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Neil Smith (geographer)

January 31, 2023

Neil Robert Smith (18 June 1954 – 29 September 2012) was a Scottish geographer and academic. He was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and winner of numerous awards, including the Globe Book Award of the Association of American Geographers.[1]

Neil Robert Smith
Born(1954-06-18)18 June 1954
Leith, Scotland
Died29 September 2012(2012-09-29) (aged 58)
New York City, United States
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of St. Andrews (B.Sc., 1977)
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1982)
Doctoral advisorDavid Harvey
Academic work
DisciplineGeograpy, Anthropology
Doctoral studentsRuth Wilson Gilmore

Background

Smith was born in 1954 in Leith, Scotland. He was one of four children of a schoolteacher, and spent most of his childhood in Dalkeith, southeast of Edinburgh.[2] He attended King's Park Primary School and Dalkeith High School.

Smith earned his 1st class BSc from the University of St. Andrews in 1977 (with a year at the University of Pennsylvania, 1974–1975), and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1982, where his advisor was noted Marxist geographer David Harvey. He took up a tenure-track position at Columbia University in New York (1982–1986), but Columbia closed its Geography Department and he moved to Rutgers University in New Jersey (1986–2000). At Rutgers he was Chair of the Geography Department (1991–94) and a senior fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture.[3]

Smith lived in New York, latterly splitting his time between New York and Toronto, Canada, where he owned a house with his partner, Deb Cowen. From 2008 to 2012 he held a 20 percent appointment as Sixth Century Professor of Geography and Social Theory at the University of Aberdeen in his native Scotland.

Known for cultivating a new generation of critical geographers, Smith was devoted to teaching and research. However, for many of his female students it was not devotion but sexual harassment, as "more than one woman student left departments Neil taught in because of his unwelcome and persistent advances."[4]

Scholarship

Smith's research explored the broad intersections between space, nature, social theory, and history. His dissertation at Johns Hopkins University was supposed to have been on urban processes, but was in fact a major theoretical treatise that became the book Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space (1984). In this major work of social theory, Smith proposed that uneven spatial development is a function of the procedural logic of capital markets; thus society and economies "produce" space.[5][6]

Smith is credited with theories about the gentrification of the inner city as an economic process propelled by urban land prices and city land speculation, rather than by cultural preferences for living in the city in his seminal article "Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People" (1979).

Smith's curiosity about why such critical study of space and place came so late to the discipline of geography lead to his study of early 20th-century geographer Isaiah Bowman and the book American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (2003), which traced America's rise to global power through geographical ignorance. The book won several awards, including the Henry Adams Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government.[1] Smith's critique of American-led, capitalist neoliberalism was further developed in The Endgame of Globalization (2005).[7][8]

Recognition

Death

Smith died on 29 September 2012, from liver and kidney failure. He had been diagnosed with liver disease some years prior to his death, but he returned to drinking alcohol in 2011.[8] He was survived by his three siblings; his partner, geographer Deborah Cowen, his former wife, geographer Cindi Katz,[9][7] and his daughter Isabella DeRiso.

Cultural references

The Edinburgh-based band New Urban Frontier took their name from the title of Smith's book The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. Their 2015 album Game of Capital also commemorates him.[10]

Publications

Books

  • 2009. Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice. Routledge (edited with Heather Gautney, Omar Dahbour and Ashley Dawson).
  • 2006 The Politics of Public Space (with Setha Low). Routledge.
  • 2006 La Produccion de la Naturaleza; La Produccion del Espacio. Mexico City: Sistema Universidad Abierta, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2006
  • 2005 The Endgame of Globalization. Routledge.
  • 2005 Capital Financiero, Propiedad Inmobiliaria y Cultura. MACBA & Publicacions de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (with David Harvey)
  • 2003 American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. University of California Press (winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography).
  • 2000 Globalización: Transformaciones urbanas, precarización social y discriminación de género (with Cindi Katz). Nueva Grafica, S.A.L. La Cuesta, La Laguna.
  • 1996 The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. Routledge.
  • 1994 Geography and Empire: Critical Studies in the History of Geography (edited with Anne Godlewska). Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
  • 1986 Gentrification of the City (edited with Peter Williams). George Allen and Unwin, London.
  • 1984 at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 February 2013). Basil Blackwell. 2nd ed. 1990, 3rd Ed. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 2008; London: Verso, 2010. (Translated and published as Desenvolvimento Desigual, Editora Bertrand Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 1988)
  • 1977. Geography, Social Welfare and Underdevelopment. University of St. Andrews (edited with Malcolm Forbes and Michael Kershaw).

