Adam Tickell’s research while affiliated with University of Birmingham and other places

... First suggested by David Harvey (1989), the concept of urban entrepreneurialism is examined widely to explore public-private partnerships, the rescaling of state power, and roll-out/back and roll-with-it neoliberalism at the conjuncture of interurban competition and globalization (Hall & Hubbard, 1996;Jessop & Sum, 2000;Logan & Molotch, 1987;Peck & Tickell, 2002). Recently, scholars identified the evolution of urban entrepreneurialism in the late-neoliberal period by unveiling its experimental, diplomatic, and diversified strategies (Jokela, 2020;Lauermann, 2018;Rossi, 2017). ...

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Enacting urban entrepreneurialism through neighbourhood governance: A comparative study of Shanghai and Guangzhou, China

... A second noteworthy coincidence is between the development of Ostrom's work and the deployment of what turned out to be the winning reply to the socio-ecological crisis of embed- ded liberalism and Fordist economy: not the overcoming or at least the radical rethinking of industrial capitalism and liberal democracy pleaded for by social and intellectual movements, but the post-Fordist reorganization and the «neoliberal revolution» (Hall 2011). Ostrom publishes in 1990 Governing the Commons, a book where the theoretical and empirical fundamentals of her previous and subsequent work are laid down (Ostrom 1990), and 1990 can be roughly considered the turning point from the «roll-back» phase of neoliberalization, focused on deregulation, marketization and the dismantling of the welfare State, to the «roll-out» phase, concerned with establishing market-guided State regulation and promoting non-market metrics, social capital, local governance and public-private partnerships (Peck, Tickell 2002). In a Polanyian «double movement» fashion, this phase builds on evidence of the disruptive effects of the preceding one. ...

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The commons in the shifting problematization of contemporary society

... In contrast, entrepreneurial urbanism theory focuses on global structures, viewing PPP as an inevitable byproduct of macroeconomic transition and inter-urban competition (Harvey, 1989;Brenner, 2003;Su and Lim, 2024). What both theories share is the recognition of an emerging local consensus across party lines to pragmatically 'get things done' (Quilley, 1999: 199; see also Jessop et al., 1999). ...

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THE PARTNERSHIP QUESTION AS A SCALE QUESTION : Extending the Theorization of Entrepreneurial Urbanism in China

... 4.1 Period 1: Scale construction and the spatial approach to local and regional development, 1986-1996 1986 was a low point for sub-national government organisation in North West England, as the regional administration created during the wave of enthusiasm for strategic planning and the metropolitan counties of Greater Manchester and Merseyside, around Liverpool, in the 1970s were abolished (Burch and Holliday, 2003) in a dismantling of England's scalar apparatus. Yet urban and regional challenges had been intensifying since the mid-1970s, as spatially uneven development followed the relative decline of the manufacturing and port activities prominent in the region (Tickell et al., 1995), with powerful and negative implications for places. The material effects of this are outlined by a local authority interviewee. ...

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Spatial imaginaries and the construction of regions: a cultural political economy approach

... This governance is riddled with ideological and political interests and thwarts social pursuits, such as rehabilitation. Underlying the structure of prison health governance and delivery is the state's choice to align prison health governance and delivery with the prevailing political ideology (Peck and Tickell, 1994). ...

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The English Prison Health System After a Decade of Austerity, 2010–2020: The Failed Political Experiment

... My work builds on a tradition of activist scholarship in geography, anthropology, political ecology, environmental justice, and other fields (see Hale, 2001Hale, , 2006Pain, 2003;Tickell, 1995). Although incorporating top-down policy review and bottom-up activism can expose deep contradictions, activist-researchers have the potential to improve both policy and praxis (Chatterton, 2008;Hale, 2006). ...

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Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy

... The impact of Margaret Thatcher on British and global politics cannot be underestimated. By and large, Thatcher is rightly indicated as one of the central political forerunners of neoliberalism (Harvey, 2005;Peck and Tickell, 2007). Overall, she managed to lead the British government for more than a decade by winning three elections in a row. ...

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The Image of the EU as Crisis Manager in Italian Right-Wing Narratives: The Case of COVID-19

... Even as late as 1991 writers were arguing that " service industries are essentially " parasitic " in that they do not actually add to wealth in the economy, although they can help to realise the value of wealth created elsewhere " (Peck and Tickell, 1991: 36). We have also been repeatedly told that historically services have a much lower growth of productivity than manufacturing (where labour can more easily be substituted by technology) especially in Europe. ...

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What do we really know about services?

... O neoliberalismo, enquanto ideologia, orienta um programa político-econômico específico (Mirowski;Plehwe, 2009;Tickell;Peck, 2003), enquanto a financeirização, por sua vez, caracteriza uma transformação econômica observada desde a segunda metade da década de 1960 e que tem sido predominante na economia global desde então (Braga, 1993;Braga et al., 2017;Guttmann, 2017). A crise, por sua vez, é um fenômeno recorrente que se manifesta no período recente tanto como a gênese e justificativa para a implementação do programa neoliberal, quanto como um desdobramento da financeirização, que foi forjada sob a égide do neoliberalismo. ...

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Da crise da dívida ao efeito Tequila: a triangulação entre crises, neoliberalismo e financeirização no México no final do Século XX

... Case studies were used to glean insight into the U.S. sugar kelp industry and were informed by analysis of published data from the 2020 National Sea Grant Seaweed Symposium and a series of semi-structured interviews with relevant seaweed stakeholders [64,66]. Through a regional analysis of the U.S. sugar kelp industry, three geographically distinct regions were compared: Maine, Alaska, and Connecticut. ...

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Geographical considerations for capturing value in the U.S. sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) industry