Jamie Peck

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As an alum of the 2018 SIEG in Ghent and now a local organizer of the 2026 Toronto edition, I can say this is an incredible opportunity for early-career scholars to learn, connect, and collaborate within the economic geography community.

Apply by Dec 22 and see you in Toronto next year!

A stellar line-up has been assembled to support the development of early career economic geographers.
This annual Summer Institute has boosted many research trajectories, so it's definitely worth applying if you're eligible.

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

Space to think? Chinese think tanks and the uneven development of party-state power The campaign to propagate a new generation of think tanks “with Chinese characteristics” has been one of Xi Jinping's signature projects. Charting the…

My new one on the geography of think tanks, focusing on their evolving Chinese form(s) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 7 is now available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from municipal structural adjustment and post-entrepreneurial cities to heritage branding and the geography of financial exclusion.

Link and ToC below:

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Constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 The paper makes a case for explicitly constructivist approaches and projects in economic geography. Constructivism names and problematizes the relationship betw...

Our pitch for constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 6 is now available online! It features a book forum on Shaina Potts’ "Judicial Territory: Law, Capital and the Expansion of American Empire". Link and ToC below:

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Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details:
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

OnlineFirst - "Empire and/in/of capital: Response to the book forum on Judicial Territory" by Shaina Potts:

#law #capitalism #empire #territory

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Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 5 is now available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from financialization and land values to decommodification strategies and mass displacement. Link and ToC below:

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OnlineFirst - "Empire of law: A book forum on Shaina Potts’ Judicial Territory", introduced by @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @jamiepeck.bsky.social:

#law #empire #territory #geographicalpoliticaleconomy

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Pls share: Faculty Position at UBC Geography: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk
Details: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
Closing date for applications, July 21.

Chartbook 384: "Working the contradictory, stony ground of the present conjuncture" - a "conversation" with Hall, Massey and Peck. The word conjuncture derives from

Working the conjuncture! @adamtooze.bsky.social brings me back to the classrooms, supervisor meetings and bars of my PhD with this discussion of conjuctural analysis using @jamiepeck.bsky.social 's work. Could hear Jamie's voice in my head while reading this.

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Very thoughtful words from @fwilson2.bsky.social about where North American workers stand in the face of Trump's trade wars: medium.com/@jefred.wils.... #canlab

Quite the all stars economic geography panel to celebrate @jamiepeck.bsky.social 's new book!
Neil Brenner, Nik Theodore, Devika Narayan, Shaina Potts, Christian Berndt, and Eric Sheppard
#AAG2025

📢📚NEW ARRIVAL📖📢

Proprietary Settler Colonialism and the Making of North America

by Heather Whiteside

This is the latest book in the ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS SERIES edited by @brettchristophers.bsky.social, Rebecca Lave, @jamiepeck.bsky.social & Marion Werner

@geographers.bsky.social

Michael Burawoy’s Marxism for Realists What distinguished Michael Burawoy from other socialists was that he did not sidestep or ignore conservative criticisms of Marxism. Rather, he took them head-on and developed a sociology that could ma...

My obituary for Michael Burawoy.

What distinguished him from other socialists was that he did not sidestep or ignore conservative criticisms of Marxism. Rather, he took them head-on to reconstruct sociology.

jacobin.com/2025/03/bura...

Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy - Jamie Peck, Chris Meulbroek, Rachel Phillips, 2025 Departing from an engagement with the “ideas school,” a case is constructed for (distinctively) geographical political economies of ideation, first on their own...

🌆 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌆

'Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy' by Jamie Peck, Chris Meulbroek and Rachel Phillips

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jamiepeck.bsky.social

Poster on multicolored background says early career keynote and has a photo of Devika Narayan, University of Bristol, Speaker, with the title and text: 'Untethered: Scalable Computing and the Acceleration of Industrial Change: This Keynote examines the impact of a highly concentrated tech sector on firm practices across industries. I intend to answer three questions: 1) What is distinctive about computing technologies today? 2) What is the contemporary structure and organisation of corporate computing? 3) How does this configuration of computing relations alter firm practices? My claim is that digital technology and the tech sector intensifies volatility and chaos in capitalist industries through new forms of abstraction, modularity, and outsourcing. New tools and techniques of rapid experimentation speed up not just expansion and growth but also speed up the interruption of established firm practices. Overall, I contribute a theoretical framing of machinic hyper-flexibility and capitalist logics.' With the date, time, and plate listed as Wednesday 3/26 10.10AM - 11.30AM AAG Annual Meeting 430A, Level 4 Huntington Place Hosted by the Economic Geography Specialty Group

💬 Announcing our #AAG2025 EGSG Early Career Keynote lecture, 'Untethered: Scalable Computing and the Acceleration of Industrial Change' to be given by Devika Narayan, with @jamiepeck.bsky.social as discussant.

Hosted by @econgeog.bsky.social
Wednesday 3.26 at 10:10 AM in Detroit!

How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade Shaina Potts’s Judicial Territory examines how the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests.

Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire.

I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):

“Right to the Discipline” grants - Antipode Online Call for Proposals, October 2024 Last year we received 225 strong applications with a success rate of 6.2%. We anticipate funding a similar number of 10-12 grants in the next application year. Antipod...

Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...

Thinking of the great Michael Burawoy — and “a sociology without guarantees.” burawoy.berkeley.edu/PS/Sociology...

This is awful to hear. Michael Burawoy was original, transformative, and generous. For me and so many others I know, he was inspiring and compelling presence. We still needed him

NEW PUBLICATION

'Capitalising on conjunctures:
Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism'

With Tobias Klinge and Stefan Ouma (@econgeo.bsky.social), we analyze the driving forces behind Elon Musk's wealth.

Open access with @finandsoc.bsky.social here:

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The value chain detective: A methods positive intervention - Peter Lund-Thomsen, 2024 In this article, I propose the concept of the ‘value chain detective’ to offer a fresh perspective on the role of researchers investigating economic, social and...

OnlineFirst - "The value chain detective: A methods positive intervention" by Peter Lund-Thomsen:

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Article Forum 3: Jamie Peck considers conjunctural analysis and its methodological implications by way of Chinese capitalism; commentaries by Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Han Cheng and Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, Shaun S.K. Teo, Colin Lorne with Matthew Thompson and Allan Cochrane.

A few days to go for PhD students and postdocs interested in the geography of economic ideas to apply for workshop travel stipends. This invitational workshop will be hosted at UBC, June 2025. Funded by EPA: Economy & Space

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Cities for a guaranteed income: renewing the urban politics of cash assistance in the United States This paper explores the punctuated and uneven historical geography of the city-led “guaranteed income” movement in the United States, which since its recent (re)birth in Stockton, California and Ja...

Our new one, on the urban politics of guaranteed/basic income in the United States
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This looks amazing - one more week for early-career scholars to apply.