Adam Tickell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Tickell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Tickell |
| SIGNATURE | TICKELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3209-6505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1943 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Apparitions of neoliberalism: Revisiting ‘Jungle law breaks out’
The authors revisit their paper, ‘Jungle law breaks out: neoliberalism and global‐local disorder’, published by Area in 1994, commenting on the theoretical and political context of that time and on the subsequent course of debates around neoliberalism. Focusing on the Thatcherite strain of neoliberalism as a manifestation of post‐Keynesian crisis politics, and along with its associated strategies of deregulatory devolution, the paper called parti…
Politics and Practice in Economic Geography
A critical assessement of qualitative and quantative methods in economic geography, this text discusses key methodological issues in economic geography during the last 20 years
Governing the mega-region: Governance and networks across London and the South East of England
The argument is that London and the South East is an economic 'mega-region', larger than any existing administrative region in England. Drawing on research in South East Asia, the hypothesis is that this mega-region, while itself encapsulating a range of political and territorial tensions, should hold an intrinsic position of power in national policy making. While core central-state institutions, including HM Treasury, the Department for Trade an…
The North East Region Referendum Campaign of 2004: Issues and Turning Points
Statement to the House on the Elected Regional Assembly Referendum in the North East, 8 November, Hansard, 426 (151) col 587-588 2 Referendum result: 'Yes' 197,310 votes (22.1%), 'No 893,829 votes (77.9%),Turnout 47.4% and in no local authority area did the Yes vote exceed 30%. 3"It is worth remembering
A Decade of Decentralisation? Assessing the Role of the Government Offices for the English Regions
The Government Offices for the English regions were established in 1994 to coordinate the regional activities of three central government departments. A decade on, regional government in England is greatly expanded, and two other institutions of regional governance, the Regional Development Agencies and the Regional Assemblies, have also been created. In 2002 the Labour government proposed that this 'triad' of regional governance should be furthe…
Global Standards
Reading Economic Geography
Introduction: Reading Economic Geography.Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography.Editor's Introduction: Paradigms Lost.1. The Difference A Generation Makes. (David Harvey)2. Industry And Space: A Sympathetic Critique Of Radical Research. (R. A. Sayer)3. An Institutionalist Perspective On Regional Economic Development. (Ash Amin)4. Refiguring The Economic In Economic Geography. (Nigel Thrift and Kris Olds)5. The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Dis…
Performing finance: The industry, the media and its image
Much of the academic finance literature has been devoted to theoretical principles concerning portfolio design, the efficient market and strategic asset allocation. Similarly, industry organization studies have been concerned with the fundamentals of firm structure, entry and exit from the industry, and spatial and industrial concentration. But finance is also a never-ending series of daily stories, issuing from the pink pages of respectable broa…
Transactions matters
Transactions has long been in the premier league of journals and this has been maintained by the extremely high quality of submitted papers, even while by the standards of other journals the volume of these has been relatively low. During the past year, however, the number of papers submitted to the journal has nearly doubled (compared to each of the two previous years). Figuring out quite why this jump has occurred is not easy. Certainly, there …
Making Global Rules: Globalization or Neoliberalization?
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Signing on
I become editor of Transactions with some trepidation. One of the first rules of succession is to take over from someone who has palpably failed to do a job properly because, by comparison, even competence looks impressive. Yet Ron Martin, my predecessor in this job, managed to maintain and build upon Transactions’ reputation as the primary journal of record in British geography. Notably, the latest data from the Institute of Scientific Informati…
Pensions and Politics
Neoliberalizing Space
This chapter contains sections titled: From Jungle Laws to Market Rules Mutations of Neoliberalism Spaces of Neoliberalism Conclusion: Neoliberal(ism) Rules?
