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Departing from an engagement with the “ideas school,” a case is constructed for (distinctively) geographical political economies of ideation, first on their own terms and then in dialogue with three methodologically generative monographs. The power of economic ideas, the paper argues, is not located on the supply-side alone, in original texts, esse...
Conjunctural analysis, a social science epistemology rooted in deeply contextualized and situated modes of explanation, was initially developed by the philosophers Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser to understand how particular spatiotemporal conjunctures diverge from the general structural tendencies driving society, and to identify emancipatory...
The paper presents a critical discourse analysis of the five annual policy addresses of Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-Ngor, whose term of office (2017–2022) spanned the most tumultuous episode in the modern history of the territory, one bisected by an extended season of street protests and the subsequent imposition of a nationa...
The article introduces a book forum on Isabella Weber’s book, “ How China Escaped Shock Therapy.” The book is notable not only for the way that it reinterprets, substantively and theoretically, the story of China’s world-altering economic transformation, but also for the truly original kind of book that it is.
How do economic geographers determine where to begin their research projects, where to locate and delimit their case studies, where and how to “cut in” to problems? In the absence of self-evident or pregiven answers to these questions, the problem-cum-choice of where and how to start is inescapably tangled up with issues of preliminary conceptualiz...
The culmination of more than two decades of work on the spatiality of economic forms, worlds, and lives, Variegated Economies tackles the question of how to approach, conceptualize, and analyze economies as geographically differentiated and unevenly developed phenomena. Staged from the loosely bounded field known as economic geography, the book see...
The theme issue “Making Space for the New State Capitalism” brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series papers published in three installments, each accompanied with an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the third of these introductory commentaries, we explore the...
The culmination of more than two decades of work on the spatiality of economic forms, worlds, and lives, Variegated Economies tackles the question of how to approach, conceptualize, and analyze economies as geographically differentiated and unevenly developed phenomena. Staged from the loosely bounded field known as economic geography, the book see...
The culmination of more than two decades of work on the spatiality of economic forms, worlds, and lives, Variegated Economies tackles the question of how to approach, conceptualize, and analyze economies as geographically differentiated and unevenly developed phenomena. Staged from the loosely bounded field known as economic geography, the book see...
The culmination of more than two decades of work on the spatiality of economic forms, worlds, and lives, Variegated Economies tackles the question of how to approach, conceptualize, and analyze economies as geographically differentiated and unevenly developed phenomena. Staged from the loosely bounded field known as economic geography, the book see...
The culmination of more than two decades of work on the spatiality of economic forms, worlds, and lives, Variegated Economies tackles the question of how to approach, conceptualize, and analyze economies as geographically differentiated and unevenly developed phenomena. Staged from the loosely bounded field known as economic geography, the book see...
The culmination of more than two decades of work on the spatiality of economic forms, worlds, and lives, Variegated Economies tackles the question of how to approach, conceptualize, and analyze economies as geographically differentiated and unevenly developed phenomena. Staged from the loosely bounded field known as economic geography, the book see...
The culmination of more than two decades of work on the spatiality of economic forms, worlds, and lives, Variegated Economies tackles the question of how to approach, conceptualize, and analyze economies as geographically differentiated and unevenly developed phenomena. Staged from the loosely bounded field known as economic geography, the book see...
Conjunctural analysis is a rather enigmatic practice, observed mostly after the fact and in feats of exemplary execution, apparently somewhat resistant to codification, and maybe too modish for methodological rules. Predicated on the analysis of politically salient ‘situations’, conjunctural approaches combine reflexive theorizing with socially eng...
The theme issue ‘Making Space for the New State Capitalism’ brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the second of these introductory commentaries, we explore t...
The theme issue ‘Making Space for the New State Capitalism’ brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers to be published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the first of these introductory commentaries, we high...
Uneven development is back and high on academic, policy and political agendas. Resurgent sociospatial inequality and national discourses are a timely illustration of this enduring feature of the capitalist space economy. Building on an in-conversation Regional Studies Association (RSA) webinar, leading researchers discuss what the current conjunctu...
China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative is the latest and most ambitious attempt to “regionalise” the development process in the Pearl River Delta, promising to accelerate political-economic integration via an innovation-intensive model of growth. Drawing on the techniques of critical discourse analysis, this article presents a deconstruction of...
