Dr Juan Miguel Kanai
School of Geography and Planning
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
+44 114 222 7940
Full contact details
School of Geography and Planning
C5a
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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J. Miguel Kanai is an urban geographer. His work engages the urbanisation of the world under contemporary globalised capitalism. He is specifically concerned with the consequences of intensified inter-territorial competition and the various entrepreneurial strategies adopted by cities and regions in the global South as these are pressured to achieve economic upgrading and provide world-class infrastructure amidst unmet social needs and political contentiousness.
His previously published work includes multiple peer-reviewed articles in international geography and interdisciplinary journals taking stock of the consequences and motivations of culture-led regeneration schemes in Buenos Aires, Argentina as well as the rise of eco-entrepreneurialism in the Brazilian state of Amazonas and the urban and regional implications of Manaus鈥 rise as a city with global aspirations. He has also published collaborative work questioning urban entrepreneurial strategies in the United States and Morocco, and is currently engaged in a bibliometric project taking stock of the cosmopolitan turn in urban globalization research since the turn of the twenty-first century.
Before moving to the 9 1免费版下 of Sheffield, he taught at the 9 1免费版下 of Miami (2008-2015) and was a research officer at the London School of Economics affiliated with the Urban Age project (2005-2006). His teaching experience also includes short-term appointments in planning departments at the 9 1免费版下 of California, Irvine and the 9 1免费版下 of Southern California as well as international experience lecturing at the Federal 9 1免费版下 of Amazonas (Brazil) and Henan 9 1免费版下 (People鈥檚 Republic of China). He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the 9 1免费版下 of California, Los Angeles (2008).
His paper 鈥淧aving (through) Amazonia: neoliberal urbanism and the reperipheralization of Roraima鈥 (Environment and Planning A) co-authored with the late Rafael da Silva Oliveira received an Ashby Prize in 2014.
- Research interests
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- Neoliberal Urbanism
- City-regional Politics and Regional Development in the Global South
- The Urbanisation of the world
- The Cosmopolitan Turn in Urban Globalisation Research
- Publications
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Books
- Participating in peace: violence, development and dialogue in Colombia. Bristol 9 1免费版下 Press.
Journal articles
- . International Development Planning Review, 46(2), 227-242.
- . Urban Forestry and Urban Greening.
- . Political Geography, 98, 102729-102729.
- . Sustainability, 14(7).
- . Geoforum, 118, 106-116.
- . 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art, 55-56, 54-64.
- . Regional Studies.
- . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42(5), 828-844.
- . Environment and Planning A.
- . Urban Studies (Sage).
- . Geoforum, 69, 160-170.
- . Urban Geography, 36(3), 385-402.
- . American Behavioral Scientist, 59(3), 369-385.
- . Antipode, 47(3), 652-670.
- . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(6), 1071-1087.
- . Geoforum, 56, 1-5.
- . Urban Geography, 35(8), 1111-1117.
- . Environment and Planning A, 46(1), 62-77.
- . Urban Studies, 51(11), 2387-2405.
- . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31(1), 80-98.
- . Sociedade & Natureza, 24(1), 67-81.
- . Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 102(3), 346-360.
- . Political Geography, 30(4), 225-235.
- . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 42(8), 1887-1901.
- . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(2), 483-501.
- . Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28(3), 441-443.
- . Sustainability, 16(16), 6981-6981.
- . Urban Studies, 004209802211427-004209802211427.
- . Urban Studies, 004209802110641-004209802110641.
- . Area Development and Policy, 1-22.
Chapters
- , The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies (pp. 452-463). Routledge
- , Participating in Peace (pp. 57-82). Bristol 9 1免费版下 Press
- , Participating in Peace (pp. vii-viii). Bristol 9 1免费版下 Press
- , Participating in Peace (pp. 1-10). Policy Press
- , Participating in Peace (pp. 1-10). Bristol 9 1免费版下 Press
- , Participating in Peace (pp. 83-116). Policy Press
- , Participating in Peace (pp. 11-35). Bristol 9 1免费版下 Press
- , Participating in Peace (pp. 57-82). Policy Press
- , Participating in Peace (pp. 11-35). Policy Press
- PARTICIPATING IN PEACE Violence, Development and Dialogue in Colombia Introduction, PARTICIPATING IN PEACE (pp. 1-+).
- , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 159-162). Elsevier
- Regional urbanization: Emerging approaches and debates, Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories (pp. 322-331).
- The twenty-first century rediscovery of regional planning in the global south, Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories (pp. 346-357).
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
- . In Latin American Geographies Routledge.
- . In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Elsevier.
Datasets
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Preprints
- Local Media and Geo-situated Responses to Brexit: A Quantitative
Analysis of Twitter, News and Survey Data, arXiv.
- Participating in peace: violence, development and dialogue in Colombia. Bristol 9 1免费版下 Press.
- Teaching interests
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J. Miguel Kanai teaches concentrates within the International Development cluster and his teaching interests include the following:
- Urbanisation, Development and the Environment
- Research Methods
- International Field Courses
- Development in Practice