John Rennie Short Explained

John Rennie Short
Birth Place:Stirling, Scotland
Birth Date:1951 10, df=y
Nationality:Scottish
Occupation:Geographer and writer
Alma Mater:University of Aberdeen
University of Bristol

John Rennie Short is professor emeritus of geography and public policy in the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Early life and education

Short was born in Stirling, Scotland. He was raised in nearby Tullibody, a village in the County of Clackmannanshire. He attended the county grammar school, Alloa Academy. He received the MA in geography from Aberdeen University in 1973.[1] followed by a PhD in geography from the University of Bristol, with a received dissertation, "Residential Mobility in The Private Housing Market of Bristol" (1977). From 1976 to 1978, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in Bristol's School of Geographical Sciences.

Career

In 1978, Short was appointed lecturer in geography at the University of Reading.  From 1985 to 1987, he was also visiting senior research fellow at the Urban Research Unit of the Australian National University. He left Reading in 1990 to join Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as professor of geography. In 2002, he left Syracuse for an appointment as professor and chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He was appointed to a professorship in the School of Public Policy at UMBC in 2005. He was awarded emeritus status in 2023.

Short has published in human geography's subfields, including the urban, the political, the environmental, the economic, and the cultural.[2] [3] [4] [5] His scholarship incorporates social and cultural theory methodologies, archival research strategies, and data analyses.  Short's work has been presented on television[6] in podcasts[7] and radio[8] interviews, print interviews in national and special newspapers[9] and essays on scholarly/journalistic websites.[10]

His work has been translated into many languages including Arabic,[11] Chinese,[12] Czech,[13] Italian,[14] Japanese,[15] Korean,[16] Persian,[17] Portuguese,[18] Spanish,[19] and Turkish.[20]

Selected Awards

Scholarship

Short's research papers contribute to four main areas of political economy.

The first is an exploration of urban society. Amongst many articles and book chapters, his work includes a long engagement with analysing housing dynamics[25] [26] to broader concerns with the pandemic and the city,[27] generating models of metropolitan change,[28] urban cultural economy,[29] traffic issues,[30] [31] immigration,[32] suburban change,[33] the relationship between globalisation and cities,[34] measuring the extent of globalisation in cities,[35] urban flânerie,[36] urban environmental issues, climate change,[37] [38] how city regions seek to reposition themselves in discursive space through branding campaigns[39] and the hosting of the Olympic Games.[40] More recent work has focused on social inclusion in cities[41] and cities in the Global South including the rise of new middle class[42] and the informal economy in the Colombian city of Cali.[43]

A second body of work contributes to broader issues of cultural economy and politics. An influential text, Imagined Country[44] first published in 1991 and reissued in 2005, was an important part of the cultural turn. In that book Short elaborated the idea of national environmental ideologies though the depictions of wilderness, countryside and city in landscape painting, cinema and novels. Other work focuses on globalisation,[45] language,[46] wealth,[47] wealth and political power,[48] and wealth and immigration.[49]

A third contribution is to political geography and geopolitics. His work on the US includes analyses of elections,[50] voting systems,[51] gerrymandering,[52] and legitimation crisis.[53] Work on geopolitics includes issues in the East China and South China Seas.[54] [55] In 2020 he was awarded a Fulbright ASEAN Fellowship to research the geopolitics of the South China Sea.

The fourth theme, mainly expressed in book form, is the history of cartography. Short builds upon and extends the work of the critical cartographic theorist John Brian Harley to deconstruct maps as social and political texts. Short explores the power dynamics in how the US[56] and Korea[57] were represented in maps, the creation of a spatial sensitivity in the early modern era,[58] the role of indigenous people in so-called exploration and discovery of the New World,[59] and the emergence of the national atlas as important feature of modern nationalism.[60] He has also penned a general introduction to the subject.[61]

He has promoted the publication of younger scholars’ work through editorship of three-book series Space Place and Society,[62] Cities [63] and Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City.[64]

He served on the inaugural editorial board of the journals Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.[65] and Sustainability.[66] He is on the board of Journal of Urban Affairs.[67] He was the first chief editor of Social Inclusion in Cities.[68]

Authored books

2024 Demography and the Making of The Modern World: Public Policies and Demographic Forces. Agenda. .

2024 Insurrection: What the January 6 Assault on America Reveals about America and Democracy. Reaktion. .

2024 Human Geography (3rd edition). Oxford University Press, (Co-authored with Lisa Benton-Short), .

2023 The Urban Now: Living in an Age of Urban Globalism. Edward Elgar. .

2022 The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century. Anthem Press. .

2021 Geopolitics: Making Sense of a Changing Word. Rowman and Littlefield. .

2021 Stress Testing the USA: Public Policy and Reaction to Disaster Events (2nd edition). Palgrave Macmillan. .

2021  Housing in Britain: The Postwar Experience (reprinting of 1982 book). Routledge. .

2021  Housing and Residential Structure: Alternative Approaches (reprinting of 1980 book). Routledge. (Co-authored with Keith Bassett) .

2019  World Regional Geography. Oxford University Press. .

2018  The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and The Making of Inequality in Global Cities. Routledge, .

2018 Human Geography: A Short Introduction. (2nd ed.) Oxford University Press, .

2018  Hosting the Olympic Games: The Real Costs for Cities. Routledge, .

2018  A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada: Toward A Sustainable Future. Rowman and Littlefield, (Co-authored with Lisa Benton-Short and Chris Mayda), .

2014  Urban Theory (2nd ed.) Palgrave Macmillan. (Translated into Chinese and Persian),

2014 Human Geography A Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, .

2013  Stress Testing The USA: Public Policy and Reaction to Disaster Events. Palgrave Macmillan, .

2013  Cities and Nature (2nd ed.) Routledge (Co-authored with Lisa Benton-Short), .

2012  Korea: A Cartographic History. University of Chicago Press (Translated into Korean),

2012 Globalization, Modernity and The City. Routledge, .

2010  Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US. Routledge (Co-authored with B. Hanlon and T. Vicino), .

2009  Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and The Exploration of The New World. Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, .

2008  Cities and Economy. Routledge (Co-authored with Y. Kim). (Translated into Persian), .

2008 Cities and Nature. Routledge (Co-authored with Lisa Benton-Short). .

2007  Liquid City: Megalopolis Revisited. Resources for The Future Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, .

2006  Alabaster Cities: Urban US Since 1950. Syracuse University Press, .

2006  Urban Theory. Palgrave Macmillan. (Translated into Chinese and Persian),

2005  Imagined Country. Syracuse University Press (Reprint with new introduction), .

2004  Making Space: Revisioning The World, 1475–1600. Syracuse University Press, .

2004  Global Metropolitan. Routledge. (Translated into Persian), .

2004  Representing the Republic. Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, .

2003 The World Through Maps. Firefly, .

2001 Global Dimensions: Space, Place and The Contemporary World Reaktion University of Chicago Press (Translated into Chinese), .

2000 Alternative Geographies. Prentice Hall, .

1999 Globalization and The City. Addison Wesley Longman (Co-authored with Y. Kim) (Translated into Persian), (paperback).

1999 Environmental Discourses and Practice.  Blackwell (Co-authored with L. M. Benton), .

1998  New Worlds, New Geographies. Syracuse University Press, .

1996  The Urban Order.  Blackwell (Translated into Korean, Chinese and Persian), .

1993  An Introduction to Political Geography. Routledge (Second, revised and enlarged, edition) .

1991 Imagined Country: Environment, Culture and Society. Routledge, .

1989 The Humane City.  Blackwell (Translated into Korean, 2000), .

1986 Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action. Routledge (Co-authored with S. Fleming and S. Witt) .

