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Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

Ashby Prize Winners

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2024

The editors of EPA are pleased to announce the winners of the Ashby Prize 2024. Full announcement here.

Labour geography is tedious: Of contracts, grievances and the nitty-gritty of worker agency in United Farm Workers-era California
Don Mitchell, Uppsala University, Sweden

Who owns and controls global capital? Uneven geographies of asset manager capitalism
Albina Gibadullina, University of British Columbia, Canada

2023

The editors of EPA are pleased to announce the winners of the Ashby Prize 2023. Full announcement here

Articulation work: Value chain of land assembly and real estate development on a peri-urban frontier
Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota, USA
Carol Upadhya, Indian Institute of Science, India

An antitrust framework for housing
Renee Tapp, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Richard Peiser, Harvard University, USA

2022

Global destruction networks and hybrid e-waste economies: Practices and embeddedness in Guiyu, China
Kun Wang, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, China
Junxi Qian, The University of Hong Kong, China
Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong, China

Global locational inequality: Assessing unequal exchange effects
Andrea Ricci, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy

2021

Aid's urban footprint and its implications for local inequality and governance
Gabriella Y. Carolini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Just-in-Place’ labor: Driver organizing in the Uber workplace
Katie J. Wells, Georgetown University
Kafui Attoh, City University of New York
Declan Cullen, George Washington University

2020

Workplace, emotional bonds and agency: Everyday gendered experiences of work in an export processing zone in Tamil Nadu, India
Madhumita Dutta, The Ohio State University

This can(’t) be an asset class: The world of money management, “society”, and the contested morality of farmland investments
Stefan Ouma, University of Bayreuth

Disentangling the Brexit vote: The role of economic, social and cultural contexts in explaining the UK’s EU referendum vote
Maria Abreu, University of Cambridge,
Özge Öner, University of Cambridge

2019

Oceanic accumulation: Geographies of speculation, overproduction, and crisis in the global shipping economy
Elizabeth A Sibilia, City University of New York

Peri-urban promises of connectivity: Linking project-led polycentrism to the infrastructure scramble
J Miguel Kanai, University of Sheffield
Seth Schindler, University of Manchester

2018

A tale of two industrial zones: A geopolitical economy of differential development in Ulsan, South Korea, and Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Jinn-yuh Hsu, National Taiwan University
Dong-Wan Gimm, Kyungnam University
Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia

The affective economy of transnational surrogacy
Carolin Schurr, University of Bern
Elisabeth Militz, University of Bern

2017

Making science suburban: The suburbanization of industrial research and the invention of “research man”
Patrick S Vitale, New York University and Eastern Connecticut State University

Working at the margins? Muslim middle class professionals in India and the limits of ‘labour agency’
Philippa Williams, Queen Mary University of London
Al James, Newcastle University
Fiona McConnell, University of Oxford
Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge

2016

The birth of the flexible mine: Changing geographies of mining and the e-waste commodity frontier
Freyja Knapp, University of California

Reterritorializing economic governance: Contracts, space, and law in transborder economic geographies
Shaina Potts, University of California

2015

Postcolonial perspectives on global production networks: insights from Flower Valley in South Africa
Alex Hughes, Newcastle University
Cheryl McEwan, Durham University
David Bek, Durham University

Wine-washing: colonization, normalization, and the geopolitics of terroir in the West Bank's settlements
Ariel Handel, Ben Gurion University
Galit Rand, independent researcher
Marco Allegra, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

2014

The chaebol and the US military–industrial complex: Cold War geopolitical economy and South Korean industrialization
Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia
Young-Jin Choi, Seoul National University

Paving (through) Amazonia: neoliberal urbanism and the reperipheralization of Roraima
J Miguel Kanai, University of Miami
Rafael da Silva Oliveira, Federal University of Roraima

India’s urban revolution: geographies of displacement beyond gentrification
D Asher Ghertner, Rutgers University

2010

Inextinguishable fibres: demolition and the vital materialisms of asbestos
Nicky Gregson, University of Sheffield
Helen Watkins, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
Melania Calestani, University of Southampton

Displacing New York
Elvin Wyly, University of British Columbia
Kathe Newman, Rutgers University
Alex Schafran, University of California at Berkeley
Elizabeth Lee, University of British Columbia

2009

The Software Slump?: digital music, the democratisation of technology, and the decline of the recording studio sector within the musical economy
Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham

Pimping climate change: Richard Branson, global warming, and the performance of green capitalism
Scott Prudham, University of Toronto

2008

Images and imagination in 20th-century environmentalism: from the Sierras to the Poles
Denis Cosgrove, University of California at Los Angeles [posthumously]

The emotional economy of housing Hazel Christie, University of Edinburgh
Hazel Christie, University of Edinburgh
Susan Smith, University of Durham
Moira Munro, University of Glasgow

Biosecurity after the event: risk politics and animal disease
Andrew Donaldson, Newcastle University

2007

‘Gde muzh, tam zhena’ (where the husband is, so is the wife): space and gender in post-Soviet patterns of penality
Judith Pallot, Oxford University

'The rigours of an arctic experiment': the precarious authority of field practices in the Canadian High Arctic, 1958-1970
Richard Powell, University of Manchester

2006

Hip-hop gangsta or most deserving of victims? Transnational migrant identities and the paradox of Tibetan racialization in the USA
Emily Yeh, University of Colorado at Boulder
Kunga Lama, University of Colorado at Boulder

Grounded visualization; integrating the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data through grounded theory and visualization
LaDona Knigge, State University of New York at Buffalo
Meghan Cope, State University of New York at Buffalo

2005

Globalisation, academic capitalism, and the uneven geographies of international journal publishing spaces
Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu

Devolution in the woods: community forestry as hybrid neoliberalism
James McCarthy, Penn State University

2004

Back to the land: the paradox of organic food standards
Julie Guthman, University of California at Santa Cruz

Is there a global link between regional disparities and devolution?
Andres Rodriguez-Pose, London School of Economics
Nicholas Gill, London School of Economics

2003

Trojan pig: paradoxes of food safety regulation
Elizabeth C. Dunn, University of Colorado

Deprivation, diet, and food-retail access: findings from the Leeds ‘food deserts’ study
Neil Wrigley, University of Southampton
Daniel Warm, University of Southampton
Barrie Margetts, University of Southampton

2002

Ethnicity and the multicultural city: living with diversity
Ash Amin, University of Durham

Distributing intelligence and organizing diversity in new-media projects
David Stark, Columbia University
Monique Girard, Columbia University

2001

Theories of local economic growth (part 1): concepts, models, and measurement
Theories of local economic growth (part 2): model specification and empirical validation
Paul Plummer, University of Southampton

Institutional re(turns) and the strategic - relational approach
Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster

2000

Social justice revisited
David M. Smith, University of London

Professionalisation, activism, and the university: whither ‘critical geography’?
Noel Castree, Liverpool University

1999

The politics of relocation: gender, nationality, and value in a Mexican maquiladora
Melissa Wright, The University of Georgia

Accumulation and the rate of profit: regulating the macro-economy
Michael Webber, University of Melbourne
David Rigby, University of California at Los Angeles