T F Purcell
Biographic Data
| ID | 48354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T F Purcell |
| GIVEN NAMES | T F |
| FAMILY NAME | Purcell |
| SIGNATURE | PURCELL T F |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1825-0916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 221 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison
The scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approaches to ‘affordable’ housing production. This article draws on research in six cities (Shanghai, Nairobi, Paris, Casablanca, Salford and Rome) to discuss the changing relationship between housing, finance and the state through a global comparative perspective. It adopts an urban statecraft …
Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition
In this paper, we analyse Spain's market-based transition to renewable sources of energy, focusing on solar power. In recent year's Spain's energy transition has been viewed as a successful model in which producers have moved away from a reliance on state subsidies in the form of Feed in Tariffs. Instead, solar electricity generation in Spain has been fostered through careful regulation, a dramatic fall in the cost of solar modules produced in Ch…
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’
This commentary provides the contours of a Marxian critique of ‘assetization’. In doing so, the paper identifies a subjective approach to valuation and value which ties together Birch's and Ward's appeal to theoretical pluralism. The argument highlights how a focus on future-orientated valuation practices elide the question of class and production and, therefore, the very basis of rent and value. A call is made for geographers to better interroga…
Fossil food: Landed property as a hidden abode of global warming
This article analyzes the relation between climate change and the globalization of food systems. Although the corporate food regime made possible by the logistics revolution has been deemed highly intensive in its use of fossil fuels, the political economy of its energy foundations is yet to be deciphered. Based on EDGAR-FOOD, a global database that measures carbon emissions in the food system, we built a sample of nine South American economies t…
The political economy of land value capture in the UK: Rent and viability in Salford's new municipalist turn
This paper contextualises the political economy of land value capture (LVC) within the shift to an increasingly financialised, rentier-dominated capitalism. Contributing to an emerging dialogue between social constructivist planning literature on performativity in LVC and the critical political economy literature on rents and rentiership, we overview Salford's planning policy trajectory in recent decades in order to highlight how the UK planning …
The rentierization of food: Regimes of property and the making of Chile's globalized agriculture
Current scholarly debates on the financialization of agriculture have tended to give analytical priority to markets over institutional regimes of property. This article shifts the gaze towards the latter in order to illustrate the extent to which globalized food systems have come to be increasingly characterized by rentier dynamics. By considering rent as a relation that relies on monopoly control of the circuit of capital, the article explores t…
Contesting total extractivism: Between idealism and materialism
This review essay develops a methodologically‐minded critical engagement with two books that seek to make big theoretical contributions to our understanding of the socially and ecologically destructive dynamics of extractivism. By reading both texts through their methods of concept building and abstraction, the essay points towards the potential and pitfalls of science and technology in the capitalist mode of production and, in turn, the prospect…
The Turbulent Circulation of Rent: Towards a Political Economy of Property and Ownership in Supply Chain Capitalism
Although recent years have seen an efflorescence of research on rent, the emphasis has tended to be placed in the antagonistic relations of distribution that underlie this category. The ways in which rent relations also mediate the expansion of global networks of production and trade, however, are yet to be deciphered. On the other hand, an emerging scholarly interest in questions of logistics and supply chain capitalism has lacked a systematic t…
Value–rent–finance
In this paper, we develop a novel interpretation of the internal relationship between value, rent and finance, thereby enabling a new reading of the process of financialisation. As we argue, responding to the important question of how best to conceptualise the relationship between value and finance necessitates an understanding of the internal relations with a third moment, that of rent. We therefore develop a triadic understanding of these three…
Urbanismo utópico, realidades distópicas: Una etnografía (im)posible en Yachay, “ciudad del conocimiento”
Descrito como el proyecto más importante en la historia del Ecuador, Yachay, que significa conocimiento en quechua, es una iniciativa de desarrollo urbano concebido como el puente hacia una sociedad que no dependa de la naturaleza. Abrazando la actual ola de optimismo que rodea a las plataformas de código abierto de intercambio de información, Yachay se ha proyectado como un nuevo “paraíso del conocimiento”. Se trata de la utopía de una nueva ciu…
Post-neoliberal energy modernity and the political economy of the landlord state in Ecuador
The Value of Rents: Global Commodity Chains and Small Cocoa Producers in Ecuador
