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Constructivist economic geographies Open

Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck · 2025

The paper makes a case for explicitly constructivist approaches and projects in economic geography. Constructivism names and problematizes the relationship between the material and ideational dimensions of socioeconomic change, being found…

Empire of law: A book forum on Shaina Potts’ <i>Judicial Territory</i> Open

Brett Christophers, Jamie Peck · 2025

The article introduces a book forum on Shaina Potts’ Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire , featuring contributions from Ilias Alami (Cambridge), Joshua Barkan (Georgia), Rachel Phillips (UBC) and Eric She…

On the frontier of party-state capitalism: mapping the geopolitical economies of China’s Greater Bay Area Open

Jamie Peck, Matthew Sparke, Dimitar Anguelov, Jun Zhang · 2025

Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy Open

Jamie Peck, Chris Meulbroek, Rachel Phillips · 2025

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. …

Geografia econômica: vida insular Open

Jamie Peck · 2025

An allegorical tale of economic geography’s ‘island life’, and some of its possible futures, is presented. There is much to be gained, it is suggested, from reciprocal intellectual trade with others in the archipelago of heterodox economic…

Into the zone Open

Jamie Peck · 2024

In conversation with Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-up capitalism, the commentary explores the book’s innovative but for the most part implicit methodological and expositional strategy, reflecting on some of the implications for the geographical …

Constructing explanations in economic geography: An invitation Open

Desiree Fields, Jamie Peck, Jessie Poon · 2024

This editorial introduction launches an ongoing section in the journal’s Exchanges section, concerned with methods, methodology and the construction of explanations in economic geography, broadly defined.

Articulating conjunctural analysis Open

Jamie Peck · 2024

In dialogue with responses to my article on the emergent practice of conjunctural methodologies, I pick up the question of collaboration and the shared challenges of developing, in a deliberative and reflexive manner, this demanding approa…

Hong Kong’s new normal: Remaking authorized discourses of “special administration,” 2017–2022 Open

Jamie Peck, Chris Meulbroek, Dimitar Anguelov · 2024

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 …

Doing economics differently Open

Jamie Peck · 2023

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 …

A place to start? Open

Jamie Peck · 2023

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…

Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development Open

Ilias Alami, Heather Whiteside, Adam D. Dixon, Jamie Peck · 2023

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 introd…

Making space for the new state capitalism, part I: Working with a troublesome category Open

Heather Whiteside, Ilias Alami, Adam D. Dixon, Jamie Peck · 2022

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 …

A dialogue on uneven development: a distinctly regional problem Open

Jamie Peck, Marion Werner, Martin Jones · 2022

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-…

The Platform Conjuncture Open

Jamie Peck, Rachel Phillips · 2020

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 characteristi…

M/market frontiers Open

Christian Berndt, Norma M. Rantisi, Jamie Peck · 2020

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 ba…

Acknowledgments Open

Nicole Woolsey Biggart, Stephanie L. Mudge, Sean O'riain, Michael Smith, Vicki Smith , et al. · 2019

Some of the ideas in this book have been germinating for decades.Since these thoughts were invariably clarifi ed and developed in dialogue, both real and imaginary, with colleagues, it follows that I have many intellectual debts.Rather tha…

Still Neoliberalism? Open

Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore · 2019

Community Economy: Community Economies Collective http://www.communityeconomies.org Open

Antipode Editorial Collective, Tariq Jazeel, Andy Kent, Katherine McKittrick, Nik Theodore , et al. · 2019

Community economy, since the mid-1990s, has signalled an expanding and evolving project within radical geography that resonates with a host of initiatives taking place around the world. Activating community economy as an object of analysis…

Combination Open

Jamie Peck · 2019

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 a…

Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction Open

Jamie Peck, Susan M. Roberts, Chris Muellerleile, Leigh Johnson, Shaina Potts , et al. · 2019

Acknowledgments vi List of Figures vii 1 Why Economic Geography Is Good For You 1 Part I Thinking Critically about Economic Geography 23 2 What Is Economic Geography? 25 3 Inventing Economic Geography: Histories of a Discipline 50 4 Econom…

Cities in Global Capitalism Open

Theresa Enright, Lisa Björkman, Pauline Mc̱Guirk, Jamie Peck, Mark Purcell , et al. · 2018

Ugo Rossi. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2017. 213 pp., references, index. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7456-8966-1), $22.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-8967-8); $18.99 electronic (ISBN 978-0-7456-8970-8).Cities i...

Global factory, supply chains and spatial divisions of labor at the Mexico-US border Open

Christian Berndt, Marion Werner, Jamie Peck, Rebecca Lave, Brett Christophers · 2018

Neoliberalizing Space Open

Jamie Peck, Adam Tickell · 2017

Labor and Agglomeration: Control and Flexibility in Local Labor Markets* Open

Jamie Peck · 2017

Through a critique of Allen Scott's recent work on the economics of labor market agglomeration, the paper develops an approach to labor and agglomeration in which labor control has a central role. Scott's work provides new insights into th…

Transatlantic city, part 2: Late entrepreneurialism Open

Jamie Peck · 2016

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 a…

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