Publications

Forthcoming

• Burgum, S. (2024) Squatting London: The Politics of Property. Pluto Press.

• How squatters rights affect landlords. The Times. 20th April 2024.
• How the Other Half Lives. Studying Inequality and Power: Linking the Divide. British Sociological Association. Februrary 2024.
• Navigating the Narrow Margins. First Annual Conference of Critical Legal Geography. Politecnico di Turin, Italy. February 2024.
• London Otherwise: A book review of From Sylhet to Spitalfields by Shabna Begum. Radical Housing Journal. Issue 6.1

• S. Burgum & A. Vasudevan (Special Feature eds).  Critical geographies of occupation, trespass and squatting. CITY.
  • Miller, M. 'We kind of created our own scene': a geography of the Brixton Rebel Dykes.
    
  • Milligan, R. Cracking buildings, cracking capitalism: antagonism, affect, and the importance of squatting for housing justice.
  • Ferreri, M. Radical difference in 'transitional commoning': hidden histories of London's squats to co-ops
  • Grazioli, M. Eurhythmisation and organisational rites of housing squats in Rome
  • Lochlainn, M. Take back the city: occupation, housing activism, and digital/material contention in post-crash Dublin.

• 'Damage, Disruption, Distress' - Which Public, What Space, Whose City?  University of Liverpool. (Talk 25th May 2023)
• The Bengali squatters movement and organising today - The Ella Baker School of Organising (Talk 4th May 2023).
  

• S. Burgum & K. Higgins (eds). How the Other Half Lives: Interconnecting Socio-Spatial Inequalities. Manchester University Press.
  • Preface - Zoe Williams
  • Introduction: how the other half lives - Katie Higgins and Samuel Burgum
    Part I Structural inequalities
  • Editor's introduction: Placing inequalities in context (contingency)
  • 1 Emergence to clearance: the housing question in the district of Ancoats - Nigel de Noronha and Jonathan Silver
  • 2 Abandonment to financialisation: Ancoats and the ongoing housing question - Nigel de Noronha and Jonathan Silver
  • 3 Austerity and the local state: governing and politicising 'actually existing austerity' in a post-democratic city - Joe Penny
  • 4 'They don't know how angry I am': the slow violence of Austerity Britain - Anthony Ellis
    Part II Situated inequalities
  • Editor's introduction: Beyond the economic (complex inequalities)
  • 5 Iconic architecture: seduction and subversion - Amparo Tarazona-Vento
  • 6 Catcalls and cobblestones: gendered limits on women's walking - Morag Rose
  • 7 Inequality in elite neighbourhoods: a case study from central London - Ilaria Pulini
  • 8 Discrimination in 'receptive cities'? Voices from Brighton and Bologna - Caterina Mazzilli
    Part III Interrelated inequalities
  • Editor's introduction: Relations of inequality (never in isolation)
  • 9 The Sunday Times Rich List and the myth of the self-made man - Elisabeth Schimpfössl and Timothy Monteath
  • 10 Victims and agents: the representation of refugees among British volunteers active in the refugee support sector - Maestri & Monforte
  • 11 Entwined stories: privileged family migration, differential inclusion and shifting geographies of belonging - Sarah Kunz
  • 12 'Milan doesn't want us to be comfortable': differential inclusion of refugees in Milan - Maurizio Artero
  • Conclusion: Highs and lows: breaching social and spatial boundaries - Rowland Atkinson
 
• Talk: Social Scientists Aginst the Hostile Environment
• Paper: Narrow Margins. 7th October 2022. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
• Paper: Narrow Margins. University British Columbia, Vancouver.
• Talk: Manchester Statues Event
• London Occupy - The Reunion, BBC Radio 4 (First Broadcast 21st August 2022)
• Burgum, S., Jones, H., & Powell, R. 'Manufacturing Mandates: Property, Race, and the Criminalisation of Trespass in England and Wales'. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. [Open Access].
• Burgum, S. & Powell, R.  'The policing bill will criminalise Gypsy and Traveller families - there is a better approach'. The Conversation. 25th Jan 2022.

• 'It’s been 10 years since the Occupy protests. What did they achieve?' Interview with The Big Issue. October 2021.

• Action on Empty Homes Campaign.
  'Protests highlight the scandal of empty housing' - Isabel Ringrose for Socialist Worker.
  'Housing campaigners demand action on empty homes' - Isabel Ringrose for Socialist Worker.
  Requisitioning. National Emergency Housing Summit, HomesForAll. 20th Feb 2021.
  (2020) 'Learning from housing histories: Why we need to requisition property to address the pandemic'. Greater Manchester Housing Action.

• Burgum, S., Jones, H. & Powell, R. (2021). Manufacturing Mandates.
  Paper presented at Sheffield Hallam University Political Seminar Series. 11th Feb 2021.

• Book Review: Neoliberal Housing Policy (Keith Jacobs).  Housing Studies. OnlineFirst.
  
  

• Talk: 'London's Interstices: The Housing Crisis and Squatter Citizenship in the Global North'. 
  RC21 Annual Conference, Delhi, India. (Sep 2019).
  
• Panel: convening 'Critical Geographies of Occupation, Squatting & Trespass' with Alex Vasudevan.
  RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London (Aug 2019). [Call for papers]
• Talk: Squatting Forum at the Extinction Rebellion East London Uprising, Guerilla Garden. 13-14th July 2019.
• Talk: Squatting in Grey Spaces: Informality and Negotiating Housing in Contemporary London. 
  A Right to Home? University of Brighton. 7th Jun 2019.
• Blog: Public Book Discussion: Vasudevan's 'Autonomous City'. Urban Institute Blog.
• Talk: 'Squatting London - A History of the Present'. CURB Seminar Series, University of York. 30th Jan 2019.

2018

• Policy: Alternatives to Criminalisation - Response to UK Gov Public Consultation on 'Powers For Dealing with Unauthorised Developments and Encampments' [Original Consultation: PDF]
  
• Policy: Horizon Scanning Report - Managing the Public Perceptions of the Higher Education Sector. Higher Education Academy.

2017

• Chapter: 'Progress Through Protest' in Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart. Policy Press: Bristol.
  
• Interview: An Interview with Wendy Brown: Redoing the Demos? Theory, Culture & Society.
  [Also available in Spanish: ¿Rehacer el Demos? Entrevista con Wendy Brown. Theorin, Revista de Ciencias Sociales.]
• Policy: Peer review of  teaching: A rapid appraisal. Higher Education Academy.
• Newsletter: 'Squatting in the Alpha Territory' in Leverhulme Trust Newsletter (September).
  

2016

Occupying London: Post-Politics or Politics Proper? Fast Capitalism. 13.1
Versions of this paper (as part of my PhD research) were also presented at: 3rd Annual BSA Early Career Theorists Symposium, Goldsmiths. 29th May 2015. BSA Regional Event: Youth Activism and Resistance. University of Leicester. June 2014. PG Workshop, 21st International Critical Theory Conference, Charles University Prague, May 2014. 19th Alternative Futures and Political Protest Conference, Manchester Met, April 2014. Departmental Seminar, University of Lisbon, March 2014. Social and Political Critique in an Age of Austerity, University of Keele. 12th Feb 2014.

• Policy: Higher Education Academy Research Impact Evaluation. Higher Education Academy.
  
• Policy: What Does Research Informed Teaching Look Like? Higher Education Academy.
  
• Book Review: The Pathology of Communicative Capitalism (David Hill). The Sociological Review. 64, 3, 593-95.
  

2015

Campus Politics, Student Societies and Social Media. The Sociological Review. 63, 4, 820-839
Also published as an academic blog: 'Campus Politics, Student Societies and Social Media'. The Sociological Review.

The Branding of the Left: Between Spectacle and Passivity in an Era of Cynicism. Journal for Cultural Research. A version of this paper was also presented at: Departmental Seminar, University of Liverpool, May 2014.

• Ranciere and Occupy (in) London: An Interview with A.N.Onymous Networking Knowledge. 8, 3. 
• Money in Education, Violence in Occupation: Some Reflections on the 'Sit-in Senate. Warwick Sociology Journal. 1, 4, 33-50.
• Talk: ' The Powers That Be: Conspiracy & Cynicism whilst Occupying London '. APT 2015: Dialogues and Work in Progress. University of Warwick. May 2015.
• Talk: 'Occupy in Space: Making Nonsense Appear'. BSA Annual Conference. Glasgow Caledonian University. April 2015.
• Book Review: Riots and Political Protest, Notes from the Post-Political Present (Winlow, Hall, Treadwell & Briggs). Antipode.

2014

• Talk: 'Big Brother for People with Degrees or Interpassivity in Contemporary Activism'. XVIII ISA World Congress Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 2014.
• Talk: 'Making Sense: The Politics of Representation and Methodology'. Access and Opportunity in the Social Sciences, University of York, April 2014.
• Book Review: The Lost Spirit of Capitalism, Disbelief and Discredit (Bernard Stiegler). The Sociological Review. 62, 4, 918-20
  
• Book Review: The Dark Side of Modernity (Jeffery Alexander). Information, Communication & Society. 17, 7, 913-4.
  
• Book Review: Zizek Now: Current Perspectives in Zizek Studies (Khader & Rothenberg). Information, Communication & Society. 17, 3, 385-90.
• Book Review: Against Old Europe, Critical Theory and Alter-Globalization Movements (Schlembach). Antipode.
  
• Blog: 'Samuel Burgum & A.N.Onymous on Ranciere & Occupy. Theory, Culture & Society.
  
• Chapter: 'The Risks of Web Logging' in Social Media in Social Research: Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries.

• Talk: 'Resistance in Advertising, Or the Problem of Interpassivity'. Advertising & Consumer Culture Symposium, University of York. 31st May 2013.
• Talk: 'Interpassivity in Contemporary Activism'. Contemporary Other Conference, University of York. 15th April 2013.
  

• Talk: 'The Incorporation of Anti-Capitalism into the Music Industry'. Public Perceptions of the Social Sciences, University of York. 16th April 2012.