Articles

  • 2011 “Ten Years After,” Geographical Journal 177,
  • 2011 “Uneven Development Redux,” New Political Economy 16: 261–265.
  • 2010 “’Martial Law in the Streets of Toronto’: G20, Security and State Violence,” Human Geography 3.3:29–46,
  • 2010 “The Revolutionary Imperative,” Antipode 41: 50–65.
  • 2009 “After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics,” Antipode 40: 2–48 (with Deborah Cowen)
  • 2008 “The Shock Doctrine: a discussion,” Society and Space 26:582–595 (with Naomi Klein)
  • 2008 "Review Essay: David Harvey: A Critical Reader,” Progress in Human Geography, 32,1:147–155.
  • 2007 “Gentrification, Displacement, and Tourism in Santa Cruz de Tenerife,” Urban Geography, 28, 2007, 276–298 (with Luz Marina García Herrera and Miguel Angel Mejías Vera)
  • 2007 “Another Revolution is Possible: Foucault, ethics and politics,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25:191–193
  • 2006 “Nature as Accumulation Strategy”, Socialist Register, 16–36
  • 2006 “The Endgame of Globalization”, Political Geography, 25,1:1–14.
  • 2003 “Global Executioner”, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 105,1: 55–69.
  • 2003 “Neo-Critical Geography, Or, The Flat Pluralist World of Business Class”, Antipode, 37, 5: 887–899.
  • 2003 “After Iraq: Vulnerable imperial stasis”, Radical Philosophy, 127, September/October: 2–7.
  • 2003 “After the American Lebensraum: ‘Empire’, Empire, and Globalization”, Interventions, 5:2:249-270.
  • 2003 "Geographies of Substance" in Envisioning Human Geography, Paul Cloke, Philip Crang, and Mark Goodwin, eds.
  • 2003 "Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban 'Regeneration' as Global Urban Strategy" in Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, M. Fisher and G. Downey, eds.
  • 2003 "Generalizing Gentrification" in Retours en ville, Catherine Bidou, Daniel Hiernaux, and Helene Riviere D'Arc, eds. Paris: Descartes & Cie. January.
  • 2002 "Scale Bending" in Rethinking Scale, E. Sheppard and R. McMaster, eds.
  • 2002 "Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Prenational and Postnational Europe" in State/Spaces.
  • 2002 "Scales of Terror: The Manufacturing of Nationalism and the War for U.S. Globalism", pp. 97–108 in After the World Trade Center, Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin, eds. New York: Routledge.
  • 2002 "New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy", Antipode 34 (3): 434–57. Reprinted in "Neo-Liberal Urbanism", Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore, eds., Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell.
  • 2002 "Ashes and Aftermath", Studies in Political Economy 67. Spring, pp. 7–12.
  • 2002 "Ashes and Aftermath", Philosophy & Geography 5 (1): 9–12.
  • 2002 "Kontinuum New York", pp. 72–86 in Die Stadt Als Event, Regina Bittner, ed. Dessau, Bauhaus.
  • 1979 "Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People". Journal of the American Planning Association 45 (4): 538–48. doi:10.1080/01944367908977002

References

  1. ^ a b Smith, Neil (2004). American Empire. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520243385.
  2. ^ Mitchell, Don (23 October 2012). "Neil Smith obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ West, Paige (27 September 2021). . Paige West. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  4. ^ Mitchell, Don (2 January 2014). "Neil Smith, 1954–2012: Marxist Geographer". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104 (1): 215–222. doi:10.1080/00045608.2013.843430. ISSN 0004-5608. S2CID 128951278.
  5. ^ Patrick Bond. 1999. What is Uneven Development?. In P.O'Hara (Ed), The Encyclopaedia of Political Economy, London, Routledge.
  6. ^ Nate (16 September 2008). "Neil Smith, The Production of Space". J880: Human geography and mass communication. Retrieved 22 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ a b Don Mitchell. 2012. Neil Smith obituary. The Guardian, 23 October.
  8. ^ a b Mitchell, Don (29 September 2013). "Neil Smith, 1954-2012: Radical Geography, Marxist Geographer, Revolutionary Geographer" (PDF). Retrieved 22 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Biswas, Padmini (29 September 2012). "Neil R. Smith, 1954 – 2012". The Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Pcp.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 29 September 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Game of Capital, by New Urban Frontier". New Urban Frontier. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

