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Geography
Part of the School of Environment and Development (SED)

Geographical Political Economy

Publications

We aim to publish the results of our research in the leading geography journals with an international audience, while also developing a strong publication record in cognate disciplines such as sociology. Members of the group also publish their work in books and monographs. Some recent examples are given below. For a full list of group members' publications, including book chapters, please see their personal web pages.

In addition to our own publication activities, we serve the wider academic community as editors (Progress in Human Geography; Geoforum; New Political Economy; Area; European Urban and Regional Studies; Geography Compass) or editorial board members for journals (Journal of Economic Geography; Political Geography; Antipode; Environment & Society; Critical Perspectives on International Business; Mineral Economics; Estudios Geograficos; Urban Affairs Review; BELGEO) and book series (RGS-IBG Human Geography Series).

Selected journal publications

 
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Journal of Economic Geography

Coe, N.M., Johns, J. and Ward, K. (2009) Agents of casualisation? The temporary staffing industry and labour market restructuring in Australia. Journal of Economic Geography 9(1), 55-84.

Coe, N. M., Dicken, P. and Hess, M. (2008): Global Production Networks: Realizing the Potential. Journal of Economic Geography  8(3), 271-295.

Bridge, G. (2008), Global Production Networks and the Extractive Sector: governing resource-based development, Journal of Economic Geography , Vol.8 (3).

Johns, Jennifer (2006), Video games production networks: value capture, power relations and embeddedness, Journal of Economic Geography 6 151-180.

Coe, N.M., Hess, M. (2005) The internationalisation of retailing: implications for supply network restructuring in East Asia and Eastern Europe. Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 5 (4). Pp. 449-473.

Ward, K. (2004) ''Going global?' Internationalisation and diversification in the temporary staffing industry, Journal of Economic Geography 4 251-273.

Coe, N.M. and Yeung, H.W.C. (2001) Geographical perspectives on mapping globalisation (Introduction to special issue, Mapping globalisation: geographical perspectives on international trade and investment), Journal of Economic Geography 1(4), pp. 367-380.


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Progress in Human Geography

Bridge, G. (2012) Resource geographies I: Making carbon economies, old and new." Progress in Human Geography (forthcoming).

Coe, N.M. and Jordhus-Lier, D. (2011) Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour. Progress in Human Geography 35(2), 211-233.

Coe, N.M. (2011) Geographies of Production I: An evolutionary revolution?. Progress in Human Geography 35(1), 81-91.

Ward, K. (2010) Towards a relational comparative approach to the study of cities. Progress in Human Geography 34, 471-487.

Bakker K, Bridge G. (2006) Material worlds? Resource geographies and the 'matter of nature'. Progress in Human Geography 30(1): 1-23.

Wrigley, N., Coe, N.M. and Currah, A. (2005) Globalizing retail: conceptualizing the distribution-based TNC, Progress in Human Geography, 29(4), pp. 437-457.

Ward, K. (2005) Geography and public policy: a recent history of policy-relevance Progress in Human Geography 29 310-319 .

Castree, N. (2004) Economy and culture are dead! Long live economy and culture!. Progress in Human Geography, 28, 1

Hess, M. (2004): "Spatial" Relationships? Re-conceptualising embeddedness. Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 28 (2). Pp. 165-186.

Castree, N. (2003) Commodifying what nature?. Progress in Human Geography, 27, 3: 273-97.

Bunnell, T.G. and Coe, N.M. (2001) Spaces and scales of innovation, Progress in Human Geography 25(4), pp. 569-589.


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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Evans, J. (2011) Adaptation, ecology and the politics of the experimental city.  Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36, 223-37.

Swyngedouw, E. (2007) TechnoNatural Revolutions - the Scalar Politics of Franco's Hydro-Social Dream for Spain 1939-1975. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers 32(1), 9-28.

Coe, N.M., Hess, M., Yeung, H.W.-C., Dicken, P., Henderson, J. (2004) "Globalizing" regional development: A global production networks perspective. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 29 (4). Pp. 468-484.

