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1058

Overview

Neil Brenner is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and focuses on research within the social sciences. Their scholarly contributions span several interdisciplinary subfields, including general agricultural and biological sciences, geography, planning and development, plant science, urban studies, and political science and international relations.

The main topics covered in their work include agriculture, land use, and rural development; geographies of human-animal interactions; urban agriculture and sustainability; urban planning and governance; water governance and infrastructure; and political economy and Marxism. These areas reflect a broad engagement with issues related to urban environments, sustainability, and political-economic processes.

Recent papers authored by Neil Brenner include:

  • "Operational Landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene," 2020, Architectural Design
  • "Between the colossal and the catastrophic: Planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease," 2022, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • "Institutional Reflexivity when Facing the Planetary: An Interview," 2022, Environmental Philosophy
  • "Issue Information," 2023, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
  • "The Monster 'Within': Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation," 2025, Development and Change

The venues in which Brenner frequently publishes include Architectural Design, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Environmental Philosophy, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Development and Change.

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Brenner's work, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Nikos Katsikis
  • Swarnabh Ghosh
  • Harvey Molotch
  • Maria Kaïka
  • Roger Keil

Neil Brenner's research contributions engage with current urban and environmental challenges by examining the spatial, political, and ecological dimensions of capitalist urbanization and planetary urban processes. Their work often intersects multi-scalar analyses connecting local and global urban phenomena, governance practices, and sustainability issues.

Best Publications

  • New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

    Neil Brenner

  • Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”

    Neil Brenner;Nik Theodore

  • State/Space:A Reader

    Neil Brenner;Bob Jessop;Martin Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • New State Spaces

    Neil Brenner

  • Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways

    Neil Brenner;Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore

  • Globalisation as Reterritorialisation: The Re-scaling of Urban Governance in the European Union

    Neil Brenner

  • The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration

    Neil Brenner

  • Theorizing Sociospatial Relations

    Bob Jessop;Neil Brenner;Martin Russell Jones

  • Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe

    Neil Brenner;Nik Theodore

  • Beyond state-centrism? Space, territoriality, and geographical scale in globalization studies

    Neil Brenner

  • Towards a new epistemology of the urban

    Neil Brenner;Christian Schmid

  • The ‘Urban Age’ in Question

    Neil Brenner;Christian Schmid

  • Global cities, glocal states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe

    Neil Brenner

  • Between Fixity and Motion: Accumulation, Territorial Organization and the Historical Geography of Spatial Scales

    Neil Brenner

  • Neoliberal Urbanism: Models, Moments, Mutations

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore;Neil Brenner

  • Postneoliberalism and its Malcontents

    Jamie Peck;Nik Theodore;Neil Brenner

  • The Urban Question as a Scale Question: Reflections on Henri Lefebvre, Urban Theory and the Politics of Scale*

    Neil Brenner

  • Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory

    Neil Brenner;David J. Madden;David Wachsmuth

  • Neoliberalism and the urban condition

    Neil Brenner;Nik Theodore

  • Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory

    Neil Brenner;Stuart Elden

Frequent Co-Authors

Nik Theodore
Nik Theodore University of Illinois at Chicago
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Bob Jessop
Bob Jessop Lancaster University
Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre Université Paris Cité

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