Greig Charnock

Biography

Greig has taught international politics at this university since completing his PhD, also at Manchester, in 2005. Greig is co-editor of The New International Division of Labour (2016) and co-author of The Limits to Capital in Spain (2014), both published in Palgrave's International Political Economy series. His recent research articles include one on urban monopoly rent and the contradictions of the 'Barcelona model' of urban competitiveness in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; and another on dialectics and the theorisation of space in the work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey, in a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (edited by Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway). A co-authored report on the indignados protests in Spain was published in Capital & Class.

Research Interest

Greig's research is associated with the 'Open Marxism' approach to political economy. His critical engagement with this approach has been in two areas. First, he has extended its empirical focus into the politics of global competitiveness in the developing world and at the urban scale, and, more recently, into the European South in the context of the Eurozone crisis. Second, he has engaged the approach with theories of the 'production of space', pushing it into new and interdisciplinary areas of theoretical and empirical research in the process.