A5029253666- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Corporate Governance and Law
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- History of Medical Practice
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Anatomy and Medical Technology
- European Monetary and Fiscal Policies
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer
- EU Law and Policy Analysis
- Intellectual Property and Patents
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Globalization and political ideologies
- Political Systems and Governance
- Marxism and Critical Theory
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
University of Glasgow
2013-2023
Adam Smith Institute
2019-2022
University of the District of Columbia
2019
AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
2012
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
2011
Medical Solutions
2005
Peterborough City Hospital
1999-2002
Focusing on Glasgow’s East End, home to the 2014 Commonwealth Games, this paper explores ways in which narratives of decline, ‘blight’ and decay play a central role stigmatising local population. ‘Glasgow East’ represents new urban frontier city that has been heralded recent decades as model successful post‐industrial transformation. Utilising Löic Wacquant’s arguments about advanced marginality territorial stigmatisation context, we argue decline redevelopment are part wider ideological...
Abstract When compulsory purchase for urban regeneration is combined with a sporting mega‐event, we have an archetypal example of what Giorgio Agamben called the “state exception”. Through study orders (CPOs) on site Athletes' Village Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games, expose CPOs as classed tool mobilised to violently displace working class neighbourhoods. In doing so, show how fictionalised mantra “necessity” combines neoliberal growth logics their obscene underside—a stigmatisation logic...
Abstract The cry and demand for the Right to City (RttC) risks becoming a cliché, merely signifying urban rebellion rather than proving its practical content on ground. I explore limits of thesis via fraught entanglement with private property rights state‐form; through Lefebvre's radical critique state, political economy elsewhere. Rights claims, contend, unintentionally reify uneven power relations they aim overcome, while routinely cauterising hard‐fought collective social force that...
"The new enclosure: The appropriation of public land in Neoliberal Britain." Regional Studies, 53(10), pp. 1506–1507
Abstract Class composition was the most important concept to be developed within rich milieu of Italian autonomist Marxism, acutely addressing subject‐object dichotomies and organisational problems internal differentiation in between classed, raced gendered social formations. Yet “compositionist” analysis has received remarkably little attention urban‐geographical literatures. This paper reviews develops class concept, offering first fully theorisation spatial underscoring its relevance for...
This paper develops the neologism state subsidy gap to underscore necessity of intervention in formation and potential closure rent gaps. The is economic that must be bridged by make a currently unviable urban investment scenario potentially profitable for private developers. pertinence this conception particularly apparent old industrial, relatively impoverished cities where global capital less likely dump its surpluses with secure expectation returns. issue exacerbated economically risky...
Speirs Locks is being re‐constructed as a new cultural quarter in Glasgow North, with urban boosters envisioning the unlikely, rundown and de‐populated light industrial estate key site city's ongoing regeneration strategy. Yet this creative place‐making initiative, I argue, masks post‐political conjuncture based on speculation, displacement foreclosure of dissent. Post‐politics at characterised by what term “soft austerity urbanism”: seemingly progressive, instrumental small‐scale catalyst...
Autonomist Marxist ideas and concepts are resurgent and, with their latent spatiality, well placed to contribute radical geographical debates. In particular, the methodology of ‘class composition’ analysis provides a rigorous, materialist critique transforming capitalist social relations. This paper first vital historical–theoretical context from milieu Italian Operaismo, before emphasising value autonomist analyses three contemporary frontiers: labour process, migration, reproduction. It...
Comparing case studies of long-term, large-scale urban regeneration projects in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, this paper brings together two addendums to the rent gap model shape ‘reputational gap’ ‘state subsidy gap’. These neologisms are mobilised clarify risk-laden centrality state’s role both formation potential closure gaps areas disinvestment devalorisation. Whilst such often appear as expressions capital’s state-mediated extractive power over built environment, we consider them...
NHS histopathology laboratories are well placed to develop banks of surgically removed surplus human tissues meet the increasing demands commercial biomedical companies. The ultimate aim could be national network non-profit making tissue conforming minimum ethical, legal, and quality standards which monitored by local research ethics committees. Nuffield report on bioethics provides ethical legal guidance but we believe that patient should fully informed consent given explicit. Setting up a...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarc Martí-CostaMarc Martí Costa is an urban sociologist working as a researcher at the Government and Public Policies Institute (http://igop.uab.es/) Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests are comparative study "existing neoliberalism" in cities evolution social movements their demands. He belongs Observatorio Metropolitano de Barcelona (http://stupidcity.net/), activist group...
ABSTRACTThe publication of the first 'critical introduction' to David Harvey is long overdue and most welcome. Aimed at degree students more experienced readers seeking gain a broader understanding Harvey's voluminous oeuvre, book clear comprehensive, making strong defence 'power abstraction' in his work productively centring crisis core writings. The fills an obvious need terms reception be commended for breadth its engagement, but rather pessimistic on wider impact. This my main contention...
The Peterborough Hospital Human Tissue Bank, based in the Cellular Pathology Department of District Hospital, has been successful supplying commercial biomedical companies with human tissue for research purposes. is obtained from routine surgical specimens sent to laboratory diagnostic testing and cadaveric donors examined hospital mortuary. All legally full informed consent patient, donor or relative, as appropriate. mechanism retrieving, storing described. In publishing activities bank at...
In Scotland, the policy landscape around rent controls is rapidly evolving and full of uncertainty. At this critical moment, an international symposium in Edinburgh brought together activists academics similar contexts living with or fighting for from across Europe North America. This contribution organised reflections participants on (1) history their area; (2) current regulations operation effectiveness; (3) role tenants’ organisations (4) landlord other pro-real estate lobbies shaping...
In this conversation, RHJ editors have asked Amanda Huron and Neil Gray to reflect on their approach strategies histories of tenant resident militancy what lessons can be learnt from the past shed light contemporary housing struggles.