Geographical Political Economy
Conferences
Conferences and sessions convened by GPE members
Ten Years of Global Production Networks (GPN) Research, Series of 3 sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, USA, February 2012. Co-organised by Neil Coe, Martin Hess and Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore).
ESRC Seminar Series 2009-2011 Geographies of Energy Transition: Security, Climate, and Governance. Co-organised by Gavin Bridge.
Author meets interlocutors panel for ‘Globalizing responsibility: the political rationalities of ethical consumption’, (RGS-IBG Book Series) RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 31 August-2 September 2011. Co-organised by Neil Coe.
Author meets interlocutors panel for ‘State, science and the skies: governmentalities of the British atmosphere’, (RGS-IBG Book Series) RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 31 August-2 September 2011. Organised by Neil Coe.
Author meets interlocutors panel for ‘Swept up lives: re-envisioning the homeless city’, (RGS-IBG Book Series) RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 31 August – 2 September 2011. Organised by Neil Coe.
Global Production Networks, Labour and Development, Series of 3 sessions at the Annual RGS-IBG Conference, London, September 2010. Co-organised by Neil Coe, Martin Hess and Marina Prieto-Carron (University of Portsmouth).
Hallsworth Conference on "Financialisation and Environment - The Implications for Environmental Governance of the Global Financial Crisis. University of Manchester, 2010. Co-organised by Erik Swyngedouw.
The New Politics of 'Sustainable' Urban Infrastructure. Paper session at the Royal Geographical Society / Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 1st-3rd September 2010, London. Co-organised by James Evans.
Launch panel for 'The Economic Geography of the UK' (Sage, London), RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 1-3 September 2010. Co-organised by Neil Coe.
Assembled urbanism: comparison, learning and mobility, Open University, June 2010. Co-organised by Kevin Ward (with A Cochrane).
New Directions in Extractive Industry Research. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C. Panel Session (and panelist), co-organised by Gavin Bridge. April 2010.
Geographies of Energy Transition. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C. Two paper sessions, co-organised by Gavin Bridge. April 2010.
Assembling‘parts of elsewhere, paper sessions at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 2010. Co-organised by Kevin Ward (with E McCann).
The privatization of public space, paper sessions at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 2010. Co-organised by Kevin Ward (with S Low).
Urban politics: an inter-disciplinary dialogue, panel session at the annual conference of Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 2010. Co-organised by Kevin Ward (with D Imbroscio).
Comparative urbanism: an inter-disciplinary dialogue, panel at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March 2009. Organised by Kevin Ward.
The making of urban fringe economies, paper session at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March 2009. Co-organised by Kevin Ward (with D Wilson).
International Antipode Graduate Summer School, Manchester, 2009. Organised by Noel Castree.
Nature, Social Cohesion and the City, Social Polis Conference. SED, University of Manchester, 2009. Co-organised by Erik Swyngedow.
Urban Governance in the UK and Spain Conference, Funded by Generalitat de Catalunya. University of Manchester, 2009. Co-organised by Erik Swyngedouw.
Paper Session on Post-Neoliberal Environments: Politics, Governance, and Democracy. RGS/IBG Annual Conference. Manchester, 2009. Organised by Erik Swyngedouw.
Workshop "Environment, Social Justice and the City". In Stakeholder Meeting SOCIAL POLIS Programme, EU Framework VII. Vienna, 2009. Co-organised by Erik Swyngedouw.
Resources and Empire. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, April 2008. Session co-organised by Gavin Bridge.
Geographies of Peak Oil. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, April 2008. Session co-organised by Gavin Bridge.
Seminar 3 in the ESRC Seminar Series “Changing Cultures of Competitiveness”, Manchester, 2008. Organised by Martin Hess.
International Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Manchester, 2008. Organised by Neil Coe and Kevin Ward.
Paper Session on Contested Hydro-Politics in the Mediterranean". In Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers. Boston, 2008. Organised by Erik Swyngedouw.
2nd Global Conference on Economic Geography, Beijing 2007. Co-Organizers from Manchester: Neil Coe and Martin Hess.
2007 Workshop on Global Production Networks: Debates and Challenges. Co-Organized by Neil Coe and Martin Hess on behalf of the Geographical Political Economy Research Group.