Drawing on the Marxian theory of ground rent, this paper develops an analysis of “global commodity chains” ( GCC s) with agrarian roots. This paper argues that this research under‐specifies what is meant by value and rent, and in doing so marginalises the analysis of value production before its journey through inter‐firm relations. We demonstrate the importance of theorising the value constitution of commodities produced on the land and the force…
Hot chocolate: Financialized global value chains and cocoa production in Ecuador
This paper explores the dialectical entanglements of the highly liquid and volatile trading of cocoa in its financial derivative form, and the small-scale, labour-intensive peasant production in its physical form. To do so this paper deploys financialization as a concept analytically subordinate to changes in global value relations which, we argue, shine a light on the internal relations between the global financial trading and local production o…
Rents, knowledge and neo-structuralism: Transforming the productive matrix in Ecuador
This paper explores the relationship between ground rent, production and knowledge in Ecuador’s neo-structuralist, state-led project to transform the productive matrix. Based upon insights from the Marxian approach to the critique of political economy, we interrogate how neo-structuralism has conceptualised the relationship between ‘natural resource income’ and ‘knowledge-based’ economic development. The paper argues that a rent-theoretical persp…
The political economy of rentier capitalism and the limits to agrarian transformation in Venezuela
This paper explores the contradictions and limits to agrarian transformation under 21st-century socialism in Venezuela. Given the historical destruction wrought by the oil-based accumulation process upon Venezuela's agricultural sector, the symbolic and social importance of an "agrarian revolution" could be seen as a yardstick with which to measure the progress of the Bolivarian Revolution in "sowing the oil". Eschewing a policy focus on the role…
The Limits to Capital in Spain: The Roots of the ‘New Normal’
This article contributes to a Marxist understanding of the roots of the contemporary predicament for many societies in which future economic growth is likely to be low and accompanied by mass ‘structural’ unemployment, increased inequality and further crises of social and political cohesion. It takes Spain as an exemplar of this ‘new normal’, and argues that the ‘irrational rationality’ of crisis in capitalism can be seen in successive cycles of …
The muddy waters of financialisation and new accumulation strategies in the global water industry: The case of Agbar
City of Rents: The limits to the Barcelona model of urban competitiveness
The turn towards the knowledge-based economy and creative strategies to enhance urban competitiveness within it has been well documented. Yet too little has been said to date about the transformation of land use for new productive activities, and the contradictions inherent to this process. Our case study is Barcelona, an erstwhile 'model' for urban regeneration which has sought to transform itself into a global knowledge city since 2000. Through…
The limits to everyday environmentalism in southern Europe: What lies beneath the frustrating cobblestones
The Political Economy of Social Production Companies in Venezuela
In 2005, shortly after the Venezuelan government declared "twenty-first-century socialism" as its development goal, Chávez launched "social production companies" to change the way communities produced and exchanged goods. Investigation of the relationship between these companies, agrarian cooperatives, and the oil economy calls into question assessments by both the right and the left, the former portraying Venezuelan development initiatives as po…
Indígnate: The 2011 popular protests and the limits to democracy in Spain
We are the unemployed, the poorly remunerated, the subcontracted, the precarious, the young ... we want change and a dignified future. We are fed up with antisocial reforms, those that leave us unemployed, those with which the bankers that have provoked the crisis raise our mortgages or take our homes, those laws that they impose upon us that limit our liberty for the benefit of the powerful. We blame the political economic and economic powers fo…
The Bolivarian Process in Venezuela: A Left Forum
The ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez has reignited debate in Latin America and internationally on the questions of socialism and revolution. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different revolutionary traditions and introduces their reflections on class-struggle, the state, imperialism, counter-power, revolutionary parties, community and communes, workplaces, economy, politics, society, culture, race, g…
The Political Economy of Venezuela's Bolivarian Cooperative Movement: A Critique
Value–rent–finance
In this paper, we develop a novel interpretation of the internal relationship between value, rent and finance, thereby enabling a new reading of the process of financialisation. As we argue, responding to the important question of how best to conceptualise the relationship between value and finance necessitates an understanding of the internal relations with a third moment, that of rent. We therefore develop a triadic understanding of these three…
The muddy waters of financialisation and new accumulation strategies in the global water industry: The case of Agbar
The Turbulent Circulation of Rent: Towards a Political Economy of Property and Ownership in Supply Chain Capitalism
Although recent years have seen an efflorescence of research on rent, the emphasis has tended to be placed in the antagonistic relations of distribution that underlie this category. The ways in which rent relations also mediate the expansion of global networks of production and trade, however, are yet to be deciphered. On the other hand, an emerging scholarly interest in questions of logistics and supply chain capitalism has lacked a systematic t…
