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About Ash Amin

Ash Amin is professor of geography at Durham University. His research and publications have dealt with regional development and socio-economic inequality in Europe, the social economy of the city, and the socio-political evolution of multicultural and multi-ethnic societies within the European Union.

Articles by Ash Amin

Monday 9th May

Xenophobic Europe

Ash Amin, 9 May 2011
Our guest editor introduced his special feature on the ‘Uses of Xenophobia’, on Europe Day. Here, he maps the new relevance of an open and shared commons to a continent that is once again meeting economic, political and cultural insecurity with a resurgence of aggressive political demagoguery

The Uses of Xenophobia

Ash Amin, 9 May 2011
In Ash Amin’s guest week on “The Uses of Xenophobia”, beginning on Europe Day, 2011, the thrust of the essays has been to press for a more open and democratic European continent, which turns to face the turbulent and uncertain future together with the stranger, treated as an ally and equal.
Wednesday 4th May

Ash Amin

Ash Amin, 4 May 2011

It was, of course, the Right to Life Tax, proposed by Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa in 2020 and passed by the UN in 2025.  Committing 2% of the world's annual corporate tax revenue to households earning less that $2 a day, the Tax gave nearly half of the world's population the means to exert democracy. 

Klong Toey Slum, Bangkok, Thailand. Demotix: Matt: all rights reserved.
Wednesday 23rd July

From ethnicity to empathy: a new idea of Europe

Ash Amin, 23 July 2003
The dynamic intermingling of peoples in contemporary Europe is challenging definitions of the continent’s identity based on ethnicity, indigeneity and myths of origin. This unstoppable and enriching diversity calls for a distinct new politics – one that reframes the very idea of Europe in terms of empathy with the stranger.
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