Castree, N. (2003) Bioprospecting: from theory to practice (and back again). Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 28, 1: 35-55.

Ward, K. (2001) The re-interpretation of urban politics: three authors, four papers and the 'shibboleth of regulation theory' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 26 127-133.


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Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Ward, K. (2010) Entrepreneurial Urbanism and Business Improvement Districts in the State of Wisconsin: a cosmopolitan critique.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100, 1177-1196.

Swyngedouw, E. (2004) State/space: A reader (eds N Brenner, B Jessop, M Jones, and G Macleod). Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(1), 228-230.


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Economic Geography

Coe, N.M. and Lee, Y.S. (2006) The strategic localization of transnational retailers: the case of Samsung-Tesco in South Korea, Economic Geography, 82(1), pp. 61-88.

Bridge, G. (2002) Grounding Globalization: the prospects and perils of linking economic processes of globalization to environmental outcomes. Economic Geography 78(3) 361-386.

Dicken, P., Malmberg, A. (2001) Firms in territories: a relational perspective, Economic Geography, 77: 345-363.


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Environment and Planning

Oosterlynck, S, and Swyngedouw, E. "Noise reduction (2010) The postpolitical quandary of night flights at Brussels airport. Environment and Planning A 42, 1577-1594.

Coe, N.M, Johns, J. and Ward, K. (2008) Flexibility in action: the temporary staffing industry in the Czech Republic and Poland. Environment and Planning A 40(6), 1391-1415.

Evans, J. and Jones, P. (2008) Rethinking sustainable urban regeneration: ambiguity, creativity, and the shared territory. Environment and Planning A 40(6), 1416–1434.

Hess, M., Yeung, H.W.-C. (2006) Whither Global Production Networks? Past, Present, and Future. Guest editorial, Special Issue, Environment and Planning A, 38(7), pp. 1193-1204.

Hess, M, Coe, N.M. (2006) "Making Connections": Global Production Networks, Standards, and Embeddedness in the Mobile Telecommunications Industry. Environment and Planning A 38(7), pp. 1205-1227.

Liu, W., Dicken, P. (2006) Transnational corporations and ‘obligated’ embeddedness: foreign direct investment in China's automobile industry, Environment and Planning A 38(7) 1229-1247.

Ward, K., Jonas, A. (2005) 'Competitive city regionalism as a politics of space: a critical reinterpretation of the 'new regionalism' Environment and Planning A 37 2119-2139.

McDowell, L., Perrons, D., Fagan, C., Ray, K. and Ward, K. (2005) The contradictions and intersections of class and gender in a global city: placing working women's lives on the research agend Environment and Planning A 37.

Castree, N. (2004) Old news: representation and academic novelty. Environment and Planning A, 36, 3, 469-80.

Coe, N.M. (2004) The internationalisation/globalisation of retailing: towards an economic-geographical research agenda, Environment and Planning A, 36(9), pp. 1571-1594.

Coe, N.M. and Perry, M. (2004) Promoting linkage to foreign transnationals in a ‘tiger’ state: Singapore and the local industry upgrading programme, Environment and Planning C, 22(3), pp. 363-382.

Bridge, G., and A. Smith (2003) Intimate Encounters: culture-economy-commodity. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21(3): 257-268.

Ward, K. (2003) UK temporary staffing: industry structure and evolutionary dynamics Environment and Planning A 35 889-907.

Bridge, G. and A. Jonas (2002). Governing Nature: the re-regulation of resource access, production, and consumption. Guest Editorial, Theme Issue of Environment and Planning A 34: 759-766.

Bridge, G. (2001) Resource Triumphalism: post-industrial narratives of primary commodity production. Environment and Planning A, 33: 2149-2173.


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Geoforum

Coe, N.M., Johns, J.L. and Ward, K. (2011) Variegated global expansion: internationalization strategies in the temporary staffing industry. Geoforum 42(1), 61-70.