There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of production and reproduction. The concept has a long heritage that can be traced back to t...
In this article we trace mobilizations of the Hong Kong ‘model’ through mutating policy networks to highlight connections made by (and around) Nobel‐prize‐winning economist Paul Romer, as a roving policy advocate for charter cities and as an ‘economist in the wild’. Frustrated in practice but politically resilient, the idea of charter cities recycl...
Objecting to the sprawling and omnivorous character of “neoliberalism,” historian Daniel Rodgers went to some lengths, in a 2018 article in Dissent, to dismember the concept. Declaring that “naming matters,” he concluded that the ubersignifier itself had become part of the problem, advising against its use either on the street or in the seminar roo...
The paper presents a critique of persistent tendencies in (macro)economic theorizing to draw binary distinctions between states and markets, and between liberal-market capitalism and its (more statist) others. Against this dichotomous perspective, a case is made for conjuncturally sited investigations of reconfigured capitalisms and recombinant eco...
Offshore outsourcing, the corporate practice of “shipping jobs overseas,” is predicated on the principle of labor arbitrage, the exploitation of geographical differentials in the cost and control of labor. With its origins in the 1970s, and the relocation of blue‐collar jobs from North America and Western Europe to lower‐cost locations in Latin Ame...
The paper presents a critical reading of the construction and circulation of the Hong Kong ‘model’ as an archetype of free-market governance, calling attention to two sides of the attendant modelling process: first, folkloric tales of the acclaimed ‘architect’ of the colony’s laissez-faire policy, Sir John Cowperthwaite, Financial Secretary during...
Developed as a provisional formulation (and working concept) in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, austerity urbanism refers to the localized effects of the significant retrenchment and restructuring of public expenditures and services in the ensuing period, particularly in Europe and North America. Originating as a ban...
Este artículo analiza la cuestión del estatus político y teórico del neoliberalismo, proponiendo la idea de un análisis procesual de la "neoliberalización". Basándose en la experiencia en el centro de la producción discursiva neoliberal, América del Norte y Europa Occidental, se argumenta que la capacidad transformativa y adaptativa de este abarcat...
Markets are seemingly omnipresent features of our economic landscape, and yet they do not exhibit a singular, essential or universal form. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this stimulating collection of original essays probes the question of how to think about markets spatially, and how to make sense of the geographies of marketization....
The term 'market' originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea. Despite modern markets seemingly omnipresent nature, their specific geographies have undergone relatively little analysis.
This collection of new essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhab...
The term 'market' originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea. Despite modern markets seemingly omnipresent nature, their specific geographies have undergone relatively little analysis.
This collection of new essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhab...
The term 'market' originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea. Despite modern markets seemingly omnipresent nature, their specific geographies have undergone relatively little analysis.
This collection of new essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhab...
This theme issue originates from an invitational workshop on the spatiality and diversity ofmarkets, convened at the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy in Montreal in 2017.Workshop participants, regardless of their disciplinary backgrounds and diverse researchinterests, shared a conviction that markets should be analysed in their plural an...
The paper engages the problematic of platform capitalism in the company of Fernand Braudel. Platform capitalism is accordingly located in the opaque zone of the so-called antimarket, “where the great predators roam,” with its characteristic conditions of monopolization, concentrated economic and political power, and cultures of systematic regulator...
This chapter expresses that one of the germinal sites for the radical reconstruction of economic geography during the 1970s, and a birthplace of what became known as the “restructuring approach,” or the “new industrial geography”. It presents a close‐focus analysis of intellectual and social life on the campus and its immediate environs. It is abou...
Sitting right at the heart of the concept of uneven and combined development (UCD), the pivotal but sometimes overlooked notion of combination indexes its fundamentally dialectical and relational character. “Combination” directs critical attention not only to sites of contradiction and sources of creativity, but to the always‐immanent potential for...
The chapter presents a sympathetic overview of labour geography in its various and evolving forms. This has mapped the shifting politics of production, together with old and new forms of labour organization; it has problematized the workplace, as a site of struggle and as an arena for the performance of social identities; it has tracked the restruc...
