Mark Pendras
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Pendras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Pendras |
| SIGNATURE | PENDRAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington Tacoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3439-6210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Wrestling with the local ambitions of the far right
This commentary attempts to translate Santamarina and Ince's insights to the US context and draw out some implications for political organizing through the tumultuous present. Recognizing the importance of their emphasis on the local scale and bottom-up dimensions of contemporary far-right political organizing, we raise the question of whether national contexts might shape the extent to which such politics have a regional or city-level logic vers…
Questioning pandemic recovery: A regional second city perspective
The Covid-19 pandemic unsettled many assumptions about cities and urban life. Even discounting media fears about urban ‘collapse’, the pandemic and its aftermath have led to real uncertainties about the trajectory of urban development. While the struggles of ‘superstar’ cities in the Global North have attracted significant attention, here we shift focus onto the experiences of regional second cities in an attempt to capture a different perspectiv…
Departures From the Norm: Innovative Planning for Inclusive Manufacturing
For decades, urban development strategies that privilege narrowly defined “creative” sectors, and anachronistic zoning policies have been the norm in US cities, bringing persistent displacement pressures to manufacturing businesses. However, as cities have faced mounting concerns over inequality, affordability, and diversity, recent scholarship has begun to revisit the importance of urban industry, identifying key contributions that industrial en…
Planning, Manufacturing, and Sustainability: Three Research Themes
This thematic issue explores the role that revived emplacements of manufacturing and “blue-collar” work play in the search for more effective models of urban sustainability, drawing on intriguing developments in different cities of different sizes in different Western societies—the UK, Germany, Switzerland, the USA, and Australia. Rather than see industry as a “problem” for green city strategies, our point of departure considers what role manufac…
Urban Stasis and the Politics of Alternative Development in the United States
The search for alternative urban development often confronts the despairing conclusion that political conditions in American cities foreclose any real possibilities of change. In this article we challenge that view. We argue that debates about alternative urban development in the U.S. overemphasize urban industrial transition as a process of rupture, whereby strong business-led political regimes displace an old economic order in favor of a new co…
The Problematic Potential of Universities to Advance Critical Urban Politics
Recent research has explored the connections between universities and the cities/places in which that are located. Increasingly, emphasis is placed on the economic role of the university and on universities as urban stabilizers that can mobilize investment and advance development goals. This article explores a different charge for the university: as a space for the advancement of critical urban politics. Drawing from our experiences teaching hybr…
Sketching culture, sketching nature: Uncovering Anchors of Everyday Nature for Urban Youth
There has, historically, been considerable uncertainty over the meaning of 'urban nature' and, therefore, the extent to which culture and nature are bound in the urban setting. We explore, in this paper, the spatiality of everyday nature as experienced by youth in an urban setting. To do so, we draw on the results of a participatory mapping activity that was designed to elicit information about where youth felt most connected to nature while in t…
Law and the Political Geography of US Corporate Regulation
The recent financial crisis has brought new attention to the politics of economic behaviour in the United States. This article uses a critical legal geographical examination of corporate regulation in the US to guide emerging interest past the narrow focus on the past 10 years to a more substantive engagement with US corporate regulatory history. The argument advanced is that the open, critical and creative public discussion needed to define and …
Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy by David Imbroscio
David Imbroscio, Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010).Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy i
Confronting Capital Mobility
This article considers why urban scholars have made relatively little progress in recent decades in the identification and advancement of strategies for challenging the mobility of capital. It is suggested that the lack of progress is due, in part, to the failure of urban researchers to critically examine the politics of capital mobility. Politics is emphasized over other factors because an overemphasis on technical conditions and economic consid…
Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt - By Sean Safford
Urban Politics and the Production of Capital Mobility in the United States
In the quest to explain changing urban political economic conditions over the past thirty years urban researchers have naturalized capital mobility, to the point where challenging the mobility of capital appears either impossible, undesirable, or both. In this paper I aim to denaturalize capital mobility and to repoliticize the relationship between capital and place through a critical legal geographic investigation of corporate mobility rights in…
The legal geographies reader
From local consciousness to global change: Asserting Power at the Local Scale
The protests that took place at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, Washington, in late 1999 (and the series of similar, subsequent protests around the globe) have marked a new phase in the struggle for social justice. One approach to understanding the demonstrations is to view the activists as protesting what they perceive to be their lack of control- over the conditions of their economies, environments, lives and communities. In as…
Urban Stasis and the Politics of Alternative Development in the United States
The search for alternative urban development often confronts the despairing conclusion that political conditions in American cities foreclose any real possibilities of change. In this article we challenge that view. We argue that debates about alternative urban development in the U.S. overemphasize urban industrial transition as a process of rupture, whereby strong business-led political regimes displace an old economic order in favor of a new co…
Sketching culture, sketching nature: Uncovering Anchors of Everyday Nature for Urban Youth
There has, historically, been considerable uncertainty over the meaning of 'urban nature' and, therefore, the extent to which culture and nature are bound in the urban setting. We explore, in this paper, the spatiality of everyday nature as experienced by youth in an urban setting. To do so, we draw on the results of a participatory mapping activity that was designed to elicit information about where youth felt most connected to nature while in t…
From local consciousness to global change: Asserting Power at the Local Scale
The protests that took place at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, Washington, in late 1999 (and the series of similar, subsequent protests around the globe) have marked a new phase in the struggle for social justice. One approach to understanding the demonstrations is to view the activists as protesting what they perceive to be their lack of control- over the conditions of their economies, environments, lives and communities. In as…