Postgraduate e-conference Researching Contemporary Cities. November 2006. Organisers: Ross Jones, David Lear, Vinny Pattison, Mary Whowell, Ian Cook.
Globalisation of the temporary staffing industry, International Workshop, University of Manchester, September 2006. Co-organized by Neil Coe and Kevin Ward
Conceptions of sustainability and urban regeneration. Paper session at the Royal Geographical Society / Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, August 30th - September 1st 2006, London. Co-organised by James Evans.
Engaging critical spaces for sustainability. Paper session at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 7th – 11th March 2006, Chicago. Co-organised by James Evans.
Understanding networks at the science-policy interface. Paper session at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 7th – 11th March 2006, Chicago. Co-organised by James Evans.
A conversation between economic geography and ecological economics. Panel session, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 2005. Panel organizer: Gavin Bridge.
Teaching Economic Geography, Panel sessions, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, USA, 5-9 April 2005. Co-organized by Neil Coe and Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore).
Global Production Networks, Logistics and Transport, Series of 2 sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers March 2005, Denver. Co-organized by Martin Hess, Markus Hesse (Free University of Berlin) and Jean-Paul Rodrigue (Hofstra University).
Global Production Networks, Series of 3 sessions at the centennial Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers March 2004, Philadelphia. Co-organized by Martin Hess and Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore).
Material Worlds? The ‘matter of nature’ revisited, Panel session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers March 2003, New Orleans. Co-organized by Gavin Bridge and Karen Bakker (University of British Columbia).
Reinventing the political: relations, flows and processes, Series of 3 sessions at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, USA, 4-8 March 2003. Co-organized by Noel Castree and Neil Coe.
Global production networks and the analysis of economic development, International Workshop, University of Manchester, May 2003. Co-organized by Neil Coe, Martin Hess and Jennifer Johns.
Spaces and Sites of Regulation, Series of sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Belfast, 2-6 January 2002. Co-organized by Neil Coe and Kevin Ward.
Beyond the Social Construction of Nature: rethinking political economy and environment, series of 9 sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February 2001. Co-organized by Gavin Bridge, Phil McManus (University of Sydney) and Terry Marsden (University of Cardiff).
Culture-Economy-Commodity: re-thinking the geography of commodities. 2 paper sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February 2001. Co-organized by Gavin Bridge and Adrian Smith (University of Southampton).
Invited presentations by GPE members
Gavin Bridge
Debating Scarcity: critical social science meets peak oil. Conference on Peak Oil at the Walloon Parliament, 9th Annual Association for the Study of Peak Oil Conference. Invited panelist, Walloon Parliament, April 2011.
Energy, Security and International Relations. Invited Commentator, Panel to inaugurate the Security and International Relations Programme, University of Westminster, June 2010.
What Drives the Extractive Frontier? Mining Booms and the Long Twentieth Century. Research Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool. May 2010.
Producing the Extractive Frontier: the alchemy of capital and nature in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1920. Department of Geography, University of Wollongong, Australia, September 2009.
Specters of scarcity: peak oil, climate change and materialities of the hydrocarbon commodity chain. Invited Plenary, Environmental Sustainability Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers, IAG Annual Conference, Cairns, Sept 2009.
Extractive Capitalism and Environmental History, World Congress on Environmental History, Copenhagen, August 2009. Panel convener and presenter.
Producing the Extractive Frontier: the alchemy of capital and nature in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1920. Kings College London, February 2009.
Less is More: specters of oil scarcity and the politics of resource access. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, April 2008. With Andrew Wood (University of Kentucky).
To the Ends of the Earth: the extraordinary adventures of late 19th century British mining capital. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, April 2008.
Energy and the Political Economy of Capitalism. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, April 2008. Invited discussant.To the Ends of the Earth: risk, hazard and the production of an extractive economy. University of Leicester, Department of Geography Seminar, University of Leicester, 2008.
Dirt and Dreams: extractive industries, development, and the search for a new social contract. Invited Paper, Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, 2007.
To the Ends of the Earth: Resources, Hazards and the Production of a Tin Mining Economy in Northern Nigeria in the early 20th Century. Invited Paper for the Dangerous Trades: Industrial Hazards in a Globalizing World Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, New York, 2007.
Burnished Chrome and Lustrous Steel: experiencing natural resources in the twentieth century. Department of Geography Seminar, University of Bristol, May 2006.
