Inaudible Politics and the Crisis of Democracy  Planning for City or Planet?

A small contribution to the ongoing debates on “planetary urbanization” with Kurt Iveson. The paper is an extension of the work I’ve done with Kurt developing the notion of the Read more about Beyond city limits[…]

Harvey’s (1989) outline of entrepreneurial urban governance remains a staple of urban theory. Consensus is that cities – as constrained by neoliberal institutions – must pursue growth above all else, Read more about 2015 AAG CFP: Revisiting Entrepreneurialism: the logics of urban governance in systemic crisis[…]

A new paper out, co-written with Kurt Iveson, entitled “Recovering the politics of the city: From the ‘post-political city’ to a ‘method of equality’ for critical urban geography” out in Progress Read more about Progress in Human Geography paper[…]

A short piece for LSE’s USAPP: http://bit.ly/1ru5H6V

Really happy to see this out… a piece I wrote with the brilliant Kurt Iveson entitled “Occupations, mediations, subjectifications: Fabricating politics” in Space and Polity. The abstract is pasted below. Read more about New article on the post-political[…]

After many years and two continents, the book is finally out… thanks to all those who contributed and made it possible. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book235375

Just out, something written with Kevin Ward, in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society http://cjres.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/1/81.abstract (email me for a copy if you don’t have access to the journal) California continues Read more about ‘Picking up the pieces’: austerity urbanism, California and fiscal crisis[…]

Fascinating conference – http://is.gd/XVGk2u

Co-organizing with Kevin Ward (Manchester) As the conniptions of capitalist crisis continue to unfold, landscapes of crisis resolution and institutionalization have emerged from the spaces that were only two years Read more about 2014 AAG Session: The emergent politics of the austere city: antagonisms and revanchism in crisis resolution[…]