Publications by category
Books
Cloke P, Crang P, Goodwin M (2014).
Envisioning human geographies.Abstract:
Envisioning human geographies
Abstract.
Cloke P, Crang P, Goodwin M (eds)(2014). Introducing Human Geographies. London, Routledge.
Goodwin MA, Jones M, Jones R (2012). Rescaling the State: Devolution and the Geographies of Economic Governance. Manchester, Manchester University Press.
Cook IJ, Cloke P, Crang P, Philo C, Goodwin M, Painter J (2004). Practising human geography. London, Sage.
Journal articles
Williams A, Cloke P, May J, Goodwin M (2016). Contested space: the contradictory political dynamics of food banking in the UK.
Environment and Planning A,
48(11), 2291-2316.
Abstract:
Contested space: the contradictory political dynamics of food banking in the UK
This paper offers a critical reappraisal of the politics of food banking in the UK. Existing work has raised concerns about the institutionalisation of food banks, with charitable assistance apparently – even if inadvertently – undermining collectivist welfare and deflecting attention from fundamental injustices in the food system. This paper presents original ethnographic work that examines the neglected politics articulated within food banks themselves. Conceptualising food banks as potential spaces of encounter where predominantly middle-class volunteers come into contact with ‘poor others’ (Lawson and Elwood, 2013), we illustrate the ways food banks may both reinforce but also rework and generate new, ethical and political attitudes, beliefs and identities. We also draw attention to the limits of these progressive possibilities and examine the ways in which some food banks continue to operate within a set of highly restrictive, and stigmatising, welfare technologies. By highlighting the contradictory dynamics at work in food bank organisations, and among food bank volunteers and clients, we suggest the political role of food banks warrants neither uncritical celebration nor outright dismissal. Rather, food banks represent a highly ambiguous political space still in the making and open to contestation.
Abstract.
Williams APJ, Goodwin M, Cloke P (2014). Neoliberalism, Big Society and Progressive Localism.
Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research,
46(12), 2798-2815.
Abstract:
Neoliberalism, Big Society and Progressive Localism
In the UK, the current Coalition government has introduced an unprecedented set of reforms to welfare, public services and local governance under the rubric of localism. Conventional analytics of neoliberalism have commonly portrayed the impacts of these changes in the architectures of governance in blanket terms: as an utterly regressive dilution of local democracy; as an extension of conservative political technology by which state welfare is denuded in favour of market-led individualism; and as a further politicised subjectification of the charitable self. Such seemingly hegemonic grammars of critique can ignore or underestimate the progressive possibilities for creating new ethical and political spaces in amongst the neoliberal canvas. In this paper we investigate the localism agenda using alternative interpretative grammars that are more open to the recognition of interstitial politics of resistance and experimentation that are springing up within, across and beyond formations of the neoliberal. We analyse the broad framework of intentional localisms laid down by the Coalition, and then point to four significant pathways by which more progressive articulations of localism have been emerging in amongst the neoliberal infrastructure. In so doing we seek to endorse and expand imaginations of political activism that accentuate an interstitial political sensibility that works strategically, and even subversively, with the tools at hand.
Abstract.
Goodwin M (2013). Regions, Territories and Relationality: Exploring the Regional Dimensions of Political Practice.
Regional Studies,
47(8), 1181-1190.
Abstract:
Regions, Territories and Relationality: Exploring the Regional Dimensions of Political Practice
Recent conceptual innovations in the discipline of geography have sought to establish the notion of the 'relational region'. In opposition to the idea that regions are bounded and discrete, lying within a hierarchy of nested scales, the relational view sees a region as open and discontinuous, forged through a set of spatially stretched articulations and networks. This paper explores what this relational view might contribute to an understanding of the region's role in promoting sustainability, using the South West region of England as a case study. It concludes by arguing that regions are constituted through territoriality as well as relationality. © 2013 Regional Studies Association.
Abstract.
Goodwin MA (2012). Regions, Territories and Relationality: Exploring the Regional Dimensions of Political Practice. Regional Studies
Pemberton S, Goodwin M (2010). Rethinking the changing structures of rural local government - state power, rural politics and local political strategies?.
Journal of Rural StudiesAbstract:
Rethinking the changing structures of rural local government - state power, rural politics and local political strategies?
