Professor, Geography
Distinguished University Scholar
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
jamie.peck@ubc.ca
Jamie Peck has research and teaching interests in urban restructuring, geographical political economy, labour studies, the politics of policy formation, and economic geography. In collaboration with Dr Jun Zhang of the University of Toronto, he is currently working on a SSHRC-funded project on visions and varieties of capitalism in Hong Kong and South China. In a related project, he is exploring the place of Hong Kong in free-market imaginaries.
Managing Editor of EPA: Economy and Space, Jamie Peck’s recent 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)
- Visiting professor, Hong Kong University (2024-2026)
Papers relevant to Hong Kong
Peck J (2024) Practicing conjunctural methodologies: engaging Chinese capitalism. Dialogues in Human Geography doi:10.1177/20438206231154346
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 10.1177/23996544241227159
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 10.1080/00343404.2023.2242381
Meulbroek C, Peck J and Zhang J (2023) Bayspeak: narrating China’s Greater Bay Area. Journal of Contemporary Asia 53(1): 95-123 10.1080/00472336.2021.1998579
Peck J, Bok R and Zhang J (2023) Hong Kong—a model on the rocks? Territory, Politics, Governance 11(1): 100-119 10.1080/21622671.2020.1837221