Murray Low

Murray Low's research focuses on relationships between geography and democracy including institutional and spatial aspects of elections, changing practices of accountability and legitimacy in cities, and the geography of political party organisations and social movements. His work has dealt with the relationships between global networks and democracy, constructions of globalization and states in geography, and geographical aspects of political representation. He has recently completed research funded by the Leverhulme Foundation into city democratisation in South Africa. His books include Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation (Sage, 2004), and The Sage Handbook of Political Geography (Sage, 2008), both of which he co-edited.

• Geographies of political representation and democracy

• Urban democratisation; urban politics and governance

• Geography and political theory

Selected recent publications:

• Cox, K.R., Low, M., and Robinson, J. (eds.) (2008), The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography, Sage Publications.

• Low, Murray, Ballard, Richard and Maharaj, Brij (2007) Dilemmas of representation in post-apartheid Durban. Urban forum, 18 (4). pp. 247-264. ISSN 1015-3802
• Low, Murray (2007) Political parties and the city: some thoughts on the low profile of partisan organisations and mobilisation in urban political theory. Environment and planning A, 39 (11). pp. 2652-2667. ISSN 0308-518X

• Barnett, C., and Low, M. (eds.) (2004), Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation, Sage Publications. 

• 'Political Geography in Question.' Political Geography 22, 625-31 (2003) Special issue co-edited with Kevin Cox.

• 'After Globalization' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18 (1), 53-61, (with Clive Barnett)  (2000).