Dirt and Dreams: international mining and the governance of resource access and environmental protection. Linacre Lecture, University of Oxford, March 2006.
To the Ends of the Earth: Exploring New Resource Geographies. Horizons in Human Geography Electronic Seminar, World Universities Network, October 2005.
Resource geographies after the cultural turn. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 2005. Panelist.
Necessary or discretionary?: imperative and contradiction in work on corporate greening. Keynote address, Conference on Environmental Economic Geography, University of Cologne, Germany, May 2004.
Beyond the Boom: mineral investment and land-use/land-cover change in Guyana. Colloquium Presentation, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, November 1 2002.
Noel Castree
Neoliberalization and climate change governance: the practical failures of a philosophical programme, Guest Seminar, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 2009.
Financial crises, capital accumulation and the future of economic globalization. Plenary lecture given at the ‘Beyond Globalisation’ conference, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2009.
Knowing the limits to knowledge. Special lecture in the ‘Conversations across the divide’ session at the RGS-IBG conference, London, 2006.
Geography and knowledges of nature workshop. Main speaker and co-organiser of a 2-day workshop at the University of Wollongong School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Gave 4 presentations leading to structured debate based on pre-reading among staff, research students and paying attendees from outside the University, 2006.
Remaking realities: geography, environmental knowledges and the problem of nature. Plenary lecture at the International Geographical Union Regional Conference, Brisbane, 2006.
Six questions for public geographies?. Presentation given at the ‘Public geographies’ seminar, Birmingham University Geography Department, 2006.
Environmental politics and the problem of nature. Presentation at the George Monbiot ‘Environmental futures’ workshop, Oxford University, 2006.
Academic labour, normalisation and the powers of critique. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, London, 2005. Written version in EPa (2006)
Markets, commodities and privatisation: conceptual muddles and analytical clarity in political ecology. Lecture given at the anniversary conference of the journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, York University, Canada, 2005. Published as a commentary in EPA (2006).
Neo-liberalising nature: logics, effects and evaluations. Seminar presentation given in the School of Geography, Oxford University and the Departments of Geography at Rutgers and Wollongong Universities, 2005.
Dealing with differences: local realities, global dreams. Public lecture given at Rutgers University, New Jersey as part of the ‘Global futures’ lecture series of Livingston College, 2005.
The politics of things. Plenary lecture at the inter-disciplinary ‘Techno-natures II’ conference, School of Geography and Environment, Oxford University, 2004.
Bioprospecting: myths, more myths and some realities. Seminar given to the Red/Green Study Group, City University, London, 2003.
The epistemology of particulars. Seminar presentation given in the geography departments of the universities of Edinburgh and Sheffield, 2003. Written and revised version in Geoforum (2005).
Whose nature? Genetic commerce in an unequal world. Seminar presentation given in the geography departments of the Universities of Wales (Aberystwyth), Cambridge and Manchester; also given as a Simon Research Seminar in the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Manchester University, 2002.
A post-environmental ethics?. Seminar given to the Environmental Forum, Manchester University, 2002. Written and revised version published in Ethics, Place and Environment (2003).
Plenary lecture entitled Networks, rhizomes and flows: reinventing politics at the international Nature, Nation and Politics conference, University of Nijmegen, Holland, 2002.
Neil Coe
Logistics, governance and upgrading within Global Production Networks, invited presentation to Value Chains, Production Networks, and the Geographies of Development Mini-conference, National University of Singapore, 1-2nd December 2011.
Transnational temporary staffing agencies and the creation of distinctive national markets, invited paper to the Second Conference on Regulating for Decent Work, ILO, Geneva, 6-8th July 2011.
Invited discussant in the session Firms, economies, communities, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, USA, 14-18th April 2010.
Invited participant, Economic Geography 2010 Workshop: Developing an agenda for the next decade, Washington BC, 12-13th April 2010.
Buying goldfish and pianos from Tesco: retail globalization in the contemporary era, invited presentation to Nottingham University Geographical Society, Nottingham, 27th January 2010.
Invited discussant, launch seminar for project on Industrial relations under global stress: fragmentation and the potential for representation of workers in the Norwegian hospitality sector, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), Oslo, 12-13th November 2009.
