Greig Charnock
Biographic Data
| ID | 988730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greig Charnock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greig |
| FAMILY NAME | Charnock |
| SIGNATURE | CHARNOCK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0625-264X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The citizen and the smart city: A global comparison of institutional logics
Critical urbanists’ placement of smart city initiatives in Western Europe or North America mostly on “low” rungs of participatory ladders or scaffolds does not mean that smart urban development connotes democracy-eroding neoliberalization everywhere. This article offers a more globally variegated and dynamic understanding of the relationship between citizens and smart cities. We apply an institutional logics frame to the citizen- smart city nexus…
What's Talent Got to Do with It? The Collective Labourer and the Rise of Barcelona's Digital Economy
This article explains the recent rise to prominence of Barcelona's digital economy, and, specifically, the role played by the city's “talent”. After developing a Marxian approach, we show how Barcelona's success rests upon a good supply of low‐cost, appropriately skilled labour fit for insertion into labour processes that can generally not be described as innovative or of high‐knowledge, high‐skill intensity. There is, in fact, a dearth of highly…
El distrito 22@Barcelona: Una “plataforma de innovación” urbana o la urbanización del capitalismo de plataformas
Este artículo despliega el trabajo teórico de David Harvey para entender los procesos contemporáneos de urbanización del “capitalismo de plataformas”. Empezamos por aislar varias de las principales innovaciones conceptuales de Harvey para contextualizar el desarrollo del capitalismo de plataformas y explicar la importancia de las plataformas digitales y los “ecosistemas” de startups. Luego, el artículo los aplica como heurística para explicar crí…
If "Marxists" would only read Marx: The significance of Simon Clarke's Marxism
Simon Clarke was an original and consistent Marxist thinker. From an early stage in his career, he independently developed a cogent, non-dogmatic reading of Marx's work that ran against the grain of the dominant variants of Marx of his day. In this piece, we delineate the main features of Clarke's Marxism through a reading of an early essay, first drafted in 1970. We highlight his critique of ideology, his focus on the forms through which the soc…
David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to His Thought
David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey’s writings over a long period of time. Harvey’s writings have exerted huge influence within the social sciences and the humanities. In addition, his work now commands a global readership among Left …
From smart to rebel city? Worlding, provincialising and the Barcelona Model
This article examines the evolution of the ‘Barcelona Model’ of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. We trace this evolution from an especially dogmatic worlding vision of the smart city, under a centre-right city council, to its radical repurposing under the auspices of a municipal government led, after May 2015, by the citizens’ platform Barcelona en Comú. We pay particular attention to the new counc…
Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development: Human Productive Subjectivity, Capital and the International
This article puts labour, and its historically changing forms of existence, at the centre of the theorisation of uneven international development. It advocates a consciously dialec- tical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materi- alism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be asserted on descriptive grounds, or in logical abstraction…
The New International Division of Labour: Global Transformation and Uneven Development
This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various parts of the world today. Taken together, the contributions amount to a novel value-theoretical approach to understanding the NIDL. This rests upon…
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 …
Lost in Space? Lefebvre, Harvey, and the Spatiality of Negation
Urban public spaces have become focal points for mass uprisings and occupations. There is thus a significant spatial dimension to the movement against austerity. This article looks for clues to how to theorize the relation between space and "saying no" to austerity in the work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey. The article finds that the two versions of the "production of space" offered up by these ostensibly complementary thinkers are not as ea…
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…
A New Space for Knowledge and People? Henri Lefebvre, Representations of Space, and the Production of 22@Barcelona
The Barcelona model of urban transformation has for some time now been considered a paradigmatic case of successful regeneration. Urban change is ongoing in the city, albeit in a changed global context in which cities are increasingly being seen as the principal drivers of economic growth and competitiveness in the 'new' or 'knowledge' economy. The paper draws on the writing of Henri Lefebvre and on his critique of representations of space, in pa…