McCann, E. and Ward, K. (2010) Relationality/territoriality: towards a conceptualization of cities in the world. Geoforum 41, 175-184.

Bridge, G. (2010) Geographies of peak oil: the other carbon problem." Geoforum 41(4), 523-530.

Bridge, G. and Wood, A. (2010) Less is More: specters of scarcity and the politics of resource access." Geoforum 41(4), 565-576.

Chilvers, J. and Evans, J. (2009) Understanding networks at the science policy interface. Geoforum 40(3), 355-362.

Cousins, J., Evans, J. and Sadler, J. (2009) I’ve paid to observe lions, not map roads!’ – An emotional journey with conservation volunteers in South Africa. Geoforum 40(6), 1069-1080.

Evans, J. and Randalls, S (2008) Geography and paratactical interdisciplinarity: Views from the ESRC–NERC PhD studentship programme. Geoforum 39(2), 581-592.

Bridge, G. (2008) Environmental Economic Geography: a sympathetic critique." Geoforum 39, 76-81.

Ward. K. (2005) Making 'flexible' Manchester: competition and change in the temporary staffing industry Geoforum 36 223-240.

Bridge G. (2004) Editorial: Gas, and how to get it. Geoforum 35 395-7.

Bridge, G., P. McManus, and T. Marsden (2003) The Next New Thing? Biotechnology and its Discontents. Geoforum 34: 165-174.


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Political Geography

Swyngedouw, E. (2012) ’Every Revolution has its Square’: From Badlands of the Republic to Claiming the Polis, Political Geography (forthcoming).

Bunnell, T. and Coe, N.M. (2005) Re-fragmenting the 'political': globalization, governmentality and Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, Political Geography, 24(7), pp. 831-849.

Castree, N. (2004) Differential geographies: place, indigenous rights and "local" resources. Political Geography, 22, 9, 1012-29.

Coe, N.M. and Kelly, P.F. (2002) Languages of labour: representational strategies in Singapore's labour control regime, Political Geography 21(3), pp. 341-371.


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Global Networks

Coe, N.M., Johns, J.L. and Ward, K. (2012) Limits to expansion: transnational corporations and territorial embeddedness in the Japanese temporary staffing market. Global Networks, in press.

Swyngedouw, E.  (2010) The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms: Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies for the Twenty-first Century. Antipode 41, 298-319.

Coe, N.. M., Dicken, P., Hess, M. and Yeung, H. W.-c. (2010): Making Connections: Global Production Networks and World City Networks. Global Networks 10(1), 138-149.

Peck, J., Theodore, N., Ward, K. (2005) Global push: constructing 'emerging markets' in the temporary staffing industry Global Networks 5 3-26.

Coe, N.M. and Bunnell, T.G. (2003) Spatialising knowledge communities: towards a conceptualisation of transnational innovation networks. Global Networks 3(4), pp.437-456.

Dicken, P., Kelly, P.F., Olds, K. and Yeung, H.W.-c. (2001) Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards a relational framework for analysing the global economy, Global Networks, 1: 99-123.


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Antipode

Castree, N. (2010) Crisis, continuity and change: neoliberalism, the Left and the future of capitalism. Antipode 42(1), 185-213.

Swyngedouw, E. (2010) The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms: Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies for the 21st Century. Antipode, 41(6), 1439-1460.

Swyngedouw, E., F Moulaert, A Rodriguez. (2002) Neoliberal Urbanisation in Europe: Large-Scale Urban Development Projects and the New Urban Policy. Antipode 34(3), 380-404.

Lier, D. and K. Stokke (2006) Maximum working class unity? Challenges to local social movement unionism in Cape Town Antipode 38(4), 802-24.

Ward, K., Jones, M. (2004) Crisis theory in retrospect and prospect: towards a fourth cut? Antipode 36 497-511.

Castree, N. (2002) False antitheses? Marxism, nature and actor-networks. Antipode, 34, 1, 111-46.

