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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • 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

Wendy Larner is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research is situated within the social sciences, with a focus on geography, planning, development, sociology, and political science.

Their work addresses multiple topics including:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Migration, refugees, and integration
  • Historical geography and geographical thought

Some of their recent publications include:

  • COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand (2021), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Professor Ron Johnston, 1941-2020. Kua hinga te totara I te Wao Nui a Tane-The totara has fallen in the forest of Tane (2020), New Zealand Geographer

Wendy Larner has collaborated frequently with a range of co-authors such as:

  • Julie MacLeavy
  • Maria Fannin
  • Sarah M. A. Moss
  • Sereana Naepi
  • Darren Powell

Their publications have appeared prominently in journals such as:

  • Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Progress in Human Geography
  • New Zealand Geographer

Among the honors received, Wendy Larner is recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand since 2009 and also holds fellowship in the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Constructions of Neoliberal Reason

    Ananya Roy;Wendy Larner;Jamie Peck

  • Neo-liberalism: policy, ideology, governmentality

    Wendy Larner

  • Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces

    Wendy Larner;William Walters

  • After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa, New Zealand

    Wendy Larner;David Craig

  • Travelling technocrats, embodied knowledges: Globalising privatisation in telecoms and water

    Wendy Larner;Nina Laurie

  • Globalization as Governmentality

    Wendy Larner;William Walters

  • The spaces and subjects of a globalising economy: a situated exploration of method

    Wendy Larner;Richard Le Heron

  • Expatriate experts and globalising governmentalities: the New Zealand diaspora strategy

    Wendy Larner

  • Neo-liberalizing spaces and subjectivities: Reinventing New Zealand universities

    Wendy Larner;Richard Le Heron

  • The political rationality of new regionalism: Toward a genealogy of the region

    Wendy Larner;Wendy Larner;William Walters;William Walters

  • Global Benchmarking: Participating at a Distance in the Global Economy

    WJ Larner

  • Neoliberalism in (Regional) Theory and Practice: the Stronger Communities Action Fund in New Zealand

    Wendy Larner

  • Governmentalities of local partnerships : the rise of a "partnering state" in New Zealand

    Wendy Larner;Maria Butler

  • Post-Welfare State Governance: Towards a Code of Social and Family Responsibility

    Wendy Larner

  • Calculating the Social

    Vaughan Higgins;Wendy Larner

  • Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography

    Felicity Wray;Rae Dufty-Jones;Chris Gibson;Wendy Larner

  • From economic globalisation to globalising economic processes: towards post-structural political economies

    Wendy Larner;Richard Le Heron

  • The Limits of Post-Politics: Rethinking Radical Social Enterprise

    Wendy Larner

  • The New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry: Making industries and co-constituting political projects

    Nick Lewis;Wendy Larner;Richard Le Heron

  • Globalising knowledge networks: Universities, diaspora strategies, and academic intermediaries

    Wendy Larner

  • The Spaces and Subjects of a Globalising Economy

    WJ Larner;R Le Heron

  • On the front line: Organization of work in the information economy

    W Larner

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Chatterton
Paul Chatterton University of Leeds
Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Liz Bondi
Liz Bondi University of Edinburgh
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Michael Watts
Michael Watts Brunel University London
Robin Kearns
Robin Kearns University of Auckland
Christine Milligan
Christine Milligan Lancaster University
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Nik Theodore
Nik Theodore University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark G. Macklin
Mark G. Macklin University of Lincoln

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