Challenging New State Spatialities: The Open Marxism of Henri Lefebvre
It is possible to identify a subterranean tradition within Marxism—one in which dialectical thought is harnessed not only to expose the necessarily exploitative and inherently crisis‐prone character of capitalism as an actual system of social organisation, but also to critique the very categories that constitute capitalism as a conceptual system. This paper argues that Henri Lefebvre's work can be included within this tradition of “open Marxism”.…
The Space of International Political Economy: On Scale and its Limits
This article introduces the contribution made by scholars writing on the ‘new political economy of scale’. It explains how this approach shares with neo-Gramscian approaches a concern with challenging the problematic assumptions of much international political economy theorising. Moreover, if the achievement of scholars such as Robert Cox has been to show how social forces shape and reshape world orders over time, then the new political economy o…
Why do institutions matter? Global competitiveness and the politics of policies in Latin America
This paper subjects to critique the 'new institutionalism' in development policy literature. It highlights the way 'second generation' institutional reform processes in the Latin American region are to be engineered through a politics of global competitiveness while their success is to be gauged, first and foremost, in capital-functional terms. The paper culminates in the focused critique of an Inter-American Bank flagship report, The Politics of…
Competitiveness and Critique: The Value of a New-Materialist Research Project
Following Marcus Taylor's critique of Paul Cammack's 'new materialism', this paper proposes a New-Materialist Research Project (NMRP) borne out of a synthesis of the insights of both open Marxism and Cammack's project. The rationale for this lies in the conviction that a more 'applied' focus upon specific forms of contemporary class practice can aid open Marxism to move beyond general and abstract critique, thereby making an original and critical…
Improving the mechanisms of global governance? the ideational impact of the World Bank on the national reform agenda in Mexico
The crisis of Foxism: The political economy of fiscal reform in Mexico
The election of Vicente Fox in 2000 represented an important moment for architects of global neoliberalism, in that it heralded new potentialities for advancing a 'second generation' reform agenda in Mexico. This report examines the first half of Fox's term, and his government's efforts to implement critical economic reforms within this agenda. It goes on to explain why the Fox government had failed, by mid-2004, to implement its priority fiscal …
From smart to rebel city? Worlding, provincialising and the Barcelona Model
This article examines the evolution of the ‘Barcelona Model’ of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. We trace this evolution from an especially dogmatic worlding vision of the smart city, under a centre-right city council, to its radical repurposing under the auspices of a municipal government led, after May 2015, by the citizens’ platform Barcelona en Comú. We pay particular attention to the new counc…
A New Space for Knowledge and People? Henri Lefebvre, Representations of Space, and the Production of 22@Barcelona
The Barcelona model of urban transformation has for some time now been considered a paradigmatic case of successful regeneration. Urban change is ongoing in the city, albeit in a changed global context in which cities are increasingly being seen as the principal drivers of economic growth and competitiveness in the 'new' or 'knowledge' economy. The paper draws on the writing of Henri Lefebvre and on his critique of representations of space, in pa…
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…
Challenging New State Spatialities: The Open Marxism of Henri Lefebvre
It is possible to identify a subterranean tradition within Marxism—one in which dialectical thought is harnessed not only to expose the necessarily exploitative and inherently crisis‐prone character of capitalism as an actual system of social organisation, but also to critique the very categories that constitute capitalism as a conceptual system. This paper argues that Henri Lefebvre's work can be included within this tradition of “open Marxism”.…
Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development: Human Productive Subjectivity, Capital and the International
This article puts labour, and its historically changing forms of existence, at the centre of the theorisation of uneven international development. It advocates a consciously dialec- tical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materi- alism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be asserted on descriptive grounds, or in logical abstraction…
The Space of International Political Economy: On Scale and its Limits
This article introduces the contribution made by scholars writing on the ‘new political economy of scale’. It explains how this approach shares with neo-Gramscian approaches a concern with challenging the problematic assumptions of much international political economy theorising. Moreover, if the achievement of scholars such as Robert Cox has been to show how social forces shape and reshape world orders over time, then the new political economy o…
