D S Farrer
Biographic Data
| ID | 18935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D S Farrer |
| GIVEN NAMES | D S |
| FAMILY NAME | Farrer |
| SIGNATURE | FARRER D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9898-8330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 338 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis
Renewed political concern about geographical inequalities in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 raises questions about the ability of the prevalent pre-crisis model of development to generate more spatially balanced and inclusive economies. In this article, we connect spatial polarisation and the ‘geography of discontent’ to the extended crisis of neoliberal capitalism after the 2008 crisis. The article provides a conjunctural analys…
Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development
Crises spur reflection and re-evaluation of what matters and what is valued. The impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency are reigniting debates about the nature of economic development approaches and what they aim to achieve in urban settings. Addressing a substantive gap in contemporary debates by helping to navigate a burgeoning and diverse field, this paper provides a critical and comparative assess…
Left behind places’: A geographical etymology
‘Left behind places’ has become the leitmotif of geographical inequalities since the 2008 crisis. Yet, the term’s origins, definition and implications are poorly specified and risk obscuring the differentiated problems and pathways of different kinds of areas. This paper explicates the geographical etymology and spatial imaginary of ‘left behind places’. It argues that the appellation and its spatial expression have modified how geographical ineq…
Chapter 6 Chants of Re-enchantment: Chamorro Spiritual Resistance to Colonial Domination
Dreamwork, art worlds and miracles in Malaysia
Dreamwork recorded in the Malay art world questions the occult power of artistic agency. As I did participant observation in Malaysia and Singapore, the artist Mohammad Din Mohammad divulged knowledge of Sufi lore, shamanic healing, and Malay martial arts (silat). On a quest to comprehend, discover, create and articulate esoteric skills, secret knowledge and mysterious artifacts, the artist produced fine art paintings, talismanic jewelry and asse…
In search of the skilled city: Skills and the occupational evolution of British cities
Recent research has argued that human capital has become the key driver of city growth and that there is a widening divergence between high- and low-skill cities. This skilled-city view includes several stylised propositions. The first is that more skills and human capital generate stronger economic growth; the second is that already-skilled cities are becoming ever more skilled; and, the third is that larger cities tend to have stronger concentr…
Funding, financing and governing urban infrastructures
This Special Issue aims to further understanding and explanation of the funding, financing and governing of urban infrastructure amidst its engagements with contemporary financialisation. Drawing upon empirical material from international cases from Europe, North America, Africa and Asia, it identifies critical issues to advance work in this area. These themes concern: the impacts of financialisation upon shifting the definitions and conceptualis…
Deal or no deal?’ Governing urban infrastructure funding and financing in the UK City Deals
How urban infrastructure is funded, financed and governed is a central issue for states at the national, city-regional and city scales. Urban infrastructure is being financialised by financial and state actors and transformed into an asset in the international investment landscape. Local governments are being compelled by national state and financial institutions to be more entrepreneurial in their infrastructure funding and financing and to reor…
An evolutionary perspective on the British banking crisis
Developing an evolutionary perspective towards the changing anatomy of the banking sector reveals the enduring tensions and contradictions between spatial centralisation and the possibilities for decentralisation before, during and after the British banking crisis. The shift from banking boom to crisis in 2007 is conceptualised as a significant and on-going moment in the long-term evolution of the historical institutional–spatial dominance of Lon…
Captivation, false connection and secret societies in Singapore
Interminable ritual repetition of set movements (taolu) has resulted in Chinese martial arts facing trenchant criticism as being useless in fight sports, mixed martial arts, and actual combat. In Singapore, the neglect of body-callousing or conditioning methods in Chinese martial arts may render them unfit for unarmed combat. This led me to ask whether the entire edifice of set practice in the martial arts is based upon a false connection. Resear…
Geographies of corporate philanthropy: The Northern Rock Foundation
The paper contributes to literature on the geographies of corporate philanthropy through a case study of the origins, growth and decline of the Northern Rock bank's charitable foundation. Analysis reveals the complex, geographically-embedded nature of philanthropic motivations and impacts. It demonstrates that investment in home and community by philanthropists was part of a regionally-inscribed business-model of excessive risk taking that brough…
War Magic: Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
The Olympic Future of Mixed Martial Arts
Efficacy and entertainment in Martial Arts Studies: Anthropological perspectives
Martial anthropology offers a nomadological approach to Martial Arts Studies featuring Southern Praying Mantis, Hung Sing Choy Li Fut, Yapese stick dance, Chin Woo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and seni silat to address the infinity loop model in the anthropology of performance/performance studies which binds together efficacy and entertainment, ritual and theatre, social and aesthetic drama, concealment and revelation. The infinity loop model assumes a …
Cross-Cultural Articulations of War Magic and Warrior Religion
Previous anthropology emphasized symbolic incantations at the expense of the embodied practice of magic. Foregrounding embodiment and performance in war magic and warrior religion collapses the mind-body dualism of magic versus rationality, instead highlighting social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition, as tempered historically by colonial and post-colonial trajectories in societies undergoing rapid social transformation. Rel…
Chants of Re-enchantment: Chamorro Spiritual Resistance to Colonial Domination
Local and regional development in the Global North and South
Local and regional development has characteristically focused upon localities and regions in the historically industrialized and urbanized countries of the Global North. Development Studies has been concerned with more recently industrializing and urbanizing nations in the Global South. Each strand has continued to have only limited interaction but such disconnection constrains explanation and policy formulation in addressing global development c…
The Performance of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Performance in Malay Singapore
From the 1960s the Malays of Singapore were mandated to relocate from kampung (village) locations to “modern” concrete housing blocks. Their former villages, consisting of wooden houses built on stilts, were razed for concrete social housing, accompanied by a policy enforcing a rigorous ethnic quota “representative” of the multi-ethnic composition of Singapore. The mandatory “relocation” of the populace was packaged by the local state/media in so…
Income Inequality, Decentralisation, and Regional Development in Western Europe
This paper deals with the relationship between decentralisation, regional economic development, and income inequality within regions. Using multiplicative interaction models and regionally aggregated microeconomic data for more than 100 000 individuals in the European Union (EU), it addresses two main questions. First, whether fiscal and political decentralisation in Western Europe has an effect on within-regional interpersonal inequality. Second…
Local and Regional Development in Times of Crisis
There is no abstract for this paper
Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism
Geographies of brands and branding
This paper seeks to elucidate the geographies of brands and branding through interpreting their geographical entanglements. Focusing upon goods and services, it argues, first, that the object of the brand and the process of branding are geographical because they are entangled in inescapable spatial associations. Second, these spatial associations matter because they are geographically differentiated and uneven. Third, geographically entangled bra…
The Healing Arts of the Malay Mystic
The legacy of Alfred Gell offers a rich stock of ingenious ideas to apply and extend to the thought‐provoking artwork of Mohammad Din Mohammad, who combines the skills ( ilmu ) of the Malay martial art silat with the knowledge of the traditional Malay healer, to press life, breath, and divine power into his painting and sculpture. The artist's agency is said to open a gateway to the unseen realm. By painting calligraphic motifs derived from the Q…
Mapping Corporations, Connecting Communities: Remaking Steel Geographies in Northern England and Southern Poland
In recent years, economic geographers have turned their attention to the growing geographical reach and complexity of economic networks to focus on the increasing integration of economies, the geographical organization of economic activity and the social, economic and political relationships within these networks.Within this work, particular attention has been paid to the corporation, allowing for corporate geographies to be rethought using new a…
Devolution and the Trades Union Congress in North East England and Wales
Trade unions and their collective federations have begun to participate in the devolution and regionalization of government and governance in the UK. This paper examines whether, how and to what extent distinctive “class logics of collective action” are being reproduced beyond the employment relation and the workplace through organized labour's engagement in devolved development and governance. Drawing upon an empirical analysis of the Trades Uni…
Left behind places’: A geographical etymology
‘Left behind places’ has become the leitmotif of geographical inequalities since the 2008 crisis. Yet, the term’s origins, definition and implications are poorly specified and risk obscuring the differentiated problems and pathways of different kinds of areas. This paper explicates the geographical etymology and spatial imaginary of ‘left behind places’. It argues that the appellation and its spatial expression have modified how geographical ineq…
Geographies of brands and branding
This paper seeks to elucidate the geographies of brands and branding through interpreting their geographical entanglements. Focusing upon goods and services, it argues, first, that the object of the brand and the process of branding are geographical because they are entangled in inescapable spatial associations. Second, these spatial associations matter because they are geographically differentiated and uneven. Third, geographically entangled bra…
Shareholder value’ versus the regions: The closure of the Vaux Brewery in Sunderland
Financialization' and 'shareholder value' loom large in the closure of the Vaux Brewery in Sunderland. They are necessarily intertwined with the geographies of space and place. Geography inevitably enters into assessments of shareholder value by social agents. A geographical political economy approach argues that generalized pressures created by financialization and shareholder value are mediated and contested by specific and particular configura…
Funding, financing and governing urban infrastructures
This Special Issue aims to further understanding and explanation of the funding, financing and governing of urban infrastructure amidst its engagements with contemporary financialisation. Drawing upon empirical material from international cases from Europe, North America, Africa and Asia, it identifies critical issues to advance work in this area. These themes concern: the impacts of financialisation upon shifting the definitions and conceptualis…
Deal or no deal?’ Governing urban infrastructure funding and financing in the UK City Deals
How urban infrastructure is funded, financed and governed is a central issue for states at the national, city-regional and city scales. Urban infrastructure is being financialised by financial and state actors and transformed into an asset in the international investment landscape. Local governments are being compelled by national state and financial institutions to be more entrepreneurial in their infrastructure funding and financing and to reor…
Local and regional development in the Global North and South
Local and regional development has characteristically focused upon localities and regions in the historically industrialized and urbanized countries of the Global North. Development Studies has been concerned with more recently industrializing and urbanizing nations in the Global South. Each strand has continued to have only limited interaction but such disconnection constrains explanation and policy formulation in addressing global development c…
Building a Geographical Political Economy of Closure: The Case of R&DCo in North East England
ParentCompany 's decision to close R&DCo in North East England caused the loss of highly skilled scientific and technical jobs. R&DCo was a “white‐collar” R&D operation and supplier of services to ParentCompany 's lead factories in the East Midlands and South West regions. The economic and social costs of closure were acute for the North East with its relatively weak growth, high unemployment and limited R&D activity. This paper argues that a cle…
Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development
Crises spur reflection and re-evaluation of what matters and what is valued. The impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency are reigniting debates about the nature of economic development approaches and what they aim to achieve in urban settings. Addressing a substantive gap in contemporary debates by helping to navigate a burgeoning and diverse field, this paper provides a critical and comparative assess…
Income Inequality, Decentralisation, and Regional Development in Western Europe
This paper deals with the relationship between decentralisation, regional economic development, and income inequality within regions. Using multiplicative interaction models and regionally aggregated microeconomic data for more than 100 000 individuals in the European Union (EU), it addresses two main questions. First, whether fiscal and political decentralisation in Western Europe has an effect on within-regional interpersonal inequality. Second…
Mapping Corporations, Connecting Communities: Remaking Steel Geographies in Northern England and Southern Poland
In recent years, economic geographers have turned their attention to the growing geographical reach and complexity of economic networks to focus on the increasing integration of economies, the geographical organization of economic activity and the social, economic and political relationships within these networks.Within this work, particular attention has been paid to the corporation, allowing for corporate geographies to be rethought using new a…
Local and Regional Development in Times of Crisis
There is no abstract for this paper
Deepening democracy and engaging civil society? ‘Economic and social partners’ and devolved governance in the UK
It is now widely accepted that democratic societies have experienced a shift from ‘government to governance’. Such a transformation can be identified in many different states, including ‘transition
Regionalisation, Devolution and the Trade Union Movement
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis
Renewed political concern about geographical inequalities in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 raises questions about the ability of the prevalent pre-crisis model of development to generate more spatially balanced and inclusive economies. In this article, we connect spatial polarisation and the ‘geography of discontent’ to the extended crisis of neoliberal capitalism after the 2008 crisis. The article provides a conjunctural analys…
In search of the skilled city: Skills and the occupational evolution of British cities
Recent research has argued that human capital has become the key driver of city growth and that there is a widening divergence between high- and low-skill cities. This skilled-city view includes several stylised propositions. The first is that more skills and human capital generate stronger economic growth; the second is that already-skilled cities are becoming ever more skilled; and, the third is that larger cities tend to have stronger concentr…
Captivation, false connection and secret societies in Singapore
Interminable ritual repetition of set movements (taolu) has resulted in Chinese martial arts facing trenchant criticism as being useless in fight sports, mixed martial arts, and actual combat. In Singapore, the neglect of body-callousing or conditioning methods in Chinese martial arts may render them unfit for unarmed combat. This led me to ask whether the entire edifice of set practice in the martial arts is based upon a false connection. Resear…
The Healing Arts of the Malay Mystic
The legacy of Alfred Gell offers a rich stock of ingenious ideas to apply and extend to the thought‐provoking artwork of Mohammad Din Mohammad, who combines the skills ( ilmu ) of the Malay martial art silat with the knowledge of the traditional Malay healer, to press life, breath, and divine power into his painting and sculpture. The artist's agency is said to open a gateway to the unseen realm. By painting calligraphic motifs derived from the Q…
Heterodoxy and the Governance of Economic Development