Vancouver as media cluster: the cases of video games and film/TV, invited presentation to the Media Cluster Research Project Meeting (Jonkoping International Business School), Radisson Hotel, Covent Garden, London, 24th October 2009.
Deepening territorial embeddedness: the case of Tesco in South Korea, invited paper to Symposium on Innovation and transnational retailing, British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Brighton, UK, 15-17th September 2009.
Transnational agencies and the creation of national temporary staffing markets, invited paper to the conference on Developing theoretical approaches in labour geography, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK, 11-12th June 2009.
The embedded transnational: the globalization of the temporary staffing industry, invited paper to the Department of Social and Economic Geography Seminar Series, University of Uppsala, 8th May 2009.
Global production networks: the developing research agenda, invited paper to the Department of Human Geography and Sociology Seminar Series, University of Oslo, Norway, 18th February 2009.
The globalization of temporary staffing, invited paper to the Department of Public Administration Seminar Series, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 3rd February 2009.
Conceptualising transnational production systems: commonalities, connections and challenges, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences Seminar Series, Glasgow University, 17th February 2006.
Conceptualising transnational production systems: new research directions, Department of Geography Seminar Series, University of Marburg, Germany, 14th November 2006.
Local/extra-local networks in the film and television industry, Swedish Economic Geography PhD Training Programme, Lund, Sweden, 18th August 2005.
Globalizing regional development, Swedish Economic Geography PhD Training Programme, Lund, Sweden, 19th August 2005.
Global Production Networks in Europe and East Asia, CURDS Seminar Series, University of Newcastle, 18th May 2005.
The uneven landscapes of globalization, Geographical Association Manchester Branch/RGS-IBG Northwest Region, Manchester, 2nd February 2005.
Global production networks in retailing: supply chain implications for East Asia and Eastern Europe, Department of Geography Seminar Series, Bristol University, 1st December 2004.
The globalization of retailing, Department of Geography Seminar Series, Liverpool University, 18th November 2004.
Global production networks in Europe and East Asia, keynote address to Conference on Globalisation, Internationalisation of Companies and Cross-Cultural Management, Aalborg University, Denmark, October 27-29th 2004.
The globalization of retailing: exploring the dynamics of supply chain upgrading, MSc in International Business Economics Programme, Aalborg University, Denmark, 28th October 2004.
The globalization of retailing: exploring the dynamics of supply chain upgrading, Department of Geography Seminar Series, National University of Singapore, 13th August 2004.
Re-conceptualising the globalization of services, Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC) Seminar Series, National University of Ireland, Galway, 26th May 2004.
Globalizing regional development: a global production networks perspective, School of Geography Economic Geography Discussion Series, Nottingham University, 19th May 2004.
The globalization of retailing: a global production networks perspective, Department of Geography Seminar Series, Sheffield University, 4th March 2004.
Expert discussant at ESRC/AHRB Cultural and Creative Industries Seminar on Creative Organisation and Management, Queen's University, Belfast, 3rd March 2004.
FDI in services: organisational geographies and developmental impacts, Expert Meeting on FDI and Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, 29-31st October 2003.
Transnational spaces of innovation, Centre for Research into Innovation and Competition (CRIC) Seminar Series, University of Manchester, 22nd April 2002.
Languages of labour: representational strategies in Singapore's labour control regime, Department of Geography Seminar Series, Liverpool University, 5th December 2001.
Geographies of the software industry: evidence from the UK, Ireland and Southeast Asia, Irish Economies Research Group, Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, Queen's University, Belfast, 14th March 2001.
James Evans
Sustainable futures: the geography of transition. Invited speaker at ESRC Seminar Series 'Sustainability Transitions: rethinking everyday practices, identities and livelihoods', 30th June 2011, Liverpool.
Invited participant in expert workshop Sustainable Spatial Development: Where are We Now? Hosted by the Geography and Spatial Planning Research Centre, University of Luxembourg, 6th June 2011, Luxembourg.
Adaptation, ecology and the experimental city. Invited speaker at the University of California Los Angeles Geography Department, 16th November 2010, Los Angeles.
Adaptation, ecology and the experimental city. Invited keynote speaker at the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council 25th Anniversary Colloquium, 10th November2010, Los Angeles.
Spaces and epistemologies of sustainability transitions. Invited Paper presented at the Planning and Environment Research Group Annual Workshop on Sustainable Futures, Climate Change and the Geography of Transition, 6th-7th May 2010, University of Birmingham.