Lost in Space? Lefebvre, Harvey, and the Spatiality of Negation
Urban public spaces have become focal points for mass uprisings and occupations. There is thus a significant spatial dimension to the movement against austerity. This article looks for clues to how to theorize the relation between space and "saying no" to austerity in the work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey. The article finds that the two versions of the "production of space" offered up by these ostensibly complementary thinkers are not as ea…
Competitiveness and Critique: The Value of a New-Materialist Research Project
Following Marcus Taylor's critique of Paul Cammack's 'new materialism', this paper proposes a New-Materialist Research Project (NMRP) borne out of a synthesis of the insights of both open Marxism and Cammack's project. The rationale for this lies in the conviction that a more 'applied' focus upon specific forms of contemporary class practice can aid open Marxism to move beyond general and abstract critique, thereby making an original and critical…
Improving the mechanisms of global governance? the ideational impact of the World Bank on the national reform agenda in Mexico
The crisis of Foxism: The political economy of fiscal reform in Mexico
The election of Vicente Fox in 2000 represented an important moment for architects of global neoliberalism, in that it heralded new potentialities for advancing a 'second generation' reform agenda in Mexico. This report examines the first half of Fox's term, and his government's efforts to implement critical economic reforms within this agenda. It goes on to explain why the Fox government had failed, by mid-2004, to implement its priority fiscal …
The citizen and the smart city: A global comparison of institutional logics
Critical urbanists’ placement of smart city initiatives in Western Europe or North America mostly on “low” rungs of participatory ladders or scaffolds does not mean that smart urban development connotes democracy-eroding neoliberalization everywhere. This article offers a more globally variegated and dynamic understanding of the relationship between citizens and smart cities. We apply an institutional logics frame to the citizen- smart city nexus…
Why do institutions matter? Global competitiveness and the politics of policies in Latin America
This paper subjects to critique the 'new institutionalism' in development policy literature. It highlights the way 'second generation' institutional reform processes in the Latin American region are to be engineered through a politics of global competitiveness while their success is to be gauged, first and foremost, in capital-functional terms. The paper culminates in the focused critique of an Inter-American Bank flagship report, The Politics of…
The crisis of Foxism: The political economy of fiscal reform in Mexico
The election of Vicente Fox in 2000 represented an important moment for architects of global neoliberalism, in that it heralded new potentialities for advancing a 'second generation' reform agenda in Mexico. This report examines the first half of Fox's term, and his government's efforts to implement critical economic reforms within this agenda. It goes on to explain why the Fox government had failed, by mid-2004, to implement its priority fiscal …
Improving the mechanisms of global governance? the ideational impact of the World Bank on the national reform agenda in Mexico
Competitiveness and Critique: The Value of a New-Materialist Research Project
Following Marcus Taylor's critique of Paul Cammack's 'new materialism', this paper proposes a New-Materialist Research Project (NMRP) borne out of a synthesis of the insights of both open Marxism and Cammack's project. The rationale for this lies in the conviction that a more 'applied' focus upon specific forms of contemporary class practice can aid open Marxism to move beyond general and abstract critique, thereby making an original and critical…
Why do institutions matter? Global competitiveness and the politics of policies in Latin America
This paper subjects to critique the 'new institutionalism' in development policy literature. It highlights the way 'second generation' institutional reform processes in the Latin American region are to be engineered through a politics of global competitiveness while their success is to be gauged, first and foremost, in capital-functional terms. The paper culminates in the focused critique of an Inter-American Bank flagship report, The Politics of…
Challenging New State Spatialities: The Open Marxism of Henri Lefebvre
It is possible to identify a subterranean tradition within Marxism—one in which dialectical thought is harnessed not only to expose the necessarily exploitative and inherently crisis‐prone character of capitalism as an actual system of social organisation, but also to critique the very categories that constitute capitalism as a conceptual system. This paper argues that Henri Lefebvre's work can be included within this tradition of “open Marxism”.…
The Space of International Political Economy: On Scale and its Limits