Hot chocolate: Financialized global value chains and cocoa production in Ecuador
This paper explores the dialectical entanglements of the highly liquid and volatile trading of cocoa in its financial derivative form, and the small-scale, labour-intensive peasant production in its physical form. To do so this paper deploys financialization as a concept analytically subordinate to changes in global value relations which, we argue, shine a light on the internal relations between the global financial trading and local production o…
City of Rents: The limits to the Barcelona model of urban competitiveness
The turn towards the knowledge-based economy and creative strategies to enhance urban competitiveness within it has been well documented. Yet too little has been said to date about the transformation of land use for new productive activities, and the contradictions inherent to this process. Our case study is Barcelona, an erstwhile 'model' for urban regeneration which has sought to transform itself into a global knowledge city since 2000. Through…
Indígnate: The 2011 popular protests and the limits to democracy in Spain
We are the unemployed, the poorly remunerated, the subcontracted, the precarious, the young ... we want change and a dignified future. We are fed up with antisocial reforms, those that leave us unemployed, those with which the bankers that have provoked the crisis raise our mortgages or take our homes, those laws that they impose upon us that limit our liberty for the benefit of the powerful. We blame the political economic and economic powers fo…
Post-neoliberal energy modernity and the political economy of the landlord state in Ecuador
The Political Economy of Social Production Companies in Venezuela
In 2005, shortly after the Venezuelan government declared "twenty-first-century socialism" as its development goal, Chávez launched "social production companies" to change the way communities produced and exchanged goods. Investigation of the relationship between these companies, agrarian cooperatives, and the oil economy calls into question assessments by both the right and the left, the former portraying Venezuelan development initiatives as po…
The Bolivarian Process in Venezuela: A Left Forum
The ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez has reignited debate in Latin America and internationally on the questions of socialism and revolution. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different revolutionary traditions and introduces their reflections on class-struggle, the state, imperialism, counter-power, revolutionary parties, community and communes, workplaces, economy, politics, society, culture, race, g…
Rents, knowledge and neo-structuralism: Transforming the productive matrix in Ecuador
This paper explores the relationship between ground rent, production and knowledge in Ecuador’s neo-structuralist, state-led project to transform the productive matrix. Based upon insights from the Marxian approach to the critique of political economy, we interrogate how neo-structuralism has conceptualised the relationship between ‘natural resource income’ and ‘knowledge-based’ economic development. The paper argues that a rent-theoretical persp…
The political economy of land value capture in the UK: Rent and viability in Salford's new municipalist turn
This paper contextualises the political economy of land value capture (LVC) within the shift to an increasingly financialised, rentier-dominated capitalism. Contributing to an emerging dialogue between social constructivist planning literature on performativity in LVC and the critical political economy literature on rents and rentiership, we overview Salford's planning policy trajectory in recent decades in order to highlight how the UK planning …
The political economy of rentier capitalism and the limits to agrarian transformation in Venezuela
This paper explores the contradictions and limits to agrarian transformation under 21st-century socialism in Venezuela. Given the historical destruction wrought by the oil-based accumulation process upon Venezuela's agricultural sector, the symbolic and social importance of an "agrarian revolution" could be seen as a yardstick with which to measure the progress of the Bolivarian Revolution in "sowing the oil". Eschewing a policy focus on the role…
The Political Economy of Venezuela's Bolivarian Cooperative Movement: A Critique
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’
This commentary provides the contours of a Marxian critique of ‘assetization’. In doing so, the paper identifies a subjective approach to valuation and value which ties together Birch's and Ward's appeal to theoretical pluralism. The argument highlights how a focus on future-orientated valuation practices elide the question of class and production and, therefore, the very basis of rent and value. A call is made for geographers to better interroga…
The rentierization of food: Regimes of property and the making of Chile's globalized agriculture
Current scholarly debates on the financialization of agriculture have tended to give analytical priority to markets over institutional regimes of property. This article shifts the gaze towards the latter in order to illustrate the extent to which globalized food systems have come to be increasingly characterized by rentier dynamics. By considering rent as a relation that relies on monopoly control of the circuit of capital, the article explores t…
The Value of Rents: Global Commodity Chains and Small Cocoa Producers in Ecuador
