Matthew Thompson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3719253 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matthew Thompson |
| NOMBRES | Matthew |
| APELLIDO | Thompson |
| FIRMA | THOMPSON M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5691-4851 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 347 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
What's the point of conjunctural analysis
With conjunctural approaches to urban research fast proliferating, along with the compounding crises they seek to study, now's the time to ask: what's the point of conjunctural analysis? Its purpose, I argue, is to offer a method for identifying points of condensation of crisis and contradiction within the social totality of planetary colonial capitalism, with a view to providing practical pointers on how to begin to exploit those moments for str…
Conjunctural municipalism and the struggle for Zagreb
There is renewed interest in conjunctural approaches within urban studies, human geography and beyond to help interpret the troubles of the political present. Moves have been made to specify and systematise a methodological remit for conjunctural analysis, yet there is a risk of losing the political impulse motivating such approaches. As such, this article brings together different intellectual and political currents informing conjunctural analys…
Planning in nature's metropolis
Democratic economic planning is emerging once again after decades of marginalisation. This article contributes to the ecological turn in the new economic planning literature by attending to new municipalist approaches to repairing metabolic rifts opened by capitalist urbanisation. It presents a qualitative study of the office of strategic planning for the Barcelona metropolitan region (PEMB) to examine how questions of social metabolism have info…
Critical lessons from a pragmatic randomized trial of home‐based Covid‐19 testing in rural Native American and Latino communities
PURPOSE: Native Americans and Latinos have higher COVID-19 infection and mortality rates and may have limited access to diagnostic testing. Home-based testing may improve access to care in rural and underserved populations. This study tests the effect of community health worker (CHW) support on accessibility, feasibility, and completion of COVID-19 home testing among Native American and Latino adults living on the Flathead Reservation in Montana …
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads
This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology provides us with the critical lens to view the circular economy as part of an emergent regime of accumulation that may supersede neoliberalism. However, if each regime entails new frontier zones for appropriating cheap natures and dumping wastes, then the circular economy—…
Churchill's Legacy in Scotland
The cost of operational complexity
A Call to Improve Usability, Accuracy, and Equity of Self-Testing for Covid-19 and Other Rapid Diagnostic Tests
The increasing availability of rapid diagnostic self-tests (RDSTs) for COVID-19 has played an important and increasing role during the pandemic. However, for many underserved communities, RDSTs potential benefits are offset by problems with usability, accuracy, and equity. Given the increased need for and interest in home testing for acute and chronic diseases, including COVID-19, this piece offers ways that regulatory agencies, federal public he…
Thinking conjuncturally, looking elsewhere
Inspired by Jamie Peck’s recent article on conjunctural methodologies, we discuss how geographers might interpret these troubling times. We hope to keep the conversation going by suggesting that a strength of conjunctural analysis lies in trying to get to grips with multiple crises without always knowing precisely where to look. Another strength of this approach is to take seriously all the cultural and political work involved in the articulation…
Designing a New Civic Economy? On the Emergence and Contradictions of Participatory Experimental Urbanism
Can we remake local economies from scratch – not through political struggle but by design – to solve wicked problems and transform urban governance? Such questions are raised by an emergent trend within urban experimentation that emphasises participation and commoning in designing peer‐to‐peer provisioning systems through a platform logic. This article deconstructs the discourses animating what we term “participatory experimental urbanism” and re…
Politicising proximity
As new municipalism comes of age, prefixes proliferate: from democratic and autonomist to post-growth and care municipalisms. How do all these variegations relate to each other and to the wider movement of which they claim a part? What does all this conceptual creativity amount to, epistemologically and politically? How can we distill the most salient lessons for the further development of theory and practice in the years ahead? This article is o…
Whatever happened to municipal radicalism
What can the municipal state do to radically transform urban economies? Local government in countries such as the UK has been historically tasked with delivering public services; rarely extending its remit to economic development, let alone community‐led forms promoting economic democracy, at least not since 1980s municipal socialism. But times are changing, and the UK case provides some telling examples of what is now possible. Community wealth …
On the (im)possibilities of being a good enough researcher at a neoliberal university
Three years after finishing a participatory research project with a low‐income community, we look back at the ways we struggled and continue to struggle under the neoliberal climate we find ourselves in. Specifically, we ask whether the managerialised research infrastructures of the neoliberal university provide a ‘good enough’ environment, and whether we, as researchers, were able to conduct ‘good enough’ research with austerity‐stricken respect…
A practitioner action research approach to learning outside the classroom in religious education
This paper reports the co-creation of knowledge through a Practitioner Action Research Community of Practice of teachers and mid-level policy enactors which sought to engage the question of how to enhance Religious Education in primary schools serving socially disadvantaged children. Co-authors’ professional values and assumptions are explored, and questions developed to carry out a needs assessment of primary teachers in contexts of social disad…
Self-financing regeneration? Capturing land value through institutional innovations in public housing stock transfer, planning gain and financialisation
Social, economic and environmental aspects of building sustainable communities receive ample academic and policy attention; far less is paid to finding financially sustainable models of urban regeneration. This case study of the Hattersley Estate in Greater Manchester, England, provides insights into an innovative approach to financing estate regeneration via novel mechanisms of planning gain, stock transfer and tenure diversification, influenced…
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale
This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this frami…
Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis
This paper explores universal basic income (UBI) in relation to crisis, from COVID-19 to techno-economic disruptions to work and prospective post-capitalist transition. Critical debates around automation, wage labour and post-work are brought into conversation with emerging trends in urban political economy around foundational infrastructure, smart cities and platform capitalism. To deliver the socio-economic transformations promised by UBI's adv…
Appraising and Handling Covid-19 Information
Improving risk communication in a pandemic is of paramount importance. Organizations working in public health must develop ways to regulate information flow in collaboration with trusted community partners. Individuals also must develop strategies to improve information management
Seeing like a market
This extended review of Brendan Murtagh’s (2019) Social Economics and the Solidarity City is one of six critical commentaries inspired by an unusually constructive and thought-provoking ‘Author meets Critics’ session at the 2019 RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London
What’s so new about New Municipalism
New municipalism is a nascent global social movement aiming to democratically transform the local state and economy – but what, precisely, is so new about it? I situate new municipalism in its geographical, political-economic and historical contexts, by comparison with earlier waves of municipal socialism and international municipalism, arguing that it re-politicises traditions of transnationalism, based not on post-political policy mobilities bu…
Brendan Murtagh 2019
Generative Anger
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social …
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, presents challenges for urban authorities facing reduced budgets to meet increased demands on public services. Municipalities are beginning to experiment with creative responses to these crises, such as taking mor…
Playing with the Rules of the Game
Innovation is perhaps the buzzword in local economic development policy. Associated narrowly with neoliberal ideas, conventional notions of innovation-like its capitalocentric counterparts, enterprise and entrepreneurialism-may promise higher productivity, global competitiveness and technological progress but do not fundamentally change the 'rules of the game'. In contrast, an emerging field reimaginessocialinnovation as disruptive change in soci…
From Co-Ops to Community Land Trusts
This article explores the historical development of two different collaborative housing models: Liverpool’s housing co-operative movement of the 1970s, when public tenants successfully struggled for collective dweller control in designing, developing and managing their own housing; and, today, Liverpool’s nascent urban community land trust (CLT) movement. The genesis and institutionalization of each is analysed through mobile urbanism, policy mob…
What’s so new about New Municipalism
New municipalism is a nascent global social movement aiming to democratically transform the local state and economy – but what, precisely, is so new about it? I situate new municipalism in its geographical, political-economic and historical contexts, by comparison with earlier waves of municipal socialism and international municipalism, arguing that it re-politicises traditions of transnationalism, based not on post-political policy mobilities bu…
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, presents challenges for urban authorities facing reduced budgets to meet increased demands on public services. Municipalities are beginning to experiment with creative responses to these crises, such as taking mor…
Politicising proximity
As new municipalism comes of age, prefixes proliferate: from democratic and autonomist to post-growth and care municipalisms. How do all these variegations relate to each other and to the wider movement of which they claim a part? What does all this conceptual creativity amount to, epistemologically and politically? How can we distill the most salient lessons for the further development of theory and practice in the years ahead? This article is o…
Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis
This paper explores universal basic income (UBI) in relation to crisis, from COVID-19 to techno-economic disruptions to work and prospective post-capitalist transition. Critical debates around automation, wage labour and post-work are brought into conversation with emerging trends in urban political economy around foundational infrastructure, smart cities and platform capitalism. To deliver the socio-economic transformations promised by UBI's adv…
Between Boundaries
Emerging in the cracks of the ownership model are alternatives to state/market provision of affordable housing and public/private-led regeneration of declining urban neighbourhoods, centred on commoning and collective dweller control. This paper explores how the community land trust model can become an effective institutional solution to urban decline in the context of private property relations. It explores a case study of a CLT campaign in Gran…
From Co-Ops to Community Land Trusts
This article explores the historical development of two different collaborative housing models: Liverpool’s housing co-operative movement of the 1970s, when public tenants successfully struggled for collective dweller control in designing, developing and managing their own housing; and, today, Liverpool’s nascent urban community land trust (CLT) movement. The genesis and institutionalization of each is analysed through mobile urbanism, policy mob…
Whatever happened to municipal radicalism
What can the municipal state do to radically transform urban economies? Local government in countries such as the UK has been historically tasked with delivering public services; rarely extending its remit to economic development, let alone community‐led forms promoting economic democracy, at least not since 1980s municipal socialism. But times are changing, and the UK case provides some telling examples of what is now possible. Community wealth …
On the (im)possibilities of being a good enough researcher at a neoliberal university
Three years after finishing a participatory research project with a low‐income community, we look back at the ways we struggled and continue to struggle under the neoliberal climate we find ourselves in. Specifically, we ask whether the managerialised research infrastructures of the neoliberal university provide a ‘good enough’ environment, and whether we, as researchers, were able to conduct ‘good enough’ research with austerity‐stricken respect…
Playing with the Rules of the Game
Innovation is perhaps the buzzword in local economic development policy. Associated narrowly with neoliberal ideas, conventional notions of innovation-like its capitalocentric counterparts, enterprise and entrepreneurialism-may promise higher productivity, global competitiveness and technological progress but do not fundamentally change the 'rules of the game'. In contrast, an emerging field reimaginessocialinnovation as disruptive change in soci…
Generative Anger
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social …
Life in a ZOO
Building on recent critical contributions towards conceptualising neighbourhood change as socially produced and politically ‘performed’, this paper takes a closer look at the work of Henri Lefebvre to understand the production of urban space as a deeply political process. A common critical characterisation of neighbourhood change—occurring through a grand Lefebvrean struggle between ‘abstract space-makers’ and ‘social space-makers’—is critically …
Thinking conjuncturally, looking elsewhere
Inspired by Jamie Peck’s recent article on conjunctural methodologies, we discuss how geographers might interpret these troubling times. We hope to keep the conversation going by suggesting that a strength of conjunctural analysis lies in trying to get to grips with multiple crises without always knowing precisely where to look. Another strength of this approach is to take seriously all the cultural and political work involved in the articulation…
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale
This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this frami…
Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads
This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology provides us with the critical lens to view the circular economy as part of an emergent regime of accumulation that may supersede neoliberalism. However, if each regime entails new frontier zones for appropriating cheap natures and dumping wastes, then the circular economy—…
Hepatitis B Knowledge and Practices Among Chinese Canadian Women in Vancouver, British Columbia
Designing a New Civic Economy? On the Emergence and Contradictions of Participatory Experimental Urbanism
Can we remake local economies from scratch – not through political struggle but by design – to solve wicked problems and transform urban governance? Such questions are raised by an emergent trend within urban experimentation that emphasises participation and commoning in designing peer‐to‐peer provisioning systems through a platform logic. This article deconstructs the discourses animating what we term “participatory experimental urbanism” and re…
Exploring the migration decisions of health workers and trainees from Africa
Hepatitis B Knowledge and Practices Among Chinese Canadian Women in Vancouver, British Columbia
Does God Have a Future? A Pentecostal Response to Christopher Hall's and John Sanders' Recent Book
The migration of physicians from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America
BACKGROUND: The objective of this paper is to describe the numbers, characteristics, and trends in the migration to the United States of physicians trained in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: We used the American Medical Association 2002 Masterfile to identify and describe physicians who received their medical training in sub-Saharan Africa and are currently practicing in the USA. RESULTS: More than 23% of America's 771 491 physicians received their …
The Role of International Medical Graduates in America's Small Rural Critical Access Hospitals
Context: Critical access hospitals (CAHs) are a federal Medicare category for isolated rural facilities with 15 or fewer acute care beds that receive cost‐based reimbursement from Medicare. Purpose: This study examines the role of foreign‐born international medical graduates (IMGs) in the staffing of CAHs. Methods: Chief executive officers (CEOs) of CAH facilities answered a telephone survey on their use of IMGs and the characteristics of those I…
I'm Not Reading You
“I'm not reading you” is a collection of stories and anecdotes from my experience of living in Cherokee, North Carolina, from June 2005 to October 2006, as I conducted the ethnographic field research for my dissertation. The common thread running through all these stories is the experience of encountering Cherokee and non‐Cherokee people in different social settings and having my racial status tested and probed. In this paper, I think reflexively…
Do International Medical Graduates (IMGs) “Fill the Gap” in Rural Primary Care in the United States? A National Study
Context: The contribution that international medical graduates (IMGs) make to reducing the rural‐urban maldistribution of physicians in the United States is unclear. Quantifying the extent of such “gap filling” has significant implications for planning IMG workforce needs as well as other state and federal initiatives to increase the numbers of rural providers. Purpose: To compare the practice location of IMGs and US medical graduates (USMGs) pra…
Tourism in Local History and Experience
Keywords: commentary, tourism, historical memory, economic development, representation, cultural resource management, Cherokee, indigenous peoples, Native Americans, North Carolina, North America
Exploring the migration decisions of health workers and trainees from Africa
Parent's information seeking in acute childhood illness