Ward, K., Jones, M. (2002) Excavating the logic of British urban policy: neoliberalism as the 'crisis of crisis management' Antipode 34 473-494.


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Review of International Political Economy

Henderson, J., Dicken, P., Hess, M., Coe, N.M., Yeung, H.W.C. (2002) Global production networks and the analysis of economic development. Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 9, No. 3. Pp. 436-464.


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Urban Studies

Swyngedouw, E. and Cook, I. (2012) Cities, social cohesion and the environment: towards a future research agenda, Urban Studies (forthcoming).

Cook, I. and Ward, K. (2012) Trans-urban networks of learning, mega-events and policy tourism: the case of Manchester’s Commonwealth and Olympic Games projects, Urban Studies (forthcoming).

Ward, K., Fagan, C., McDowell, L., Perrons, D., Ray, K. (2010) Class transformation and work life balance in urban Britain: the case of Manchester. Urban Studies 41, 2259-2278.

Ward K. (2008) Towards a comparative (re)turn in urban studies? Some reflections. Urban Geography 29, 405-410.

Swyngedouw, E. (2005) Governance Innovation and the Citizen: the Janus Face of Governance-Beyond-the-State. Urban Studies 42(11), 1991-2006.

Ward, K., MacLeod, G., Raco, M. (2003) Negotiating the urban economy: editorial Urban Studies 40 1655-1671.

Coe, N.M. (2001) A hybrid agglomeration? The development of a satellite-Marshallian industrial district in Vancouver's film industry, Urban Studies 38(10), pp.1753-1775.


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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Evans, J. and Karvonen, A. (2012) Give me a laboratory and I will lower your carbon footprint!’ – Urban Laboratories and the Pursuit of Low Carbon Futures. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (forthcoming).

Ward, K. (2011) Urban politics as a politics of comparison, International Journal of Urban and Regional Researc, 35, 864-865.

Ward, K. (2009) Urban political economy, 'new urban politics' and the media: insights and limits'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33, 233-236.

Swyngedouw, E.  (2009) The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(3), 601-620.

Giglio I and Swyngedouw E.  (2008) Let's Drink to the Great Thirst! Water and the Politics of Fractured Techno-natures in Sicily. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32(2), 392-414.

Swyngedouw, E, and Kaika, M. (2000) Fetishising the Modern City: The Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24(1), 120 - 138.

Ward K and McCann E (2006) The new path to a new city? Urban politics twenty-one years after Castells' The City and the Grassroots International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 189-193.

Ward K (2006) 'Policies in motion', urban management and state restructuring: the trans-local expansion of Business Improvement Districts' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 54-75.

McDowell, L, Ward K, Fagan C, Perrons D and Ray, K (2006) Connecting time and spave: the significant of transformations in women's work in the city' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 54-75.


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European Urban and Regional Studies

Cook, I. and Ward, K. (2012), Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: the process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’, European Urban and Regional Studies (forthcoming).

Coe, N.M., Johns, J. and Ward, K. (2009) Managed flexibility, corporate strategies and market dynamics in the Swedish temporary staffing industry. European Urban and Regional Studies 16(1), 65-85.

Moulaert, F., Martinelli, F., Swyngedouw, E. and Gonzalez S. (2007) Social Innovation and Governance in European Cities: Urban Development between Path Dependency and Radical Innovation. European Urban and Regional Studies 14(3), 195`-209.


Books

 
Selection of book covers

Evans, J. (2011) Environmental Governance. Routledge, London.

McCann, E. and Ward, K. (eds.) (2011) Mobile Urbanism: city policymaking in the global age. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

Castree, N., Chatterton, P., Heynen, N., Larner, W.  and Wright, M. (eds.) (2010) The point is to change it. Antipode Book Series. Oxford and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

Coe N.M. and Jones, A. (eds.) (2010) The economic geography of the UK. London: Sage.