Geography of services: Progress in the geography of services III – time to move on
It is approaching 20 years since Walker’s (1985) excoriating analysis of the, so-called, service society. At the time, it was increasingly becoming the accepted truth that services were becoming the dominant economic form and – in some variants at least – that such changes were part of a ‘natural’ progression from the production of basic human needs to a more sophisticated and complex socio-economic form (for example, Bell, 1973; Stanback, 1979; …
Neoliberalizing Space
This paper revisits the question of the political and theoretical status of neoliberalism, making the case for a process–based analysis of “neoliberalization.” Drawing on the experience of the heartlands of neoliberal discursive production, North America and Western Europe, it is argued that the transformative and adaptive capacity of this far–reaching political–economic project has been repeatedly underestimated. Amongst other things, this calls…
England's Problem Region: Regionalism in the South East
England's South East is the most affluent and privileged place in the UK. Yet it is also the most institutionally weak and geographically divided of all the English regions. And while all the English regions are to some extent unnatural artifices, the South East is defined mainly in relation to an external space: London. The new, post-1997 regional bodies - RDAs, Regional Assemblies and expanded Government Offices - have the task of constructing …
Global finance and the German model: German corporations, market incentives, and the management of employer‐sponsored pension institutions
Where there was a settled political geography of state power and responsibilities, the remarkable growth of global finance has put enormous pressure on national economic, political and social institutions. Furthermore, the looming crisis facing many continental European social security systems has raised many doubts about the long‐term viability of the German model compared to its Anglo‐American rivals. In this context, large German corporations …
Progress in the geography of services II: Services, the state and the rearticulation of capitalism
Prosperity and Inequality: Observations on Bluestone and Harrison
Global Rhetorics, National Politics: Pursuing Bank Mergers in Canada
In the neoliberal reconfiguration of both national and international political economies during the 1980s and 1990s, the interests of North American financial capital have apparently reigned supreme. Having ceded sovereignty to financial markets and financial institutions, national states seem to have lost their power to control them: the genie appears to be well and truly out of the bottle. Drawing upon an analysis of political debates in Canada…
Labour Market Policy as Flexible Welfare: Prototype Employment Zones and the New Workfarism
HAUGHTON G., JONES M., PECK J., TICKELL A. and WHILE A. (2000) Labour market policy as flexible welfare: prototype employment zones and the new workfarism, Reg. Studies 34, 669-680. This paper examines the evolution of the employability agenda of New Labour through the lens of one of its main policy vehicles for melding welfare reform and active labour market policies: Employment Zones. The transition from prototype to fully fledged Employment Zo…
Dangerous derivatives: Controlling and creating risks in international money
Sponsorship, Academic Independence and Critical Engagement: A Forum on Shell, the Ogoni Dispute and the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Sponsorship, academic independence and critical engagement: A forum on shell, the Ogoni dispute and the royal geographical society (with the institute of British geographers)
The geographies of services: New wine in old bottles
This report has given an account of some of the continuities and discontinuities in research into the economic geogrnpliy of services. Given the phenomenal changes that have taken place elsewhere in geography which have seen considerable developments in, and melding of, cultural geography, political economy, political geography and so on, the preservation of an agenda which examines the spatial distribution and economic impact of services is rema…
Neoliberalizing Space
This paper revisits the question of the political and theoretical status of neoliberalism, making the case for a process–based analysis of “neoliberalization.” Drawing on the experience of the heartlands of neoliberal discursive production, North America and Western Europe, it is argued that the transformative and adaptive capacity of this far–reaching political–economic project has been repeatedly underestimated. Amongst other things, this calls…
Local modes of social regulation? Regulation theory, thatcherism and uneven development
Social regulation after Fordism: Regulation Theory, Neo-Liberalism and the Global-Local Nexus
This paper uses the analytical tools of regulation theory to analyse critically claims about the emergence of post-Fordism. It is argued that prevailing notions of post-Fordism are inconsistent with the central tenets of regulationist method, devaluing as they do the critical importance of social regulation and the ways in which a putative post-Fordist economy may be macro-economically pieced together. Rather than representing the basis for a ren…
Accumulation, regulation and the geographies of post-Fordism: Missing links in regulationist research
Performing finance: The industry, the media and its image