CONTEXT: Acute illness is a universal experience in early childhood. Parents find it difficult to determine whether or not their child requires medical care and seek information to inform their decision making. Little is known about parents' information seeking behaviour and what helps or hinders their decision making. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore parents' use of information resources during decision making in acute childhood illness at…
Between Boundaries
Emerging in the cracks of the ownership model are alternatives to state/market provision of affordable housing and public/private-led regeneration of declining urban neighbourhoods, centred on commoning and collective dweller control. This paper explores how the community land trust model can become an effective institutional solution to urban decline in the context of private property relations. It explores a case study of a CLT campaign in Gran…
Life in a ZOO
Building on recent critical contributions towards conceptualising neighbourhood change as socially produced and politically ‘performed’, this paper takes a closer look at the work of Henri Lefebvre to understand the production of urban space as a deeply political process. A common critical characterisation of neighbourhood change—occurring through a grand Lefebvrean struggle between ‘abstract space-makers’ and ‘social space-makers’—is critically …
From Co-Ops to Community Land Trusts
This article explores the historical development of two different collaborative housing models: Liverpool’s housing co-operative movement of the 1970s, when public tenants successfully struggled for collective dweller control in designing, developing and managing their own housing; and, today, Liverpool’s nascent urban community land trust (CLT) movement. The genesis and institutionalization of each is analysed through mobile urbanism, policy mob…
Playing with the Rules of the Game
Innovation is perhaps the buzzword in local economic development policy. Associated narrowly with neoliberal ideas, conventional notions of innovation-like its capitalocentric counterparts, enterprise and entrepreneurialism-may promise higher productivity, global competitiveness and technological progress but do not fundamentally change the 'rules of the game'. In contrast, an emerging field reimaginessocialinnovation as disruptive change in soci…
Seeing like a market
This extended review of Brendan Murtagh’s (2019) Social Economics and the Solidarity City is one of six critical commentaries inspired by an unusually constructive and thought-provoking ‘Author meets Critics’ session at the 2019 RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London
What’s so new about New Municipalism
New municipalism is a nascent global social movement aiming to democratically transform the local state and economy – but what, precisely, is so new about it? I situate new municipalism in its geographical, political-economic and historical contexts, by comparison with earlier waves of municipal socialism and international municipalism, arguing that it re-politicises traditions of transnationalism, based not on post-political policy mobilities bu…
Brendan Murtagh 2019
Generative Anger
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social …
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, presents challenges for urban authorities facing reduced budgets to meet increased demands on public services. Municipalities are beginning to experiment with creative responses to these crises, such as taking mor…
Appraising and Handling Covid-19 Information
Improving risk communication in a pandemic is of paramount importance. Organizations working in public health must develop ways to regulate information flow in collaboration with trusted community partners. Individuals also must develop strategies to improve information management
A practitioner action research approach to learning outside the classroom in religious education
This paper reports the co-creation of knowledge through a Practitioner Action Research Community of Practice of teachers and mid-level policy enactors which sought to engage the question of how to enhance Religious Education in primary schools serving socially disadvantaged children. Co-authors’ professional values and assumptions are explored, and questions developed to carry out a needs assessment of primary teachers in contexts of social disad…
Self-financing regeneration? Capturing land value through institutional innovations in public housing stock transfer, planning gain and financialisation
Social, economic and environmental aspects of building sustainable communities receive ample academic and policy attention; far less is paid to finding financially sustainable models of urban regeneration. This case study of the Hattersley Estate in Greater Manchester, England, provides insights into an innovative approach to financing estate regeneration via novel mechanisms of planning gain, stock transfer and tenure diversification, influenced…
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale
This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this frami…
Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis
This paper explores universal basic income (UBI) in relation to crisis, from COVID-19 to techno-economic disruptions to work and prospective post-capitalist transition. Critical debates around automation, wage labour and post-work are brought into conversation with emerging trends in urban political economy around foundational infrastructure, smart cities and platform capitalism. To deliver the socio-economic transformations promised by UBI's adv…
A Call to Improve Usability, Accuracy, and Equity of Self-Testing for Covid-19 and Other Rapid Diagnostic Tests
The increasing availability of rapid diagnostic self-tests (RDSTs) for COVID-19 has played an important and increasing role during the pandemic. However, for many underserved communities, RDSTs potential benefits are offset by problems with usability, accuracy, and equity. Given the increased need for and interest in home testing for acute and chronic diseases, including COVID-19, this piece offers ways that regulatory agencies, federal public he…
Thinking conjuncturally, looking elsewhere
Inspired by Jamie Peck’s recent article on conjunctural methodologies, we discuss how geographers might interpret these troubling times. We hope to keep the conversation going by suggesting that a strength of conjunctural analysis lies in trying to get to grips with multiple crises without always knowing precisely where to look. Another strength of this approach is to take seriously all the cultural and political work involved in the articulation…
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