The Problematic Potential of Universities to Advance Critical Urban Politics
Recent research has explored the connections between universities and the cities/places in which that are located. Increasingly, emphasis is placed on the economic role of the university and on universities as urban stabilizers that can mobilize investment and advance development goals. This article explores a different charge for the university: as a space for the advancement of critical urban politics. Drawing from our experiences teaching hybr…
Questioning pandemic recovery: A regional second city perspective
The Covid-19 pandemic unsettled many assumptions about cities and urban life. Even discounting media fears about urban ‘collapse’, the pandemic and its aftermath have led to real uncertainties about the trajectory of urban development. While the struggles of ‘superstar’ cities in the Global North have attracted significant attention, here we shift focus onto the experiences of regional second cities in an attempt to capture a different perspectiv…
Confronting Capital Mobility
This article considers why urban scholars have made relatively little progress in recent decades in the identification and advancement of strategies for challenging the mobility of capital. It is suggested that the lack of progress is due, in part, to the failure of urban researchers to critically examine the politics of capital mobility. Politics is emphasized over other factors because an overemphasis on technical conditions and economic consid…
From local consciousness to global change: Asserting Power at the Local Scale
The protests that took place at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, Washington, in late 1999 (and the series of similar, subsequent protests around the globe) have marked a new phase in the struggle for social justice. One approach to understanding the demonstrations is to view the activists as protesting what they perceive to be their lack of control- over the conditions of their economies, environments, lives and communities. In as…
The legal geographies reader
Urban Politics and the Production of Capital Mobility in the United States
In the quest to explain changing urban political economic conditions over the past thirty years urban researchers have naturalized capital mobility, to the point where challenging the mobility of capital appears either impossible, undesirable, or both. In this paper I aim to denaturalize capital mobility and to repoliticize the relationship between capital and place through a critical legal geographic investigation of corporate mobility rights in…
Confronting Capital Mobility
This article considers why urban scholars have made relatively little progress in recent decades in the identification and advancement of strategies for challenging the mobility of capital. It is suggested that the lack of progress is due, in part, to the failure of urban researchers to critically examine the politics of capital mobility. Politics is emphasized over other factors because an overemphasis on technical conditions and economic consid…
Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt - By Sean Safford
Law and the Political Geography of US Corporate Regulation
The recent financial crisis has brought new attention to the politics of economic behaviour in the United States. This article uses a critical legal geographical examination of corporate regulation in the US to guide emerging interest past the narrow focus on the past 10 years to a more substantive engagement with US corporate regulatory history. The argument advanced is that the open, critical and creative public discussion needed to define and …
Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy by David Imbroscio
David Imbroscio, Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010).Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy i
The Problematic Potential of Universities to Advance Critical Urban Politics
Recent research has explored the connections between universities and the cities/places in which that are located. Increasingly, emphasis is placed on the economic role of the university and on universities as urban stabilizers that can mobilize investment and advance development goals. This article explores a different charge for the university: as a space for the advancement of critical urban politics. Drawing from our experiences teaching hybr…
Sketching culture, sketching nature: Uncovering Anchors of Everyday Nature for Urban Youth
There has, historically, been considerable uncertainty over the meaning of 'urban nature' and, therefore, the extent to which culture and nature are bound in the urban setting. We explore, in this paper, the spatiality of everyday nature as experienced by youth in an urban setting. To do so, we draw on the results of a participatory mapping activity that was designed to elicit information about where youth felt most connected to nature while in t…
Urban Stasis and the Politics of Alternative Development in the United States
The search for alternative urban development often confronts the despairing conclusion that political conditions in American cities foreclose any real possibilities of change. In this article we challenge that view. We argue that debates about alternative urban development in the U.S. overemphasize urban industrial transition as a process of rupture, whereby strong business-led political regimes displace an old economic order in favor of a new co…
Departures From the Norm: Innovative Planning for Inclusive Manufacturing
For decades, urban development strategies that privilege narrowly defined “creative” sectors, and anachronistic zoning policies have been the norm in US cities, bringing persistent displacement pressures to manufacturing businesses. However, as cities have faced mounting concerns over inequality, affordability, and diversity, recent scholarship has begun to revisit the importance of urban industry, identifying key contributions that industrial en…
Planning, Manufacturing, and Sustainability: Three Research Themes
This thematic issue explores the role that revived emplacements of manufacturing and “blue-collar” work play in the search for more effective models of urban sustainability, drawing on intriguing developments in different cities of different sizes in different Western societies—the UK, Germany, Switzerland, the USA, and Australia. Rather than see industry as a “problem” for green city strategies, our point of departure considers what role manufac…
Questioning pandemic recovery: A regional second city perspective
The Covid-19 pandemic unsettled many assumptions about cities and urban life. Even discounting media fears about urban ‘collapse’, the pandemic and its aftermath have led to real uncertainties about the trajectory of urban development. While the struggles of ‘superstar’ cities in the Global North have attracted significant attention, here we shift focus onto the experiences of regional second cities in an attempt to capture a different perspectiv…
Wrestling with the local ambitions of the far right
This commentary attempts to translate Santamarina and Ince's insights to the US context and draw out some implications for political organizing through the tumultuous present. Recognizing the importance of their emphasis on the local scale and bottom-up dimensions of contemporary far-right political organizing, we raise the question of whether national contexts might shape the extent to which such politics have a regional or city-level logic vers…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works)