth Utility? Planning, Theory & Practice. 2002;3:221-244.
  • Graham, S. & Guy, S. Digital space meets urban place Sociotechnologies of urban restructuring in downtown San Francisco. City. 2002;6:369-382. (Additional information)
  • Graham, S. FlowCity: Networked Mobilities and the Contemporary Metropolis. Journal of Urban Technology. 2002;9:1-20.
  • Graham, S. On Technology, Infrastructure, and the Contempory Urban Condition: A Response to Coutard. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2002;26:175-82.
  • Graham, S. Special Collection: Reflections on Cities, September 11th and the 'War on Terrorism' - One Year On. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2002;26:589-590.
  • Graham, S. Information technologies and reconfigurations of urban space. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2001;25:405-410.
  • Graham, S. The city as sociotechnical process: Networked mobilities and urban social inequalities. City. 2001;5:339-349.
  • Graham, S. The spectre of the splintering metropolis. Cities. 2001;18:365-368.
  • Amin, A. & Graham, S. The ordinary city. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 1997;22:411-429.

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