Education

MA and PhD, University of Toronto, Canada, (1974; 1977)

BSc (hons) Bristol University, UK (1972)

Research

Geographical political economy
Trade and uneven geographies of globalization
Out-of-equilibrium spatial capitalist economic dynamics
Great transformations of Asian cities: Contesting global urbanism
Urban sustainability and environmental justice
Critical geographic information technologies

Selected Publications

SELECT JOURNAL ARTICLES

• “Globalizing Capitalism’s Raggedy Fringes: Thinking through Jakarta” Area, Development and Policy, 4 (1): 1-27 (2019).
• (with Herlambang Suryono, Helga Leitner, Liong Ju Tjung and Dimitar Anguelov) “Jakarta’s Great Land Transformation – Variegated Neoliberalization and Informality” Urban Studies 56 (4): 627-648 (2019)
• (with Helga Leitner, Sophie Webber & Emma Colven) “Globalizing urban resilience”, Urban Geography 39 (8): 1276-1284 (2018).
• (with Dimitar Anguelov and Helga Leitner) “Engineering the Financialization of Urban
  Entrepreneurialism: The JESSICA Urban Development Initiative in the European Union” International Journal for Urban and Regional Research 42 (4): 573-5 (2018).
• (with Helga Leitner) “From Kampungs to Condos: Contested accumulations through
  displacement in Jakarta” Environment and Planning A 50 (2): 437–456 (2018).
• (with JP Jones III, Helga Leitner and Sallie Marston) “Neil Smith’s Scale.” Antipode 49 (S1): 138-152 (2017)
• (with Sarah Elwood and Vicky Lawson) “Geographical relational poverty studies” Progress in Human Geography 41 (6), 745-765 (2017).
• (with Catherine Chang and Helga Leitner) The green leap forward: Eco-State restructuring and the Tianjin-Binhai eco-city model. Regional Studies 50 (6): 929-943 (2016)
• (with Helga Leitner) Provincializing critical urban theory: Extending the ecosystem of
  possibilities. International Journal for Urban and Regional Research 40 (1): 228-235 (2016)
• Thinking geographically: Globalizing capitalism and beyond Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105(6): 1113-1134 (2015)
• Urban revolutions in an age of global urbanism Urban Studies 52(11): 1947–1961 (2015)
• We have never been positivist. Urban Geography (2014)

• (with Linda Peake) The emergence of radical/critical geography within North America” ACME: An International E-journal for Critical Geographies 13 (2014): 305-327
• (with Catherine Chang) “Chinese Green Capitalism and Urban Sustainability: Shanghai’s Dongtan Eco-city and Chongming Eco-island” Journal of Urban Technology 20 (2013), 57-75
• “Thinking through the Pilbara” Australian Geographer 44 (2013): 265–282
• (with Helga Leitner and Anant Maringanti) “Provincializing global urbanism: A manifesto” Urban Geography 34 (2013): 893-900
• Rethinking capitalism from a geographical perspective. 経済地理学年報 (Annals of the Japan Association of Economic Geographers) 59 (2013): 394-418
• Trade, globalization and uneven development, Progress in Human Geography, 36 (2012): 44-71 (PDF)
• Space and spatiality in theory (with Peter Merriman, Martin Jones, Gunnar Olsson, Nigel Thrift, Yi-fu Tuan), Dialogues in Human Geography, 2 (2012): 3-22 (PDF)
• Geographical political economy, Journal of Economic Geography, 11 (2011): 319-331 (PDF)
• Geography, nature and the question of development, Dialogues in Human Geography, 1(2011): 46-7 (PDF)
• Quo Vadis Neoliberalism? The Remaking of Global Capitalist Governance after the Washington Consensus (with Helga Leitner), Geoforum, 41 (2010): 185-94 (PDF)
• ‘Nothing includes everything’: Towards engaged pluralism in Anglophone economic geography (with Trevor Barnes), Progress in Human Geography 34 (2010): 193-214 (PDF)
• Capitalism beyond harmonious equilibrium: Mathematics as if human agency mattered (with L. Bergmann and P. Plummer), Environment and Planning A, 41 (2009): 265-283 (PDF)
• The spatiality of contentious politics (with H. Leitner, K. Sziarto), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS33 (2008): 157-172 (PDF)
• Geographic dialectics? Environment and Planning A, 40 (2008): 2603-2612 (PDF)
• Geography matters: Agency, structures and dynamics (with Paul Plummer), Journal of Economic Geography, 6 (2006): 619-37 (PDF)
• Constructing free trade: From Manchester boosterism to global management, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS30 (2005): 151-172 (PDF)
• Knowledge production through critical GIS: Review and Assessment, Cartographica, 40 (2005): 5-22
• The spaces and times of globalization: Economic Geography, 78 (2002): 307-330 (PDF)
• The city is dead, long live the network: Harnessing networks for a neoliberal urban agenda (with H.Leitner), Antipode 31 (2002): 495-518(PDF)
• GIS-based measures of environmental equity: Exploring their sensitivity and significance (with R. McMaster, H. Leitner and H. Tian), Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 9 (2009): 18-28 (PDF)

BOOKS

• Urban Studies Inside/Out. Sage, 2019
• Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019

• Limits to Globalization: Geographical disruptions of capitalist development. Oxford University Press, 2016
• The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (with Trevor Barnes and Jamie Peck, 2012), Wiley-Blackwell
• A World of Difference: Encountering and contesting development (with Phil Porter, David Faust and Richa Nagar, 2009), Guilford
• Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers (with Helga Leitner and Jamie Peck, 2007), Guilford
• Politics and Practice in Economic Geography (with Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck, Adam Tickell, 2007), Sage
• Scale and Geographic Inquiry (with Robert McMaster, 2004), Blackwell
• Reading Economic Geography (with Trevor J Barnes, Jamie Peck, Adam Tickell, 2003), Blackwell
• A Companion to Economic Geography (with Trevor Barnes, 2000), Basil Blackwell
• Rediscovering Geography: New relevance for the new century (with Tom Wilbanks and 14 others, 1996), National Research Council
• The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical analysis after Marx, Ricardo and Sraffa (with Trevor Barnes, 1990), Allen & Unwin. (PDF)

Grants & Awards

• Distinguished Scholarship Honors, Association of American Geographers (1999)
• Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota (2001-4)
• Fesler Lampert Humanities Professor, University of Minnesota (2002-4)
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2005-6)
• Regents Professor, University of Minnesota (2008-12)
• Supporting Women in Geography graduate advising award, University of Minnesota (2009)
• President, Association of American Geographers (2012-3)
• Honorary Doctor of Laws, Bristol University (2014)
• Elected Fellow, American Association of Geographers (2018)

Graduate Students