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Gareth is an urban sociologist. He currently leads a Leverhulme-funded five-year project titled ‘Archiving the Inner City: Race and the Politics of Urban Memory’. The project involves fieldwork in London, Paris and Philadelphia. Gareth is also working on a British Academy/ GCRF project based in Lagos, titled ‘Pneuma-city’: Frictional Infrastructure, road ecologies and valorisation of end-of-life tyres in Lagos’. He has recently finished work on another British Academy/ GCRF funded project titled ‘Religious Urbanization in Africa’, which examines how urban infrastructures such as energy, roads, bridges, homes, schools, universities and hospitals are increasingly being provided by religious organisations, especially Pentecostal churches. This study is based in Lagos and Kinshasa.
Gareth joined the department in September 2012 having previously taught at University of Roehampton, London and University of Essex. Gareth studied Sociology at University of Salford, Goldsmiths, University of London and University of Essex where he received his PhD in Sociology in 2006. His doctoral research on hostility directed towards asylum seekers in a seaside town was funded by the ESRC. Gareth previously worked as a schoolteacher in Essex and London.
Gareth’s first monograph Race, Culture and the Right to the City: Centres, Peripheries, Margins was published in late 2011. This book was based on British Academy funded research carried out in La Courneuve, Paris and Long Island, New York. In addition to pursuing research interests at the intersection of migration and urbanization, Gareth is also fascinated by visual and literary representations of cities and urban life. He teaches a third year module related to this work called Cinema, Cities and Historical Sociology. Gareth’s second book, which combines these interests, is titled Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema: Spectres of the City (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Gareth is co-author (with Rowland Atkinson) of Urban Criminology: The City, Disorder, Harm and Social Control (Routledge, 2019). Gareth’s current book project (with Daryl Martin) is titled Decline and the Sublime in Modern Urban Culture.
Gareth is a member of CURB (Centre for Urban Research) and the Culture, Values, Practices research cluster. He co-convenes the Archiving the City in the Centre for Modern Studies (with David Huyssen, History).
Gareth’s current research projects are focused the following areas:
Gareth is the principle investigator for a five year Department of Sociology research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust named Archiving the Inner City: Race and the Politics of Urban Memory. The project examines how, by whom and for what purposes the twentieth century ‘inner city’ is remembered, curated and represented; to learn more about the project click here.
Gareth is interested in supervising PhD students in any of the above, or related areas.