Areas of Research/Interest: Global and comparative urban, metropolitan, suburban and regional development; critical urban theory, sociospatial theory and state theory; comparative-historical political economy and sociology; globalization studies; neoliberalization.
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Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore, “After neoliberalization?,” Globalizations, 7 (2010): forthcoming. Click here to read. Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore, “Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways,” Global Networks, 10, 1 (2010): in press. Click here to read. Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden, “Henri Lefebvre on state, space and territory,” International Political Sociology, 3, 4 (2009): in press. Click here to read. “Restructuring, rescaling and the urban question,” Critical Planning, 16 (2009): in press. Click here to read. "Urban restructuring and the crisis: a symposium with Neil Brenner, John Friedmann, Margit Mayer, Allen J. Scott and Edward J. Soja," edited by Konstantina Soureli and Elise Youn, Critical Planning, Summer 2009, 34-59. Click here to read. “A thousand leaves: notes on the geographies of uneven spatial development,” in Roger Keil and Rianne Mahon eds., The new political economy of scale. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, 2009, 27-49. Click here to read. “What is critical urban theory?”, CITY, 13, 2-3 (2009): 195-204. Click here to read. Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayer, “Cities for people, not for profit: an introduction,” CITY, 13, 2-3 (2009): 173-181. Click here to read. “Open questions on state rescaling,” Cambridge Journal of Economies, Regions and Societies, 2, 1 (2009): 123-139. Click here to read. Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner, “Neoliberal urbanism: models, moments, mutations,” SAIS Review, XXIX, 1, Winter-Spring (2009): 49-66. Click here to read. "Cities, territorial development and the new urban politics," in Chris Rumford ed., Handbook of European Studies. London: Sage, 2009, 442‐463. Click here to read. “Is there a politics of ‘urban’ development? Reflections on the US case,” in Richardson Dilworth ed., The City in American Political Development. New York: Routledge, 2009, 121‐140. Click here to read. Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden: “State, space, world: Henri Lefebvre and the survival of capitalism,” Introduction to Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World. Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden. Minneapolis, MN.: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 1‐41. Click here to read. Bob Jessop, Neil Brenner and Martin Jones: “Theorizing sociospatial relations,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26 (2008): 389-401 (with responses by Edward Casey, Margit Mayer, Anssi Paasi and Michael Shapiro). Click here to read. Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore, “‘Neoliberalism’ and the urban condition,” CITY, 9, 1 (2005): 101-107. Click here to read. Neil Brenner and Roger Keil, “Introduction: global city theory in retrospect and prospect,” in N. Brenner and R. Keil eds., The Global Cities Reader. Routledge: London and New York, 2005, 1‐16. Click here to read. "Urban governance and the production of new state spaces in western Europe, 1960-2000," Review of International Political Economy, 11:3, August (2004): 447-488. Click here to read. Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore: "Cities and the geographies of 'actually existing neoliberalism'," Antipode, 34, 3 (2002): 356-386. Reprinted in: N. Brenner and N. Theodore eds., Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2002, 2-32. Click here to read. Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore: “Preface: from the ‘new localism’ to the spaces of neoliberalism,” Antipode, 34, 3 (2002): 341-347. Click here to read. "Stereotypes, Archetypes and Prototypes: Three Uses of Superlatives in Contemporary Urban Studies," City & Community, 3 (2004), 205-218. Click here to read. Neil Brenner, Noel Castree and Jürgen Essletzbichler, “David Harvey’s The Limits to Capital, two decades later: introduction to the special issue,” Antipode, 36, 3 (2004): 401-406. Click here to read. “Glocalization’ as a state spatial strategy: urban entrepreneurialism and the new politics of uneven development in western Europe,” in Jamie Peck and Henry Yeung eds., Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives. Sage: London and Thousand Oaks, 2003, 197-215. Click here to read. “Metropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe.” European Urban and Regional Studies, 10 (2003), 297-325. Click here to read. Roger Keil and Neil Brenner, “Globalisierung, ‘Global Cities’ und die neue Räume der Politik,” in Albert Scharenberg and Oliver Schmidtke, eds., Globalisierung und der Strukturwandel des Politischen. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2003, 254‐276. Click here to read. Neil
Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones and Gordon MacLeod, “State space in
