Regions and cities face unceasing pressures to adapt in response to processes of
globalization, changes in industrial production, and new patterns of migration and trade. At …

Abstract Since Hoggart and Mendoza's article on 'African immigrant workers in Spanish
agriculture'in Sociologia Ruralis in 1999 there has been a proliferation of interest in labour …

COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital
reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and …

There is a small but growing literature on the financialization of housing that demonstrates
how housing is a central aspect of financialization. Despite the varied analyses of the …

Towards a theory of regional diversification: combining insights from Evolutionary Economic
Geography and Transition Studies. Regional Studies. This paper develops a theoretical …

This critical commentary confronts and explores the–so far under-recognised and under-
researched–emergent global crisis of urban housing affordability and affordable housing …

We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new
ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas …

Accelerating processes of economic globalization have fundamentally reshaped the
organization of the global economy towards much greater integration and functional …

This paper provides a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has
been applied to places. It is based upon three main points. First, the ecological concept of …