There is a notable absence in contemporary rural studies - of both a theoretical and empirical nature - concerning the changing nature of rural local government. Despite the scale and significance of successive rounds of local government reorganisation in the UK, very little has been written on this topic from a rural perspective. Instead research on local political change has tended to concentrate on local governance and local partnerships – on the extra-governmental aspects of the governance system – rather than on local government itself. In contrast, this paper draws upon strategic relational state theory to explore the changing structures and institutions of rural local government, and analyse how these can be related to the changing state strategies of those groups which are politically powerful in rural areas. In this respect, the paper draws on current and previous rounds of local government reorganisation to illustrate how new objects of governance, new state strategies and new hegemonic projects are emerging as a consequence of such restructuring processes.
Abstract.
Goodwin M, Jones M, Jones R (2006). Devolution and economic governance in the UK: Rescaling territories and organizations.
European Planning Studies,
14(7), 979-995.
Abstract:
Devolution and economic governance in the UK: Rescaling territories and organizations
Issues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across much of Western Europe, but these general processes of restructuring take on different inflections in different countries. This paper will concentrate on the case of the UK, and in particular will explore the ways in which devolution has provided the opportunity for significant changes to the UK's structures of economic governance. This paper explores these issues both conceptually and empirically. Conceptually, it modifies Jessop's strategic-relational approach (SRA) to state theory. Empirically, it uses case studies from each of the UK's devolved territories to explore the dynamic and uneven processes through which post-devolution state structures are being actively rescaled and reshaped. © 2006 Taylor & Francis.
Abstract.
Goodwin M (2006). New state spaces: urban governance and the resealing of statehood.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A,
38(11), 2193-2194.
Author URL.
Goodwin MA, Jones M, Jones R (2005). Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state. Regional Studies, 39(4), 421-436.
Jones M, Goodwin M, Jones R (2005). State modernization, devolution and economic governance: an introduction and guide to debate. Regional Studies, 39(4), 397-403.
Goodwin MA, Jones M, Jones R, Simpson G (2004). Devolution, state personnel, and the production of new territories of governance in the United Kingdom. Environment and Planning A, 36(1), 89-109.
Goodwin MA, Edwards B, Pemberton S, Woods M (2001). Partnerships, power and scale in rural governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 19(2), 289-310.
Chapters
Cloke P, Goodwin M (2017). Conceptualizing countryside change: from post-Fordism to rural structured coherence. In (Ed)
The Rural: Critical Essays in Human Geography, 261-276.
Abstract:
Conceptualizing countryside change: from post-Fordism to rural structured coherence
Abstract.
Goodwin M (2013). The local state and urban politics. In (Ed) Territory, the State and Urban Politics: a Critical Appreciation of the Selected Writings of Kevin R. Cox, 45-54.
Goodwin M (2012). Regulation theory. In (Ed)
International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, 22-27.
Abstract:
Regulation theory
Abstract.
Goodwin M (2012). The local state and urban politics. In (Ed) Territory, the State and Urban Politics: a Critical Appreciation of the Selected Writings of Kevin R. Cox, 45-54.
Goodwin M (2009). Governance. In (Ed)
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 593-599.
Abstract:
Governance
Abstract.
Goodwin M (2008). Rural Governance, devolution & policy delivery. In Woods M (Ed) New Labour's Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain since 1997, Bristol: the Policy Press, 45-58.
Cropper S, Goodwin M (2007). Policy experiments: Policy making, implementation and learning. In al SCE (Ed) Community, Health and Wellbeing: Action research on Inequalities, Bristol: Policy Press, 23-48.
Goodwin M (2006). Regulating rurality? Rural studies and the regulation approach. In (Ed) Handbook of Rural Studies, 304-316.
Goodwin M, Jones M, Jones RA (2006). The theoretical challenge of devolution and constitutional change in the United Kingdom. In (Ed) Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning: Spatial Governance in a Fragmented Nation, 35-46.
Goodwin MA (2004). Recovering the future: a post-disciplinary perspective on Geography and Political Economy. In Cloke P, Crang P, Goodwin M (Eds.) Envisioning Human Geography, Hodder Arnold, 65-80.
