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Matthew Sparke is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences, with notable contributions in areas such as general health professions, sociology and political science, finance, economics and econometrics, and political science and international relations.

The primary topics covered in their work include housing, finance, and neoliberalism; employment and welfare studies; biomedical ethics and regulation; urban planning and governance; geographies of human-animal interactions; global public health policies and epidemiology; and healthcare systems and challenges.

Sparke has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • International Encyclopedia of Geography
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Territory Politics Governance

Recent papers by Sparke include:

  • Neoliberal disease: COVID-19, co-pathogenesis and global health insecurities (2021, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space)
  • Contextualising coronavirus geographically (2020, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers)
  • Competing Responses to Global Inequalities in Access to COVID Vaccines: Vaccine Diplomacy and Vaccine Charity Versus Vaccine Liberty (2022, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Comparing and connecting territories of illiberal politics and neoliberal governance (2020, Territory Politics Governance)
  • Defining geoeconomics amid shifts in global hegemony: Critical geographies of new international conjunctures (2024, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space)

Throughout their research career, Sparke has frequently collaborated with several co-authors. These include:

  • Owain David Williams
  • Dimitar Anguelov
  • Markus Roos Breines
  • James Esson
  • Jessica Hope

Best Publications

  • A neoliberal nexus: Economy, security and the biopolitics of citizenship on the border

    Matthew B. Sparke

  • In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State

    Matthew Sparke

  • A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation

    Matthew Sparke

  • Geopolitical Fears, Geoeconomic Hopes, and the Responsibilities of Geography

    Matthew Sparke

  • Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

    Matthew Sparke

  • Triangulating the borderless world: geographies of power in the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle

    Matthew Sparke;James D Sidaway;Tim Bunnell;Carl Grundy-Warr

  • Introduction: Professional Geography and the Corporatization ofthe University: Experiences, Evaluations, and Engagements

    Noel Castree;Matthew Sparke

  • Political geography: political geographies of globalization (1) ¿ dominance

    Matthew Sparke

  • Political geography — political geographies of globalization III: resistance:

    Matthew Sparke

  • The New Washington Consensus: Millennial Philanthropy and the Making of Global Market Subjects

    Katharyne Mitchell;Matthew Sparke

  • From geopolitics to geoeconomics: Transnational state effects in the borderlands

    Matthew Sparke

  • Everywhere But Always Somewhere: Critical Geographies of the Global South

    Matthew Sparke

  • Austerity and the embodiment of neoliberalism as ill-health: Towards a theory of biological sub-citizenship.

    Matthew Sparke

  • Between Demythologizing and Deconstructing the Map: Shawnadithit's New-found-land and the Alienation of Canada

    Matthew Sparke

  • Graphing the geo in geo-political: Critical Geopolitics and the re-visioning of responsibility

    Matthew Sparke

  • In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State

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  • Not a State, But More than a State of Mind: Cascading Cascadias and the Geoeconomics of Cross-Border Regionalism

    Matthew Sparke

  • H1N1, globalization and the epidemiology of inequality

    Matthew Sparke;Dimitar Anguelov

  • American Empire and Globalisation: Postcolonial Speculations on Neocolonial Enframing

    Matthew Sparke

  • Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health

    Matthew Sparke

  • Neoliberal disease: COVID-19, co-pathogenesis and global health insecurities

    Matthew Sparke;Owain David Williams

  • Contextualising coronavirus geographically

    Matthew Sparke;Dimitar Anguelov

  • A review of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. By Quinn Slobodain

    Matthew Sparke

Frequent Co-Authors

Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
James D. Sidaway
James D. Sidaway National University of Singapore
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
John Agnew
John Agnew University of California, Los Angeles

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