Drawing on the Marxian theory of ground rent, this paper develops an analysis of “global commodity chains” ( GCC s) with agrarian roots. This paper argues that this research under‐specifies what is meant by value and rent, and in doing so marginalises the analysis of value production before its journey through inter‐firm relations. We demonstrate the importance of theorising the value constitution of commodities produced on the land and the force…
Fossil food: Landed property as a hidden abode of global warming
This article analyzes the relation between climate change and the globalization of food systems. Although the corporate food regime made possible by the logistics revolution has been deemed highly intensive in its use of fossil fuels, the political economy of its energy foundations is yet to be deciphered. Based on EDGAR-FOOD, a global database that measures carbon emissions in the food system, we built a sample of nine South American economies t…
Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition
In this paper, we analyse Spain's market-based transition to renewable sources of energy, focusing on solar power. In recent year's Spain's energy transition has been viewed as a successful model in which producers have moved away from a reliance on state subsidies in the form of Feed in Tariffs. Instead, solar electricity generation in Spain has been fostered through careful regulation, a dramatic fall in the cost of solar modules produced in Ch…
The Bolivarian Process in Venezuela: A Left Forum
The ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez has reignited debate in Latin America and internationally on the questions of socialism and revolution. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different revolutionary traditions and introduces their reflections on class-struggle, the state, imperialism, counter-power, revolutionary parties, community and communes, workplaces, economy, politics, society, culture, race, g…
The Political Economy of Venezuela's Bolivarian Cooperative Movement: A Critique
Indígnate: The 2011 popular protests and the limits to democracy in Spain
We are the unemployed, the poorly remunerated, the subcontracted, the precarious, the young ... we want change and a dignified future. We are fed up with antisocial reforms, those that leave us unemployed, those with which the bankers that have provoked the crisis raise our mortgages or take our homes, those laws that they impose upon us that limit our liberty for the benefit of the powerful. We blame the political economic and economic powers fo…
The limits to everyday environmentalism in southern Europe: What lies beneath the frustrating cobblestones
The Political Economy of Social Production Companies in Venezuela
In 2005, shortly after the Venezuelan government declared "twenty-first-century socialism" as its development goal, Chávez launched "social production companies" to change the way communities produced and exchanged goods. Investigation of the relationship between these companies, agrarian cooperatives, and the oil economy calls into question assessments by both the right and the left, the former portraying Venezuelan development initiatives as po…
The muddy waters of financialisation and new accumulation strategies in the global water industry: The case of Agbar
City of Rents: The limits to the Barcelona model of urban competitiveness
The turn towards the knowledge-based economy and creative strategies to enhance urban competitiveness within it has been well documented. Yet too little has been said to date about the transformation of land use for new productive activities, and the contradictions inherent to this process. Our case study is Barcelona, an erstwhile 'model' for urban regeneration which has sought to transform itself into a global knowledge city since 2000. Through…
The Limits to Capital in Spain: The Roots of the ‘New Normal’
This article contributes to a Marxist understanding of the roots of the contemporary predicament for many societies in which future economic growth is likely to be low and accompanied by mass ‘structural’ unemployment, increased inequality and further crises of social and political cohesion. It takes Spain as an exemplar of this ‘new normal’, and argues that the ‘irrational rationality’ of crisis in capitalism can be seen in successive cycles of …
Rents, knowledge and neo-structuralism: Transforming the productive matrix in Ecuador
This paper explores the relationship between ground rent, production and knowledge in Ecuador’s neo-structuralist, state-led project to transform the productive matrix. Based upon insights from the Marxian approach to the critique of political economy, we interrogate how neo-structuralism has conceptualised the relationship between ‘natural resource income’ and ‘knowledge-based’ economic development. The paper argues that a rent-theoretical persp…
The political economy of rentier capitalism and the limits to agrarian transformation in Venezuela
This paper explores the contradictions and limits to agrarian transformation under 21st-century socialism in Venezuela. Given the historical destruction wrought by the oil-based accumulation process upon Venezuela's agricultural sector, the symbolic and social importance of an "agrarian revolution" could be seen as a yardstick with which to measure the progress of the Bolivarian Revolution in "sowing the oil". Eschewing a policy focus on the role…
Urbanismo utópico, realidades distópicas: Una etnografía (im)posible en Yachay, “ciudad del conocimiento”
Descrito como el proyecto más importante en la historia del Ecuador, Yachay, que significa conocimiento en quechua, es una iniciativa de desarrollo urbano concebido como el puente hacia una sociedad que no dependa de la naturaleza. Abrazando la actual ola de optimismo que rodea a las plataformas de código abierto de intercambio de información, Yachay se ha proyectado como un nuevo “paraíso del conocimiento”. Se trata de la utopía de una nueva ciu…