Invited discussant for ‘Urban and Rural Regeneration’ paper session at the UK-Ireland Research Planning Conference, Anglia Ruskin University 7th – 9th April 2010, Cambridge.
Experimental governance and the politics of the resilient city. Invited presentation at Kings College London, 9th March 2010, London.
Invited keynote speaker at ESRC workshop on Creativity and Research, 20th - 21st November 2009, London.
Urban ecology, experimental governance and the politics of the resilient city, invited presentation at the Urban Laboratories Workshop, 4-5th November 2009, Maastricht.
Invited discussant at the “Urban Regeneration and Governance: theoretical approaches and empirical studies in Spain and the UK”, University of Manchester, 15th May 2009, Manchester.
Rescue Geography: developing methods for public geographers, invited presentation at Engaging Geography I (ESRC seminar series), University of Newcastle, 23rd – 24th January 2009, Newcastle.
Valuation for what?, invited testimonial at FRESH IV (Framing Ecosystem Services and Human well-being ESRC-NERC seminar series), University of Birmingham, 15th January 2009, Birmingham.
The credit crunch and the future of UK cities, invited presentation to the Shropshire Geographical Association, 3rd December 2008, Shrewsbury.
Invited speaker at “Creative Geographies” Symposium at Exeter University, 2nd-3rd October 2008, Exeter.
Invited discussant at “Economy, Nature, Space” SERG symposium, University of Manchester, 15th May 2008, Manchester.
Invited discussant for the ‘Delivering Sustainable Buildings and Communities I: Questioning private sector-led urban regeneration and development policy implementation’ paper session at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 15th -19th April 2008, Boston.
Invited panellist for ‘The Sustainable Development Paradox: Capitalist social relations and the sustainability problematic’ at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 15th -19th April 2008, Boston.
Rescue Geography: developing the walking interview. Invited Paper presented at Peripatetic Practices AHRC workshop, Royal Holloway, 31st March 2008, London.
(Un)natural disasters, invited presentation at the Shropshire Geographical Association, 1st March 2007, Shrewsbury.
Rescue Geography: methods for public geographers, invited presentation at University of Kingston, 31st January 2007, London.
Teaching sustainability, invited presentation at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 14th March 2006, Massachusetts USA.
Wildlife corridors: a political ecology, invited presentation at UCL, 8th March 2005, London.
Wildlife corridors: a political ecology, invited presentation at Cardiff University, 16th February 2005, Cardiff.
Martin Hess
Chains, Networks and the Study of Uneven Development. Public Guest Lecture, KU International Lecture Series, University of Eichstätt, Germany, May 2011.
Investigating Alternative Biofuel Production in Indonesia: A Global Production Networks Approach. Keynote address to the JARAK Research Workshop, University of Leiden, Netherlands, March 2011.
Invited Discussant, Rising Powers and Global Standards Workshop, Manchester, UK, January 2011.
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Logistics. International Workshop on ‘Capturing the Gains: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks’, Agra, India, May 2010.
Globale Produktionsnetzwerke und Regionalentwicklung: Das Beispiel der Textilindustrie in Otavalo/Ecouador. Department of Geography Seminar, University of Osnabrück, Germany, November 2009.
Investigating the Archipelago Economy: Chains, Networks and Uneven Development. Launch event and Special Issue presentation of the Austrian Journal of Development Studies 2/2009, University of Vienna, Austria, June 2009.
Invited Discussant, Annual EGRG Postgraduate Symposium, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, May 2009.
Invited Roundtable Member, ESRC Seminar on ‘Globalisation of Retail and Corporate Social Responsibility’, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, January 2009.
Investigating the Archipelago Economy: Chains, Networks and Uneven Development. New Economic Geographies Research Group, Seminar Series, University of Nottingham, UK, November 2008.
Lernende Regionen? Regionalentwicklung in einer global vernetzten Welt. Guest Lecture, Interdisciplinary Seminar for Government-approved Planners, Munich University of Technology, Germany, December 2007.
Invited Discussant, International Workshop on Global Value Chains, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2007.
Invited Roundtable Member and Presenter, ‘Second Industrial Transition’ Initiative for a German Research Foundation Framework, Aachen, Germany, May 2007.
