Michael Keith has a personal chair, University of Oxford and is the Director of COMPAS (2008>).
His research interests focus on the interface between culture, urbanism and migration. His current work develops past projects on the dynamics of urbanism, the study of cultural difference and the impact of migration on structures and processes of governance. One strand of this considers the politics of migration, integration, cohesion and everyday life in the United Kingdom. A second strand considers the dynamics of migration, city transformation and emergent markets in contemporary China.
Michael was formerly Professor of Sociology, Head of Department and Director
of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths College,
University of London. He has also been a politician in the East End of
London for twenty years and was at various times leader of the Council in
Tower Hamlets, chair of the Thames Gateway London Partnership (2000-2006)
and Commissioner on the National Commission on Integration and Cohesion(2006-07).
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
2009, ‘Urbanism and city spaces in the work of Stuart Hall’, Cultural Studies, (2009, 4). Download article [.pdf].
2008, ‘Public Sociology? Between heroic immersion and critical distance: personal reflections on academic engagement with political life’, Critical Social Policy, (Vol 28 (3) pp 320-34). Download article [.pdf].
2008, ‘Between being and becoming? Rights, responsibilities and the politics of multiculture in the new east end.’, Sociology Research Online Volume, 13 (5). Link to article [external site]
2007, ‘Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be’ Open Democracy, July 2007. Link to article [external site]
2007, ‘Don’t sleepwalk into simplification: what the Commission on Integration and Cohesion (CIC) really said’, Open Democracy, August 2007. Link to article [external site]
Book Chapters
2009 (forthcoming),'Figuring city change; understanding urban regeneration and Britain’s Thames Gateway’, In Imrie, R.; Lees, L. and Raco, M. (eds), Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City. London and New York: Routledge. Download chapter [.pdf].
2008, ‘Daring to plan? Concepts and methods of urban regeneration in Thames Gateway.’ In Cohen, P. and Rustin, M. (eds) London’s Turning: the Making of Thames Gateway. (Aldershot: Ashgate) pp53-67. Download chapter [.pdf].
2008, ‘After the cosmopolitan? New geographies of race and racism’ In Dwyer, C. and Bressey, C. 2008 New geographies of race and racism in the British Isles (Ashgate). Download chapter [.pdf].
2005, ‘Racialization and the public spaces of the multicultural city’, In Murji, K. and Solomos, J. (eds), Racialization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp249-70. Download chapter [.pdf].
Books
2010 (forthcoming), Constructing Capitalism in China, London and New York: Routledge. (Co authored Scott Lash, Jakob Arnoldi and Tyler Rooker).
2009 (forthcoming), Power, Identity and Representation: Race, Governance and Mobilisation in British Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Co-authored with Les Back, Azra Khan, Kalbir Shukra and John Solomos).
2005, After the cosmopolitan? Multicultural cities and the future of racism, London and New York: Routledge (Sole authored research monograph).
2000, Reflecting Realities: Participants Perspectives on integrated communities and sustainable development, Bristol: Policy Press. (with Jean Anastacio, Ben Gidley, Lorraine Hart and Marjorie Mayo)
1997, Geographies of Resistance, London and New York: Routledge (co-edited with Steven Pile)
1993, Race, riots and policing: Lore and Disorder in a multi-racist society, London: UCL Press (Sole authored research monograph, reprinted twice between 1993 and 1998).
1993, Place and the politics of identity, London: Routledge (co-edited with Steve Pile)
1992, Racism, the city and the state, London: Routledge (co-edited with Malcolm Cross)
1991, Hollow Promises ? Rhetoric and reality in the inner city, London: Cassell (co-edited with Alisdair Rogers)