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John Rennie Short
John Rennie Short is professor emeritus of geography and public policy in the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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. 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.
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. His scholarship incorporates social and cultural theory methodologies, archival research strategies, and data analyses. Short's work has been presented on television in podcasts and radio interviews, print interviews in national and special newspapers and essays on scholarly/journalistic websites.
His work has been translated into many languages including Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.
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 to broader concerns with the pandemic and the city, generating models of metropolitan change, urban cultural economy, traffic issues, immigration, suburban change, the relationship between globalisation and cities, measuring the extent of globalisation in cities, urban flânerie, urban environmental issues, climate change, how city regions seek to reposition themselves in discursive space through branding campaigns and the hosting of the Olympic Games. More recent work has focused on social inclusion in cities and cities in the Global South including the rise of new middle class and the informal economy in the Colombian city of Cali.
A second body of work contributes to broader issues of cultural economy and politics. An influential text, Imagined Country 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, language, wealth, wealth and political power, and wealth and immigration.
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John Rennie Short
John Rennie Short is professor emeritus of geography and public policy in the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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. 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.
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. His scholarship incorporates social and cultural theory methodologies, archival research strategies, and data analyses. Short's work has been presented on television in podcasts and radio interviews, print interviews in national and special newspapers and essays on scholarly/journalistic websites.
His work has been translated into many languages including Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.
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 to broader concerns with the pandemic and the city, generating models of metropolitan change, urban cultural economy, traffic issues, immigration, suburban change, the relationship between globalisation and cities, measuring the extent of globalisation in cities, urban flânerie, urban environmental issues, climate change, how city regions seek to reposition themselves in discursive space through branding campaigns and the hosting of the Olympic Games. More recent work has focused on social inclusion in cities and cities in the Global South including the rise of new middle class and the informal economy in the Colombian city of Cali.
A second body of work contributes to broader issues of cultural economy and politics. An influential text, Imagined Country 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, language, wealth, wealth and political power, and wealth and immigration.