Publications by year
2017
Cloke P, Goodwin M (2017). Conceptualizing countryside change: from post-Fordism to rural structured coherence. In (Ed)
The Rural: Critical Essays in Human Geography, 261-276.
Abstract:
Conceptualizing countryside change: from post-Fordism to rural structured coherence
Abstract.
2016
Williams A, Cloke P, May J, Goodwin M (2016). Contested space: the contradictory political dynamics of food banking in the UK.
Environment and Planning A,
48(11), 2291-2316.
Abstract:
Contested space: the contradictory political dynamics of food banking in the UK
This paper offers a critical reappraisal of the politics of food banking in the UK. Existing work has raised concerns about the institutionalisation of food banks, with charitable assistance apparently – even if inadvertently – undermining collectivist welfare and deflecting attention from fundamental injustices in the food system. This paper presents original ethnographic work that examines the neglected politics articulated within food banks themselves. Conceptualising food banks as potential spaces of encounter where predominantly middle-class volunteers come into contact with ‘poor others’ (Lawson and Elwood, 2013), we illustrate the ways food banks may both reinforce but also rework and generate new, ethical and political attitudes, beliefs and identities. We also draw attention to the limits of these progressive possibilities and examine the ways in which some food banks continue to operate within a set of highly restrictive, and stigmatising, welfare technologies. By highlighting the contradictory dynamics at work in food bank organisations, and among food bank volunteers and clients, we suggest the political role of food banks warrants neither uncritical celebration nor outright dismissal. Rather, food banks represent a highly ambiguous political space still in the making and open to contestation.
Abstract.
2014
Cloke P, Crang P, Goodwin M (2014).
Envisioning human geographies.Abstract:
Envisioning human geographies
Abstract.
Cloke P, Crang P, Goodwin M (eds)(2014). Introducing Human Geographies. London, Routledge.
Williams APJ, Goodwin M, Cloke P (2014). Neoliberalism, Big Society and Progressive Localism.
Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research,
46(12), 2798-2815.
Abstract:
Neoliberalism, Big Society and Progressive Localism
In the UK, the current Coalition government has introduced an unprecedented set of reforms to welfare, public services and local governance under the rubric of localism. Conventional analytics of neoliberalism have commonly portrayed the impacts of these changes in the architectures of governance in blanket terms: as an utterly regressive dilution of local democracy; as an extension of conservative political technology by which state welfare is denuded in favour of market-led individualism; and as a further politicised subjectification of the charitable self. Such seemingly hegemonic grammars of critique can ignore or underestimate the progressive possibilities for creating new ethical and political spaces in amongst the neoliberal canvas. In this paper we investigate the localism agenda using alternative interpretative grammars that are more open to the recognition of interstitial politics of resistance and experimentation that are springing up within, across and beyond formations of the neoliberal. We analyse the broad framework of intentional localisms laid down by the Coalition, and then point to four significant pathways by which more progressive articulations of localism have been emerging in amongst the neoliberal infrastructure. In so doing we seek to endorse and expand imaginations of political activism that accentuate an interstitial political sensibility that works strategically, and even subversively, with the tools at hand.
Abstract.
2013
Goodwin M (2013). Regions, Territories and Relationality: Exploring the Regional Dimensions of Political Practice.
Regional Studies,
47(8), 1181-1190.
Abstract:
Regions, Territories and Relationality: Exploring the Regional Dimensions of Political Practice
Recent conceptual innovations in the discipline of geography have sought to establish the notion of the 'relational region'. In opposition to the idea that regions are bounded and discrete, lying within a hierarchy of nested scales, the relational view sees a region as open and discontinuous, forged through a set of spatially stretched articulations and networks. This paper explores what this relational view might contribute to an understanding of the region's role in promoting sustainability, using the South West region of England as a case study. It concludes by arguing that regions are constituted through territoriality as well as relationality. © 2013 Regional Studies Association.
Abstract.
Goodwin M (2013). The local state and urban politics. In (Ed) Territory, the State and Urban Politics: a Critical Appreciation of the Selected Writings of Kevin R. Cox, 45-54.
2012
Goodwin MA (2012). Regions, Territories and Relationality: Exploring the Regional Dimensions of Political Practice. Regional Studies
Goodwin M (2012). Regulation theory. In (Ed)
International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, 22-27.
Abstract:
Regulation theory
Abstract.
