Myfanwy Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myfanwy Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myfanwy |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2881-9192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Value struggles in the foundational economy: Reclaiming marketplaces as foundational infrastructure
This paper brings a renewed focus on value struggles to foundational economy research through a study of UK marketplaces. The Foundational Economy (FE) refers to the essential goods and services that support everyday life – food, housing, health care, education, transport and utilities. The marketplace, where people meet to buy and sell fresh food and other household products, was central to the municipal-led first phase of foundational economy i…
Urban Theory by and for Whom? Engaged Research, Authorship and Transformation Beyond the Academy
This paper engages with Loretta Lees‘ suggestion that this journal include research collaborators beyond the academy as commentators in its urban dialogues. In it, I highlight the contortions and contradictions involved in extracting individual scholarly outputs from collaborative research, drawing on my experiences as a doctoral researcher in the UK. These challenges are intimately entangled with key questions posed by Loretta about who counts a…
The Economic Politics of Anti‐Displacement Struggle: Connecting Diverse and Community Economies Research with Critical Urban Studies on the Carpenters Estate, London
This article explores the economic politics of anti‐displacement struggle, bringing into conversation critical urban studies and diverse and community economies research. It draws on my research and collaboration with a community planning group which emerged from residents’ and businesses’ struggle against displacement on the Carpenters Estate in Newham, London in 2012/13. My analysis makes visible the ways in which anti‐displacement struggle bot…
Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’
We explore the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure (SI) in ‘left-behind places’ (LBPs) through a case study a former mining village in northern England. We address the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading LBPs, our framework: strongly emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers LBPs as ‘moral commun…
The Role of Traders and Small Businesses in Urban Social Movements: The Case of London's Workspace Struggles
This article focuses on the role of traders and small businesses in urban social movements by exploring three examples of opposition to commercial displacement in London. While the work of Castells, Lefebvre and the wider field of urban social movement research has radically expanded the terrain of struggle beyond the workplace to take in a wide range of community and grassroots groups and concerns, little attention has been paid to the potential…
Being useful’ after the I vory T ower: Combining research and activism with the B rixton P ound
This article draws on research and activism with a local currency group, the B rixton P ound, in order to extend discussions of scholar‐activism to encompass broad and inclusive notions of activism. As broad and inclusive notions of activism dislodge the boundaries between academia and activism, they have enabled scholars to challenge the idea that it is necessary to keep activism separate from research and to explore why and how activism and res…
Shaping cities for health: Complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century
Being useful’ after the I vory T ower: Combining research and activism with the B rixton P ound
This article draws on research and activism with a local currency group, the B rixton P ound, in order to extend discussions of scholar‐activism to encompass broad and inclusive notions of activism. As broad and inclusive notions of activism dislodge the boundaries between academia and activism, they have enabled scholars to challenge the idea that it is necessary to keep activism separate from research and to explore why and how activism and res…
Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’
We explore the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure (SI) in ‘left-behind places’ (LBPs) through a case study a former mining village in northern England. We address the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading LBPs, our framework: strongly emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers LBPs as ‘moral commun…
The Role of Traders and Small Businesses in Urban Social Movements: The Case of London's Workspace Struggles
This article focuses on the role of traders and small businesses in urban social movements by exploring three examples of opposition to commercial displacement in London. While the work of Castells, Lefebvre and the wider field of urban social movement research has radically expanded the terrain of struggle beyond the workplace to take in a wide range of community and grassroots groups and concerns, little attention has been paid to the potential…
Shaping cities for health: Complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century
Being useful’ after the I vory T ower: Combining research and activism with the B rixton P ound
This article draws on research and activism with a local currency group, the B rixton P ound, in order to extend discussions of scholar‐activism to encompass broad and inclusive notions of activism. As broad and inclusive notions of activism dislodge the boundaries between academia and activism, they have enabled scholars to challenge the idea that it is necessary to keep activism separate from research and to explore why and how activism and res…
The Role of Traders and Small Businesses in Urban Social Movements: The Case of London's Workspace Struggles
This article focuses on the role of traders and small businesses in urban social movements by exploring three examples of opposition to commercial displacement in London. While the work of Castells, Lefebvre and the wider field of urban social movement research has radically expanded the terrain of struggle beyond the workplace to take in a wide range of community and grassroots groups and concerns, little attention has been paid to the potential…
Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’
We explore the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure (SI) in ‘left-behind places’ (LBPs) through a case study a former mining village in northern England. We address the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading LBPs, our framework: strongly emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers LBPs as ‘moral commun…
Urban Theory by and for Whom? Engaged Research, Authorship and Transformation Beyond the Academy
This paper engages with Loretta Lees‘ suggestion that this journal include research collaborators beyond the academy as commentators in its urban dialogues. In it, I highlight the contortions and contradictions involved in extracting individual scholarly outputs from collaborative research, drawing on my experiences as a doctoral researcher in the UK. These challenges are intimately entangled with key questions posed by Loretta about who counts a…
The Economic Politics of Anti‐Displacement Struggle: Connecting Diverse and Community Economies Research with Critical Urban Studies on the Carpenters Estate, London
This article explores the economic politics of anti‐displacement struggle, bringing into conversation critical urban studies and diverse and community economies research. It draws on my research and collaboration with a community planning group which emerged from residents’ and businesses’ struggle against displacement on the Carpenters Estate in Newham, London in 2012/13. My analysis makes visible the ways in which anti‐displacement struggle bot…
Value struggles in the foundational economy: Reclaiming marketplaces as foundational infrastructure
This paper brings a renewed focus on value struggles to foundational economy research through a study of UK marketplaces. The Foundational Economy (FE) refers to the essential goods and services that support everyday life – food, housing, health care, education, transport and utilities. The marketplace, where people meet to buy and sell fresh food and other household products, was central to the municipal-led first phase of foundational economy i…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Politics (3 works) · Conversation (2 works) · Data Analysis and Archiving (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)