The University of Sheffield
Town and Regional Planning

Dr Simone Abram: Publications

Books
Murdoch, J. & S. Abram. 2002. Rationalities of planning: development versus environment in planning for housing.
Aldershot: Ashgate.
Abram, S. & Waldren, J. (Eds). 1998. Anthropological perspectives on local development : knowledge and sentiments in conflict (European Association of Social Anthropologists) (Series).
London: Routledge.
Abram, S., J. Waldren & D.V.L. Macleod (Eds). 1997. Tourists and tourism: identifying with people and places.
Oxford: Berg.

Articles
Abram, S 2005. 'Science/Technology as Politics by other means'.
Focaal, International journal of Ethnography 46: 3-20,
Abram, S. 2004. Personality and professionalism in a Norwegian district council.
Planning Theory 3, 21-40.
Abram, S. & R. Cowell. 2004. Dilemmas of implementation: 'integration' and 'participation' in Norwegian and Scottish local government.
Environment and Planning C 22, 701-720.
Abram, S. & R. Cowell 2004. Learning Policy-The Contextual Curtain and Conceptual Barriers.
European Planning Studies 12, 209-228.
Abram, S. 2004. The Smell of Money: minor risks and olfactory sensibitlities – the anatomy of a protest.
In Facility Siting: Risk, Power and Identity in Land-use Planning (eds) Å. Boholm & R. Löftstedt.
London: Earthscan. Pp 72-88.
Abram, S. 2003. Anthropologies in policies, anthropologies in places.
In Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology (ed.) T. Hylland Eriksen.
Pluto Press. Pp 138-157.
Abram, S. 2003. Gazing on Rurality.
In Country Visions (ed.) P. Cloke.
Pearson. Pp 32-48.
Abram, S. 2002. Planning and public-making in municipal government.
Focaal, 21-34.
Abram, S. 2003. Anthropologies of Governance.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidskrift (Norwegian Journal of Anthropology 14, 53-69.
Abram, S. 2001. Amongst Professionals: Working with Pressure Groups and Local Authorities.
In Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work (eds) D. Gellner & E. Hirsch.
Oxford: Berg. Pp 183-203.
Abram, S. 2000. Planning the Public: Some Comments on Empirical Problems for Planning Theory.
Journal of Planning Education and Research 19, 351-357.
Murdoch, J., S. Abram & T. Marsden. 1999. Modalities of planning: a reflection on the persuasive powers of the development plan.
Town Planning Review 70, 191-212.
Abram, S. 1998. Class, countryside and the 'Longitudinal Study'.
Journal of Rural Studies 14, 369-380.
Murdoch, J. & S. Abram. 1998. Defining the limits of community governance.
Journal of rural studies 14, 41.
Murdoch, J., S. Abram & T. Marsden. 1999. Technical Expertise and Public Participation in Planning for Housing: 'Playing the Numbers Game'.
In Power and Participation: The new politics of British local governance (ed.) G. Stoker.
London: Macmillan. Pp 198-214.
Abram, S., J. Murdoch & T. Marsden. 1998. Planning by Numbers: migration and statistical governance.
In Migration into Rural Areas: Theories and Issues (eds) P. Boyle & K. Halfacree.
Chichester: Wiley. 236-251.
Abram, S., J. Murdoch & T. Marsden. 1996. The social construction of 'Middle England': the politics of participation in forward planning.
Journal of Rural Studies 12, 353-364.

s.abram@sheffield.ac.uk