School of Geographical and Earth Sciences

Dr Danny Mackinnon

Danny Mackinnon
  • Senior Research Fellow/Editor in Urban Political Economy (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)

telephone: 01413304789
email: Daniel.MacKinnon@glasgow.ac.uk


I am an economic and political geographer with an abiding interest in the politics and institutions of local and regional economic development, linking to broader debates on uneven development, neoliberalism, the state and labour geographies. Earlier research examined the governance of economic development in the Highlands and Islands in the 1990s and the governance of inward investment in Wales and North East England (with Nick Phelps). A further strand of research examined the clustering of small and medium-sized firms in the Aberdeen oil complex (with Andy Cumbers and Keith Chapman). More recent work has focused on the effects of devolution on transport governance and policy in the UK (with Jon Shaw and Iain Docherty) and labour relations in the privatised rail industry (with Andy Cumbers and Jon Shaw). In theoretical terms, I am concerned with the development of ‘new’ political economy approaches that combine a continuing emphasis on the spatially uneven development of capitalist social relations with more agency-oriented accounts derived from institutional economics and economic sociology. I’m also interested in the conceptual status of scale in human geography following the relational ‘turn’ and in the application of Foucauldian notions of governmentality to an increasingly managerialist state.

I am currently pursuing (with various colleagues), or planning to develop, the following lines of research: 

  • Economic adaptation and evolution in old industrial regions
  • Innovation and knowledge networks
  • State restructuring and governmentality 
  • Neoliberalism and urban entrepreneurialism 
  • Labour control and labour agency in cities.

I gained a Geography degree from the University of Dundee in 1995 and a PhD in that same subject from the University of Edinburgh in 1999. After a year at Cardiff University, I headed north to the University of Aberdeen where I worked for 9 years (as Research Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer)before arriving in Glasgow in March 2009.

 

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Number of items: 18.

2012

MacKinnon, D. (2012) Beyond strategic coupling: reassessing the firm-region nexus in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography . ISSN 1468-2702 (doi:10.1093/jeg/lbr009) (In Press)

2011

Shaw, J., and MacKinnon, D. (2011) Moving on with ‘filling in’? Some thoughts on state restructuring after devolution. Area, 43 (1). pp. 23-30. ISSN 0004-0894 (doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00947.x)

2010

MacKinnon, D., and Shaw, J. (2010) New state spaces, agency and scale: devolution and the regionalisation of transport governance in Scotland. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 42 (5). pp. 1226-1252. ISSN 0066-4812 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00800.x)

Cumbers, A., MacKinnon, D. , and Shaw, J. (2010) Labour, organisational rescaling and the politics of production: union renewal in the privatised rail industry. Work, Employment and Society, 24 (1). pp. 127-144. ISSN 0950-0170 (doi:10.1177/0950017009353668)

Birch, K., MacKinnon, D. , and Cumbers, A. (2010) Old industrial regions in Europe: a comparative assessment of economic performance. Regional Studies, 44 (1). pp. 35-53. ISSN 0034-3404 (doi:10.1080/00343400802195147)

MacKinnon, D. (2010) Reconstructing scale: towards a new scalar politics. Progress in Human Geography, 35 (1). pp. 21-36. ISSN 0309-1325 (doi:10.1177/0309132510367841)

MacKinnon, D., Shaw, J., and Docherty, I. (2010) Devolution as process: institutional structures, state personnel and transport policy in the United Kingdom. Space and Polity, 14 (3). pp. 271-287. ISSN 1470-1235

2009

Docherty, I., Shaw, J., Knowles, R., and MacKinnon, D. (2009) Connecting for competitiveness: future transport in UK city regions. Public Money and Management, 29 (5). pp. 321-328. ISSN 0954-0962 (doi:10.1080/09540960903205972)

MacKinnon, D., and Tetzlaff, D. (2009) Conceptualising scale in regional studies and catchment science – towards an integrated characterisation of spatial units. Geography Compass, 3 (3). pp. 976-996. (doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00231.x)

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. , Pike, A., Birch, K., and McMaster, R. (2009) Evolution in economic geography: institutions, political economy, and adaptation. Economic Geography, 85 (2). pp. 129-150. ISSN 0013-0095 (doi:10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01017.x)

Pike, A., Birch, K., Cumbers, A. , MacKinnon, D. , and McMaster, R. (2009) A geographical political economy of evolution in economic geography. Economic Geography, 85 (2). pp. 175-182. ISSN 0013-0095

MacKinnon, D. (2009) Institutionalism / institutional geographies. In: Thrift, N.J. and Kitchin, R. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9780080449111

MacKinnon, D. (2009) Regional geography II. In: Thrift, N.J. and Kitchin, R. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9780080449111

Shaw, J., MacKinnon, D. , and Docherty, I. (2009) Divergence or convergence? Devolution and transport policy in the United Kingdom. Environment and Planning C, 27 (3). pp. 546-567. ISSN 0263-774X (doi:10.1068/c0899r)

2008

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. , and Shaw, J. (2008) Rescaling employment relations: key outcomes of change in the privatised rail industry. Environment and Planning A, 40 (6). pp. 1347-1369. ISSN 0308-518X (doi:10.1068/a39203)

MacKinnon, D., Pirie, G., and Gather, M. (2008) Transport, the economy and development. In: Knowles, R.D., Shaw, J. and Docherty, I. (eds.) Transport Geographies: Mobilities, Flows, and Spaces. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, USA, pp. 10-28. ISBN 9781405153225

MacKinnon, D., Shaw, J., and Docherty, I. (2008) Diverging Mobilities? Devolution, Transport and Policy Innovation. Series: Current research in urban and regional studies (4). Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9780080453545

MacKinnon, D., and Vigar, G. (2008) Devolution and the UK’s new transport policy landscape. In: Docherty, I. and Shaw, J. (eds.) Traffic Jam: Ten Years of 'Sustainable' Transport in the UK. Policy, Bristol, UK, pp. 29-50. ISBN 9781847420732

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'Urban Growth and Poverty in Mining Africa'. D.Bryceson, D.MacKinnon, M. Shand, J.Bosse Jonsson, C.Kinobo, S.Banchirigah, K.Gough. C.U Rodrigues and A.Tavares. ESRC-DFID, £493,323.

Connection, Empowerment and Exclusion in Contemporary Britain: Lived Experiences of Globalisation. With A. Cumbers, K.Strauss and D.Featherstone. Joseph Rowntree Foundation £46,567.92. Awarded March 2010.

‘Varieties of Neoliberalism and Alternative Regional and Urban Strategies’. With K.Birch (University of Strathclyde) and V. Mykhnenko (University of Nottingham). Regional Studies Association, Research Network £3000. Awarded December 2009.

Cumbers, A., MacKinnon, D. and Shaw, J. ‘Changing employment relations in privatised industries: the case of rail’. £27,300. ESRC,2004-2005.

MacKinnon, D., Shaw, J. and Docherty, I. ‘Devolution and transport policy in the United Kingdom’. Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and RGS/IBG Small Grants Fund, 2004-2006. £4500.

Tom Hastings (PhD candidate)