question,” in N. Brenner, B. Jessop, M. Jones and G. MacLeod eds., State/Space: A Reader, Blackwell: Oxford and Boston, 2003, 1‐26. Click here to read. “Review essay. Berlin’s transformations: postmodern, postfordist … or neoliberal?,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 26, 4 (2002): 635-642. Click here to read. “Decoding the Newest ‘Metropolitan Regionalism’ in the USA: A Critical Overview.” Cities: International Journal of Policy and Planning, 19, 1 (2002): 3-21. Click here to read. “‘Good governance’: Ideology of a Sustainable Neoliberalism?” Translated into German for: Reader zum Weltbericht (Für die Zukunft der Städte—URBAN 21), Edited by MieterEcho. Zeitschrift der Berliner MieterGemeinschaft e.V., Summer 2001. Click here to read. “The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration.” Progress in Human Geography, 15, 4 (2001): 525-548. Click here to read. “World city theory, globalization and the comparative-historical method: reflections on Janet Abu-Lughod’s interpretation of contemporary urban restructuring.” Urban Affairs Review, 36, 6 (2001): 124-147. Click here to read. "State theory in the political conjuncture: Henri Lefebvre's 'Comments on a new state form'," Antipode 33, 5 (2001): 783-808. Click here to read. Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden, “Henri Lefebvre in contexts: an introduction” Antipode, 33, 5 (2001): 763-768. Click here to read. “Building ‘Euro-regions’: locational politics and the political geography of neoliberalism in post-unification Germany,” European Urban and Regional Studies, 7, 4 (2000): 317-343. Click here to read. "The urban question as a scale question: reflections on Henri Lefebvre, urban theory and the politics of scale,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24, 2 (2000): 361-378. Click here to read. “Regulation theory and the regionalization debate: recent German contributions,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 17, 6 (1999): 645-650. Click here to read. “Beyond state-centrism? Space, territoriality and geographical scale in globalization studies,” Theory and Society, 28, 2 (1999): 39-78. Click here to read. “Globalization as reterritorialization: the re-scaling of urban governance in the European Union,” Urban Studies, 36, 3 (1999): 431-451. Click here to read. Neil Brenner and Susanne Heeg, "Lokale Politik und Stadtenwicklung nach dem Fordismus: Möglichkeiten und Beschrankungen," Kurswechsel: Zeitschrift fur gesellschafts-, wirtschafts-, und unweltpolitische Alternative, Heft 2 (1999): 103-119. Click here to read. “Between fixity and motion: accumulation, territorial organization and the historical geography of spatial scales,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 16, 5 (1998): 459-481. Click here to read. “Global cities, ‘glocal’ states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe,” Review of International Political Economy, 5, 1 (1998): 1-37. Click here to read. “Global, fragmented, hierarchical: Henri Lefebvre's geographies of globalization,” Public Culture, 10, 1 (1997): 137-169. Click here to read. Neil Brenner and Susanne Heeg, “Leistungfähige Länder, konkurrenzfahige Stadtregionen,” Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, 10 (1998): 661-672. Click here to read. “State territorial restructuring and the production of spatial scale: urban and regional planning in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960-1990.” Political Geography, 16, 4 (1997): 273-306. Click here to read. “Foucault's new functionalism.” Theory and Society, 23, 5 (1994): 679-708. Click here to read. Selected translations into Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, and Turkish:"Urbanismo neoliberal: la ciudad y la supremacía de los mercados,” Temas Sociales (SUR Corporación de Estudios Sociales y Educación, Santiago de Chile), 66, March (2009): 1-16. Click here to read. “Tausend Blätter: Bemerkungen zu den Geographien ungleicher räumlicher Entwicklung,“ in Markus Wissen, Bernd Röttger and Susanne Heeg eds., Politics of Scale. Räume der Globalisierung und Perspektiven emanzipatorischer Politik, Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot 2008, 57-84. Click here to read. “La glocalizzazione come strategia spaziale dello stato: imprenditorialità urbana e nuova politica dello sviluppo ineguale,” Dialoghi Internazionali, 5 (2007): 136-151. Click here to read. "La política de localización, el redimensionamiento del Estado y el nuevo gobierno metropolitano en Europa Occidental," in Roberto Camagni and Àlex Tarroja eds., Una nueva cultura del territorio: criterios sociales y ambientales en las políticas y el gobierno del territorio. Barcelona: Diputació Barcelona, 2006, 409‐430. Click here to read. “Ölçeğin Sinirlari? Ölçeksel Yapilaşma Üzerine Metodolojik Düşünceler,” Praksis (Ankara), 15, Summer (2006): 311-336. Click here to read. Governance urbana e nuovi spazi dello stato in Europa Occidentale,” La Revista delle Politiche Sociali, 2, April (2005): 27-50. Click here to read. “La formación de la ciudad global y el re-escalamiento del espacio del Estado en la Europa Occidental post-fordista,” EURE: Revista latinoamericana de estudios urbano regionales, 29, 86 (2003): 5-35. Click here to read. Globalisierung und Reterritorialisierung: Städte, Staaten, und die Politik der räumlichen Redimensionierung im heutigen Europa. WeltTrends, 17, (1997): 7-30 . Click here to read. (Chinese version here) "Die Restrukturierung staatlichen Raums: Stadt- und Regionalplanung in der BRD, 1960-1990," Prokla. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 109 (1997): 545-566. Click here to read. |