Much of the academic finance literature has been devoted to theoretical principles concerning portfolio design, the efficient market and strategic asset allocation. Similarly, industry organization studies have been concerned with the fundamentals of firm structure, entry and exit from the industry, and spatial and industrial concentration. But finance is also a never-ending series of daily stories, issuing from the pink pages of respectable broa…
Manchester Plays Games: Exploring the Local Politics of Globalisation
Using the example of Manchester's Olympic bidding process, the paper examines some of the links between globalisation and what has become known as the 'new urban politics'. The politics of the city's Olympic bids powerfully symbolise many of the supposedly transformative features of the new urban politics, British-style, as the old images of municipal welfarist (bureaucratic) politics have apparently been superseded by those of a dynamic and char…
Business Goes Local: Dissecting the 'Business Agenda' in Manchester
The Social Regulation of Uneven Development: Regulatory Deficit', England's South East, and the Collapse of Thatcherism
The evolving methodology of regulation theory is explored, with particular reference to the problematic of uneven development. With a concentration on the subnational scale, the notion of localised modes of regulation is critically examined. With a view to operationalising some of these regulationist concepts, an analysis of the geographical contradictions of Thatcherism is presented. Thatcherism, it is suggested, should be interpreted as a faile…
The Return of the Manchester Men: Men's Words and Men's Deeds in the Remaking of the Local State
The contemporary transformation of local politics in Britain - whereby power is being transferred from elected local authorities to business-led appointed bodies is being characterized increasingly as a shift from government to governance. But a crucial component in this transformation has been neglected: local governance is being 'regendered' in complex and contradictory ways. Drawing upon recent feminist theories of the state, it is argued that…
Dangerous derivatives: Controlling and creating risks in international money
Making a Melodrama out of a Crisis: Reinterpreting the Collapse of Barings Bank
In February 1995 Britain's oldest merchant bank, Barings, was put into administration after a series of disastrous losses on trading complex financial instruments. In this paper it is argued that the collapse of Barings symbolises the profound transformation in the City of London and the international financial system since the 1960s. The author analyses the response to the collapse by Barings' senior management, the British regulatory authoritie…
"Reflections on "Activism and the Academy
Global finance and the German model: German corporations, market incentives, and the management of employer‐sponsored pension institutions
Where there was a settled political geography of state power and responsibilities, the remarkable growth of global finance has put enormous pressure on national economic, political and social institutions. Furthermore, the looming crisis facing many continental European social security systems has raised many doubts about the long‐term viability of the German model compared to its Anglo‐American rivals. In this context, large German corporations …
Governing the mega-region: Governance and networks across London and the South East of England
The argument is that London and the South East is an economic 'mega-region', larger than any existing administrative region in England. Drawing on research in South East Asia, the hypothesis is that this mega-region, while itself encapsulating a range of political and territorial tensions, should hold an intrinsic position of power in national policy making. While core central-state institutions, including HM Treasury, the Department for Trade an…
Money Order? The Discursive Construction of Bretton Woods and the Making and Breaking of Regulatory Space
In this paper we analyse the 'ordering' of the international financial system in the 20th century, focusing upon the making and breaking of 'Bretton Woods'. We argue for a more reflective, reflexive, and historical economic geography and for the need to take economic discourse seriously. This argument is developed by providing two accounts of the rise and fall of the Bretton Woods System. The first of these accounts is drawn from regulation theor…
Apparitions of neoliberalism: Revisiting ‘Jungle law breaks out’
The authors revisit their paper, ‘Jungle law breaks out: neoliberalism and global‐local disorder’, published by Area in 1994, commenting on the theoretical and political context of that time and on the subsequent course of debates around neoliberalism. Focusing on the Thatcherite strain of neoliberalism as a manifestation of post‐Keynesian crisis politics, and along with its associated strategies of deregulatory devolution, the paper called parti…
Progress in the geography of services II: Services, the state and the rearticulation of capitalism
The North East Region Referendum Campaign of 2004: Issues and Turning Points
Statement to the House on the Elected Regional Assembly Referendum in the North East, 8 November, Hansard, 426 (151) col 587-588 2 Referendum result: 'Yes' 197,310 votes (22.1%), 'No 893,829 votes (77.9%),Turnout 47.4% and in no local authority area did the Yes vote exceed 30%. 3"It is worth remembering