Regional Development and its Discontents: Transnational Entrepreneurship and the Limits of a Learning Region in Otavalo/Ecuador. Department of Cultural and Economic Geography Seminar Series, Lund University, Sweden, May 2006.
Geographies of Economic Geography. Panelist, 102nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, USA, March 2006.
Doing Fieldwork in Southeast Asia. Panelist, 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, USA, April 2005.
Trends and Developments in the Automotive Cluster of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Keynote Address presented at the International Workshop on Automotive Clusters, Ulsan Industry Promotion Foundation, Ulsan, South Korea, December 2004.
Globale Produktionsnetzwerke, Embeddedness und Regionalentwicklung: Zur Formation und räumlichen Konfiguration von Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken. Geographical Colloquium, University of Munich, Germany, July 2004.
Globale Produktionsnetzwerke, Embeddedness und Regionalentwicklung: Zur Formation und räumlichen Konfiguration von Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken. Institute of Economic and Social Geography Seminar Series, University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany, May 2004.
Globalisation, Innovation and Regional Development. Presentation to the Latin American Members of the ALFA Programme, Munich, Germany, January 2004.
Globale Produktionsnetzwerke und Embeddedness. Zur Steuerung und räumlichen Konfiguration von Wertschöpfungsprozessen. Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, University of Cologne, Germany, December 2003.
Pathways of Globalisation: (Re-)Structuring Global Production Networks in Europe and East Asia. Dept. of Geography Seminar Series, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, March 2002.
Erik Swyngedouw
Keynote “'Trouble with Nature’: Ecology as the New Opium for the People". Landscape Urbanisms Seminar Series 2010. Architectural Association, London, 2010.
Keynote "Post-Democratic Cities: For Whom and for What?". Regional Studies Association (RSA) Annual Conference. Pécs, Hungary, 2010.
Keynote “Apocalypse Forever: Climate Change as Post-Political Populism”. Financialization of Climate, Uneven Development and Power. University of Salzburg, Austria, 2010.
Keynote “City or Polis: The Reconquest of the Polis”. Europe from the Bottom UP, CityMine(d). KVS, Brussels, 2010.
Keynote “The City as a Space of Disagreement – The Design of Dissensus”. A Civic City-Conference by Design_context. Institute for Design Research, Zurich, Switzerland, 2010.
Keynote “The Pleasure of Tin Drums: Infrastructural Architecture and Insurgent Architects – The Struggle over Water in Guayaquil, Ecuador”. POWERDOWN, Seminar and Lecture Series. Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Ghent, 2010.
Invited Participant "In Search of a Theory for Critical Urban Practice". Roundtable Discussion organized by the DSD / Urban Asymmetries Research Project (with Margaret Crawford (University of California, Berkeley), Jeremy Till (University of Westminster), Pieter Uyttenhove (Universiteit Gent). Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Delft, 2010.
‘Sustainability as the New Opium of the People’ -- The Antinomies of the Post-Political City: Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production. In International Conference on Environmental Conflicts and Justice. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2010.
“Apocalypse Forever: Post-Political Climate Change Policy” and “Scaled Geographies: Scale, Place and Nature”. Department of Geography, Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology. Trondheim University, Norway, 2010.
“Climate Change as Post-Political and Post-Democratic Populism”. Environment Lecture Series 2009-2010. Royal Institute of Philosophy, London, 2010.
“Post-neoliberal Urbanization and the Future of the City”. Real World Economics: Neoliberal city development. CREA/AMIDSt, University of Amsterdam, 2010.
“Whose Right to the City? The Antinomies of the Post-Political City”. CRESC Theme 3 (The City) Residential Workshop. Milton Keynes, 2010.
“The right to the city today”. Panel Discussion on “Cities of Insurrection”, part of the “The City Experiment” at the FutureEverything Festival. Manchester, 2010.
Discussant “Crisis and Environmental Governance: Exploring the Connections”. RGS/IBG Annual Conference. Manchester, 2009.
Keynote "Scaled Geographies: Nature, Place, and the Politics of Scale”. Interndisziplinaren Arbeitsgruppe “Globaler Wandel – Regionale Entwicklung”, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin, 2009.