1984 The Urban Arena. Macmillan .

1984 An Introduction to Urban Geography. Routledge .

1982 Housing in Britain. Methuen .

1982 An Introduction to Political Geography. RKP .

1980 Urban Data Sources. Butterworths .

1980 Housing and Residential Structure.  Routledge. (Co-authored with K. Bassett), .

Edited books

2022 Pandemic and The City: Urban Issues in the Context of COVID-19. (Guest Editor).[69]

2019 Assessing The New Urban Agenda. (Guest Editor).[70]

2017 A Research Agenda for Cities. Edward Elgar Agendas (Editor), .

2008 The Sage Companion to The City. Sage (Co-edited with T. Hall and P. Hubbard), .

2002 Globalization and The Margins. Palgrave (Co-edited with R. Grant),.

2000 Environmental Discourses and Practice: A Reader. Blackwell (Co-edited with L. M. Benton),.

1992 Human Settlement. Oxford University Press (Editor), .

1985 Developing Contemporary Marxism. Macmillan (Co-edited with Z. Baranski), .

1984 The Human Geography of Contemporary Britain. Macmillan (Co-edited with A. Kirby), .

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CV for John Rennie Short . Short . John Rennie . 5 May 2022.
  2. Web site: Publications and Citations:Scopus. 8 January 2020.
  3. Web site: Publications and Citations: Semantic Scholar. 8 January 2020.
  4. Web site: Publications and Citations: Orcid . 8 January 2020.
  5. Web site: Publications and Citations: Google Scholar . 8 January 2020.
  6. Web site: Olympics . . 29 December 2019.
  7. Web site: PlanetSport . 25 April 2021.
  8. Web site: Traffic . 29 December 2019. Web site: Writers'Voice interview . 5 January 2020. 6 April 2014 .
  9. Web site: Book interview . 28 December 2019.
  10. Web site: Conversations . 28 December 2019.
  11. Web site: Healthy Cities . 18 March 2020 . 21 August 2020.
  12. Web site: Cities and Nature . 21 August 2020.
  13. Web site: Human Settlement . 21 August 2020.
  14. Web site: Cities and climate change. 23 October 2021 . 19 November 2021.
  15. Web site: The World Through Maps . 14 December 2020.
  16. Web site: Korea:A Cartographic History . 14 December 2020.
  17. Web site: The Unequal City . 3 July 2020 . 21 August 2020.
  18. Web site: Age of Distraction . 21 August 2020.
  19. Web site: Street Vendors in Urban Economy . 31 July 2020 . 21 August 2020.
  20. Web site: Cities and climate change. 22 October 2021 . 19 November 2021.
  21. Web site: UMBC Celebrates Fulbright Recipients. 9 September 2020. 19 November 2020.
  22. Web site: AGS Library Best Fellows. 19 November 2020. 20 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920050144/https://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/ags-library-best-fellows/. dead.
  23. Web site: Fellowship Profiles. 2 July 2019. 19 November 2020.
  24. Web site: Dibner Scholars. 19 November 2020.
  25. 622811. Yuppies, Yuffies and the New Urban Order. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 14. 2. 173–188. Short. John R.. 1989. 10.2307/622811. 1989TrIBG..14..173S .
  26. Book: 10.4324/9781315266442-28. The end of the suburbs. The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs. 335–341. 2018. Short. John Rennie. 9781315266442. 170067826.
  27. 10.3390/su13063295 . The Pandemic City: Urban Issues in the Time of COVID-19. Sustainability. 13. 2021. Martinez. Lina. Short. John Rennie . 6. 3295. 233627137. free. 11603/24147. free.
  28. 10.1080/00330124.2013.765297. Population Change in U.S. Cities: Estimating and Explaining the Extent of Decline and Level of Resurgence. The Professional Geographer. 66. 112–123. 2014. Short. John Rennie. Mussman. Michael. 1 . 2014ProfG..66..112S . 129019226.
  29. 10.1080/00045608.2011.583576. Representing Country in the Creative Postcolonial City. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102. 129–150. 2012. Short. John Rennie. 144495435.
  30. Web site: Rennie . John . 2021-06-21 . As urban life resumes, can US cities avert gridlock? . 2023-08-29 . The Conversation . en.
  31. 10.1080/17450100903434998. No Accident: Traffic and Pedestrians in the Modern City. Mobilities. 5. 41–59. 2010. Short. John Rennie. Pinet-Peralta. Luis Mauricio. 64726510.
  32. 10.2747/0272-3638.32.3.383. A Typology of Urban Immigrant Neighborhoods. Urban Geography. 32. 3. 383–405. 2011. Vicino. Thomas J.. Hanlon. Bernadette. Short. John Rennie. 143216701.
  33. 10.1080/00420980600936525. The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model. Urban Studies. 43. 12. 2129–2143. 2006. Hanlon. Bernadette. Vicino. Thomas. Short. John Rennie. 2006UrbSt..43.2129H . 51899030.
  34. Book: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0330. Global Cities. International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. 1–9. 2017. Short. John Rennie. 9780470659632.
  35. Black Holes and Loose Connections in a Global Urban Network. 10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.05602012.x. The Professional Geographer. 56. 2. 295–302. May 2004. Short. John Rennie. 2004ProfG..56..295S . 11603/230 . 55187523 . free.
  36. 10.1080/13604813.2011.595100. Flânerie and the globalizing city. City. 15. 3–4. 322–342. 2011. Kramer. Kathryn. Short. John Rennie. 2011City...15..322K . 144682776.
  37. 10.1177/0263774X15614185. A perfect storm: Climate change, the power grid, and regulatory regime change after network failure. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. 34. 2. 244–261. 2016. Short. John Rennie. 2016EnPlC..34..244S . 155216456. free.
