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Overview

Martin Jones is affiliated with Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Social Sciences with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, and General Health Professions.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism; Geographies of human-animal interactions; Urban Planning and Governance; Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis; Regional resilience and development; Cultural Industries and Urban Development; and the Political and Economic history of the UK and US.

Recent scholarly papers authored or co-authored by Martin Jones include:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic: territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis (2020), published in Territory Politics Governance
  • For a 'new new regional geography': plastic regions and more-than-relational regionality (2022), published in Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography
  • A dialogue on uneven development: a distinctly regional problem (2022), published in Regional Studies
  • Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development (2022), published in Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • City region limits: Questioning city-centric growth narratives in medium-sized cities (2021), published in Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

Jones frequently publishes alongside co-authors such as David Beel, Ian Rees Jones, Matthew Thompson, David Etherington, and Klaus Dodds.

Their work appears regularly in academic venues including Territory Politics Governance, Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography, Regional Studies, and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In addition to journal articles, Martin Jones has contributed to book publications, notably with the University of Staffordshire where one known title is "City Regions and Devolution in the UK: The Politics of Representation" published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • State/Space:A Reader

    Neil Brenner;Bob Jessop;Martin Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • Theorizing Sociospatial Relations

    Bob Jessop;Neil Brenner;Martin Russell Jones

  • Phase space: geography, relational thinking, and beyond:

    Martin Jones

  • Spatial Selectivity of the State? The Regulationist Enigma and Local Struggles over Economic Governance

    M R Jones

  • TERRITORIAL, SCALAR, NETWORKED, CONNECTED:IN WHAT SENSE A `REGIONAL WORLD??

    Gordon Macleod;Martin Russell Jones

  • Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question

    Martin Russell Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics

    Martin Jones;Rhys Jones;Michael Woods;Mark Whitehead

  • The Rise of the Regional State in Economic Governance: ‘Partnerships for Prosperity’ Or New Scales of State Power?

    Martin Russell Jones

  • Renewing the Geography of Regions

    Gordon MacLeod;Martin Russell Jones

  • Excavating the logic of British urban policy: Neoliberalism as the "crisis of crisis-management"

    Martin Russell Jones;Kevin Ward

  • Renewing urban politics.

    Gordon MacLeod;Martin Russell Jones

  • Towards a Regional Renaissance? Reconfiguring and Rescaling England's Economic Governance

    Martin Russell Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: Explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state

    M. A. Goodwin;Martin Russell Jones;Rhys Alwyn Jones

  • New institutional spaces: training and enterprise councils and the remaking of economic governance

    Martin Russell Jones

  • The COVID-19 pandemic: territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis

    Klaus Dodds;Vanesa Castan Broto;Klaus Detterbeck;Martin Jones

  • Introduction: State Space in Question

    Neil Brenner;Bob Jessop;Martin Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • The nature of the state: excavating the political ecologies of the modern state

    M. Whitehead;Rhys Alwyn Jones;Martin Russell Jones

  • Restructuring the local state: economic governance or social regulation?

    Martin Russell Jones

  • Governmental financial resilience under austerity in Austria, England and Italy: How do local governments cope with financial shocks?

    Carmela Barbera;Martin Jones;Sanja Korac;Iris Saliterer

  • Space and spatiality in theory

    Peter Merriman;Martin Jones;Gunnar Olsson;Eric Sheppard

  • City-Regions: New Geographies of Uneven Development and Inequality

    D. Etherington;Martin Russell Jones

  • Devolution, state personnel, and the production of new territories of governance in the United Kingdom

    Rhys Alwyn Jones;M. Goodwin;Martin Russell Jones;Glen Simpson

  • Thinking state/space incompossibly

    Martin Jones;Bob Jessop

  • Filling in’ the State: Economic Governance and the Evolution of Devolution in Wales

    Rhys Alwyn Jones;M. Goodwin;Martin Russell Jones;K. Pett

  • Recovering a sense of political economy

    Martin Jones

  • Researching local elites: reflexivity, ‘situatedness’ and political-temporal contingency

    Kevin G. Ward;Martin Russell Jones

  • Guest Editorial: Regional World(s): Advancing the Geography of Regions

    Martin Jones;Anssi Paasi

  • An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics [2nd Edition]

    Martin Jones;Rhys Jones;Michael Woods;Mark Whitehead

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Goodwin
Mark Goodwin University of Exeter
Gordon MacLeod
Gordon MacLeod Durham University
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Bob Jessop
Bob Jessop Lancaster University
Neil Brenner
Neil Brenner University of Chicago
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Anssi Paasi
Anssi Paasi University of Oulu
Eric Sheppard
Eric Sheppard University of California, Los Angeles
Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
Yvonne Rydin
Yvonne Rydin University College London

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