All Outputs (13)

Local community on trial (2005)
Journal Article

While plenty has been written about the reinvention of the social by the Third Way as a new governmentality of control, consensus, and social integration, less has been said about its subtle elision of social and the local, and the implications of th... Read More about Local community on trial.

What's left? just the future (2005)
Journal Article

Multi-ethnicity and the idea of Europe (2004)
Journal Article

This article explores the meaning and relevance of the ‘Idea of Europe’ in the context of a multicultural and multi-ethnic continent that increasingly draws on the presence and practices of people from non-European backgrounds. The Idea of Europe, ev... Read More about Multi-ethnicity and the idea of Europe.

Regulating economic globalization (2004)
Journal Article

It is widely accepted that the rising gap in recent years between the global rich and the global poor can be linked to globalization in one way or another, although the strength and causality of the link is debated. Against the backcloth of the havoc... Read More about Regulating economic globalization.

Regions unbound : towards a new politics of place (2004)
Journal Article

This paper proposes a non-territorial reading of a politics of place. Focusing on the politics of contemporary regionalism, it argues that globalisation and the general rise of a society of transnational flows and networks no longer allow a conceptua... Read More about Regions unbound : towards a new politics of place.

Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities and Communities (2004)
Book

In Architectures of Knowledge . Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet argue that the time is right for research to explore the relationship between two other dimensions of knowledge in order to explain the innovative performance of firms: between knowledge t... Read More about Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities and Communities.

The alterity of the social economy. (2003)
Book Chapter

The 'regional problem' and the spatial grammar of British politics (2003)
Preprint / Working Paper

One of the most persistent characteristics of the geography of Britain is the wide inequality that exists between its constituent regions. It is an inequality which has come to be known as the North-South divide, but this is a gestural term that refe... Read More about The 'regional problem' and the spatial grammar of British politics.

Placing the Social Economy (2002)
Book

In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about the social economy and the term 'the third way' has attained a level of household recognition, especially in America and Britain. Academics and commentators have debated the usefulness o... Read More about Placing the Social Economy.

Ethnicity and the multicultural city: living with diversity (2002)
Journal Article

In the wake of the race disturbances in Oldham, Burnley, and Bradford in Summer 2001, the author explores the possibilities for intercultural understanding and dialogue. He argues that, although the national frame of racial and ethnic relations remai... Read More about Ethnicity and the multicultural city: living with diversity.

Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2002)
Book

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 a... Read More about Cities: Reimagining the Urban.

Spatialities of globalisation (2002)
Journal Article

The focus of this paper is on the theorisation of the spatialities of globalisation. I seek to shift the emphasis away from the currently dominant discourse of scalar and territorial relativisation, towards relational processes and network forms of o... Read More about Spatialities of globalisation.

Welfare at work? The potential of the UK social economy. (1999)
Journal Article