Jamie Peck FRSC

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(born July 9, 1962 in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, UK) is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the Managing Editor of
Environment and Planning A
' and the convenor of th
Summer Institute in Economic Geography

Background

The recipient of Guggenheim and Harkness fellowships, he was previously Professor of Geography & Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester, and has held visiting positions at Johns Hopkins University, Oxford University, the National University of Singapore, University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Melbourne, the University of Nottingham, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Oslo, and Queen's University Belfast.

Scholarly Contributions

Jamie Peck's research interests include the political economy of neoliberalization, policy mobility, economic governance, labor market theory and policy, and urban restructuring. His publications include
Fast policy: experimental statecraft at the thresholds of neoliberalism
' (2015, with Nik Theodore),
Constructions of neoliberal reason
' (2010), ''Contesting neoliberalism: urban frontiers'' (2007, coedited with Helga Leitner & Eric Sheppard), ''Politics and practice in economic geography'' (2007, coedited with Adam Tickell, Eric Sheppard &

Trevor Barnes Trevor John Barnes, FBA (born 14 July 1956, London, England) is a British geographer and Professor of Economic geography at the University of British Columbia. Background Trevor Barnes received his Ph.D. in 1983 at University of Minnesota with a ...

), ''Workfare states'' (2001), ''Work-place: the social regulation of labor markets'' (1996), and the
Wiley-Blackwell companion to economic geography
' (2012, coedited with Trevor Barnes & Eric Sheppard). His current research is concerned with the sociology of global outsourcing, the politics of labor in the American South, and the political economy of urban restructuring.

Recognition

Ellen Churchill Semple Ellen Churchill Semple (January 8, 1863 – May 8, 1932) was an American geographer and the first female president of the Association of American Geographers. She contributed significantly to the early development of the discipline of geography i ...

award, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, 2008Ellen Churchill Semple Day
(accessed 30 June 2015) * Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada * Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences * Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2006-2007) * Back Award, Royal Geographical Society, for "contributions to new economic geography" * Harkness Fellow, Commonwealth Fund of New York (1995-1996)

References

External links

*
Entrevista com Jamie Peck - Boletim Campineiro de Geografia, n. 2, v. 2, 2012
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