 Dr John Harrison
Lecturer in Human Geography
email: J.Harrison4@lboro.ac.uk
Tel : +44 (0)1509 228198
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930
Room NN.1.36, Martin Hall building, East Park
Research Interests
My research interests lie within the broad scope of political-economic geography, with a specific focus on cities and regions. Conceptually my research seeks to uncover how new, generally more networked urban and regional spaces, are being produced in globalization. To answer this my research investigates (1) who or what is constructing new urban and regional spaces, (2) how they are being constructed and reconstructed, and (3) who stands to gain/lose from the construction of particular urban-regional configurations. Empirically my research is focused on recent attempts to construct networked spaces of governance, with particular attention directed to the evolution of city-regionalism in England. The aim is to investigate the extent to emerging networked forms of urban-regional governance and planning variously complement, contradict, compete, and overlap with extant structures of state spatial/scalar organisation in different spatial, scalar, and temporal contexts.
For more details please see my personal website:
http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~gyjh2/index.htm
Selected Key Publications (for a full list please see my website)
Journal articles
Harrison J (2012) Configuring the new 'regional world': on being caught between territory and networks. Regional Studies
Harrison J and Growe A (2012) From places to flows? Planning the new 'regional world' in Germany. European Urban and Regional Studies
Harrison J (2011) Life after regions? The evolution of city-regionalism in England. Regional Studies
Harrison J (2010) Networks of connectivity, territorial fragmentation, uneven development: the new politics of city-regionalism. Political Geography, 29, 17-27.
Harrison J (2008) The region in political economy. Geography Compass, 3, 814-830.
Harrison J and MacLeavy J (2008) New state spatialities: perspectives on state, space and scalar geographies. Antipode, 42, 1037-1046.
Harrison J (2008) Stating the production of scales: centrally orchestrated regionalism, regionally orchestrated centralism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32, 922-941.
Harrison J (2007) From competitive regions to competitive city-regions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes. Journal of Economic Geography, 7, 311-332.
Harrison J (2006) Re-reading the new regionalism: a sympathetic critique'. Space & Polity, 10, 21-46.
Book chapters
Harrison J (2012) The city-region: in retrospect, in snapshot, in prospect. In, Shields R, Lord A and Jones K (eds.) The City-Region in Prospect. McGill/Queen's University Press:
Harrison J (2012) Cities and rescaling. In, Paddison R and Hutton T (eds.) Cities and Economic Change Sage: London.
Harrison J (2011) Global city-region governance, ten years on. In, Derudder B, Hoyler M, Taylor PJ and Witlox F (eds.) International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities Elgar: London.
Harrison J (2008) City-regions and governance. In, Johnson C, Hu R, Abedin R, and Cramer M (eds.) Connecting Cities: City-Regions Metropolis: Sydney pp. 49-70.
Reports
Harrison J (2011) Local Enterprise Partnerships (40pp)
Key Scholarly Activities:
Conferences I have presented over 25 conference papers in 9 countries, including 6 keynote/invited lectures in 5 countries (UK, Germany, France, Canada, UAE)
Conference organisation I am lead organiser of the 2011 RSA Winter Conference on Contested Regions - Territorial Politics and Policy. I have organised/co-organised 9 sessions at international conferences (6 AAG, 3 RGS).
Special issues I co-edited a special issue of Antipode (2008) on New state spatialities - perspectives on state, space and scalar geographies (11 papers) and I am currently co-editing a special issue of Urban Studies (2013) on City-region governance, ten years on.
Awards 2011 Routledge Regional Studies Association Award for Early Career Excellence
Teaching & Administration:
Undergraduate teaching
Year 1
Geographies of Global Economic Change (module leader)
Geography Tutorials (module leader)
Practising Geography (fieldcourse)
Year 2
Geographical Research: Concepts and Design (module leader)
Globalization
Year 3
Regional Geography of the UK (module leader)
Global Cities Fieldcourse - New York
Dissertations
Independent Geographical Essays
Administration
BSc Programmes Tutor
Personal Development Planning (PDP) officer
Learning and Teaching Committee
Supervision of PhD Students
Current students
Yifei Chen (2012-) Chinese city-regions
David Rigby (2011-) New welfare geographies, new geographies of welfare
Swayam Das (2011-) Connectivity of Indian cities
Chloe Kinton (2010-) The destudentification of Loughborough
Jon Morris (2009-) Domestic CO2 reduction
Completions
Preena Shah (2011) Coastal gentrification - the coastification of St Leonards-on-Sea
Mary Whowell (2009) Inappropriate sexualities? The practice, performance and regulation of male sex work in Manchester
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