Environment and Planning

About

Trevor Barnes is a professor and University Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia where he has been since 1983. He is the author or editor of 13 books the most recent with Brett Christophers Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction (2018). His research interests are in economic geography and in the history and methodology of geography. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy. Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia Canada. Previously he was a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Manchester. With research interests in urban restructuring geographical political economy labor studies the politics of policy formation and mobility and economic geography he is currently working on theories of capitalist restructuring and the political economy of neoliberalization. His recent books include Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing (2017 Oxford) Fast Policy: Experimental statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism (2015 Minnesota with Nik Theodore) The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (2012 Wiley-Blackwell coedited with Trevor Barnes & Eric Sheppard) and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2010 Oxford). Jamie Peck is the managing editor of EPA: Economy and Space and the editor in chief of the Environment and Planning journals. Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.