DR SARA GONZÁLEZ
Email: s.gonzalez@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0 in UK) 113 34 36639
Student hours:
For Semester 2 2012 my "official" student hours will be Tuesdays 10-12 and Wednesdays 11-12. Outside these hours you can email me for an appointment or drop in and see if I am available. Please note that I work part-time 4 days a week and Thursday is my day off.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
My research focuses generally on issues of territorial governance and in particular on questions of uneven development and territorial injustice in a context of globalisation and neoliberalization. My research has so far been concentrated on urban and regional development where my aim is to unpack public policy discourses of governance, competitiveness, economic growth and internationalisation. I have explored these questions in cities and regions in Europe with especial attention to the UK, Italy and Spain.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Towards a new urban deal? Uneven local responses to the global recession. This research focuses on 4 European cities and how the global financial crisis has affected them and how the cities are reacting. Website here.
Urban Policy Tourism. I have an interest in how urban policy ideas travel and mutate. I have conducted research on visits by foreign local leaders to Barcelona and Bilbao in search for ideas about how to regenerate their cities
ACME
I am the Spanish editor of ACME, An International e-Journal for Critical Geographies.
Traditional retail Markets. With Paul Waley I am developing a research strategy to look at changes in traditional retail markets. At the same time I am involved in an ongoing action-research project with Friends of Leeds Kirkgate Market to understand the current changes hapenning in Kirkgate Market in Leeds. http://kirkgatemarket.wordpress.com/
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
- Urban Culture and Consumption
- Citizenship and Belonging
- Cultural Political Economy Research Centre
PUBLICATIONS
GONZALEZ, S. (2010) "Bilbao and Barcelona in motion. How urban regeneration models travel and mutate in the global flows of policy tourism" Urban Studies
GONZALEZ, S. (2010)" The North/South divide in Italy and England: Discursive construction of regional inequality" European Urban and Regional Studies.
Moulaert, F., Martinelli, F., Swyngedouw, E. and GONZALEZ, S. (2010) (Eds) Can neighbourhoods save the city? Community development and social innovation, London: Routledge
GONZALEZ, S. (2009) "(Dis)connecting Milan(ese): deterritorialised urbanism and disempowering politics in globalising cities" Environment and Planning A 41(1) 31 – 47
GONZÁLEZ, S. (2007). "Trepando por la jerarquía urbana: nuevas formas de gobernanza neoliberal en Europa". UOC Papers [online]. N.5, UOC [PDF FILE]
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