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60
Citations
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World Ranking
1466
National Ranking
699

Overview

Eric Sheppard is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the domain of Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Finance, and Political Science and International Relations.

Sheppard's work spans several core topics, including Urban Planning and Governance, Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Socioeconomic Development in Asia, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Historical Geography and Geographical Thought, Geographic Information Systems Studies, and Political Economy and Marxism.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? (2021, Economic Geography)
  • World Class Aspirations, Urban Informality, and Poverty Politics: A North-South Comparison (2020, Antipode)

Frequently appearing publication venues where Sheppard's research has been published include Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, The AAG Review of Books, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, and International Encyclopedia of Geography.

Sheppard has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Helga Leitner, Samuel Nowak, Trevor J. Barnes, Emma Colven, and Dian Tri Irawaty.

Best Publications

  • The Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality*

    Eric Sheppard

  • The spatialities of contentious politics

    Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard;Kristin M. Sziarto

  • Contesting neoliberalism : urban frontiers

    Helga Leitner;Jamie Peck;Eric S. Sheppard

  • GIS and Society: Towards a Research Agenda

    Eric Sheppard

  • Urban Pulse-provincializing Global Urbanism: A Manifesto

    Eric Sheppard;Helga Leitner;Anant Maringanti

  • Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?: By Brett Christophers London: Verso, 2020.

    Eric Sheppard

  • ‘Nothing includes everything’: towards engaged pluralism in Anglophone economic geography

    Trevor J. Barnes;Eric Sheppard

  • Scale and Geographic Inquiry

    Eric S. Sheppard;Robert Brainerd McMaster

  • A companion to economic geography

    Eric S. Sheppard;Trevor J. Barnes

  • Knowledge Production through Critical GIS: Genealogy and Prospects

    Eric Sheppard

  • Quantitative Geography: Representations, Practices, and Possibilities

    Eric Sheppard

  • Quo vadis neoliberalism? The remaking of global capitalist governance after the Washington Consensus

    Eric Sheppard;Helga Leitner

  • The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis After Ricardo, Marx and Sraffa

    Eric Sheppard;Trevor Barnes

  • GIS-based measures of environmental equity: exploring their sensitivity and significance.

    E R I C Sheppard;H E L G A Leitner;Robert B Mcmaster;H O N G G U O Tian

  • China's Eco-Cities as Variegated1 Urban Sustainability: Dongtan Eco-City and Chongming Eco-Island

    I-Chun Catherine Chang;Eric Sheppard

  • Geographical political economy

    Eric Sheppard

  • Globalizing urban resilience

    Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard;Sophie Webber;Emma Colven

  • Introduction to the Varenius project

    Michael F. Goodchild;Max J. Egenhofer;Karen K. Kemp;David M. Mark

  • “The City is Dead, Long Live the Net”: Harnessing European Interurban Networks for a Neoliberal Agenda

    Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard

  • GIS-based Environmental Equity and Risk Assessment: Methodological Problems and Prospects

    Robert B. McMaster;Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard

  • Economic theory and underdeveloped regions

    Eric Sheppard

Frequent Co-Authors

Helga Leitner
Helga Leitner University of California, Los Angeles
Trevor J. Barnes
Trevor J. Barnes University of British Columbia
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Sarah Elwood
Sarah Elwood University of Washington
Don Mitchell
Don Mitchell Uppsala University
Franz Tödtling
Franz Tödtling Vienna University of Economics and Business
Michael Webber
Michael Webber University of Melbourne
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey The Open University
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield
Andrew Sayer
Andrew Sayer Lancaster University

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