Nick Clare
Biographic Data
| ID | 220985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Clare |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Clare |
| SIGNATURE | CLARE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5425-4012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
“They are moving more national, that is a big problem”
Despite a growing body of research concerned with the geographies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the global economy, limited knowledge exists around their role in reshaping the third sector. Following decades of financialization, neoliberalism and austerity, England’s social housing sector presents an important opportunity to address this gap through a recent rise in M&A activity among housing associations, the country’s main form of socia…
Necropolitics, Gaza, and the limits of theory
We would like to thank Alexander A. Dunlap for his generous engagement with our article on necropolitics and geography (Peters et al 2025).His reflections on positionality and the varying intensities and scales of necropolitics resonate strongly with our own concerns.Likewise, we share his conviction that necropolitics cannot be reduced to death alone, but must be understood as part of a wider web of slow, fast, and injurious harms, intimately bo…
Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing
This paper explores the potentials and challenges of organising in (and at times against-and-beyond) social housing. Drawing on extended research across the UK with a range of tenants, activists, and housing staff we illustrate the need for fine-grained and spatially attuned analysis. In particular we adopt an autonomist Marxist ‘spatial composition analysis’, arguing that this approach is ideally placed to examine social housing struggles. We sh…
Necropolitics and geography
This paper reviews the rapidly growing body of geographical work on necropolitics. We argue that thinking carefully and spatially with and about necropolitics is useful for analysing widespread and uneven racialised suffering, particularly relating to the environment and borders. However, we note and caution against a tendency towards the ‘necro-everything’ and the ‘everything-necro’, which can both overstate and understate the role of death, pot…
Against Cultural Competence
Terrestrial bodies
As socio-ecological crises deepen, it is increasingly important that analyses of territory consider the other-than-human. Through a detailed engagement with a range of territorial currents, Gonin et al. do just this, introducing the idea of ‘terrestrial territories’ as a way forward, shifting the focus of analysis from the ‘Globe’ to ‘Gaia’. While we welcome the diverse engagement with non-Anglophone understandings of territory, in this commentar…
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction
This paper argues that commodification of housing plays a key role in the reproduction of social and economic relations and contributes to debates by, firstly, recognising modern slavery as a fundamental intersection of economic and social vulnerability intimately connected to experiences of housing. Secondly, rather than understanding modern slavery in terms of exclusion, it should be understood as a form of adverse incorporation in the labour m…
Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula
Studying abroad has the potential to contribute to wider processes of curriculum decolonisation.More often than not, however, it can actually serve to recolonise and reproduce multiscalar forms of privilege, with the majority of programs seeing students either move between countries in the Global North or from the Global South to the North.In particular, our research has found that while students desire geographical distance from their study abro…
Moving on
Based on freedom of information request data supplied by English local authorities, this paper identifies significant under-reporting of out of area housing placements in government statistics alongside an overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households amongst such placements. In a context of neoliberalism, housing policy has become abstracted from contextual factors that shape experiences of housing. With housing increasingly commodified…
From autonomous to autonomist geographies
Autonomist Marxist ideas and concepts are resurgent and, with their latent spatiality, are well placed to contribute to radical geographical debates. In particular, the methodology of ‘class composition’ analysis provides a rigorous, materialist critique of transforming capitalist social relations. This paper first provides vital historical–theoretical context from the milieu of Italian Operaismo, before emphasising the value of autonomist Marxis…
Actually existing racial capitalism
This paper provides a critical intervention into recent geographical debates on racial capitalism, interrogating the role that Housing Associations (HAs), the main form of UK social housing, play in its (re)production. Housing Associations are institutional, third-sector spaces within which novel forms of financialisation and bordering take place. Race is central to these processes, but insufficient critical attention has been afforded to the int…
Multiplying Labour, Multiplying Resistance
Buenos Aires’ talleres clandestinos (clandestine textile workshops) are powerful sites of accumulation and resistance; a complex and communitarian migrant economy. The economy’s complexity is, however, masked by its spatiality, clandestinity, and the promotion of culturalist analyses that ignore intra‐collective class differentials. This paper considers the “autonomy of migration” approach through the lens of “class composition” to explore the ta…
Ambivalent economic geographies
Composing the social factory
Through the creation of an original theoretical framework, this paper demonstrates the value of a deeper engagement between autonomist Marxism and (urban) geography. By spatialising arguably the autonomists' key theoretical contribution - class composition - the paper develops the ideas of technical and political spatial compositions. These dialectically intertwined concepts provide a framework with which to analyse the relationships between shif…
Producing territory
In this paper we analyze the territorial organizing of two dissimilar social movements across Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce territory as a key element of their political practice. Through their relational, contested character, these Latin American territories foreground an alternative to state-centric, Anglo-American models of territorial politics. First, the unemployed workers' movements in the urban periphery show ho…
