Geoff Mann

Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography

Director, Centre for Global Political Economy

Simon Fraser University
office: RCB 7226
778.782.4426
geoffm at sfu.ca

In history, in social life, nothing is fixed, rigid or definitive. And nothing ever will be.
-- Antonio Gramsci

Recent writing

2011

Economie$, in Vincent J. Del Casino, Mary E. Thomas, Paul Cloke and Ruth Panelli (eds.) The Companion to Social Geography. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 172-88.

2010

Value after Lehman, Historical Materialism 18(4): 172-88.

Hobbes' redoubt: toward a geography of monetary policy, Progress in Human Geography 34(5): 601-25. [.pdf]

2009

Colletti on the credit crunch: a response to Robin Blackburn, New Left Review II/56: 119-27. [.pdf]

Should political ecology be Marxist? A case for Gramsci's historical materialism, Geoforum 40(3): 335-44. [.pdf]

Gramsci lives! Geoforum 40(3): 287-91. {with Alex Loftus and Michael Ekers} [.pdf]

2008

Time, space and money in capitalism and communism, Human Geography 1(2): 4-12. [.pdf]

A negative geography of necessity, Antipode 40(5): 920-33. [.pdf]

Marx without guardrails: geographies of the Grundrisse, Antipode 40(5): 848-56. [.pdf]
{with Joel Wainwright, Ohio State University}

Why does country music sound white? Race and the voice of nostalgia, Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(1) (2008): 73-100. [.pdf]

2007

Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West (UNC Press, 2007).

The social production of skill, in Robert Fletcher (ed.) Beyond Resistance? The Future of Freedom (Hauppage NY: Nova Science), pp. 111-21.

2006

Interests and the political terrain of time, Rethinking Marxism 18(4): 565-72. [.pdf]

+ miscellaneous contributions to the Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History (Routledge 2007), the Encyclopedia of Society & Environment (Sage 2008), and book reviews for publications like Society & Space (E&P D), Labour/Le Travail, Rethinking Marxism, Labor Studies Journal, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas and Antipode.

Writing soon to appear

Release the hounds! The fascinating case of political economy, in T. J. Barnes, J. Peck and E. Sheppard (eds.) The Companion to Economic Geography, 2nd ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

State of confusion: money and the space of civil society in Hegel and Gramsci, in M. Ekers, G. Hart, S. Kipfer and A. Loftus (eds.) Gramscian Geographies. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Chloe Brown (M.A. current)

Mark Kear (Ph.D. current)

Emilia Kennedy (M.A. completed Spring 2010; currently a Ph.D. student at UBC)

Dawn Hoogeveen (M.A. completed Fall 2008; currently a Ph.D. student at UBC)

Genevieve Bucher (M.Urb. completed Fall 2008; currently Senior Project Officer, BC Housing)

Robin Roff (Ph.D. completed Summer 2008; currently National Anti-privatization Coordinator, Canadian Union of Public Employees)