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D-Index
61
Citations
28127
World Ranking
1314
National Ranking
252

Overview

Ash Amin is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with a focus on areas including general health professions, urban studies, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, and education.

The main topics they explore cover employment and welfare studies, homelessness and social issues, China's socioeconomic reforms and governance, urban planning and governance, urban and rural development challenges, urban transport and accessibility, and housing, finance, and neoliberalism.

Several frequent co-authors collaborate with Ash Amin, including Lisa Richaud, Michele Lancione, Nigel Thrift, Carmel Christy K J, and Ayşe Çavdar.

Amin's work has appeared in various academic publication venues, notably:

  • The Sociological Review Magazine
  • Progress in Human Geography
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Public Culture
  • Urban Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ash Amin include:

  • Cities: Reimagining the Urban, 2020, Progress in Human Geography
  • Stress and the ecology of urban experience: Migrant mental lives in central Shanghai, 2020, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Cities for the Many not the Few [Audio podcast episode], 2023, The Sociological Review Magazine

The research contributions demonstrate an engagement with urban experience, mental health in migrant populations, and contemporary urban challenges. The work on "Cities: Reimagining the Urban" has garnered significant attention in terms of citations.

Best Publications

  • Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities

    Ash Amin;Patrick Cohendet

  • Cities: Reimagining the Urban

    Ash Amin;Nigel J. Thrift

  • Ethnicity and the Multicultural City: Living with Diversity:

    Ash Amin

  • Neo‐Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks*

    Ash Amin;Nigel Thrift

  • Regions unbound: towards a new politics of place

    Ash Amin

  • Spatialities of Globalisation

    Ash Amin

  • An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development

    Ash Amin

  • The ordinary city

    Ash Amin;Stephen Graham

  • Knowing in action: beyond communities of practice

    Ash Amin;Joanne Roberts

  • Placing the Social Economy

    Ash Amin;Angus Cameron;Raymond Hudson

  • Globalization, institutions, and regional development in Europe

    A Amin;NJ Thrift

  • Living In The Global

    A Amin;NJ Thrift

  • Collective culture and urban public space

    Ash Amin

  • Post-Fordism : a reader

    Ash Amin

  • Learning and Adaptation in Decentralised Business Networks

    Ash Amin;Patrick Cohendet

  • The good city

    Ash Amin

  • The Re-Emergence of Regional Economies? The Mythical Geography of Flexible Accumulation:

    A Amin;K Robins

  • Institutional issues for the European regions: from markets and plans to socioeconomics and powers of association

    Ash Amin;Nigel Thrift

  • Local community on trial

    Ash Amin

  • What Kind of Economic Theory for what Kind of Economic Geography

    Ash Amin;Nigel Thrift

  • Architectures of knowledge

    Ash Amin;Patrick Cohendet

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey The Open University
John Goddard
John Goddard Newcastle University
Jeremy Howells
Jeremy Howells University of Portsmouth
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham Newcastle University
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker University of California, Irvine
Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai New York University

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