Territories in contestation
Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America. Territory, Politics, Governance. Situated in geography’s recent territorial (re)turn, and drawing on Latin American theory and research, this paper examines the relational and contested nature of territories and territorial praxis. Engaging with contemporary literatures, we note the centrality of power to territory. However, as we explore in this paper, many analyses of power are too…
Militantly ‘studying up’? (Ab)using whiteness for oppositional research
This paper develops the idea of militantly ‘studying up’. Through a discussion of research into the relationship between migrants and social/labour movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it explores the way in which my positionality both helped and hindered the (militant) research process. As the possibility for militant research seemed to recede, by interrogating the antagonisms bound up in the disjuncture between my perceived and my performed po…
Territories in contestation
Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America. Territory, Politics, Governance. Situated in geography’s recent territorial (re)turn, and drawing on Latin American theory and research, this paper examines the relational and contested nature of territories and territorial praxis. Engaging with contemporary literatures, we note the centrality of power to territory. However, as we explore in this paper, many analyses of power are too…
From autonomous to autonomist geographies
Autonomist Marxist ideas and concepts are resurgent and, with their latent spatiality, are well placed to contribute to radical geographical debates. In particular, the methodology of ‘class composition’ analysis provides a rigorous, materialist critique of transforming capitalist social relations. This paper first provides vital historical–theoretical context from the milieu of Italian Operaismo, before emphasising the value of autonomist Marxis…
Composing the social factory
Through the creation of an original theoretical framework, this paper demonstrates the value of a deeper engagement between autonomist Marxism and (urban) geography. By spatialising arguably the autonomists' key theoretical contribution - class composition - the paper develops the ideas of technical and political spatial compositions. These dialectically intertwined concepts provide a framework with which to analyse the relationships between shif…
Multiplying Labour, Multiplying Resistance
Buenos Aires’ talleres clandestinos (clandestine textile workshops) are powerful sites of accumulation and resistance; a complex and communitarian migrant economy. The economy’s complexity is, however, masked by its spatiality, clandestinity, and the promotion of culturalist analyses that ignore intra‐collective class differentials. This paper considers the “autonomy of migration” approach through the lens of “class composition” to explore the ta…
Actually existing racial capitalism
This paper provides a critical intervention into recent geographical debates on racial capitalism, interrogating the role that Housing Associations (HAs), the main form of UK social housing, play in its (re)production. Housing Associations are institutional, third-sector spaces within which novel forms of financialisation and bordering take place. Race is central to these processes, but insufficient critical attention has been afforded to the int…
Producing territory
In this paper we analyze the territorial organizing of two dissimilar social movements across Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce territory as a key element of their political practice. Through their relational, contested character, these Latin American territories foreground an alternative to state-centric, Anglo-American models of territorial politics. First, the unemployed workers' movements in the urban periphery show ho…
Necropolitics and geography
This paper reviews the rapidly growing body of geographical work on necropolitics. We argue that thinking carefully and spatially with and about necropolitics is useful for analysing widespread and uneven racialised suffering, particularly relating to the environment and borders. However, we note and caution against a tendency towards the ‘necro-everything’ and the ‘everything-necro’, which can both overstate and understate the role of death, pot…
Militantly ‘studying up’? (Ab)using whiteness for oppositional research
This paper develops the idea of militantly ‘studying up’. Through a discussion of research into the relationship between migrants and social/labour movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it explores the way in which my positionality both helped and hindered the (militant) research process. As the possibility for militant research seemed to recede, by interrogating the antagonisms bound up in the disjuncture between my perceived and my performed po…
Moving on
Based on freedom of information request data supplied by English local authorities, this paper identifies significant under-reporting of out of area housing placements in government statistics alongside an overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households amongst such placements. In a context of neoliberalism, housing policy has become abstracted from contextual factors that shape experiences of housing. With housing increasingly commodified…
Ambivalent economic geographies
Territories in contestation
Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America. Territory, Politics, Governance. Situated in geography’s recent territorial (re)turn, and drawing on Latin American theory and research, this paper examines the relational and contested nature of territories and territorial praxis. Engaging with contemporary literatures, we note the centrality of power to territory. However, as we explore in this paper, many analyses of power are too…
Militantly ‘studying up’? (Ab)using whiteness for oppositional research
This paper develops the idea of militantly ‘studying up’. Through a discussion of research into the relationship between migrants and social/labour movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it explores the way in which my positionality both helped and hindered the (militant) research process. As the possibility for militant research seemed to recede, by interrogating the antagonisms bound up in the disjuncture between my perceived and my performed po…
