All Outputs (6)

Out of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance (2007)
Journal Article
Graham, S., & Thrift, N. (2007). Out of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance. Theory, Culture and Society, 24(3), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276407075954

This article seeks to demonstrate the centrality of maintenance and repair to an understanding of modern societies and, particularly, cities. Arguing that repair and maintenance activities present a kind of 'missing link' in social theory, which is u... Read More about Out of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance.

Cities and the 'War on Terror' (2006)
Journal Article
Graham, S. (2006). Cities and the 'War on Terror'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30(2), 255-276. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00665.x

Programmes of organized, political violence have always been legitimized and sustained through complex imaginative geographies. These tend to be characterized by stark binaries of place attachment. This article argues that the discursive construction... Read More about Cities and the 'War on Terror'.

Remember Fallujah : demonising place, constructing atrocity (2005)
Journal Article
Graham, S. (2005). Remember Fallujah : demonising place, constructing atrocity. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1068/d2301ed

Software-sorted geographies (2005)
Journal Article
Graham, S. (2005). Software-sorted geographies. Progress in Human Geography, 29(5), 562-580. https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132505ph568oa

This paper explores the central role of computerized code in shaping the social and geographical politics of inequality in advanced societies. The central argument is that, while such processes are necessarily multifaceted, multiscaled, complex and a... Read More about Software-sorted geographies.

Bridging Urban Digital Divides? Urban Polarisation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) (2002)
Journal Article
Graham, S. (2002). Bridging Urban Digital Divides? Urban Polarisation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). Urban Studies, 39(1), 33-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980220099050

The societal diffusion of information and communications technologies (ICTs) remains starkly uneven at all scales. It is in the contemporary city that this unevenness becomes most visible. In cities, clusters and enclaves of ‘superconnected’ people,... Read More about Bridging Urban Digital Divides? Urban Polarisation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).

Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition (2001)
Book
Graham, S., & Marvin, S. (2001). Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. Routledge

The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "Splintering Urbanism offers a path-breaking analysis of the nature of the urban condition at the start of the new millennium. Adopting a global and interdisciplinary perspective, it reveals h... Read More about Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition.