Peter Dicken

Biographic Data

ID245576
NAMEPeter Dicken
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEDicken
SIGNATUREDICKEN P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manchester
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS65
TOTAL CITATIONS2973
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX18

  • Capital and the Cosmos: War, Society and the Quest for Profit

    Peter Dicken, Peter DickensBOOKCapital and the Cosmos2022

  • Disentangling Capital's Web

    Judith Watson, Ted Benton et al.ARTICLECapitalism Nature Socialism2016Cited by: 2

  • "Sciencing the Sh*t" Out of a Crisis

    Peter Dicken, Peter DickensARTICLECapitalism Nature Socialism2016References: 7

    At the start of The Martian movie we find an astronaut left for dead on Mars. A dust storm has forced the rest of his crew to leave in a hurry and now the astronaut, Mark Watney, has only enough fo

  • Global Shift

    Peter DickenBOOKGlobal Shift2015Cited by: 85

  • Leaving the World Instead of Saving It

    Peter Dicken, Peter DickensARTICLECapitalism Nature Socialism2015Cited by: 1References: 4

    Interstellar. Directed by Christopher NolanScience fiction has often used the cosmos to mirror earthly hopes and fears, a well-known example being Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. In those nove

  • Cosmology and Society: Developing a Bourdieusian Perspective

    Open AccessPeter Dicken, Peter DickensARTICLESociological Research Online2012References: 8

    Contemporary sociology has paid very little attention to cosmology. But, like all forms of intellectual endeavour, cosmology is a product of society. Using insights from Bourdieu's social theory, this paper shows how cosmologies are invested in by owners of economic capital seeking power and social status. There are also important dialectical relations between economic patronage and cosmology, cosmologies resonating in different ways with the eco…

  • Making connections: Global Production Networks and World City Networks

    Open AccessNeil M Coe, Peter Dicken et al.ARTICLEGlobal Networks2010Cited by: 20References: 35

    This article offers a sympathetic critique of recent attempts to forge a dialogue between Global Commodity Chain (GCC) and World City Network (WCN) approaches to global economic change. While broadly supportive of the endeavour, we make three observations about this ongoing project. First, we question the utility of emphasizing the common roots of these approaches in World Systems Theory given that both have subsequently moved into new epistemolo…

  • Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Territories

    Open AccessKris Olds, Peter Dicken et al.CHAPTERRugman reviews international…2009

  • Alienation, the Cosmos and the Self

    Open AccessPeter Dicken, Peter DickensARTICLEThe Sociological Review2009References: 11

    This paper is concerned with the alienation between the self and the cosmos. On the one hand, the binaries involved in this process (including the division between society and nature and between mental and manual labour) have been widely described and commented on. Social scientists and activists alike have shown that dichotomies of this kind are used by social elites to legitimate control over nature and over 'inferior' human beings. These insig…

  • The Cosmos as Capitalism's Outside

    Open AccessPeter Dicken, Peter DickensARTICLEThe Sociological Review2009Cited by: 5References: 6

  • Introduction: Global production networks--debates and challenges

    Neil M Coe, Peter Dicken et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2008Cited by: 20References: 3

    Over the last decade-and-a-half, a rich and vibrant literature has evolved that attempts to explain how global industries are organized and governed, and how, in turn, those relationships affect the development and upgrading opportunities of the various regions and firms involved. Although this is a sprawling multi-disciplinary field of endeavour, to date, three key interlinked strands of research can be distinguished: Considering the key charact…

  • Global production networks: Realizing the Potential

    Neil M Coe, Peter Dicken et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2008Cited by: 484References: 16

    Understanding and conceptualizing the complexities of the contemporary global economy is a challenging but vitally important task. In this article, we critically evaluate the potential of one interpretive framework-the global production networks (GPN) perspective-for analysing the global economy and its impacts on territorial development. After situating the approach in relation to other cognate chain/network approaches, the article proceeds to r…

  • The Multiplant Business Enterprise and Geographical Space: Some Issues in the Study of External Control and Regional Development (Volume 10, Number 4, 1976)

    Peter DickenARTICLERegional Studies2007Cited by: 2

    (2007). The Multiplant Business Enterprise and Geographical Space: Some Issues in the Study of External Control and Regional Development (Volume 10, Number 4, 1976) Regional Studies: Vol. 41, No. sup1, pp. S37-S48

