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‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism? (2022)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2022). ‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism?. Local Economy, 37(1-2), 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942221099480

Following the 2019 general election, the Prime Minister claimed that leaving the EU would enable him to ‘get Brexit done’ and introduce policies to “level up” inequalities in a post-EU UK. There still is, however, considerable uncertainty as to exact... Read More about ‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism?.

Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Beynon, H., & Hudson, R. (2022). Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK. International union rights, 29(1), 23-25

Coal played a central part in the discussions at the COP26 conference on climate change held in Glasgow in 2021. Here it was established as the most deadly of the carbon fuels with the future of the planet depending upon its eradication. This was a c... Read More about Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK.

Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem? (2021)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2021). Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?. Area Development and Policy, 6(2), 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1854615

Capitalist economies are structured around two fundamental contradictions. The first lies within the social relations of capital, and the second in the ‘metabolic rift’ between capital accumulation and nature. While the adverse effects of the first d... Read More about Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?.

Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm (2020)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2021). Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(1), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776420965639

Following the confirmation by the UK Parliament that the UK would leave the European Union on 1 January 2021, this article analyses the likely impact of BREXIT on socio-spatial inequalities in the UK. It argues that inequalities will be further ampli... Read More about Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm.

The illegal, the illicit and new geographies of uneven development (2018)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2020). The illegal, the illicit and new geographies of uneven development. Territory, Politics, Governance, 8(2), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2018.1535998

There have been significant changes in the geographies of uneven development and a considerable literature documenting these, at varying spatial scales. There is, however, a significant absence in the urban and regional development literature as to t... Read More about The illegal, the illicit and new geographies of uneven development.

The road to Brexit on the British coalfields (2018)
Book Chapter
Beynon, H., & Hudson, R. (2018). The road to Brexit on the British coalfields. In M. Traub-Werner, J. Peck, R. Lave, & B. Christophers (Eds.), Doreen Massey: Critical Dialogues (161-172). Agenda Publishing. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv5cg810.16

The late 1960s/early 1970s was a turbulent time. Although it may seem hard for those who weren’t around at the time to believe it now, there was then quite a lively debate in geography about how best to understand uneven development and which theoret... Read More about The road to Brexit on the British coalfields.

The illicit and illegal in regional and urban governance and development: corrupt places. (2017)
Book
Chiodelli, F., Hall, T., & Hudson, R. (Eds.). (2017). The illicit and illegal in regional and urban governance and development: corrupt places. Routledge

Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. Howe... Read More about The illicit and illegal in regional and urban governance and development: corrupt places..

Industrial Conversion (2017)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2017). Industrial Conversion. In International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0513

This entry discusses some of the main ways in which, via state policies and the actions of various civil society organizations, attempts have been made to address the problems that result as one set of industries decline in a place via restructuring... Read More about Industrial Conversion.

Facing Forwards, Looking Backwards: Coming to Terms with Continuing Uneven Development in Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2017). Facing Forwards, Looking Backwards: Coming to Terms with Continuing Uneven Development in Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(2), 138-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776416689230

At a time of major changes in the geography of the global economy, and following the major financial and economic crises of 2007/2008, the European Union (EU) is marked by deepening uneven economic development, between and within the territories of i... Read More about Facing Forwards, Looking Backwards: Coming to Terms with Continuing Uneven Development in Europe.

Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development (2016)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2016). Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development. Area Development and Policy, 1(3), 279-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2016.1227271

The emergence of the rising powers has been seen as heralding a fundamental shift in global economic geography. It can also be seen as the latest expression of capitalist economic development. I first consider theorizations of this development as com... Read More about Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development.

Uneven development, socio-spatial polarisation and political responses (2015)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2015). Uneven development, socio-spatial polarisation and political responses. In T. Lang, S. Henn, W. Sgibnev, & K. Ehrlich (Eds.), Understanding geographies of polarisation and peripheralisation : perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond (25-39). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415080_2

Although the causal mechanisms and processes are specific to different forms of societal organization, uneven development is a characteristic common to more advanced forms of societal development. Uneven development is therefore integral to the crisi... Read More about Uneven development, socio-spatial polarisation and political responses.

Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways. (2014)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2014). Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(4), 775-795. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt017

My purpose in this article is selectively to draw upon and use the available evidence to summarise the various forms/types of illegal activities, their relationships to the formal legal economy, their various spatialities and geographies, and to iden... Read More about Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways..