Stephen Young

Professor of Geography and International Studies, Faculty Director of the International Studies Major

550 N Park Street
Science Hall
Madison, WI 53706–1404

Stephen Young is a Professor of Geography and International Studies. He has two main areas of research. The first engages with economic geography and development studies to explore how young people in provincial India are resisting or accelerating processes of marketization. The second draws on work in urban and political geography to trace the emergence of new infrastructures of spatial and racial control in US cities since the postwar era. One of his current research projects extends his historical work on race and urban governance by examining how digital technologies are currently being used to monitor and manage the “affective atmospheres” of the city. He is also beginning a new project that will pick up on his earlier interest in financial technologies and markets. In addition to examining initiatives that seek to make the livelihoods of poor populations more visible (e.g. microfinance), he is now exploring on the creation of financial spaces and practices that work to hide the wealth of elites.