Dr Juan Miguel Kanai
School of Geography and Planning
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
+44 114 222 7940
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School of Geography and Planning
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Geography and Planning Building
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- 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’ 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 University of ߲ݴý, he taught at the University 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 University of California, Irvine and the University of Southern California as well as international experience lecturing at the Federal University of Amazonas (Brazil) and Henan University (People’s Republic of China). He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (2008).
His paper “Paving (through) Amazonia: neoliberal urbanism and the reperipheralization of Roraima” (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 University Press.
Journal articles
- . 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 University Press
- , Participating in Peace (pp. vii-viii). Bristol University Press
- , 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 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 University 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