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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..

Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories (2013)
Journal Article
Hadjimichalis, C., & Hudson, R. (2013). Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories. Regional Studies, 48(1), 208-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2013.834044

Hadjimichalis C. and Hudson R. Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories, Regional Studies. This paper explores the prima facie puzzling issue of why so much contemporary theory in economic geography and region... Read More about Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories.

Critical Political Economy and Material Transformation (2012)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2012). Critical Political Economy and Material Transformation. New Political Economy, 17(4), 373-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2011.578736

The starting point for this paper is that critical political economy needs to take up the challenge that originates in Marx's seminal contributions of conceptualising the economy as both processes of value creation and processes of material transform... Read More about Critical Political Economy and Material Transformation.

Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex (2012)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akter, N., Ferdous, R., Foisal, S., & Hudson, R. (2012). Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex. Economic Geography, 88(1), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01138.x

This article both joins with recent arguments in economic geography that have made connections between work on industrial symbiosis and agglomerative tendencies and recasts this work. Drawing on the case of Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, it shows th... Read More about Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex.

Regions Con-Dem’d? (2011)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2011). Regions Con-Dem’d?. Geography, 44-49

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

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

From knowledge based economy … to knowledge based economy? Reflections on changes in the economy and development policies in the North East of England (2011)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2011). From knowledge based economy … to knowledge based economy? Reflections on changes in the economy and development policies in the North East of England. Regional Studies, 45(7), 997-1012. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400802662633

From knowledge-based economy to … knowledge-based economy? Reflections on changes in the economy and development policies in the North East of England, Regional Studies. Against the background of claims made about the emergence of a new knowledge-bas... Read More about From knowledge based economy … to knowledge based economy? Reflections on changes in the economy and development policies in the North East of England.

Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream (2009)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2009). Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(4), 493-510. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp005

Drawing on detailed empirical research in the UK, in this article I explore the motivations that lie behind the formation of social economy organisations (SEOs) and the multiple trajectories that these can then follow and the tensions to which this c... Read More about Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream.

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.

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.

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.

Cultural political economy meets global production networks: a productive meeting? (2008)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2008). Cultural political economy meets global production networks: a productive meeting?. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), 421-440. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbn005

In this article, I explore some of the implications of pursuing a cultural political economy (CPE) approach to the analysis of global production networks (GPNs). This raises three sets of issues: the current state of knowledge about GPNs; the current... Read More about Cultural political economy meets global production networks: a productive meeting?.

Regions and Regional Uneven Development Forever? Some Reflective Comments upon Theory and Practice. (2007)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2007). Regions and Regional Uneven Development Forever? Some Reflective Comments upon Theory and Practice. Regional Studies, 41(9), 1149-1160. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701291617

In recent years, for a variety of reasons, there has been a resurgence of interest in 'the region' from a variety of both intellectual and practical perspectives, with the somewhat surprising result that regional studies have come to be of central co... Read More about Regions and Regional Uneven Development Forever? Some Reflective Comments upon Theory and Practice..

Rethinking Local and Regional Development: Implications for Radical Political Development in Europe (2007)
Journal Article
Hadjimichalis, C., & Hudson, R. (2007). Rethinking Local and Regional Development: Implications for Radical Political Development in Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, 14(2), 99-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776407076290

This article focuses upon the practicalities of what people actually do and can do in the present era of neo-liberal globalization to build more progressive local and regional development strategies in Europe. To do so, we introduce three examples of... Read More about Rethinking Local and Regional Development: Implications for Radical Political Development in Europe.

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

Regional devolution and regional economic success: myths and illusions about power (2006)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2006). Regional devolution and regional economic success: myths and illusions about power. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 88(2), 159-171. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0435-3684.2006.00212.x

The proposition that regional devolution in and of itself will lead to economic success has become deeply embedded in beliefs and policy discourses about the determinants of regional prosperity, and in turn has led to political demands for such devol... Read More about Regional devolution and regional economic success: myths and illusions about power.

On what's right and keeping left: or Why Geography still needs Marxian political economy (2006)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2006). On what's right and keeping left: or Why Geography still needs Marxian political economy. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 38(2), 374-395. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00584.x

Recently the value of Marxian approaches to human geography has again been called into question in the pages of Antipode. In this paper I review the reasons as to why geographers re‐discovered Marx and then, from the late 1960s, began to engage with... Read More about On what's right and keeping left: or Why Geography still needs Marxian political economy.

Towards Sustainable Economic Practices, Flows and Spaces: or is the Necessary Impossible and the Impossible Necessary? (2005)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2005). Towards Sustainable Economic Practices, Flows and Spaces: or is the Necessary Impossible and the Impossible Necessary?. Sustainable Development, 13(4), 239-252. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.282

This paper focuses upon the sustainability of the economy in relation to nature and natural ecosystems. There are two main aspects to this relationship: consumption of natural resources; and generation of pollution and wastes because of economic prac... Read More about Towards Sustainable Economic Practices, Flows and Spaces: or is the Necessary Impossible and the Impossible Necessary?.

Rethinking change in old industrial regions: reflecting on the experiences of North East England (2005)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2005). Rethinking change in old industrial regions: reflecting on the experiences of North East England. Environment and Planning A, 37(4), 581-596. https://doi.org/10.1068/a36274

The author reflects upon regional economic change and the ways in which this is conceptualised and understood, drawing heavily but not exclusively on some thirty years of research on economy, politics and society in the North East of England. The pri... Read More about Rethinking change in old industrial regions: reflecting on the experiences of North East England.

Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits (2004)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2004). Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits. Progress in Human Geography, 28(4), 447-471. https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132504ph497oa

The last decade or so has been one of ongoing, at times heated, debate in economic geography as to how best to conceptualize and theorize economies and their geographies. Reflecting on these debates, I identify six axioms that are central to conceptu... Read More about Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits.

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

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)

Updating Coalfield Areas. (2003)
Report
Hudson, R., & Townsend, A. (2003). Updating Coalfield Areas. [No known commissioning body]

Placing the Social Economy (2002)
Book
Amin, A., Cameron, A., & Hudson, R. (2002). Placing the Social Economy. Routledge

In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about the social economy and the term 'the third way' has attained a level of household recognition, especially in America and Britain. Academics and commentators have debated the usefulness o... Read More about Placing the Social Economy.

Changing industrial production systems and regional development in the New Europe (2002)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2002). Changing industrial production systems and regional development in the New Europe. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 27(3), 262-281. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00055

The continuing expansion and deepening integration of the European Union is redefining the map of threats and opportunities for both companies and regions in Europe. In this paper I analyze the changing geography of the production system in three ind... Read More about Changing industrial production systems and regional development in the New Europe.

Western Europe Studies: Geography. (2001)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2001). Western Europe Studies: Geography. In N. Smelser, & P. Bates (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (473-479). Pergamon

Producing Places (2001)
Book
Hudson, R. (2001). Producing Places. Guilford Press

This book synthesizes a vast body of theory and research on production in capitalist societies. Ray Hudson considers both the specific sites in which production occurs, such as factory, office, and home, and the production of places in which we live... Read More about Producing Places.

Divided Britain (2000)
Book
Hudson, R., & Williams, A. (2000). Divided Britain. (New edition). Mallard Editions

Land Use
Book
Rhind, D., & Hudson, R. Land Use. Methuen