England's Problem Region: Regionalism in the South East
England's South East is the most affluent and privileged place in the UK. Yet it is also the most institutionally weak and geographically divided of all the English regions. And while all the English regions are to some extent unnatural artifices, the South East is defined mainly in relation to an external space: London. The new, post-1997 regional bodies - RDAs, Regional Assemblies and expanded Government Offices - have the task of constructing …
Creative finance and the local state: The Hammersmith and Fulham swaps affair
A Decade of Decentralisation? Assessing the Role of the Government Offices for the English Regions
The Government Offices for the English regions were established in 1994 to coordinate the regional activities of three central government departments. A decade on, regional government in England is greatly expanded, and two other institutions of regional governance, the Regional Development Agencies and the Regional Assemblies, have also been created. In 2002 the Labour government proposed that this 'triad' of regional governance should be furthe…
The geographies of services: New wine in old bottles
This report has given an account of some of the continuities and discontinuities in research into the economic geogrnpliy of services. Given the phenomenal changes that have taken place elsewhere in geography which have seen considerable developments in, and melding of, cultural geography, political economy, political geography and so on, the preservation of an agenda which examines the spatial distribution and economic impact of services is rema…
Banking on Britain? The Changing Role and Geography of Japanese Banks in Britain
TICKELL A. (1994) Banking on Britain? The changing role and geography of Japanese banks in Britain, Reg. Studies 28, 291–304. This paper analyses the changing role and geography of Japanese banks in Britain since the early 1980s. The paper demonstrates that Japanese banks have increased the size and range of their activities in Britain as a result of economic changes within both Japan and Britain. The sectoral distribution of Japanese bank lendin…
Global Rhetorics, National Politics: Pursuing Bank Mergers in Canada
In the neoliberal reconfiguration of both national and international political economies during the 1980s and 1990s, the interests of North American financial capital have apparently reigned supreme. Having ceded sovereignty to financial markets and financial institutions, national states seem to have lost their power to control them: the genie appears to be well and truly out of the bottle. Drawing upon an analysis of political debates in Canada…
Labour Market Policy as Flexible Welfare: Prototype Employment Zones and the New Workfarism
HAUGHTON G., JONES M., PECK J., TICKELL A. and WHILE A. (2000) Labour market policy as flexible welfare: prototype employment zones and the new workfarism, Reg. Studies 34, 669-680. This paper examines the evolution of the employability agenda of New Labour through the lens of one of its main policy vehicles for melding welfare reform and active labour market policies: Employment Zones. The transition from prototype to fully fledged Employment Zo…
Accumulation, regulation and the geographies of post-Fordism: Missing links in regulationist research
Local modes of social regulation? Regulation theory, thatcherism and uneven development
Searching for a New Institutional Fix: The After‐Fordist Crisis and the Global‐Local Disorder
Banking on Britain? The Changing Role and Geography of Japanese Banks in Britain
TICKELL A. (1994) Banking on Britain? The changing role and geography of Japanese banks in Britain, Reg. Studies 28, 291–304. This paper analyses the changing role and geography of Japanese banks in Britain since the early 1980s. The paper demonstrates that Japanese banks have increased the size and range of their activities in Britain as a result of economic changes within both Japan and Britain. The sectoral distribution of Japanese bank lendin…
Money Order? The Discursive Construction of Bretton Woods and the Making and Breaking of Regulatory Space
In this paper we analyse the 'ordering' of the international financial system in the 20th century, focusing upon the making and breaking of 'Bretton Woods'. We argue for a more reflective, reflexive, and historical economic geography and for the need to take economic discourse seriously. This argument is developed by providing two accounts of the rise and fall of the Bretton Woods System. The first of these accounts is drawn from regulation theor…
"Reflections on "Activism and the Academy
Business Goes Local: Dissecting the 'Business Agenda' in Manchester
The Social Regulation of Uneven Development: Regulatory Deficit', England's South East, and the Collapse of Thatcherism
The evolving methodology of regulation theory is explored, with particular reference to the problematic of uneven development. With a concentration on the subnational scale, the notion of localised modes of regulation is critically examined. With a view to operationalising some of these regulationist concepts, an analysis of the geographical contradictions of Thatcherism is presented. Thatcherism, it is suggested, should be interpreted as a faile…
Social regulation after Fordism: Regulation Theory, Neo-Liberalism and the Global-Local Nexus