This article introduces the contribution made by scholars writing on the ‘new political economy of scale’. It explains how this approach shares with neo-Gramscian approaches a concern with challenging the problematic assumptions of much international political economy theorising. Moreover, if the achievement of scholars such as Robert Cox has been to show how social forces shape and reshape world orders over time, then the new political economy o…
A New Space for Knowledge and People? Henri Lefebvre, Representations of Space, and the Production of 22@Barcelona
The Barcelona model of urban transformation has for some time now been considered a paradigmatic case of successful regeneration. Urban change is ongoing in the city, albeit in a changed global context in which cities are increasingly being seen as the principal drivers of economic growth and competitiveness in the 'new' or 'knowledge' economy. The paper draws on the writing of Henri Lefebvre and on his critique of representations of space, in pa…
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…
Lost in Space? Lefebvre, Harvey, and the Spatiality of Negation
Urban public spaces have become focal points for mass uprisings and occupations. There is thus a significant spatial dimension to the movement against austerity. This article looks for clues to how to theorize the relation between space and "saying no" to austerity in the work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey. The article finds that the two versions of the "production of space" offered up by these ostensibly complementary thinkers are not as ea…
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 …
The New International Division of Labour: Global Transformation and Uneven Development
This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various parts of the world today. Taken together, the contributions amount to a novel value-theoretical approach to understanding the NIDL. This rests upon…
Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development: Human Productive Subjectivity, Capital and the International
This article puts labour, and its historically changing forms of existence, at the centre of the theorisation of uneven international development. It advocates a consciously dialec- tical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materi- alism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be asserted on descriptive grounds, or in logical abstraction…
From smart to rebel city? Worlding, provincialising and the Barcelona Model
This article examines the evolution of the ‘Barcelona Model’ of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. We trace this evolution from an especially dogmatic worlding vision of the smart city, under a centre-right city council, to its radical repurposing under the auspices of a municipal government led, after May 2015, by the citizens’ platform Barcelona en Comú. We pay particular attention to the new counc…
David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to His Thought
David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey’s writings over a long period of time. Harvey’s writings have exerted huge influence within the social sciences and the humanities. In addition, his work now commands a global readership among Left …
El distrito 22@Barcelona: Una “plataforma de innovación” urbana o la urbanización del capitalismo de plataformas
Este artículo despliega el trabajo teórico de David Harvey para entender los procesos contemporáneos de urbanización del “capitalismo de plataformas”. Empezamos por aislar varias de las principales innovaciones conceptuales de Harvey para contextualizar el desarrollo del capitalismo de plataformas y explicar la importancia de las plataformas digitales y los “ecosistemas” de startups. Luego, el artículo los aplica como heurística para explicar crí…
If "Marxists" would only read Marx: The significance of Simon Clarke's Marxism
Simon Clarke was an original and consistent Marxist thinker. From an early stage in his career, he independently developed a cogent, non-dogmatic reading of Marx's work that ran against the grain of the dominant variants of Marx of his day. In this piece, we delineate the main features of Clarke's Marxism through a reading of an early essay, first drafted in 1970. We highlight his critique of ideology, his focus on the forms through which the soc…
What's Talent Got to Do with It? The Collective Labourer and the Rise of Barcelona's Digital Economy
This article explains the recent rise to prominence of Barcelona's digital economy, and, specifically, the role played by the city's “talent”. After developing a Marxian approach, we show how Barcelona's success rests upon a good supply of low‐cost, appropriately skilled labour fit for insertion into labour processes that can generally not be described as innovative or of high‐knowledge, high‐skill intensity. There is, in fact, a dearth of highly…
The citizen and the smart city: A global comparison of institutional logics
Critical urbanists’ placement of smart city initiatives in Western Europe or North America mostly on “low” rungs of participatory ladders or scaffolds does not mean that smart urban development connotes democracy-eroding neoliberalization everywhere. This article offers a more globally variegated and dynamic understanding of the relationship between citizens and smart cities. We apply an institutional logics frame to the citizen- smart city nexus…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (7 works) · Capitalism (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)