Research Groups & Clusters

Dr Gordon MacLeod

Reader in the Department of Geography

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 41915

Fax: +44 (0)191 33 41801

Room number: 221

Contact (email at gordon.macleod@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

My current research is directed towards the following themes:

The New Regionalism, globalization, the politics of scale, and the changing character of the state. I am particularly interested in the search to unravel the connections between state restructuring, urban and regional governance, economic prosperity and social cohesion/exclusion and the possible implications of such processes for people and institutions in cities and regions that have endured prolonged decline.

The changing forms of governance, political representation, identity and cultural expression within a devolved Britain and more integrated European Union. I am most keen to explore the impact of these transformed/transforming political and institutional arrangements on English regions (ongoing work conducted with Martin Jones at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth).

The struggle over public space, geographies of exclusion, and the strategies deployed by homeless people to negotiate the contemporary city. This research is drawing on the cases of Edinburgh and Manchester and owes its inspiration to a range of debates, often based on the experience of American cities, which warn of a more exclusionary urban geography and a repressive post-liberal political culture.

Since 1998, I have served as Treasurer of the Economic Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers. In recent years this Group has been highly active in promoting, organising and sponsoring a range of conferences, conference sessions, and workshops and has heartily supported the cause of postgraduate research in geography currently offer undergraduate courses on "Geographies of Globalization" and "Contemporary Themes in Urban and Regional Geography".

Research Groups

Research Interests

Economic and political geography
Governance and the Regulation Approach
The changing geography of the capitalist state
The changing nature of the city
The inter-relations between place, scale, political institutions, and identity
Theories of urban and regional change

Selected Publications

Books: authored

Brenner, N., Jessop, B., Jones, M. & MacLeod, G. 2002. State/space: A Reader. Blackwell.

Books: sections

Johnstone, C. & MacLeod, D.G. 2007. New Labour's 'broken' neighbourhoods: liveability, disorder, and discipline? In Securing an Urban Renaissance. Crime, community and British urban policy. Atkinson, R. & Helms, G. Bristol.: The Policy Press. 75-90. (Additional information)
MacLeod, G. & Jones, M. 2006. Mapping the geographies of UK devolution. In Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning. Tewdwr-Jones, M. & Allmendinger, P. New York and London.: Routledge. 333-352. (Additional information)
Jones, M. & MacLeod, G. 2005. Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question. In Regionalism contested: Institution, society and governance. Sagan & Halkier, H. 93-112.
Brenner, N., Jessop, B., Jones, M. & MacLeod, G. 2002. Introduction: State space in question. In State/Space: A Reader. Brenner, N., Jessop, B., Jones, M. & MacLeod, G. Blackwell.
MacLeod, G. 2002. Regional tensions: constructing institutional cohesion. In City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester. Peck, J. & Ward, K. Manchester University Press. 176-189.
MacLeod, G. 2001. Globalizing Parisian thought-waves: recent advances in the study of social regulation, disclosure, politics and space. In The Regulation Approach: An Anthology. Jessop, B. Edward Elgar. 533-553.
MacLeod, G. 2001. Identity, hybridity and the institutionalization of territory: On the geohistory of Celtic devolution. In Celtic Geographies: Landscape, Identity, Culture. Harvey, D., Jones, R., McInroy, N. & Milligan, C. Routledge. 53-68.

Journal papers: academic

Jones, M. & MacLeod, G. 2004. Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29(4): 433-452. (Additional information) (View publication online)
MacLeod, G., Raco, M. & Ward, K. 2003. Negotiating the contemporary city: Introduction. Urban Studies 40(9): 1655-1671. (Additional information)
MacLeod, G. 2002. From urban entrepreneurialism to a 'Revanchist City'? On the spatial injustices of Glasgow's Renaissance. Antipode 34(3): 602-624. (Additional information) (View publication online)
MacLeod, G. & Ward, K. 2002. Spaces of utopia and dystopia: landscaping the contemporary city. Geografiska Annaler 84B: 153-170.
MacLeod, G. 2001. Beyond soft institutionalism: accumulation, regulation, and their geographical fixes. Environment and Planning A 33(7): 1145-1167. (Additional information) (View publication online)
MacLeod, G. 2001. New regionalism reconsidered: Globalization and the remaking of political economic space. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25(4): 804-829. (Additional information) (View publication online)
MacLeod, G. & Jones, M. 2001. Renewing the geography of regions. Environment and Planning D: - Society and Space 19(6): 669-695. (Additional information) (View publication online)

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