  • On the Metabolism between Society and Nature in the U.K

    Pat Devine, Peter Dicken et al.ARTICLECapitalism Nature Socialism2007

    This symposium on the metabolic relationship between human society and non-human nature in the U.K. has been edited and largely written by members of the Red Green Study Group, formed in London in

  • Cosmic society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe

    Peter Dicken, Peter DickensBOOKCosmic society2007

  • Outer Space and Internal Nature: Towards a Sociology of the Universe

    Open AccessPeter Dicken, Peter Dickens et al.ARTICLESociology2007Cited by: 3References: 8

    This article represents one step towards developing a sociology of humanity's relationship with the cosmos. It adapts a central question of sociological concern - how humanity transforms itself as it interacts with nature - to ask questions about how human subjectivities are affected by the increasing 'humanization' of the universe and by developments in contemporary cosmology. The argument presented is that some (wealthy) sectors of society are …

  • Territories of profit: Communications, capitalist development, and the innovative enterprises of G. F. Swift and Dell Computer

    Peter DickenARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2006

  • Transnational corporations and network effects of a local manufacturing cluster in mobile telecommunications equipment in China

    Open AccessHenry Wai-Chung Yeung, Weidong Liu et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2006Cited by: 25References: 16

  • Transnational Corporations and 'Obligated Embeddedness: Foreign Direct Investment in China's Automobile Industry

    Open AccessWeidong Liu, Peter DickenARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2006Cited by: 34References: 11

    With the aid of an empirical case study of the automobile industry in China, we explore how, under certain political-economic conditions, the investments of transnational corporations (TNCs) can be shaped to meet the state's objectives. We develop the concept of 'obligated embeddedness' to capture the dynamics of this process. We show that foreign direct investment in the automobile industry in China is a type of market-led and embedded investmen…

  • Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Territories

    Peter Dicken, Philip F Kelly et al.BOOKGlobalisation and the Asia-Pacific2005

  • Global shift: Industrial change in a turbulent world

    Open AccessPeter DickenARTICLEProgress in Human Geography2004Cited by: 14References: 2

  • New Information and Communication Technologies and Local Clustering of Firms: A Case Study of the Xingwang Industrial Park in Beijing

    Weidong Liu, Peter Dicken et al.ARTICLEUrban Geography2004Cited by: 10References: 1

    Recent advances in telecommunications technologies have initiated debates on the changing balance between centralizing and decentralizing forces driving economic activities. The literature reveals that new information and telecommunication technologies (ICTs) have been driving new economic activities into a number of cities and regions with well-developed information infrastructures while within these cities and regions new industries tend to dis…

  • Globalizing’ regional development: A global production networks perspective

    Open AccessNeil M Coe, Martin Heß et al.ARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…2004Cited by: 509References: 38

    Recent literature concerning regional development has placed significant emphasis on local institutional structures and their capacity to ‘hold down’ the global. Conversely, work on inter‐firm networks – such as the global commodity chain approach – has highlighted the significance of the organizational structures of global firms’ production systems and their relation to industrial upgrading. In this paper, drawing upon a global production networ…

  • Geographers and ‘globalization’: (Yet) Another Missed Boat

    Open AccessPeter DickenARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…2004Cited by: 101References: 104

    Over the years, geographers have developed a disturbing – even dysfunctional – habit of missing out on important intellectual and politically significant debates, even those in which geographers would seem to have a major role to play. The syndrome of processes currently bundled together within the term ‘globalization’ is intrinsically geographical, as are the outcomes of such processes. Yet, once again, it seems, we are not, as a discipline, cen…

  • Scale' and the Instituted Construction of the Urban: Contrasting the Cases of Manchester and Lyon

    Open AccessSally Randle, Sally Randles et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2004Cited by: 4References: 33

    This paper combines recent advances which appreciate the ontological intricacies of scale; with the (re)turn of institutional perspectives on social and economic life and its governance. The authors use these perspectives to understand better questions of contingency, difference, and indeed convergence when comparing the historical process of scale construction and political governance (both institution building and image/narrative building) in t…