This paper uses the analytical tools of regulation theory to analyse critically claims about the emergence of post-Fordism. It is argued that prevailing notions of post-Fordism are inconsistent with the central tenets of regulationist method, devaluing as they do the critical importance of social regulation and the ways in which a putative post-Fordist economy may be macro-economically pieced together. Rather than representing the basis for a ren…
Manchester Plays Games: Exploring the Local Politics of Globalisation
Using the example of Manchester's Olympic bidding process, the paper examines some of the links between globalisation and what has become known as the 'new urban politics'. The politics of the city's Olympic bids powerfully symbolise many of the supposedly transformative features of the new urban politics, British-style, as the old images of municipal welfarist (bureaucratic) politics have apparently been superseded by those of a dynamic and char…
The Return of the Manchester Men: Men's Words and Men's Deeds in the Remaking of the Local State
The contemporary transformation of local politics in Britain - whereby power is being transferred from elected local authorities to business-led appointed bodies is being characterized increasingly as a shift from government to governance. But a crucial component in this transformation has been neglected: local governance is being 'regendered' in complex and contradictory ways. Drawing upon recent feminist theories of the state, it is argued that…
Winners of the Anniversary Award
Making a Melodrama out of a Crisis: Reinterpreting the Collapse of Barings Bank
In February 1995 Britain's oldest merchant bank, Barings, was put into administration after a series of disastrous losses on trading complex financial instruments. In this paper it is argued that the collapse of Barings symbolises the profound transformation in the City of London and the international financial system since the 1960s. The author analyses the response to the collapse by Barings' senior management, the British regulatory authoritie…
Putting Japanese investment in Europe in its place
Research on Japanese economic activity in Europe concentrates almost exclusively on investment in manufacturing. However, this paper demonstrates that this emphasis both underestimates the longevity of Japanese direct investment in Europe and also grossly underdefines the importance of services. Not only does Japanese direct investment have a much longer history in Europe than is usually recognized but also—and perhaps more significantly—the bulk…
The Geography of the World Economy
Restructuring the British Financial Sector into the Twenty-first Century
THERE IS PROBABLY MORE coverage in the media of the changing fortunes of the financial industry than of any other part of the British economy. Newspapers devote acres of space to it, while both radio and television have niche financial programmes and an obsession with the Financial Times 100 rate. Yet, with one or two notable exceptions, the vast majority of this coverage consists of regurgitation of press releases from financial companies who wa…
A tax on success? Privatization, employment and the ‘Windfall Tax’
Creative finance and the local state: The Hammersmith and Fulham swaps affair
Sponsorship, Academic Independence and Critical Engagement: A Forum on Shell, the Ogoni Dispute and the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Sponsorship, academic independence and critical engagement: A forum on shell, the Ogoni dispute and the royal geographical society (with the institute of British geographers)
The geographies of services: New wine in old bottles
This report has given an account of some of the continuities and discontinuities in research into the economic geogrnpliy of services. Given the phenomenal changes that have taken place elsewhere in geography which have seen considerable developments in, and melding of, cultural geography, political economy, political geography and so on, the preservation of an agenda which examines the spatial distribution and economic impact of services is rema…
Global Rhetorics, National Politics: Pursuing Bank Mergers in Canada
In the neoliberal reconfiguration of both national and international political economies during the 1980s and 1990s, the interests of North American financial capital have apparently reigned supreme. Having ceded sovereignty to financial markets and financial institutions, national states seem to have lost their power to control them: the genie appears to be well and truly out of the bottle. Drawing upon an analysis of political debates in Canada…
Labour Market Policy as Flexible Welfare: Prototype Employment Zones and the New Workfarism
HAUGHTON G., JONES M., PECK J., TICKELL A. and WHILE A. (2000) Labour market policy as flexible welfare: prototype employment zones and the new workfarism, Reg. Studies 34, 669-680. This paper examines the evolution of the employability agenda of New Labour through the lens of one of its main policy vehicles for melding welfare reform and active labour market policies: Employment Zones. The transition from prototype to fully fledged Employment Zo…
Dangerous derivatives: Controlling and creating risks in international money
Progress in the geography of services II: Services, the state and the rearticulation of capitalism
Political science (34 works) · Economics (26 works) · Law (22 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Politics (19 works) · Law (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Business (9 works)