The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies

About

John Hannigan is Professor of Sociology and Associate Chair Graduate Studies (Sociology) at the University of Toronto where he teaches courses in cultural policy urban political economy and environmental sociology.  He has written four books: Environmental Sociology (1995 2006 2014) Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern City (1998) Disasters Without Borders: The International Politics of Natural Disasters (2012) and The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans (2015). Fantasy City was nominated for the 19992000 John Porter Award of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. Environmental Sociology has been translated into Chinese Japanese Korean and Portuguese. In his most recent book The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans Dr. Hannigan argues that our understanding of the deep depends on whether we see it primarily as a resource cornucopia a global political chessboard a shared commons or a unique and threatened ecology. He is currently co-editing the SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies (with Greg Richards) due to be published in 2017. Greg Richards is Professor of Placemaking and Events at NHTV Breda and Professor of Leisure Studies at Tilburg University. In recent years his research has focussed on what attracts people to cities and how they help to make urban places. He has worked extensively on tourism and the cultural and creative industries in cities such as Barcelona (ES) London Newcastle Manchester and Edinburgh (UK) Amsterdam Rotterdam and Den Bosch (NL) Sibiu (RO) Amman (Jordan) and Macau (China). His recent publications include Eventful Cities and Reinventing the Local in Tourism: Producing Consuming and Negotiating Place.