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Professor Julie MacLeavy
Professor Julie MacLeavy
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.(Wales), PGCertHE(Bristol), FHEA
Professor of Economic Geography
Area of research
Biography
In my research I aim to develop a ‘cultural political economy’ reading of state intervention and its geographies. This requires the application of methods, ideas and concepts drawn from the ‘cultural turn’ in the social sciences to investigate issues of ‘traditional’ political-economic concern, including labour market regulation, welfare provision and urban renewal.
I am currently engaged in three research areas:
- The geographies of neoliberal policy reform in the liberal welfare states of the UK, US and Canada; including most recently the geographies of austerity in the post-recessionary period.
- The spatial and gender politics of wage-work and care-work; notably how the ...
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Selected publications
- MacLeavy, J, 2018, ‘Women, equality and the UK's EU referendum: locating the gender politics of Brexit in relation to the neoliberalising state’. Space and Polity, vol 22., pp. 205-223
- MacLeavy, J & Manley, D, 2018, ‘(Re)discovering the lost middle: intergenerational inheritances and economic inequality in urban and regional research’. Regional Studies, vol 52., pp. 1435-1446
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Recent publications
- MacLeavy, J, 2020, ‘Social Class’. in: Audrey Kobayashi (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier
- Bromley-Davenport, H, MacLeavy, J & Manley, D, 2019, ‘Brexit in Sunderland: The production of difference and division in the UK referendum on European Union membership’. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol 37., pp. 795-812
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