Ash Amin Editor & Author

Ash Amin, FBA is Professor of Geography and Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. He has led research on the social economy for over a decade, focusing on conceptualisation, local variations, and grounded social experience. This work has been funded by the European Commission and by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. His recent books include Cities (2002), Placing the Social Economy (2002), Architectures of Knowledge (2004), The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader (2005), Community, Economic Creativity and Organisation, (2008), Thinking about Almost Everything (2009).