Swyngedouw, E, F Moulaert, F Martinelli and S Gonzalez (eds.) (2010). Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?. London: Routledge.

Castree, N., Demeritt, D., Liverman, D. and Rhoads, B. (eds.) (2009) A Companion to Environmental Geography. Oxford and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

Kitchin, R., Thrift, N., Castree, N., Crang, M. and Domosh, M.  (eds.) (2009) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Hess, M. and Paesler, R. (eds.) (2009) Wirtschaft und Raum. Munich: VVF.

Coe, N.M. and Wrigley, N. (eds.) (2009) The Globalization of Retailing Vols. I & II. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Jones, P. and Evans, J. (2008) Urban Regeneration in the UK: theory and practice. London: Sage.

Coe, N.M., Kelly, P.F. and Yeung, H.W-C. (2007) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.

England, K. and Ward, K. (eds) (2007) Neo-liberalization: peoples, networks, states. Oxford Blackwell.

Swyngedouw, E., N. Heynen, M. Kaika (eds.) (2006) In the Nature of Cities. London: Routledge.

Perrons, D., Fagan, C., McDowell, L., Ray, K. and Ward, K. (eds.) (2006) Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Public Policy and Changing Patterns of Work in Europe and North America. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Castree, N. and Gregory, D. (eds.) (2006) David Harvey: a critical reader. Oxford and New York: Blackwell.

Castree, N., Rogers, A. and Sherman, D. (eds.) (2005) Questioning geography. Oxford and New York: Blackwell.

Castree, N. (2005) Nature. London and New York: Routledge.

Swyngedouw, E (2004) Social Power and the Urbanisation of Water: Flows of Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Haas, H.-D., Hess, M., Klohn, W. and Windhorst, H.-W. (co-eds.) (2004) Unternehmen und Märkte. Heidelberg: Spektrum. [Firms and Markets. Vol. 8 of the National Atlas of Germany]

Castree, N., Coe, N.M., Ward, K. and Samers, M. (2004) Spaces of work: global capitalism and the geographies of labour. London and New York: Sage.

Swyngedouw, E., F. Moulaert and A. Rodriguez (eds.) (2003) The Globalized City. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Dicken, P. (2003) Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century. London: Sage Publications; New York: Guilford Press. Fourth edition.

Swyngedouw, E., P. Getimis, H. Heinelt, G. Kafkalas and R. Smith (eds.) (2002) Participatory Governance in Multi-Level Context. Opladen: Leske & Budrich.

Savage M, Warde, A. and Ward, K. (2002) Urban sociology, modernity and capitalism. Basingstoke: Macmillan

Beynon, H., Grimshaw, D., Rubery, J. and Ward, K. (2002) Managing employment change: the realities of working in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Peck, J. and Ward, K. (eds.) (2002) City of revolution: restructuring Manchester. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Castree, N. and Braun, B. (2001) Social nature: theory, practice and politics Oxford and New York: Blackwell.

Castree, N. and Braun, B. (1998) Remaking reality: nature at the millennium. London and New York: Routledge.

Hess, M. (1998): Glokalisierung, industrieller Wandel und Standortstruktur. Das Beispiel der EU-Schienenfahrzeugindustrie. Munich: VVF. [Glocalisation, industrial change, and locational development].

Swyngedouw, E and A Merrifield (eds.) (1996) The Urbanization of Injustice. London: Lawrence and Wishart.

Swyngedouw, E. (1995) La Crisis del Abastecimientode Agua en Guayaquil. Quito: Ildis.

Swyngedouw E, P Cooke, F Moulaert, O Weinstein, P Wells (1992). Towards Global Localization. London: University College Press.

Swyngedouw E, L Albrechts, F Moulaert and P Roberts (eds.) (1989). Regional Policy at the Crossroads: European Perspectives. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Swyngedouw, E., L. Albrechts and D. Van Der Wee (eds.) (1984) Een Regionale Atlas van Vlaanderen. Leuven: University Press.