Hidden Abodes: Wealth Managers, The Super-rich, and their Money - Brooke Harrington, Capital Without Borders. Wealth Managers and the One Percent (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2016) - Volume 58 Issue 3 - Jamie Peck
Labor is at the same time “the most fundamental and the most inherently problematic of all economic categories”. Contemporary economic geography now takes it as axiomatic that work and workplace restructuring are inherently social processes, that labor markets are structured by power relations and institutional forces, and that above all these are...
A foundational concept in political‐economic geography, as well as a stubborn fact of life, uneven regional development refers not just to geographical inequality but to the mutual interdependence of localized growth and decline, to exploitative relations between regions of the core and the periphery, to conjuncturally specific positions within spa...
As a synonym for free‐market governance, neoliberalism refers to a programmatic set of pro‐market policy measures; to a rationality of small‐government transformation; to a political‐economic philosophy of “market fundamentalism”; and to a historically ascendant ideology (and pattern) of capitalist development. Even as the reach of neoliberalism is...
The first installment of this two-part paper made a case for a conjunctural approach to urban studies, reserving a special place for the provisional formulation and ongoing revision of midlevel theories – from the entrepreneurial city to austerity urbanism and financialised urban governance – while positioning abstraction and contextualisation as s...
As the first installment of a two-part article exploring contemporary transformations in metropolitan governance in the wake of the entrepreneurial turns of the 1980s and subsequent waves of neoliberalisation and financialisation, a case is outlined here for a ‘conjunctural’ approach to urban analysis. This can be considered to be complementary to,...
In dialogue with Ray Hudson’s paper on ‘rising powers’ in globalizing capitalism, this review article reflects on the position and priority of these macroscopic questions in the field of economic geography, focusing in particular on the prospects for a reanimated political economy of uneven spatial development. Two themes are explored. First, the p...
Geoff Mann’s provocative paper presents an exacting critique of Keynes’ economic philosophy, coupled with a meditation on the implications of the present ‘triple crisis’, especially for the Left. He has compelling things to say on both topics but is at his most provocative where he links them together. This takes the form of an intriguing (if somew...
This article presents a critique of the popular and public-policy work of Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, which has been constructed at the nexus of neoclassical economic rationality and celebrity urbanology. Widely recognized as one of the world's leading urbanists, Glaeser has combined a high-flying academic career with public-policy engagement...
Taking as its focus the not-so-special case of Detroit, which recently experienced the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, this article explores the financialization of American urban governance in both conceptual and concrete terms. The financially mediated restructuring of Detroit, through the imposition of emergency management by the sta...
Antiunion right to work (RTW) laws are a distinctive legacy of (trans)formative struggles around the industrial-relations settlement in the United States, and an enduring symbol of its stunted and bifurcated development. The RTW fault line, drawn in the 1940s and 1950s, was for a long time the sharpest spatial indicator of the divide between the un...
Antiunion right to work (RTW) laws are a distinctive legacy of (trans)formative struggles around the industrial-relations settlement in the United States, and an enduring symbol of its stunted and bifurcated development. The RTW fault line, drawn in the 1940s and 1950s, was for a long time the sharpest spatial indicator of the divide between the un...
Artykuł stanowi bezpośrednią odpowiedź na wcześniejsze głosy w debacie na temat historyczności państwa neoliberalnego. Mierząc się z propozycjami Loïca Wacquanta i Mathieu Hilgersa, autorzy uzupełniają je o lekceważony, nie tylko w tym przypadku, wymiar przestrzenności. Zabieg ten pozwala na traktowanie neoliberalizacji, odróżnionej od bardziej sta...
We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas that work,” are now able to find not only a worldwide audience but also transnational salience in remarkably short order. Fast Policy is the first systematic treatment of t...
Reflections #1, “Pursuing projects, following policies,” is the first in a series of reflections that close each section of the book, where we anticipate some of the methodological and interpretative challenges of this critical approach to policy mobility. Here, in conversation with the extended case study method, we characterize our strategy for r...
The conclusion reflects on the analytical lessons have been learned across the two case studies. It suggests that there is evidence that qualitatively different forms of fast policy are at work in each of the sprawling fields of practice that are PB and CCTs, considering what this might mean for the politics of policy “translation.”
Adopts a more global perspective on CCT policy development, considering the roles played by multilateral agencies. In one sense, this is a story of the formidable power of organizations like the World Bank as “knowledge managers.” On the other hand, the limits of the Bank’s hegemonic reach are also revealed: domestic politics continue to exert a ma...