  38. Short . John Rennie . Farmer . Abbey . 2021. Cities and Climate Change . Earth . en . 2 . 4 . 1038–1045 . 10.3390/earth2040061 . 2021Earth...2.1038S . 2673-4834 . free . 11603/23957 . free .
  39. Book: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080970868740062 . 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.74006-2. City Marketing. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 662–668. 2015. Short. John Rennie. 9780080970875.
  40. 10.1080/13604810802478888. Globalization, cities and the Summer Olympics. City. 12. 3. 321–340. 2008. Short. John R.. 145764158. free. 2008City...12..321S .
  41. 10.3389/frsc.2021.684572. Social inclusion in cities. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 2021. Short. John Rennie. 3. 233330224. free. 11603/21615. free.
  42. 10.1111/gec3.12484. The urban effects of the emerging middle class in the global South. Geography Compass. 2020. Short. John Rennie. Martinez. Lina. 14. 4. 2020GComp..14E2484S . 11603/17500 . 213758748. free.
  43. 10.1016/j.cities.2018.02.018. The diversity of the street vending: A case study of street vending in Cali. Cities. 79. 18–25. 2018. Martínez. Lina. Short. John Rennie. Estrada. Daniela. 158131434.
  44. Book: Rennie, John . Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and Society . 2005-11-15 . Syracuse University Press . 978-0-8156-2954-2 . en.
  45. Web site: 2016-11-30 . Column: Why there's a backlash against globalization and what needs to change . 2023-08-29 . PBS NewsHour . en-us.
  46. 10.1111/0033-0124.00265. Cultural Globalization, Global English, and Geography Journals. The Professional Geographer. 53. 1–11. 2001. Short. John Rennie. Boniche. Armando. Kim. Yeong. Li. Patrick Li. 1 . 2001ProfG..53....1S . 129763407.
  47. 10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.03.001. Getting away with it? Exposing the geographies of the super-rich. Geoforum. 35. 4. 401–407. 2004. Beaverstock. Jonathan V.. Hubbard. Philip. Rennie Short. John.
  48. Book: Hay, Iain . Geographies of the Super-rich . 2013-01-01 . Edward Elgar Publishing . 978-0-85793-569-4 . en.
  49. Book: Hay . Iain . Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich . Beaverstock . Jonathan V. . 2016-01-29 . Edward Elgar Publishing . 978-1-78347-404-2 . en.
  50. John Rennie Short (2020)" An Election in a Time of Distrust", US Election Analysis 2020, https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/president2020/section-2-voters/an-election-in-a-time-of-distrust/
  51. 10.1080/21622671.2013.875938. The Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act and Competing National Imaginaries of the USA. Territory, Politics, Governance. 2. 94–108. 2014. Short. John Rennie. 144927060.
  52. Web site: Rennie . John . 2018-11-01 . 4 reasons gerrymandering is getting worse . 2023-08-29 . Salon . en.
  53. Web site: Short . John Rennie . 2016-10-21 . The 'legitimation' crisis in the US: Why have Americans lost trust in government? . 2023-08-29 . The Conversation . en.
  54. John Rennie Short (2016)" What’s happening in the South China Sea? ", US News and World Report, https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-07-13/whats-happening-in-the-south-china-sea
  55. John Rennie Short and Leah Dubots (2020)" Contesting place names: The East Sea/Sea of Japan naming issue", Geographical Review, doi/full.10.1008/00167428.2020.1827936/
  56. John Rennie Short (2004)" Representing The Republic ", https://books.google.com/books?id=ANqfqIU-CcsC&dq=info:ZeKv_bXjkwcJ:scholar.google.com&pg=PA7 John Rennie Short (1999) A New Mode of Thinking: Creating a National Geography in the Early Republic. Surveying The Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 https://books.google.com/books?id=FWf3dBUONasC&q=Surveying+The+Record%3A+North+American+Scientific+Exploration+to+1930&pg=PR9
  57. Book: Short, John Rennie . Korea: A Cartographic History . 2012-04-02 . University of Chicago Press . 978-0-226-75366-9 . en.
  58. Book: Short, John Rennie . Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 . 2004-03-01 . Syracuse University Press . 978-0-8156-3023-4 . en.
  59. Book: Short, John Rennie . Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World . 2009-07-15 . Reaktion Books . 978-1-86189-749-7 . en.
  60. Book: Short, John Rennie . The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century: Power, State and Territory . 2022 . Anthem Press . 978-1-83998-303-0 . en.
  61. Book: Short, John R. . The World Through Maps: A History of Cartography . 2003 . Firefly Books . 978-1-55297-811-5 . en.
  62. Web site: Space, Place and Society – Syracuse University Press . 2023-08-29 . en-US.
  63. Web site: Cities series - Urban and Regional Studies - Book Series . 2023-08-29 . Edward Elgar Publishing . en.
  64. Web site: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press . 2023-08-29 . www.routledge.com.
  65. “Environment and Planning D: Society and Space”, https://journals.sagepub.com/home/epd.html/
  66. Web site: Sustainability . 2023-08-29 . www.mdpi.com . en.
  67. “Journal of Urban Affairs" https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=ujua20
  68. Web site: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities Social Inclusion in Cities . 2023-08-29 . Frontiers . en.
  69. "Pandemic and The City". https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/pandemic_urban_issues
  70. "Assessing The New Urban Agenda". https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/New_Urban_Agenda

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