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Intensifying fragmentation: states, places, and dissonant struggles over the political geographies of power (2020)
Journal Article
MacLeod, G. (2020). Intensifying fragmentation: states, places, and dissonant struggles over the political geographies of power. Space and Polity, 24(2), 177-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2020.1775574

This paper offers an engagement with The Fragmented State, published in 1983 and representing Ronan Paddison’s most significant book-length contribution. The paper demonstrates how certain claims prosecuted by Paddison – especially relating to centra... Read More about Intensifying fragmentation: states, places, and dissonant struggles over the political geographies of power.

Explaining ‘Brexit capital’: uneven development and the austerity state (2018)
Journal Article
MacLeod, G., & Jones, M. (2018). Explaining ‘Brexit capital’: uneven development and the austerity state. Space and Polity, 22(2), 111-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2018.1535272

The precise moment that triggered the EU referendum had its roots in the Europhobia that lurked within the soul of the Conservative Party. It has been deeply perturbing to witness such Europhobia played out in the form of an internal party political... Read More about Explaining ‘Brexit capital’: uneven development and the austerity state.

The Grenfell Tower atrocity: Exposing urban worlds of inequality, injustice, and an impaired democracy (2018)
Journal Article
Macleod, G. (2018). The Grenfell Tower atrocity: Exposing urban worlds of inequality, injustice, and an impaired democracy. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 22(4), 460-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507099

The fire that erupted in Grenfell Tower in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London on 14 June 2017 is widely acknowledged to be the worst experienced during UK peacetime since the nineteenth century. It is confirmed to have resulte... Read More about The Grenfell Tower atrocity: Exposing urban worlds of inequality, injustice, and an impaired democracy.

Beyond Consensus and Conflict in Housing Governance: Returning to the Local State (2018)
Journal Article
Ormerod, E., & Macleod, G. (2019). Beyond Consensus and Conflict in Housing Governance: Returning to the Local State. Planning Theory, 18(3), 319-338. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095218790988

This article contends that the de-politicizing tendencies in urban planning that are often interpreted through a post-political frame of analysis might alternatively be investigated via the analytical lens of a transforming local state. Examining the... Read More about Beyond Consensus and Conflict in Housing Governance: Returning to the Local State.

Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., McFarlane, C., & MacLeod, G. (2018). Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities. Urban Studies, 55(4), 702-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016663836

As the 21st Century world assumes an increasingly urban landscape, the question of how definitive urban spaces are to be governed intensifies. At the heart of this debate lies a question about the degree and type of autonomy that towns and cities mig... Read More about Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities.

New Urbanism/Smart Growth in the Scottish Highlands: Mobile Policies and Post-politics in Local Development Planning. (2013)
Journal Article
MacLeod, D. (2013). New Urbanism/Smart Growth in the Scottish Highlands: Mobile Policies and Post-politics in Local Development Planning. Urban Studies, 50(11), 2196-2221. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013491164

The paper draws on recent theorising on policy mobility and post-politics to investigate the planning of a New Urbanist settlement, Tornagrain, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, and designed by Andres Duany. It details Duany's role as an infl... Read More about New Urbanism/Smart Growth in the Scottish Highlands: Mobile Policies and Post-politics in Local Development Planning..