Dr Ross Beveridge

Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

telephone: 0141 330 7660
email: Ross.Beveridge@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies with diverse teaching and research interests in the field of urban politics and governance.

An interdisciplinary urbanist, I studied History (University of Manchester) and International Studies (Newcastle University), before conducting EU-funded research on urban infrastructures in Europe and my doctoral project on the politics of urban development and privatisation in 1990s Berlin (Newcastle University). I joined Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2015 from the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Germany, where I had worked for 6 years in various research and teaching posts. Initially at Glasgow I held an Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Senior Research Fellowship, before moving to my current position.

My most recent book is How Cities Can Transform Democracy, co-authored with Philippe Koch (ZHAW Zurich) and published with Polity Press in 2022.

I am a member of the editorial board for the journal Geography Compass and am co-founder and editor of the Urban Political Podcast, which addresses contemporary urban issues through discussions with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world.

Research interests

democracy and the city
urban activism and the state
municipalism
urban politics of environment, climate and infrastructure
public space, goods and ownership
German urban politics
theories of urban politics

Research groups

Place & built environment
Just Cities & Societies

Publications

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Number of items: 38.

2024

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2024) How transformative can a democratic project of the urban be? Dialogues in Urban Research, (doi: 10.1177/27541258241264213) (Early Online Publication)

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2024) What kind of democratic project is the “CITY”? and what does the new municipalism want to do with It? In: Coşkun, Gülçin, İnal-Çekiç, Tuba and Tombuş, Ertuğ (eds.) Reclaiming Democracy in Cities. Routledge. ISBN 9781003404736 (doi: 10.4324/9781003404736-4)

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083, Rudolph, David and Naumann, Matthias (2024) The rise of 'infrastructural populism': urban infrastructure and right-wing politics. Geography Compass, 18(2), e12738. (doi: 10.1111/gec3.12738)

2023

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2023) Seeing democracy like a city. Dialogues in Urban Research, (doi: 10.1177/27541258231203999) (Early Online Publication)

Williams, Joe, Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Mayaux, Pierre-Louis (2023) Unconventional waters: a critical understanding of desalination and wastewater reuse. Water Alternatives, 16(2), pp. 429-443.

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Cochrane, Allan (2023) Exploring the political potential of the local state: building a dialogue with Sheffield in the 1980s. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 55(3), pp. 790-809. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12908)

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Naumann, Matthias (2023) Progressive urbanism in small towns: the contingencies of governing from the Left. Urban Affairs Review, 59(1), pp. 43-72. (doi: 10.1177/10780874211055834)

2022

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2022) How Cities Can Transform Democracy. Polity Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781509545988

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083, Kip, Markus and Oevermann, Heike (2022) From wastelands to waiting lands: retrieving possibility from the voids of Berlin. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 26(2-3), pp. 281-303. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2040200)

2021

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Featherstone, David (2021) Introduction: Anti-politics, austerity and spaces of politicisation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 437-450. (doi: 10.1177/23996544211004188)

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2021) Contesting austerity, de-centring the state: anti-politics and the political horizon of the urban. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 451-468. (doi: 10.1177/2399654419871299)

2019

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2019) Urban everyday politics: politicising practices and the transformation of the here and now. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(1), pp. 142-157. (doi: 10.1177/0263775818805487)

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 (2019) Intermediaries and networks. In: Davoudi, S., Cowell, R., White, I. and Blanco, H. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning. Routledge. ISBN 9781138894808

2018

Koch, P. and Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 (2018) Postpolitische Stadt. In: Rink, D. and Haase, A. (eds.) Handbuch Stadtkonzepte: Analysen, Diagnosen, Kritiken und Visionen. Verlag Barbara Budrich: Opladen. ISBN 9783825249557

Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, P. (2018) Depoliticization and urban politics: moving beyond the “post-political”. In: Buller, J., Dönmez, P., Standring, A. and Woods, M. (eds.) Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 189-208. ISBN 9783319642369

2017

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083, Moss, Timothy and Naumann, Matthias (2017) Sociospatial understanding of water politics: Tracing the multidimensionality of water reuse. Water Alternatives, 10(1), pp. 22-40.

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2017) The post-political trap: reflections on politics, agency and the city. Urban Studies, 54(1), pp. 31-43. (doi: 10.1177/0042098016671477)

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2017) What is (still) political about the city? Urban Studies, 54(1), pp. 62-66. (doi: 10.1177/0042098016671478)

Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Naumann, M. (2017) Für ein Recht auf Infrastruktur! Stadtpolitische Konflikte um die Energie- und Wasserversorgung in Berlin. In: Flitner, Michael, Lossau, Julia and Müller, Anna-Lisa (eds.) Infrastrukturen der Stadt. Springer, pp. 67-87. ISBN 9783658104238 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-10424-5_4)

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 (2017) The (ontological) politics in depoliticisation debates: three lenses on the decline of the political. Political Studies Review, 15(4), pp. 589-600. (doi: 10.1177/1478929916664358)

2016

Becker, S., Röhring, A. and Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 (2016) Energy transitions and institutional reconfiguration: reassessing structure and agency. In: Moss, T. and Gailing, L. (eds.) Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition: Power, Socio-Materiality and Space. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137505927

Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Naumann, R. (2016) Another urban infrastructure is possible: contesting energy and water networks in Berlin. In: Coutard, O. and Rutherford, J. (eds.) Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South. Series: Routledge studies in urbanism and the city. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781317633693

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Naumann, Matthias (2016) Contesting neoliberalism in an ‘activist city’: working towards the urban commons in Berlin. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 64, pp. 88-93.

2015

Becker, S., Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Naumann, M. (2015) Reconfiguring energy provision in Berlin. Commoning between compromise and contestation. In: Urban Commons. Moving Beyond State and Market. Series: Bauwelt Fundamente (154). Birkhäuser: Basel, pp. 196-213. ISBN 9783038216612

Becker, Sören, Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Naumann, Matthias (2015) Remunicipalization in German cities: contesting neo-liberalism and reimagining urban governance? Space and Polity, 19(1), pp. 76-90. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2014.991119)

2014

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083, Hüesker, Frank and Naumann, Matthias (2014) From post-politics to a politics of possibility? Unravelling the privatization of the Berlin Water Company. Geoforum, 51, pp. 66-74. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.09.021)

Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Naumann, M. (2014) Global norms, local contestation: Privatisation and de/politicisation in Berlin. Policy and Politics, 42(2), pp. 275-291.

Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Richter, A. (2014) Die post-politische Stadt. In: Belina, B., Naumann, M. and Strüver, A. (eds.) Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie. Westfälisches Dampfboot: Münster, pp. 53-58. ISBN 9783896919557

2013

Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Naumann, M. (2013) The Berlin water company. From "inevitable" privatization to "impossible" remunicipalization. In: Bernt, M., Grell, B. and Holm, A. (eds.) The Berlin Reader. A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism. Series: Urban studies. Transcript: Bielefeld, pp. 189-203. ISBN 9783837624786

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Kern, Kristine (2013) The ‘Energiewende’ in Germany: background, developments and future challenges. Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review, 4(1), pp. 3-12.

2012

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 (2012) Consultants, depoliticization and arena-shifting in the policy process: privatizing water in Berlin. Policy Sciences, 45(1), pp. 47-68. (doi: 10.1007/s11077-011-9144-4)

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 (2012) A Politics of Inevitability: the Privatisation of the Berlin Water Company, the Global City Discourse and Governance in 1990s Berlin. VS Springer: Wiesbaden. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-531-94056-4)

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Monsees, Jan (2012) Bridging parallel discourses of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): institutional and political challenges in developing and developed countries. Water International, 37(7), pp. 727-743. (doi: 10.1080/02508060.2012.742713)

2011

Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Guy, S. (2011) Innovation to intermediaries: translating the EU Urban Wastewater Directive. In: Guy, S., Marvin, S., Medd, W. and Moss, T. (eds.) Shaping Urban Infrastructures: Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks. Earthscan: London, pp. 92-107. ISBN 9781849710688

2009

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Guy, Simon (2009) Governing through translations: intermediaries and the mediation of the EU's Urban Waste Water Directive. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 11(2), pp. 69-85. (doi: 10.1080/15239080902891244)

2008

Beveridge, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Hüesker, F. (2008) Nichtöffentlichkeit als Prinzip. Die Teilprivatisierung der Berliner Wasserbetriebe. In: Wasser: Die Kommerzialisierung eines öffentlichen Gutes. Series: Texte (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) (41). Karl Dietz: Berlin, pp. 58-74. ISBN 9783320021351

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Moss, Timothy (2008) The Parrett Catchment Project: between rhetoric and reality. In: Moss, Timothy and Monstadt, Jochen (eds.) Restoring Floodplains in Europe: Policy Context and Project Experiences. IWA Publishing: London, pp. 286-314. ISBN 9781843390909

2005

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Guy, Simon (2005) The rise of the eco-preneur and the messy world of environmental innovation. Local Environment, 10(6), pp. 665-676. (doi: 10.1080/13549830500321972)

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Number of items: 38.

Articles

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2017) What is (still) political about the city? Urban Studies, 54(1), pp. 62-66. (doi: 10.1177/0042098016671478)

Books

Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083 and Koch, Philippe (2022) How Cities Can Transform Democracy. Polity Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781509545988

Book Sections

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Supervision

I am interested in supervising doctoral projects related to my specific research interests (see above) and in the broader field of urban politics and governance.

Du, Yuhui
Urban Studies PhD
Hwang, Jeongha
Disclosing an ‘design city’ from below: urban transformation and labour actors in Dongdaemun, Seoul

Completed PhD Projects:

Alice Earley (2016-2020)

Community Enterprise, Regeneration and Gentrification.

Michael Scanlan: (2017-2021)

"Inclusive Populism": from Latin American phenomenon to fixture of European Politics

Teaching

Convenor (Postgraduate):

International Urban Challenges

Civis European University Module on Co-creating Urban Futures: Citizen Participation and Local Goverance

Convenor (Undergraduate):

Remaking Cities in a Global Age

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