Goodwin MA, Jones M, Jones R (2012). Rescaling the State: Devolution and the Geographies of Economic Governance. Manchester, Manchester University Press.
Goodwin M (2012). The local state and urban politics. In (Ed) Territory, the State and Urban Politics: a Critical Appreciation of the Selected Writings of Kevin R. Cox, 45-54.
2010
Pemberton S, Goodwin M (2010). Rethinking the changing structures of rural local government - state power, rural politics and local political strategies?.
Journal of Rural StudiesAbstract:
Rethinking the changing structures of rural local government - state power, rural politics and local political strategies?
There is a notable absence in contemporary rural studies - of both a theoretical and empirical nature - concerning the changing nature of rural local government. Despite the scale and significance of successive rounds of local government reorganisation in the UK, very little has been written on this topic from a rural perspective. Instead research on local political change has tended to concentrate on local governance and local partnerships – on the extra-governmental aspects of the governance system – rather than on local government itself. In contrast, this paper draws upon strategic relational state theory to explore the changing structures and institutions of rural local government, and analyse how these can be related to the changing state strategies of those groups which are politically powerful in rural areas. In this respect, the paper draws on current and previous rounds of local government reorganisation to illustrate how new objects of governance, new state strategies and new hegemonic projects are emerging as a consequence of such restructuring processes.
Abstract.
2009
Goodwin M (2009). Governance. In (Ed)
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 593-599.
Abstract:
Governance
Abstract.
2008
Goodwin M (2008). Rural Governance, devolution & policy delivery. In Woods M (Ed) New Labour's Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain since 1997, Bristol: the Policy Press, 45-58.
Goodwin M (2008). Understanding Urban Policy.
GEOGRAPHY,
93, 187-187.
Author URL.
2007
Cropper S, Goodwin M (2007). Policy experiments: Policy making, implementation and learning. In al SCE (Ed) Community, Health and Wellbeing: Action research on Inequalities, Bristol: Policy Press, 23-48.
2006
Goodwin M, Jones M, Jones R (2006). Devolution and economic governance in the UK: Rescaling territories and organizations.
European Planning Studies,
14(7), 979-995.
Abstract:
Devolution and economic governance in the UK: Rescaling territories and organizations
Issues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across much of Western Europe, but these general processes of restructuring take on different inflections in different countries. This paper will concentrate on the case of the UK, and in particular will explore the ways in which devolution has provided the opportunity for significant changes to the UK's structures of economic governance. This paper explores these issues both conceptually and empirically. Conceptually, it modifies Jessop's strategic-relational approach (SRA) to state theory. Empirically, it uses case studies from each of the UK's devolved territories to explore the dynamic and uneven processes through which post-devolution state structures are being actively rescaled and reshaped. © 2006 Taylor & Francis.
Abstract.
Goodwin M (2006). New state spaces: urban governance and the resealing of statehood.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A,
38(11), 2193-2194.
Author URL.
Goodwin M (2006). Regulating rurality? Rural studies and the regulation approach. In (Ed) Handbook of Rural Studies, 304-316.
Goodwin M, Jones M, Jones RA (2006). The theoretical challenge of devolution and constitutional change in the United Kingdom. In (Ed) Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning: Spatial Governance in a Fragmented Nation, 35-46.
2005
Goodwin MA, Jones M, Jones R (2005). Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state. Regional Studies, 39(4), 421-436.
Jones M, Goodwin M, Jones R (2005). State modernization, devolution and economic governance: an introduction and guide to debate. Regional Studies, 39(4), 397-403.
2004
Goodwin MA, Jones M, Jones R, Simpson G (2004). Devolution, state personnel, and the production of new territories of governance in the United Kingdom. Environment and Planning A, 36(1), 89-109.
Cook IJ, Cloke P, Crang P, Philo C, Goodwin M, Painter J (2004). Practising human geography. London, Sage.
Goodwin MA (2004). Recovering the future: a post-disciplinary perspective on Geography and Political Economy. In Cloke P, Crang P, Goodwin M (Eds.) Envisioning Human Geography, Hodder Arnold, 65-80.
2001
Goodwin MA, Edwards B, Pemberton S, Woods M (2001). Partnerships, power and scale in rural governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 19(2), 289-310.
