University Killam Professor
Professor, Geography
Distinguished University Scholar
jamie.peck@ubc.ca
Jamie Peck has research and teaching interests in urban and regional restructuring, geographical political economy, labour studies, the politics of policy formation, and economic geography. His books include Variegated Economies (2023, Oxford), Market/place: exploring spaces of exchange (Agenda, 2022, coedited with Christian Berndt, and Norma M Rantisi), Doreen Massey: Critical Dialogues (2018, Agenda, coedited with Marion Werner, Rebecca Lave and Brett Christophers), Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing (2017, Oxford); Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism (2015, Minnesota, with Nik Theodore); and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2010, Oxford).
Awards and distinctions
- Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud (“le prix Nobel de Géographie”) (2023)
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
- Corresponding Fellow, British Academy
Papers relevant to Hong Kong
Peck J, Sparke M, Anguelov D and Zhang J (2025) On the frontier of party-state capitalism: mapping the geopolitical economies of China’s Greater Bay Area. Geoforum 164: 104302
Peck J (2024) Practicing conjunctural methodologies: engaging Chinese capitalism. Dialogues in Human Geography 14(3): 461-448
Peck J, Meulbroek C and Anguelov D (2024) Hong Kong’s new normal: remaking authorized discourses of “special administration,” 2017-2022. Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space 42(6): 1082-1102
Anguelov D, Peck J, Zhang J and Su X (2024) Rezoning at the threshold of two systems: regionalized party-statecraft in China’s Greater Bay Area. Regional Studies 58(3): 565-582
Meulbroek C, Peck J and Zhang J (2023) Bayspeak: narrating China’s Greater Bay Area. Journal of Contemporary Asia 53(1): 95-123
Peck J, Bok R and Zhang J (2023) Hong Kong—a model on the rocks? Territory, Politics, Governance 11(1): 100-119
Peck J (2021) On capitalism’s cusp. Area Development and Policy 6(1): 1-30
Peck J (2021) Milton’s paradise: situating Hong Kong in neoliberal lore. Journal of Law and Political Economy 2(1): 189-211