Jamie Peck FRSC

FAcSS The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the Academy of Social Sciences to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the social sciences. Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used the ...

(born July 9, 1962 in

Kimberley, Nottinghamshire Kimberley is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire, England, lying 6 miles northwest of Nottingham along the A610. The town grew as a centre for coal mining, brewing and hosiery manufacturing. Together with the n ...

, UK) is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...

, 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 A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

and Professor of Geography at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

, 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 Eric Sheppard (born 1 October 1950) is a British and American geographer, and Professor of Economic geography at UCLA. Background Sheppard grew up in Cambridge, England and studied geography at the University of Bristol under Peter Haggett (g ...

), ''Politics and practice in economic geography'' (2007, coedited with Adam Tickell, Eric Sheppard & Trevor Barnes), ''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 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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