Ambivalent economic geographies
Composing the social factory
Through the creation of an original theoretical framework, this paper demonstrates the value of a deeper engagement between autonomist Marxism and (urban) geography. By spatialising arguably the autonomists' key theoretical contribution - class composition - the paper develops the ideas of technical and political spatial compositions. These dialectically intertwined concepts provide a framework with which to analyse the relationships between shif…
Producing territory
In this paper we analyze the territorial organizing of two dissimilar social movements across Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce territory as a key element of their political practice. Through their relational, contested character, these Latin American territories foreground an alternative to state-centric, Anglo-American models of territorial politics. First, the unemployed workers' movements in the urban periphery show ho…
Multiplying Labour, Multiplying Resistance
Buenos Aires’ talleres clandestinos (clandestine textile workshops) are powerful sites of accumulation and resistance; a complex and communitarian migrant economy. The economy’s complexity is, however, masked by its spatiality, clandestinity, and the promotion of culturalist analyses that ignore intra‐collective class differentials. This paper considers the “autonomy of migration” approach through the lens of “class composition” to explore the ta…
From autonomous to autonomist geographies
Autonomist Marxist ideas and concepts are resurgent and, with their latent spatiality, are well placed to contribute to radical geographical debates. In particular, the methodology of ‘class composition’ analysis provides a rigorous, materialist critique of transforming capitalist social relations. This paper first provides vital historical–theoretical context from the milieu of Italian Operaismo, before emphasising the value of autonomist Marxis…
Actually existing racial capitalism
This paper provides a critical intervention into recent geographical debates on racial capitalism, interrogating the role that Housing Associations (HAs), the main form of UK social housing, play in its (re)production. Housing Associations are institutional, third-sector spaces within which novel forms of financialisation and bordering take place. Race is central to these processes, but insufficient critical attention has been afforded to the int…
Terrestrial bodies
As socio-ecological crises deepen, it is increasingly important that analyses of territory consider the other-than-human. Through a detailed engagement with a range of territorial currents, Gonin et al. do just this, introducing the idea of ‘terrestrial territories’ as a way forward, shifting the focus of analysis from the ‘Globe’ to ‘Gaia’. While we welcome the diverse engagement with non-Anglophone understandings of territory, in this commentar…
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction
This paper argues that commodification of housing plays a key role in the reproduction of social and economic relations and contributes to debates by, firstly, recognising modern slavery as a fundamental intersection of economic and social vulnerability intimately connected to experiences of housing. Secondly, rather than understanding modern slavery in terms of exclusion, it should be understood as a form of adverse incorporation in the labour m…
Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula
Studying abroad has the potential to contribute to wider processes of curriculum decolonisation.More often than not, however, it can actually serve to recolonise and reproduce multiscalar forms of privilege, with the majority of programs seeing students either move between countries in the Global North or from the Global South to the North.In particular, our research has found that while students desire geographical distance from their study abro…
Moving on
Based on freedom of information request data supplied by English local authorities, this paper identifies significant under-reporting of out of area housing placements in government statistics alongside an overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households amongst such placements. In a context of neoliberalism, housing policy has become abstracted from contextual factors that shape experiences of housing. With housing increasingly commodified…
Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing
This paper explores the potentials and challenges of organising in (and at times against-and-beyond) social housing. Drawing on extended research across the UK with a range of tenants, activists, and housing staff we illustrate the need for fine-grained and spatially attuned analysis. In particular we adopt an autonomist Marxist ‘spatial composition analysis’, arguing that this approach is ideally placed to examine social housing struggles. We sh…
Necropolitics and geography
This paper reviews the rapidly growing body of geographical work on necropolitics. We argue that thinking carefully and spatially with and about necropolitics is useful for analysing widespread and uneven racialised suffering, particularly relating to the environment and borders. However, we note and caution against a tendency towards the ‘necro-everything’ and the ‘everything-necro’, which can both overstate and understate the role of death, pot…
Against Cultural Competence
“They are moving more national, that is a big problem”
Despite a growing body of research concerned with the geographies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the global economy, limited knowledge exists around their role in reshaping the third sector. Following decades of financialization, neoliberalism and austerity, England’s social housing sector presents an important opportunity to address this gap through a recent rise in M&A activity among housing associations, the country’s main form of socia…
Necropolitics, Gaza, and the limits of theory
We would like to thank Alexander A. Dunlap for his generous engagement with our article on necropolitics and geography (Peters et al 2025).His reflections on positionality and the varying intensities and scales of necropolitics resonate strongly with our own concerns.Likewise, we share his conviction that necropolitics cannot be reduced to death alone, but must be understood as part of a wider web of slow, fast, and injurious harms, intimately bo…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works)