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2026

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91
Citations
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World Ranking
174
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28

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Overview

Nigel Thrift is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their scholarly contributions span multiple domains within social sciences, encompassing a variety of subfields and topics related to urban studies, political science, and education.

The main fields of study for Thrift include:

  • Social Sciences

Within these, subfields of particular focus are:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Urban Studies
  • Education
  • Transportation
  • Computer Science Applications

Thrift's research topics cover diverse themes connected to higher education, urban governance, and digital media. These include:

  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Digital Media and Philosophy
  • Higher Education Learning Practices
  • Higher Education and Employability

Their recent academic publications include:

  • Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2020), published in Progress in Human Geography
  • Here's another nice mess you've gotten us into (2025), published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Index (2022), published in Policy Press eBooks

Coauthor collaborations have been recorded with Ash Amin.

Publication venues where Thrift's work has appeared prominently include:

  • Progress in Human Geography
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Policy Press eBooks

Their book publications are primarily through Policy Press, with titles including The Pursuit of Possibility (2022), which has multiple editions also published via Bristol University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • INTENSITIES OF FEELING: TOWARDS A SPATIAL POLITICS OF AFFECT

    Nigel Thrift

  • Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect

    Nigel J. Thrift

  • Cities: Reimagining the Urban

    Ash Amin;Nigel J. Thrift

  • Out of Order Understanding Repair and Maintenance

    Stephen Graham;Nigel Thrift

  • Neo‐Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks*

    Ash Amin;Nigel Thrift

  • Place and Politics. The Geographical Mediation of State and Society

    Nigel Thrift;John Agnew

  • Non-representational theory

    Nigel Thrift

  • Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation

    Andrew Leyshon;Nigel J. Thrift

  • Geographies of financial exclusion: financial abandonment in Britain and the United States

    Andrew Leyshon;Nigel Thrift

  • Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

    NJ Thrift

  • Globalization, institutions, and regional development in Europe

    A Amin;NJ Thrift

  • Dead Geographies—And How to Make Them Live

    Nigel Thrift;John-David Dewsbury

  • Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation

    Steve Pile;Nigel J. Thrift

  • Living In The Global

    A Amin;NJ Thrift

  • The automatic production of space

    Nigel Thrift;Shaun French

  • On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time

    N J Thrift

  • The Capitalization of Almost Everything: The Future of Finance and Capitalism

    Andrew Leyshon;Nigel Thrift

  • Performing cultures in the new economy

    Nigel Thrift

  • Refiguring the Economic in Economic Geography

    Nigel J. Thrift;Kris Olds

  • A Rough Guide

    Kay Anderson;Mona Domosh;Steve Pile;Nigel Thrift

  • Timespace: Geographies of Temporality

    Jon May;Nigel J. Thrift

  • The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

    Nigel Thrift;Rob Kitchin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ash Amin
Ash Amin University of Cambridge
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey The Open University
Michael Dear
Michael Dear University of Southern California
Paul Cloke
Paul Cloke University of Exeter
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield
Steve Woolgar
Steve Woolgar University of Oxford
Stuart Corbridge
Stuart Corbridge London School of Economics and Political Science
Trevor J. Barnes
Trevor J. Barnes University of British Columbia
Stephan Harrison
Stephan Harrison University of Exeter

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