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Don Mitchell

Don Mitchell

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
37
Citations
11007
World Ranking
6083
National Ranking
82

Overview

Don Mitchell is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans diverse subfields, including sociology and political science, geography, planning and development, political science and international relations, general health professions, and urban studies.

Their research topics cover various areas such as employment and welfare studies, geographies of human-animal interactions, urban planning and governance, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, digital economy and work transformation, sharing economy and platforms, and land use and ecosystem services.

Key papers authored by Don Mitchell include:

  • The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain (2020, The AAG Review of Books)
  • Dead Labor: Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death (2020, The AAG Review of Books)
  • Geography Sculpts the Future, or: Escaping-and Falling Back Into-the Tyranny of Absolute Space (2021, Studia Neophilologica)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Don Mitchell are Johanna Ohlsson, Stephen Przybylinski, Erik Jönsson, Johan Pries, and Kristina Zampoukos.

Don Mitchell's publications have appeared in several journals with multiple contributions, including:

  • The AAG Review of Books
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • Journal of Historical Geography
  • Scottish Geographical Journal

The focus of their scholarly work integrates various aspects of social sciences, addressing complex interactions within political, urban, and economic contexts. Among the highlighted research are studies on the impact of neoliberal policies on public land, the political economy related to premature death, and spatial theory concerning geography's influence over social and political organization.

Best Publications

  • The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space

    Don Mitchell

  • The End of Public Space?People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy

    Don Mitchell

  • Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction

    Donald Mitchell

  • The Annihilation of Space by Law: The Roots and Implications of Anti‐Homeless Laws in the United States

    Don Mitchell

  • The lie of the land : migrant workers and the California landscape

    Don Mitchell

  • The People's Property?: Power, Politics, and the Public.

    Lynn Staeheli;Donald Mitchell

  • There's no such thing as culture: towards a reconceptualization of the idea of culture in geography

    Don Mitchell

  • The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City: Speculations on Surveillance, Legal Innovation, and the Criminalization of Intervention

    Don C. Mitchell;Nik Heynen

  • The Nature of Things: Dead Labor, Nonhuman Actors, and the Persistence of Marxism

    Scott Kirsch;Don Mitchell

  • Conflicting rights to the city in New York's community gardens

    Lynn A. Staeheli;Don Mitchell;Kristina Gibson

  • USA's Destiny? Regulating Space and Creating Community in American Shopping Malls

    Lynn A. Staeheli;Don Mitchell

  • Cultural landscapes: just landscapes or landscapes of justice?

    Don Mitchell

  • Locating the public in research and practice

    Lynn A. Staeheli;Don Mitchell

  • The Complex Politics of Relevance in Geography

    Lynn A. Staeheli;Don Mitchell

  • The S.U.V. model of citizenship: floating bubbles, buffer zones, and the rise of the “purely atomic” individual

    Don Mitchell

  • Permitting Protest: Parsing the Fine Geography of Dissent in America

    Don Mitchell;Lynn A. Staeheli

  • New Axioms for Reading the Landscape: Paying Attention to Political Economy and Social Justice

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  • Cultural landscapes: the dialectical landscape - recent landscape research in human geography

    Don Mitchell

  • The lure of the local: landscape studies at the end of a troubled century

    Don Mitchell

  • INTRODUCTION: PUBLIC SPACE AND THE CITY

    Don Mitchell

  • They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California

    Don Mitchell

  • Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles

    Don Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynn A. Staeheli
Lynn A. Staeheli Durham University
Eric Sheppard
Eric Sheppard University of California, Los Angeles
Neil Smith
Neil Smith City University of New York
Trevor J. Barnes
Trevor J. Barnes University of British Columbia
Erik Swyngedouw
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester

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