Post-neoliberal energy modernity and the political economy of the landlord state in Ecuador
The Value of Rents: Global Commodity Chains and Small Cocoa Producers in Ecuador
Drawing on the Marxian theory of ground rent, this paper develops an analysis of “global commodity chains” ( GCC s) with agrarian roots. This paper argues that this research under‐specifies what is meant by value and rent, and in doing so marginalises the analysis of value production before its journey through inter‐firm relations. We demonstrate the importance of theorising the value constitution of commodities produced on the land and the force…
Hot chocolate: Financialized global value chains and cocoa production in Ecuador
This paper explores the dialectical entanglements of the highly liquid and volatile trading of cocoa in its financial derivative form, and the small-scale, labour-intensive peasant production in its physical form. To do so this paper deploys financialization as a concept analytically subordinate to changes in global value relations which, we argue, shine a light on the internal relations between the global financial trading and local production o…
Value–rent–finance
In this paper, we develop a novel interpretation of the internal relationship between value, rent and finance, thereby enabling a new reading of the process of financialisation. As we argue, responding to the important question of how best to conceptualise the relationship between value and finance necessitates an understanding of the internal relations with a third moment, that of rent. We therefore develop a triadic understanding of these three…
The Turbulent Circulation of Rent: Towards a Political Economy of Property and Ownership in Supply Chain Capitalism
Although recent years have seen an efflorescence of research on rent, the emphasis has tended to be placed in the antagonistic relations of distribution that underlie this category. The ways in which rent relations also mediate the expansion of global networks of production and trade, however, are yet to be deciphered. On the other hand, an emerging scholarly interest in questions of logistics and supply chain capitalism has lacked a systematic t…
Contesting total extractivism: Between idealism and materialism
This review essay develops a methodologically‐minded critical engagement with two books that seek to make big theoretical contributions to our understanding of the socially and ecologically destructive dynamics of extractivism. By reading both texts through their methods of concept building and abstraction, the essay points towards the potential and pitfalls of science and technology in the capitalist mode of production and, in turn, the prospect…
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’
This commentary provides the contours of a Marxian critique of ‘assetization’. In doing so, the paper identifies a subjective approach to valuation and value which ties together Birch's and Ward's appeal to theoretical pluralism. The argument highlights how a focus on future-orientated valuation practices elide the question of class and production and, therefore, the very basis of rent and value. A call is made for geographers to better interroga…
Fossil food: Landed property as a hidden abode of global warming
This article analyzes the relation between climate change and the globalization of food systems. Although the corporate food regime made possible by the logistics revolution has been deemed highly intensive in its use of fossil fuels, the political economy of its energy foundations is yet to be deciphered. Based on EDGAR-FOOD, a global database that measures carbon emissions in the food system, we built a sample of nine South American economies t…
The political economy of land value capture in the UK: Rent and viability in Salford's new municipalist turn
This paper contextualises the political economy of land value capture (LVC) within the shift to an increasingly financialised, rentier-dominated capitalism. Contributing to an emerging dialogue between social constructivist planning literature on performativity in LVC and the critical political economy literature on rents and rentiership, we overview Salford's planning policy trajectory in recent decades in order to highlight how the UK planning …
The rentierization of food: Regimes of property and the making of Chile's globalized agriculture
Current scholarly debates on the financialization of agriculture have tended to give analytical priority to markets over institutional regimes of property. This article shifts the gaze towards the latter in order to illustrate the extent to which globalized food systems have come to be increasingly characterized by rentier dynamics. By considering rent as a relation that relies on monopoly control of the circuit of capital, the article explores t…
Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition
In this paper, we analyse Spain's market-based transition to renewable sources of energy, focusing on solar power. In recent year's Spain's energy transition has been viewed as a successful model in which producers have moved away from a reliance on state subsidies in the form of Feed in Tariffs. Instead, solar electricity generation in Spain has been fostered through careful regulation, a dramatic fall in the cost of solar modules produced in Ch…
Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison
The scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approaches to ‘affordable’ housing production. This article draws on research in six cities (Shanghai, Nairobi, Paris, Casablanca, Salford and Rome) to discuss the changing relationship between housing, finance and the state through a global comparative perspective. It adopts an urban statecraft …
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