Keynote “Brussel: Welke toekomst voor sociale stadsontwikkeling? Gentrification vs. Duurzaamheid” and “Stad en Duurzame Gentrificatie - Ecologie als het nieuwe opium voor het Volk (Cities and Sustainable Gentrification – Ecology as the New Opium for the People”. Organisatie Oikos and Etopia. Brussels, 2009.
Keynote “Climate Change Policy as Post-Political and Post-Democratic Populism”. Bi-Annual Conference of the German Political Science Association, “Politik in Climawandel?”. University of Kiel, 2009.
Keynote “Exit Polis: Antinomies of the Post-Political and Post-Democratic City”. The Politics of Inequality and Difference: Critical Approaches in Anthropology and Sociology. Central European University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Budapest, 2009.
Keynote “The Antinomies of the Post-Political City” and Round Table Discussion “Urban Re-appropriation”. 4th International Architecture Biennale, Open City Event Program. Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, 2009.
“Troubled Waters - The Contradictions of H2O under Neo-liberalism". EAWAG - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Dubendorf, Switzerland, 2009.
“Climate Change as Post Political and Post-Democratic Populism”. Environment-Society Workshop on ‘Governing the Environment’. Lancaster University, 2009.
“David Harvey’s Historical Geographical Materialism”. The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE). Amsterdam, 2009.
“Exit Polis: Musings on the Post-Political and Post-Democratic City”. Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University. Berlin, 2009.
“Reflections on the Post-Political City”. Radical Philosophy Conference ‘Power to the People’. Birkbeck College, London, 2009.
“The Post-Political City”. Cities Seminar. Geography Department, King’s College, 2009.
Invited “The Post-Political City”. Seminar Series on Urban Governance and Regeneration: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies in Spain and the UK. Local Government Research Unit, De Montfort University, Leicester, 2009.
“Water, Water Politics and the Post-Political Condition”. Research Network Conference on Governance and Citizenship in Water Management and Environmental Health with a focus on Latin America. Barcelona, 2009.
“Whose Right to the City?: The Antinomies of the Post-Political City”. Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre. ETH – Technical University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2009.
“Ecology as the New Opium for the People”. Historical Materialism Annual Conference, Session on ‘Ecological Crisis’, organised by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation – Berlin. SOAS, University of London, 2009.
“Exploring Scale and Scaling/Re-Scaling Processes”. Workshop on ‘Scale and Scale Processes’. Leibniz Institute fur Raum- und Strukturplanung (IRS), Erkner/Berlin-Brandenburg, 2009.
“The Trouble with Nature – ‘Ecology as the New Opium for the Masses’”. Left Forum. Pace University, New York, 2009.
"Climate Change Policy as Post-Political and Post-Democratic Populism". Climate Matters, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. University of Manchester, 2008.
"Impossible/Undesirable Sustainability and the Post-Political Condition". IBG-RGS Economic Geography Research Group Annual Symposium "Economy, Nature, Space". SED, University of Manchester, 2008.
Keynote "In search of a Democratic Politics of Urban Environmental Production". International Sociological Association RS21 (Urban Sociology) Conference "Landscapes of Global Urbanism: Power, Marginality, Creativity". Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
“Neo-Liberal Urbanization in Europe and the Post-Political City". Department of Sociology and Politics. University of Leuven, 2008.
"On Spaces of Hope". David Harvey Seminar Series on the occasion of the Awarding of Honorary Doctorate to David Harvey. Department of Geography, Lund University, 2008.
"Paco Rana's Wet Dream for Spain". Workshop on "Mediterranean Waters: Urban Infrastructure, Transdisciplinary Dialogue and Sustainable Futures", organized by 'Mediterranena Mobilities'. Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Lancaster, 2008.
"Retooling the Washington-Brussels Consensus: From Water Policies to Democratic 'Water' Politics". Seminar on "The European Water Policy - A New Phase?", Institut Européenne de la Recherche pour l'Eau/Gauche Unitaire Européenne, European Parliament. Brussels, 2008.
"Setting the Agenda" and "Re-Tooling the Washington Consensus: The Contradictions of H2O under Neo-Liberalization". Conference on "Alternatives to Privatisation and Commercialisation of Water Delivery in Europe". Scottish House, Brussels, 2008.
"The Antinomies of the Post-Political City: Questioning the Political Right to the City". European Science Foundation Research Conference on "The Right to the City: New Challenges, New Issues". Vadstena, Sweden, 2008.