External links

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Neil Robert Smith 18 June 1954 29 September 2012 was a Scottish geographer and academic He was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and winner of numerous awards including the Globe Book Award of the Association of American Geographers 1 Neil Robert SmithBorn 1954 06 18 18 June 1954Leith ScotlandDied29 September 2012 2012 09 29 aged 58 New York City United StatesNationalityBritishAcademic backgroundAlma materUniversity of St Andrews B Sc 1977 Johns Hopkins University Ph D 1982 Doctoral advisorDavid HarveyAcademic workDisciplineGeograpy AnthropologyDoctoral studentsRuth Wilson Gilmore Contents 1 Background 2 Scholarship 3 Recognition 4 Death 5 Cultural references 6 Publications 7 References 8 External linksBackground EditSmith was born in 1954 in Leith Scotland He was one of four children of a schoolteacher and spent most of his childhood in Dalkeith southeast of Edinburgh 2 He attended King s Park Primary School and Dalkeith High School Smith earned his 1st class BSc from the University of St Andrews in 1977 with a year at the University of Pennsylvania 1974 1975 and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1982 where his advisor was noted Marxist geographer David Harvey He took up a tenure track position at Columbia University in New York 1982 1986 but Columbia closed its Geography Department and he moved to Rutgers University in New Jersey 1986 2000 At Rutgers he was Chair of the Geography Department 1991 94 and a senior fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture 3 Smith lived in New York latterly splitting his time between New York and Toronto Canada where he owned a house with his partner Deb Cowen From 2008 to 2012 he held a 20 percent appointment as Sixth Century Professor of Geography and Social Theory at the University of Aberdeen in his native Scotland Known for cultivating a new generation of critical geographers Smith was devoted to teaching and research However for many of his female students it was not devotion but sexual harassment as more than one woman student left departments Neil taught in because of his unwelcome and persistent advances 4 Scholarship EditSmith s research explored the broad intersections between space nature social theory and history His dissertation at Johns Hopkins University was supposed to have been on urban processes but was in fact a major theoretical treatise that became the book Uneven Development Nature Capital and the Production of Space 1984 In this major work of social theory Smith proposed that uneven spatial development is a function of the procedural logic of capital markets thus society and economies produce space 5 6 Smith is credited with theories about the gentrification of the inner city as an economic process propelled by urban land prices and city land speculation rather than by cultural preferences for living in the city in his seminal article Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital not People 1979 Smith s curiosity about why such critical study of space and place came so late to the discipline of geography lead to his study of early 20th century geographer Isaiah Bowman and the book American Empire Roosevelt s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization 2003 which traced America s rise to global power through geographical ignorance The book won several awards including the Henry Adams Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government 1 Smith s critique of American led capitalist neoliberalism was further developed in The Endgame of Globalization 2005 7 8 Recognition EditLos Angeles Times Book Award Biography 2004 Henry Adams Book Prize Society of Historians in Federal Government 2004 Globe Award for Public Understanding of Geography Association of American Geographers 2004 Distinguished Scholarship Honors Association of American Geographers 2000 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1995 1996 Board of Trustees Research Fellowship Award Rutgers University 1988 89 The Scottish Geographical Medal awarded by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society 1977 Robert Lincoln McNeil Scholar University of Pennsylvania 1974 75Death EditSmith died on 29 September 2012 from liver and kidney failure He had been diagnosed with liver disease some years prior to his death but he returned to drinking alcohol in 2011 8 He was survived by his three siblings his partner geographer Deborah Cowen his former wife geographer Cindi Katz 9 7 and his daughter Isabella DeRiso Cultural references EditThe Edinburgh based band New Urban Frontier took their name from the title of Smith s book The New Urban Frontier Gentrification and the Revanchist City Their 2015 album Game of Capital also commemorates him 10 Publications EditBooks 2009 Democracy States and the Struggle for Global Justice Routledge edited with Heather Gautney Omar Dahbour and Ashley Dawson 2006 The Politics of Public Space with Setha Low Routledge 2006 La Produccion de la Naturaleza La Produccion del Espacio Mexico City Sistema Universidad Abierta Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 2006 2005 The Endgame of Globalization Routledge 2005 Capital Financiero Propiedad Inmobiliaria y Cultura MACBA amp Publicacions de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Barcelona with David Harvey 2003 American Empire Roosevelt s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization University of California Press winner Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography 2000 Globalizacion Transformaciones urbanas precarizacion social y discriminacion de genero with Cindi Katz Nueva Grafica S A L La Cuesta La Laguna 1996 The New Urban Frontier Gentrification and the Revanchist City Routledge 1994 Geography and Empire Critical Studies in the History of Geography edited with Anne Godlewska Basil Blackwell Oxford 1986 Gentrification of the City edited with Peter Williams George Allen and Unwin London 1984 Uneven Development Nature Capital and the Production of Space at the Wayback Machine archived 3 February 2013 Basil Blackwell 2nd ed 1990 3rd Ed University of Georgia Press Athens GA 2008 London Verso 2010 Translated and published as Desenvolvimento Desigual Editora Bertrand Brasil Rio de Janeiro 1988 1977 Geography Social Welfare and Underdevelopment University of St Andrews edited with Malcolm Forbes and Michael Kershaw Articles 2011 Ten Years After Geographical Journal 177 2011 Uneven Development Redux New Political Economy 16 261 265 2010 Martial Law in the Streets of Toronto G20 Security and State Violence Human Geography 3 3 29 46 2010 The Revolutionary Imperative Antipode 41 50 65 2009 After Geopolitics From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics Antipode 40 2 48 with Deborah Cowen 2008 The Shock Doctrine a discussion Society and Space 26 582 595 with Naomi Klein 2008 Review Essay David Harvey A Critical Reader Progress in Human Geography 32 1 147 155 2007 Gentrification Displacement and Tourism in Santa Cruz de Tenerife Urban Geography 28 2007 276 298 with Luz Marina Garcia Herrera and Miguel Angel Mejias Vera 2007 Another Revolution is Possible Foucault ethics and politics Environment and Planning D Society and Space 25 191 193 2006 Nature as Accumulation Strategy Socialist Register 16 36 2006 The Endgame of Globalization Political Geography 25 1 1 14 2003 Global Executioner The South Atlantic Quarterly 105 1 55 69 2003 Neo Critical Geography Or The Flat Pluralist World of Business Class Antipode 37 5 887 899 2003 After Iraq Vulnerable imperial stasis Radical Philosophy 127 September October 2 7 2003 After the American Lebensraum Empire Empire and Globalization Interventions 5 2 249 270 2003 Geographies of Substance in Envisioning Human Geography Paul Cloke Philip Crang and Mark Goodwin eds 2003 Gentrification Generalized From Local Anomaly to Urban Regeneration as Global Urban Strategy in Frontiers of Capital Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy M Fisher and G Downey eds 2003 Generalizing Gentrification in Retours en ville Catherine Bidou Daniel Hiernaux and Helene Riviere D Arc eds Paris Descartes amp Cie January 2002 Scale Bending in Rethinking Scale E Sheppard and R McMaster eds 2002 Remaking Scale Competition and Cooperation in Prenational and Postnational Europe in State Spaces 2002 Scales of Terror The Manufacturing of Nationalism and the War for U S Globalism pp 97 108 in After the World Trade Center Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin eds New York Routledge 2002 New Globalism New Urbanism Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy Antipode 34 3 434 57 Reprinted in Neo Liberal Urbanism Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore eds Malden MA Basil Blackwell 2002 Ashes and Aftermath Studies in Political Economy 67 Spring pp 7 12 2002 Ashes and Aftermath Philosophy amp Geography 5 1 9 12 2002 Kontinuum New York pp 72 86 in Die Stadt Als Event Regina Bittner ed Dessau Bauhaus 1979 Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital not People Journal of the American Planning Association 45 4 538 48 doi 10 1080 01944367908977002References Edit a b Smith Neil 2004 American Empire University of California Press ISBN 9780520243385 Mitchell Don 23 October 2012 Neil Smith obituary the Guardian Retrieved 22 July 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link West Paige 27 September 2021 Neil Smith Paige West Archived from the original on 27 November 2013 Retrieved 29 October 2013 Mitchell Don 2 January 2014 Neil Smith 1954 2012 Marxist Geographer Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104 1 215 222 doi 10 1080 00045608 2013 843430 ISSN 0004 5608 S2CID 128951278 Patrick Bond 1999 What is Uneven Development In P O Hara Ed The Encyclopaedia of Political Economy London Routledge Nate 16 September 2008 Neil Smith The Production of Space J880 Human geography and mass communication Retrieved 22 July 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link a b Don Mitchell 2012 Neil Smith obituary The Guardian 23 October a b Mitchell Don 29 September 2013 Neil Smith 1954 2012 Radical Geography Marxist Geographer Revolutionary Geographer PDF Retrieved 22 July 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Biswas Padmini 29 September 2012 Neil R Smith 1954 2012 The Center for Place Culture and Politics Pcp gc cuny edu Retrieved 29 September 2012 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Game of Capital by New Urban Frontier New Urban Frontier Retrieved 22 July 2021 External links EditCenter for Place Culture and Politics Neil Smith s Blog at the Wayback Machine archived 8 April 2013 In conversation with Erik Swyngedouw 2012 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Neil Smith geographer amp oldid 1120220052, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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