Professor Jamie Peck
Faculty of Social Sciences
Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy, University of British Columbia
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Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, and a Global Professorial Fellow at Western Sydney University’s Institute for Culture and Society.
Professor Peck is an institutional political economist, working on a range of issues relating to economic geography, urban restructuring, labour regulation, and contemporary statecraft. His research program has been primarily concerned with the ways in which ostensibly global processesβ€”for example, forms of market-oriented governance (a.k.a. neoliberalization)β€”are (re)made through local sites, extended networks, and grounded practices. His current research is focused on political and economic transformations in .
A Fellow of the and a Fellow of the , Jamie is the Managing editor of and one of the co-editors of the book series with Agenda Publishing
His recent books include Doreen Massey: critical dialogues, edited with Marion Werner, Rebecca Lave and Brett Christophers (2018), Offshore: exploring the worlds of global outsourcing ( 2017), and , with Nik Theodore (2015).
Further information about Jamie and his research can be found .