"Urban Ecology and the Environment". Social Polis Stakeholder Conference 'Social Platform on Cities and Social Cohesion'. European Commission, DGXII, Brussels, 2008.
"Water does not Exist! The Politics of H2O". Planning Seminar Series, Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Regional Planning. University of Leuven, 2008.
Keynote "Les Antinomies de la Ville Post-Politique : Envers un Politique Démocratique de Production Environnementale''. Colloque International « Le Développement Durable saisi par les Sciences Sociales ». Saint-Etienne, Université Jean Monet, 2008.
Keynote "Sustainability as Post-Political and Post-Democratic Populisms". South African Sociological Association Annual Conference "Society Power and the Environment - Challenges for the Twenty-First Century". Stellenbosch University, 2008.
James Blaut Memorial Lecture. Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers, 2008. Boston.
Keynote "Cities on the Verge: Re-Centring the Polis in the 21st century". Congress of the Megacities Foundation "Towards the Megacities Solution". Technical University Delft, 2008.
Keynote "The Antinomies of the Post-Political City: In search of a Democratic Global Polis". Fifth East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography. Seoul, South Korea, 2008.
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Relational comparisons, Open Space Seminar, Open University, October 2010.
Comparing cities under neo-liberal conditions, Plenary at Redefinition of public space with the privatization of cities: 5th international conference of the research network of private urban governance and gated communities, University of Santiago, March 2009.
Delivering the sanitised downtown: the case of Milwaukee, Construction and consumption of placeless space conference, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Work Studies, University of Liverpool, April 2009.
Variegated temporary staffing markets, Globalisation and service workplaces, Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 2008.
Flexibility in action: the temporary staffing industry and labour market restructuring in the Czech Republic and Poland, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, June 2008.
Post-socialist varieties of temporary staffing: evidence from the Czech Republic and Poland, Alfred P Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Annual Conference, Boston, May 2008.
Varieties of temporary staffing: evidence from five countries, Transforming work: a multi-disciplinary conference on new forms of employment and their regulation, University of Oxford, September 2008.
Mainstreaming public geographies, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, March 2008.
‘Agents of casualisation’: Slow growth, fragmented markets and competitive margins in the Australian temporary staffing industry, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, December 2007.
Plenary – Approaching the city: a political economy perspective, Urban Geography Research Group annual conference, University of Sheffield, November 2007.
Comparative urbanisms, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, October 2007.
Mutual transformations: temporary staffing agencies and the restructuring of the Japanese labour market, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, May 2007.
“Creating a personality for downtown”: entrepreneurial urbanism and Business Improvement Districts in Milwaukee, Department of Geography, Kings College London, March 2007.
In what sense a ‘northern’ renaissance? Northern Urban Renaissance Conference, The Carriageworks, Leeds, December 2006.
The story behind … flexibility in action: the temporary staffing industry and labour market restructuring in the Czech Republic and Poland, Department of Geography, Nottingham University, February 2006.
State restructuring and urban management: the trans-local expansion of Business Improvement Districts, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, April 2005.
For public geographies? Academic divisions of labour and the positions of human geographers, Department of Geography, Hull University, October 2005.
‘Policies in motion’: urban management and state restructuring: a short history of a trans-local ‘model’, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, April 2005.
A short history of a policy: understanding the trans-local expansion of Business Improvement Districts, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2005.
Entrepreneurial urbanism and the management of the contemporary city: the example of Business Improvement Districts, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana, March 2005.
‘Policies in motion’, urban management and state restructuring: the trans-local expansion of Business Improvement Districts, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, November 2004.
Urban governance, state restructuring and the transatlanticism of Business Improvement Districts, Local Government Studies, University of Warwick, May 2004.
Neo-liberalism, the state and the crisis of crisis management, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, January 2003.
Globalisation in action? The restructuring of the temporary staffing industry, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle, February 2002.
Growth dynamics, regulatory futures and the restructuring of the temporary staffing industry, Leeds University Business School, April 2002.
Entrepreneurial urbanism and state restructuring: the case of East Manchester, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, March 2002.
Excavating the logic of British urban policy: neoliberalism as the ‘crisis of crisis management’, Neoliberalism and the city conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, September 2001.
Regulating revanchism: evidence from New York City, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, January 2001.