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D-Index
44
Citations
9194
World Ranking
4114
National Ranking
692

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Clive Barnett is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and has contributed to the field of Social Sciences with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Global and Planetary Change, and General Health Professions.

Their research work spans a variety of topics including Urban Planning and Governance, Political Philosophy and Ethics, Data Analysis and Archiving, Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Political and Economic history of the UK and US, and Political Economy and Marxism.

Clive Barnett has published articles in several academic venues, notably:

  • History of the Human Sciences
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • The AAG Review of Books
  • Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks

Significant recent papers include:

  • "The wicked city: Genealogies of interdisciplinary hubris in urban thought" (2021), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • "The strange case of urban theory" (2020), Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • "Must we mean what we do? - Review Symposium on Leys's The Ascent of Affect" (2020), History of the Human Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include Nick Clarke, Michael Samers, Joshua Barkan, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, and Jennifer L. Fluri, with multiple coauthored works particularly with Nick Clarke.

Within their career, Clive Barnett has received recognition such as the fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Consuming Ethics: Articulating the Subjects and Spaces of Ethical Consumption

    Clive Barnett;Paul Cloke;Nick Clarke;Alice Malpass

  • The consolations of ‘neoliberalism’

    Clive Barnett

  • Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption

    Clive Barnett;Paul Cloke;Nick Clarke;Alice Malpass

  • The cultural turn: fashion or progress in human geography?

    Clive Barnett

  • Globalising the consumer: Doing politics in an ethical register

    Nick Clarke;Clive Barnett;Paul Cloke;Alice Malpass

  • Ways of relating: hospitality and the acknowledgement of otherness

    Clive Barnett

  • Philosophy and ethical consumption

    Terry Newholm;Clive Barnett;Philip Cafaro

  • Geographies of generosity: Beyond the ‘moral turn’

    Clive Barnett;David Land

  • Political affects in public space: normative blind-spots in non-representational ontologies

    Clive Barnett

  • Culture and Democracy: Media, Space and Representation

    Clive Barnett

  • Publics and markets: what's wrong with neoliberalism?

    Clive Barnett

  • Ideas, implementation and indicators: epistemologies of the post-2015 urban agenda:

    Clive Barnett;Susan Parnell

  • Culture, policy, and subsidiarity in the European Union: from symbolic identity to the governmentalisation of culture

    Clive Barnett

  • The political ethics of consumerism

    Clive Barnett;Nick Clarke;Paul Cloke;Alice Malpass

  • Deconstructing radical democracy: articulation, representation and being-with-others

    Clive Barnett

  • The spaces and ethics of organic food

    Nick Clarke;Paul Cloke;Clive Barnett;Alice Malpass

  • The elusive subjects of neo-liberalism

    Clive Barnett;Nick Clarke;Paul Cloke;Alice Malpass

  • Extending hospitality:giving space, taking time

    Mustafa Dikec;Nigel Clark;Clive Barnett

  • Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation

    Clive Barnett;Murray Low

  • The Political Rationalities of Fair-Trade Consumption in the United Kingdom

    Nick Clarke;Clive Barnett;Paul Cloke;Alice Malpass

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Cloke
Paul Cloke University of Exeter
Gillian Rose
Gillian Rose University of Oxford
Susan Parnell
Susan Parnell University of Cape Town
Mike Crang
Mike Crang Durham University

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