Areas of Research/Interest: Global and comparative urban, metropolitan, suburban and regional development; critical urban theory, sociospatial theory and state theory; comparative-historical political economy and sociology; globalization studies; neoliberalization.
Bio:
I am an urban political sociologist, state theorist and sociospatial theorist, with a particular interest in the changing political-economic geographies of global capitalism during the last three decades. While my intellectual roots lie in European social philosophy, the Frankfurt School tradition of critical social theory and neomarxian state theory, my work as a sociologist has also been grounded upon a sustained engagement with interdisciplinary scholarship in critical geographical political economy—including the so-called “Los Angeles School” of urban studies, the “new urban sociology,” global city theory and various strands of critical economic and political geography.
Select Publications:
"Urban governance and the production of new state spaces in western Europe, 1960-2000," Review of International Political Economy, 11:3, August (2004): 447-488. Click here to read. With Nik Theodore: "Cities and the geographies of 'actually existing neoliberalism'," Antipode, 34, 3 (2002): 356-386. Reprinted in: N. Brenner and N. Theodore eds., Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2002, 2-32. Click here to read. "Stereotypes, Archetypes and Prototypes: Three Uses of Superlatives in Contemporary Urban Studies," City & Community, 3 (2004), 205-218. Click here to read. “Glocalization’ as a state spatial strategy: urban entrepreneurialism and the new politics of uneven development in western Europe,” in Jamie Peck and Henry Yeung eds., Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives. Sage: London and Thousand Oaks, 2003, 197-215. Click here to read. “Metropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe.” European Urban and Regional Studies, 10 (2003), 297-325. Click here to read. “Decoding the Newest ‘Metropolitan Regionalism’ in the USA: A Critical Overview.” Cities: International Journal of Policy and Planning, 19, 1, (2002): 3-21. Click here to read. “The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration.” Progress in Human Geography, 15, 4 (2001): 525-548. Click here to read. “World city theory, globalization and the comparative-historical method: reflections on Janet Abu-Lughod’s interpretation of contemporary urban restructuring.” Urban Affairs Review, 36, 6 (2001): 124-147. Click here to read. "State theory in the political conjuncture: Henri Lefebvre's 'Comments on a new state form'," Antipode 33, 5 (2001): 783-808. Click here to read. “Building ‘Euro-regions’: locational politics and the political geography of neoliberalism in post-unificationGermany/” European Urban and Regional Studies, 7, 4 (2000): 317-343. Click here to read. “The urban question as a scale question: reflections on Henri Lefebvre, urban theory and the politics of scale.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24, 2 (2000): 361-378. Click here to read. “Beyond state-centrism? Space, territoriality and geographical scale in globalization studies.” Theory and Society, 28, 2 (1999): 39-78. Click here to read. “Globalization as reterritorialization: the re-scaling of urban governance in the European Union.” Urban Studies, 36, 3 (1999): 431-451. Click here to read. "Lokale Politik und Stadtenwicklung nach dem Fordismus: Möglichkeiten und Beschrankungen." co-authored with Susanne Heeg in Kurswechsel: Zeitschrift fur gesellschafts-, wirtschafts-, und unweltpolitische Alternative. Heft 2/99. Click here to read. “Between fixity and motion: accumulation, territorial organization and the historical geography of spatial scales.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 16, 5 (1998): 459-481. Click here to read. “Global cities, ‘glocal’ states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporaryEurope.” Review of International Political Economy, 5, 1 (1998): 1-37. Click here to read. “Global, fragmented, hierarchical: Henri Lefebvre's geographies of globalization.” Public Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp 137-169.1997. Click here to read. “Leistungfähige Länder, konkurrenzfahige Stadtregionen.” co-authored with Susanne Heeg in Informationen zur Raumentwicklung. Heft 10.1998. Click here to read. “State Territorial Restructuring and the Production of Spatial Scale: Urban and Regional Planning in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960-1990.” Political Geography. Vol. 16, No.4, pp 273-306.1997. Click here to read. Globalisierung und Reterritorialisierung: Städte, Staaten, und die Politik der räumlichen Redimensionierung im heutigen Europa. WeltTrends. No.17. Winter 1997. Click here to read. “Foucault's new functionalism.” Theory and Society, 23, 5 (1994): 679-708. Click here to read. |
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