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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.

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.

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.

Geographies of economic decline. (2011)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2011). Geographies of economic decline. In R. Lee, A. Leyshon, L. McDowell, & P. Sunley (Eds.), A Compendium of Economic Geography (261-272). SAGE Publications

Spatial circuits of value. (2011)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2011). Spatial circuits of value. In A. Pike, A. Rodriguez-Pose, & J. Tomaney (Eds.), Handbook of Local and Regional Development (109-118). Routledge

The costs of globalization: Producing new forms of risk to health and well-being (2009)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2009). The costs of globalization: Producing new forms of risk to health and well-being. . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/rm.2008.13

Processes of contemporary globalization generate a particular landscape of risk. This landscape is shaped by the economic imperatives that lead to the export of hazardous activities, processes and materials in combination with the uneven regulatory s... Read More about The costs of globalization: Producing new forms of risk to health and well-being.

Regional Development: Uneven Regional Development (2009)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2009). Regional Development: Uneven Regional Development. In N. Thrift, & R. Kitchin (Eds.), International encyclopaedia of human geography (18-23). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-008044910-4.00884-1

The concept of uneven development originally developed within Marxian political economy to describe – inter alia – relations between political classes, between the forces and relations of production, and between companies. Subsequently, it became gen... Read More about Regional Development: Uneven Regional Development.

Economic Geography: Fordism (2009)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2009). Economic Geography: Fordism. In N. Thrift, & R. Kitchin (Eds.), International encyclopaedia of human geography (226-231). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-008044910-4.00166-8

The term ‘Fordism’ has many meanings. It originated as a description of the radical new way of organising the mass production of automobiles developed by Henry Ford in the early years of the twentieth century. Later it became used to describe a parti... Read More about Economic Geography: Fordism.

The New Economic Geography? (2006)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2006). The New Economic Geography?. In H. Lawton-Smith, & S. Bagchi-Sen (Eds.), Past, Present and Future of Economic Geography (47-55). Routledge

Geographers and the Regional Problem. (2003)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2003). Geographers and the Regional Problem. In R. Johnston, & M. Williams (Eds.), A Century of British Geography, British Association for the Advancement of Science (583-602)

The alterity of the social economy. (2003)
Book Chapter
Amin, A., Cameron, A., & Hudson, R. (2003). The alterity of the social economy. In A. Leyshon, R. Lee, & C. Williams (Eds.), Alternative Economic Spaces (27-54). SAGE Publications