An emergent heterodox approach is challenging the prevailing orthodoxy of thinking, doing, and governing economic development, particularly at the subnational, regional, and local levels. Looking at underlying debates concerning institutionalism and a 'new centrism', the author draws together the theoretical and conceptual threads of the heterodox agenda. Several critical issues are outlined: the historical evolution of economic development appro…
An evolutionary perspective on the British banking crisis
Developing an evolutionary perspective towards the changing anatomy of the banking sector reveals the enduring tensions and contradictions between spatial centralisation and the possibilities for decentralisation before, during and after the British banking crisis. The shift from banking boom to crisis in 2007 is conceptualised as a significant and on-going moment in the long-term evolution of the historical institutional–spatial dominance of Lon…
Efficacy and entertainment in Martial Arts Studies: Anthropological perspectives
Martial anthropology offers a nomadological approach to Martial Arts Studies featuring Southern Praying Mantis, Hung Sing Choy Li Fut, Yapese stick dance, Chin Woo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and seni silat to address the infinity loop model in the anthropology of performance/performance studies which binds together efficacy and entertainment, ritual and theatre, social and aesthetic drama, concealment and revelation. The infinity loop model assumes a …
Devolution and the Trades Union Congress in North East England and Wales
Trade unions and their collective federations have begun to participate in the devolution and regionalization of government and governance in the UK. This paper examines whether, how and to what extent distinctive “class logics of collective action” are being reproduced beyond the employment relation and the workplace through organized labour's engagement in devolved development and governance. Drawing upon an empirical analysis of the Trades Uni…
Subnational Governance and Economic and Social Development
In sum, this theme issue develops the literature on subnational government and governance and economic and social development. Some accepted wisdom has been challenged and qualified, and new insights have been provided. Collectively, the papers point towards a rich future research agenda. Such endeavour might include consideration of-inter alia-the following questions: to what extent can devolved territories and institutions convert the opportuni…
Labour geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism
Regionalisation, Devolution and the Trade Union Movement
Corporate Retreat and the Abandonment of Host Economies in the Era of the 'Globalisation' of Capital: The Case of ManufacturingCo in the North East Region of England
This paper explores the neglected issue in the 'globalisation' debate concerning the contraction and withdrawal of capital from the territories. The analysis is built upon consideration of the institutional architecture, state inter-relations and territoriality and nationality of capital. The paper concludes that historical evolution and contingency are critical to left analysis of the 'globalisation' of capital and may help to resist and contest…
Corporate Retreat and the Abandonment of Host Economies in the Era of the 'Globalisation' of Capital: The Case of ManufacturingCo in the North East Region of England
This paper explores the neglected issue in the 'globalisation' debate concerning the contraction and withdrawal of capital from the territories. The analysis is built upon consideration of the institutional architecture, state inter-relations and territoriality and nationality of capital. The paper concludes that historical evolution and contingency are critical to left analysis of the 'globalisation' of capital and may help to resist and contest…
Regionalisation, Devolution and the Trade Union Movement
Regionalisation, Devolution and the Trade Union Movement
Labour geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism
Innovation and social learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change
Heterodoxy and the Governance of Economic Development
An emergent heterodox approach is challenging the prevailing orthodoxy of thinking, doing, and governing economic development, particularly at the subnational, regional, and local levels. Looking at underlying debates concerning institutionalism and a 'new centrism', the author draws together the theoretical and conceptual threads of the heterodox agenda. Several critical issues are outlined: the historical evolution of economic development appro…
Subnational Governance and Economic and Social Development
In sum, this theme issue develops the literature on subnational government and governance and economic and social development. Some accepted wisdom has been challenged and qualified, and new insights have been provided. Collectively, the papers point towards a rich future research agenda. Such endeavour might include consideration of-inter alia-the following questions: to what extent can devolved territories and institutions convert the opportuni…
Shareholder value’ versus the regions: The closure of the Vaux Brewery in Sunderland
Financialization' and 'shareholder value' loom large in the closure of the Vaux Brewery in Sunderland. They are necessarily intertwined with the geographies of space and place. Geography inevitably enters into assessments of shareholder value by social agents. A geographical political economy approach argues that generalized pressures created by financialization and shareholder value are mediated and contested by specific and particular configura…
Building a Geographical Political Economy of Closure: The Case of R&DCo in North East England
ParentCompany 's decision to close R&DCo in North East England caused the loss of highly skilled scientific and technical jobs. R&DCo was a “white‐collar” R&D operation and supplier of services to ParentCompany 's lead factories in the East Midlands and South West regions. The economic and social costs of closure were acute for the North East with its relatively weak growth, high unemployment and limited R&D activity. This paper argues that a cle…
Devolution and the Trades Union Congress in North East England and Wales
Trade unions and their collective federations have begun to participate in the devolution and regionalization of government and governance in the UK. This paper examines whether, how and to what extent distinctive “class logics of collective action” are being reproduced beyond the employment relation and the workplace through organized labour's engagement in devolved development and governance. Drawing upon an empirical analysis of the Trades Uni…
Deepening democracy and engaging civil society? ‘Economic and social partners’ and devolved governance in the UK
It is now widely accepted that democratic societies have experienced a shift from ‘government to governance’. Such a transformation can be identified in many different states, including ‘transition
The Healing Arts of the Malay Mystic
The legacy of Alfred Gell offers a rich stock of ingenious ideas to apply and extend to the thought‐provoking artwork of Mohammad Din Mohammad, who combines the skills ( ilmu ) of the Malay martial art silat with the knowledge of the traditional Malay healer, to press life, breath, and divine power into his painting and sculpture. The artist's agency is said to open a gateway to the unseen realm. By painting calligraphic motifs derived from the Q…
Mapping Corporations, Connecting Communities: Remaking Steel Geographies in Northern England and Southern Poland
In recent years, economic geographers have turned their attention to the growing geographical reach and complexity of economic networks to focus on the increasing integration of economies, the geographical organization of economic activity and the social, economic and political relationships within these networks.Within this work, particular attention has been paid to the corporation, allowing for corporate geographies to be rethought using new a…
Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism
Geographies of brands and branding
This paper seeks to elucidate the geographies of brands and branding through interpreting their geographical entanglements. Focusing upon goods and services, it argues, first, that the object of the brand and the process of branding are geographical because they are entangled in inescapable spatial associations. Second, these spatial associations matter because they are geographically differentiated and uneven. Third, geographically entangled bra…
Local and Regional Development in Times of Crisis
There is no abstract for this paper
The Performance of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Performance in Malay Singapore
From the 1960s the Malays of Singapore were mandated to relocate from kampung (village) locations to “modern” concrete housing blocks. Their former villages, consisting of wooden houses built on stilts, were razed for concrete social housing, accompanied by a policy enforcing a rigorous ethnic quota “representative” of the multi-ethnic composition of Singapore. The mandatory “relocation” of the populace was packaged by the local state/media in so…
Income Inequality, Decentralisation, and Regional Development in Western Europe
This paper deals with the relationship between decentralisation, regional economic development, and income inequality within regions. Using multiplicative interaction models and regionally aggregated microeconomic data for more than 100 000 individuals in the European Union (EU), it addresses two main questions. First, whether fiscal and political decentralisation in Western Europe has an effect on within-regional interpersonal inequality. Second…
Local and regional development in the Global North and South
Local and regional development has characteristically focused upon localities and regions in the historically industrialized and urbanized countries of the Global North. Development Studies has been concerned with more recently industrializing and urbanizing nations in the Global South. Each strand has continued to have only limited interaction but such disconnection constrains explanation and policy formulation in addressing global development c…
Cross-Cultural Articulations of War Magic and Warrior Religion
Previous anthropology emphasized symbolic incantations at the expense of the embodied practice of magic. Foregrounding embodiment and performance in war magic and warrior religion collapses the mind-body dualism of magic versus rationality, instead highlighting social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition, as tempered historically by colonial and post-colonial trajectories in societies undergoing rapid social transformation. Rel…
Chants of Re-enchantment: Chamorro Spiritual Resistance to Colonial Domination
Efficacy and entertainment in Martial Arts Studies: Anthropological perspectives
Martial anthropology offers a nomadological approach to Martial Arts Studies featuring Southern Praying Mantis, Hung Sing Choy Li Fut, Yapese stick dance, Chin Woo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and seni silat to address the infinity loop model in the anthropology of performance/performance studies which binds together efficacy and entertainment, ritual and theatre, social and aesthetic drama, concealment and revelation. The infinity loop model assumes a …
War Magic: Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
The Olympic Future of Mixed Martial Arts
An evolutionary perspective on the British banking crisis
Developing an evolutionary perspective towards the changing anatomy of the banking sector reveals the enduring tensions and contradictions between spatial centralisation and the possibilities for decentralisation before, during and after the British banking crisis. The shift from banking boom to crisis in 2007 is conceptualised as a significant and on-going moment in the long-term evolution of the historical institutional–spatial dominance of Lon…
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