Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest papers

Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy.
Progress in human geography · 2025 · first author
Articulating conjunctural analysis.
Dialogues in human geography · 2024 · first author
Into the zone.
Environment & planning A · 2024 · first author

All 6 publications

Latest funding

Ideational geographies
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$45,000
Breaking new ground: economic integration and regulatory transformation in China's Greater Bay Area
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$184,665
Breaking new ground: economic integration and regulatory transformation in China's Greater Bay Area
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$166,117

All 13 grants and awards

6 publications.

01

Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy.

Peck J, Meulbroek C, Phillips R

Progress in human geography2025First author

DOI: 10.1177/03091325251326790 PMID: 40406506

02

Articulating conjunctural analysis.

Peck J

Dialogues in human geography2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/20438206241242471 PMID: 39651335

03

Into the zone.

Peck J

Environment & planning A2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241285547 PMID: 39545174

04

A place to start?

Peck J

Environment & planning A2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231198008 PMID: 39238931

05

Doing economics differently.

Peck J

Environment & planning A2023First author

DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231202916 PMID: 37969422

06

Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development.

Alami I, Whiteside H, Dixon AD, Peck J

Environment & planning A2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231156913 PMID: 37180846

Ideational geographies

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Peck, Jamie A.

Keywords: ideas; economic thought; intellectual history; political-economic geography

$45,000

Breaking new ground: economic integration and regulatory transformation in China's Greater Bay Area

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Peck, Jamie A.

Keywords: regional economic integration; innvovation; economic restructuring; local economic develolpment

$184,665

Breaking new ground: economic integration and regulatory transformation in China's Greater Bay Area

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Peck, Jamie A.

Keywords: regional economic integration; innvovation; economic restructuring; local economic develolpment

$166,117

Summer Institute in Economic Geography

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Peck, Jamie A.

Keywords: economic geography; research training; professional development; research methodologies; pedagogy; community service; policy

$24,994

The hidden costs of supply chains: a global investigation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Grants

Keywords: journalism; international reporting; investigative reporting; broadcast media; global supply chains; corruption; forced labour; environmental impact; consumerism; corporate social responsibility; global environmental governance; ethical trade

$1,864,095

Hong Kong at the edge

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Peck, Jamie

Keywords: (1) economic development; (2) models of capitalism; (3) economic policy; (4) economic regulation; (5) policy experiments

$74,546

The hidden costs of supply chains: a global investigation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Grants

Keywords: journalism; international reporting; investigative reporting; broadcast media; global supply chains; corruption; forced labour; environmental impact; consumerism; corporate social responsibility; global environmental governance; ethical trade

$625,538

Geographies of markets

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Peck, Jamie A.

Keywords: markets; marketization; neoliberalism; economic geography; socioeconomics; Karl Polanyi

$24,726

The hidden costs of global supply chains: a global investigation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: journalism; international reporting; broadcast media; investigative reporting; global supply chains; consumerism; global environmental governance; corporate social responsibility; ethical trade

$20,000

Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Peck, Jamie

Keywords: neoliberalism; labor regulation; urban politics; state restructuring

$1,400,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Heather Whiteside

Economic Geography

1 shared papers, latest 2023

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Peck, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Ideational geographies" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]