Professor Andrew Cumbers

Professor of Political Economy (Management)

telephone: 01413302291
email: Andrew.Cumbers@glasgow.ac.uk

Gilbert Scott Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Biography

Professor Andrew Cumbers is Professor of Political Economy at the Adam Smith Business School. He has received a BA (University of Wales) and a PhD (University of Durham). Before moving to Glasgow, Andrew worked at the Universities of Durham, Middlesex and Aberdeen as a researcher, lecturer in labour and economic geography. He was formerly Professor of Geographical Political Economy at the University of Glasgow.

Research interests

Andrew is a member of the Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

Economic democracy
Urban and Regional development
Public and collective ownership
Employment relations

Economic democracy

Publications

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Number of items: 155.

2025

Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2025) Roundtable: public banking. A radically open future? The US public banking movement and the creation of economic alternatives. Just Money, 5 Mar.

2024

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871, Bilsland, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8044-0596 and Arpini, Emilia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3401-4040 (2024) Building Economic Democracy in Europe: Concepts, Cases and Achieving Progressive Change. Documentation. Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and Open Society Foundations (OSF).

Traill, Helen, Anderson, Stephanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6305-6592, Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2024) Caring at the edges: infrastructures of care and repair in urban deprivation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 42(2), pp. 190-210. (doi: 10.1177/02637758241231106)

Traill, Helen and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2024) The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany. Urban Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00420980241228467) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2023) The People versus TINA: The Public Banking Movement in California, USA. International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) 13th Annual Conference In Political Economy: The Chronicles of Multiple Crises Foretold, Madrid, Spain, 06-08 Sep 2023.

Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Brown, Grace ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9805-3466 (2023) People Power: Movements for Public Ownership and Energy Transition in the US. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023, London, UK, 29 Aug - 01 Sep 2023.

Brown, Grace ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9805-3466, Traill, Helen, Anderson, Stephanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6305-6592, Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2023) Good Food for All in Glasgow: An Interim Assessment of the Glasgow City Food Plan. Other. University of Glasgow.

Traill, Helen, Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Anderson, Stephanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6305-6592, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2023) Approaching the ethics of sustainability in an area of deprivation. In: Carrigan, Marylyn, Wells, Victoria K. and Papadas, Karolos A. (eds.) Research Handbook on Ethical Consumption: Contemporary Research in Responsible and Sustainable Consumer Behaviour. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 174-189. ISBN 9781802202014 (doi: 10.4337/9781802202021.00018)

Traill, Helen and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2023) Creating local sustainability transitions: finance, citizen participation and the multi-scalar governance challenges of municipal energy transition. In: Arestis, Philip and Sawyer, Malcolm (eds.) Prospects and Policies for Global Sustainable Recovery: Promoting Environmental and Economic Sustainability. Series: International papers in political economy. Springer, pp. 265-307. ISBN 9783031192562 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-19256-2_7)

Traill, Helen and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2023) The state of municipal energy transitions: multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions. European Urban and Regional Studies, 30(2), pp. 93-106. (doi: 10.1177/09697764221101740)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Bilsland, Karen, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871, Cabaço, Susana and White, Michael (2023) The condition of European economic democracy: a comparative analysis of individual and collective employment rights. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 44(1), pp. 109-137. (doi: 10.1177/0143831X211064919)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2023) The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), pp. 165-183. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X211050407)

2022

Arpini, Emilia, Panez, Alexander, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Pearson, Bethia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423 (2022) New Municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile. Urban Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00420980221126269) (Early Online Publication)

Weghmann, Vera, Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2022) Struggles for Democratic Participation in the German Post-Remunicipalisation Process. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference: Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 Jul 2022.

Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2022) The Return of the Local State? Failing Neoliberalism, Remunicipalisation, and the Role of the State in Advanced Capitalism. 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG): Territorial Development: Evolution, Innovation, Disruption and Marginalisation under the Anthropocene and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Dublin, Ireland, 07-10 Jun 2022.

Tod, E. et al. (2022) What is the potential for plural ownership to support a more inclusive economy? A systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 11, 76. (doi: 10.1186/s13643-022-01955-y) (PMID:35461257) (PMCID:PMC9034259)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Pearson, Bethia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Stegemann, Laura and Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Mapping Remunicipalisation: Emergent Trends in the Global Deprivatisation Process. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Remunicipalisation, mutating neoliberalism, and the conjuncture. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 54(1), pp. 197-217. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12761)

2021

Traill, Helen, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Gray, Neil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4795-2095 (2021) The state of European municipal energy transition: an overview of current trends. Documentation. mPOWER.

Pearson, Bethia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Stegemann, Laura (2021) Public Futures Database Report. Technical Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Traill, Helen (2021) Public ownership in the pursuit of economic democracy in a post-neoliberal order. In: Arestis, Philip and Sawyer, Malcolm (eds.) Economic Policies for a Post-Neoliberal World. Series: International papers in political economy. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 225-268. ISBN 9783030567347 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-56735-4_6)

2020

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871, Cabaço, Susana and White, Michael J. (2020) Reconfiguring economic democracy: generating new forms of collective agency, individual economic freedom and public participation. Work, Employment and Society, 34(4), pp. 678-695. (doi: 10.1177/0950017019875935)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2020) Adapting to the political moment and diverse terrain of 'actually existing municipalisms'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 74, pp. 40-53. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.74.03.2020)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2020) The Case for Economic Democracy. Series: The case for. Polity Press: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA. ISBN 9781509533848

McCartney, Gerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-3521, Fenton, Lynda, Minton, Jon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1207-6259, Fischbacher, Colin, Taulbut, Martin, Little, Kirsty, Humphreys, Ciaran, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Popham, Frank ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7263-7954 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2020) Is austerity responsible for the recent change in mortality trends across high-income nations? A protocol for an observational study. BMJ Open, 10(1), e034832. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034832) (PMID:31980513) (PMCID:PMC7044814)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Gray, Neil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4795-2095 (2020) Marxist geography. In: Kobayashi, Audrey (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA, pp. 413-424. ISBN 9780081022962 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10671-7)

2019

Hastings, Thomas and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2019) “That type of thing does give you a boost”: control, self‐valorisation, and autonomist worker copings in call centres. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 51(5), pp. 1456-1473. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12567)

Paul, Franziska ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2019) Democratisation by Design or Default? Global Remunicipalisation and the Post-Neoliberal Turn. Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, London, UK, 27-30 Aug 2019.

McCartney, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-3521, Popham, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7263-7954, McMaster, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2019) Defining health and health inequalities. Public Health, 172, pp. 22-30. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.03.023) (PMID:31154234) (PMCID:PMC6558275)

McCartney, Gerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-3521, Hearty, Wendy, Arnott, Julie, Popham, Frank ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7263-7954, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2019) Impact of political economy on population health: a systematic review of reviews. American Journal of Public Health, 109(6), e1-e12. (doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305001) (PMID:31067117) (PMCID:PMC6507992)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2019) A tale of two nationalisations: experiences of post 1945 public ownership in the UK and France compared. International Journal of Public Policy, 15(1/2), pp. 5-20. (doi: 10.1504/IJPP.2019.099047)

MacKinnon, Danny, Dawley, Stuart, Pike, Andy and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2019) Rethinking path creation: a geographical political economy approach. Economic Geography, 95(2), pp. 113-135. (doi: 10.1080/00130095.2018.1498294)

2018

MacKinnon, Danny and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2018) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalisation, Uneven Development and Place. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138924505 (doi: 10.4324/9781315684284)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Becker, Sören (2018) Making sense of remunicipalisation: theoretical reflections on and political possibilities from Germany’s Rekommumalisierung process. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 11(3), pp. 503-517. (doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsy025)

Bilsland, Karen and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2018) Managerial control and the limits to employee participation in retail work spaces: evidence from a UK IKEA store. New Technology, Work and Employment, 33(2), pp. 130-148. (doi: 10.1111/ntwe.12110)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2018) The Danish low carbon transition and the prospects for the democratic economy. In: North, Peter and Scott Cato, Molly (eds.) Towards Just and Sustainable Economies: the Social and Solidarity Economy North and South. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 179-194. ISBN 9781447327233

Dow, Sheila, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2018) Sine praejudicio? Economics and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 42(3), pp. 597-615. (doi: 10.1093/cje/bex091)

Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Crossan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644 (2018) Scaling up community action for tackling climate change. British Journal of Management, 29(2), pp. 266-278. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12274)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Crossan, John and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2018) The work of community gardens: reclaiming place for community in the city. Work, Employment and Society, 32(1), pp. 133-149. (doi: 10.1177/0950017017695042)

Bilsland, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8044-0596 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2018) Organizational Control and Autonomy in Retail Work Spaces: Evidence from a UK IKEA Store. In: 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018), Chicago, IL, USA, 10-14 Aug 2018, (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.12455abstract)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2018) Social welfare and social control. In: Jo, Tae-Hee, Chester, Lynne and D'Ippoliti, Carlo (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics: Theorizing, Analyzing and Transforming Capitalism. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 499-512. ISBN 9781138899940

2016

Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Crossan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871, Trebeck, Katherine and Black, Iain (2016) Open Space: Places of prosumption: Community gardens putting the ‘we’ into neighbourhoods. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(3), pp. 473-479. (doi: 10.1332/204674316X14758523887982)

Crossan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290 (2016) Contesting neoliberal urbanism in Glasgow's community gardens: The practice of DIY citizenship. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 48(4), pp. 937-955. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12220)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Featherstone, David, MacKinnon, Danny, Ince, Anthony and Strauss, Kendra (2016) Intervening in globalization: the spatial possibilities and institutional barriers to labour's collective agency. Journal of Economic Geography, 16(1), pp. 93-108. (doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbu039)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2016) Economic democracy: reclaiming public ownership as the pragmatic left alternative. Juncture, 22(4), pp. 324-328. (doi: 10.1111/j.2050-5876.2016.00882.x)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2016) Remunicipalization, the low carbon transition, and energy democracy. In: State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable? Series: State of the world. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics: Washington DC, pp. 275-289. ISBN 9781610915694 (doi: 10.5822/978-1-61091-756-8_23)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2016) Rethinking public ownership as economic democracy. In: Jones, B., O'Donnel, M. and Papadopoulos, T. (eds.) Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism. Policy Press: Bristol.

Pike, A., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Dawley, S., MacKinnon, D. and McMaster, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2016) Doing evolution in economic geography. Economic Geography, 92(2), pp. 123-144. (doi: 10.1080/00130095.2015.1108830)

2015

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Davis, John and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2015) Theorizing the social provisioning process under capitalism: developing a veblenian theory of care for the twenty-first century. Journal of Economic Issues, 49(2), pp. 583-590. (doi: 10.1080/00213624.2015.1042806)

Ince, Anthony, Featherstone, David, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, MacKinnon, Danny and Strauss, Kendra (2015) British jobs for British workers? Contesting work, nation and globalisation through the Lindsey Oil Refinery disputes. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 47(1), pp. 139-157. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12099)

Crossan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290 (2015) Glasgow’s Community Gardens: Neoliberal Spaces or Sites of Radical Potential? Geographies of the Anthropocene. In: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, University of Exeter, 01-04 Sep 2015, (Unpublished)

Crossan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644, Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2015) Glasgow's Community Gardens: Sustainable Communities of Care. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.114500).

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2015) Constructing a global commons in, against and beyond the state. Space and Polity, 19(1), pp. 62-75. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2014.995465)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2015) Understanding Labour's agency under globalisation: Embedding GPNs within an open political economy. In: Newsome, K., Taylor, P., Bair, J. and Rainnie, A. (eds.) Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains. Palgrave: London ; New York. ISBN 9781137410351

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Crossan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290 (2015) Social Provisioning and Capabilities: The Case of Community Gardens in Glasgow. In: 15th World Congress of Social Economics, Ontario, Canada, 22-24 Jun 2015, (Unpublished)

Dawley, Stuart, MacKinnon, Danny, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Pike, Andy (2015) Policy activism and regional path creation: the promotion of offshore wind in North East England and Scotland. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8(2), pp. 257-272. (doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsu036)

Pike, A., MacKinnon, D., Coombes, M., Champion, T., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Robson, L. and Wymer, C. (2015) Tackling Declining Cities: UK City Trends and International Policy Review. Other. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Crossan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2015) Community Gardens: New Spaces for DIY Citizenship? In: 40th Annual Macromarketing Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 25-28 Jun 2015, (Unpublished)

2014

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2014) Responding to Hayek from the left: beyond market socialism on the path to a radical economic democracy. In: Nell, Guinevere Liberty (ed.) Austrian Theory and Economic Organization: Reaching Beyond Free Market Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan: New York ; Basingstoke, pp. 177-196. ISBN 9781349475568 (doi: 10.1057/9781137368805_8)

Sharp, Joanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5805-4296, Cumbers, Andy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Painter, Joe and Wood, Nichola (2014) Deciding whose future? Challenges and opportunities of the Scottish independence referendum 2014 for Scotland and beyond. Political Geography, 41, pp. 32-42. (doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.04.002)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2014) Advancing theory in urban research. Urban Studies, 51(5), pp. 865-867. (doi: 10.1177/0042098014525900)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2014) Beyond market socialism. In: Nell, G. (ed.) Austrian Theory and Economic Organization : Reaching Beyond Free Market Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke ; New York. ISBN 9781137371416

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2014) Renewing Public Ownership: Constructing a Democratic Economy in the Twenty-First Century. Other. Centre for Labour and Social Studies, London.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Featherstone, D. (2014) Localism, decentralisation and economic development in Britain. In: Green, J. and Hay, C. (eds.) The British Growth Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke ; New York. ISBN 9781137441515

Shaw, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, McMaster, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Crossan, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644 (2014) Preliminary research findings. In: Making Local Food Happen: Community Gardening in Glasgow, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK, 13 June 2014,

2013

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2013) Making space for public ownership: The re-municipalisation of public services through grassroots struggle and local state action. Planning Theory and Practice, 14(4), pp. 547-551. (doi: 10.1080/14649357.2013.853470)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2013) Making space for economic democracy: the Danish wind power revolution. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development,

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Danson, Mike, Whittman, Geoff, Morgan, Gordon and Callaghan, George (2013) Repossessing the Future: A Common Weal Strategy for Community and Democratic Ownership of Scotland's Energy Resources. Other. The Jimmy Reid Foundation, Biggar.

Routledge, P., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Nativel, C. (2013) Global justice networks: operational logics, imagineers and grassrooting vectors. In: Nicholls, W., Miller, B. and Beaumont, J. (eds.) Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements. Ashgate: London. ISBN 9780754677789

2012

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2012) Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy. Zed: London, UK. ISBN 9781780320076

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2012) Revisiting public ownership: knowledge, democracy and participation in economic decision making. Review of Radical Political Economics, 44(3), pp. 358-373. (doi: 10.1177/0486613412440238)

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2012) Industrial transition in knowledge-based sectors: Changing economic governance and institutional arrangements in the Scottish life sciences. In: Fromhold-Eisebith, M. and Fuchs, M. (eds.) Industrial Transition. New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation. Series: Dynamics of economic space. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9781409431213

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2012) Rethinking public ownership and participation. On the Horizon, 20(3), pp. 172-181. (doi: 10.1108/10748121211256775)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Routledge, P. (2012) Place, space and solidarity in global justice networks. In: Featherstone, D. and Painter, J. (eds.) Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 213-223. ISBN 9781444338317 (doi: 10.1002/9781118278857.ch15)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2012) North Sea oil, the state and divergent development in the UK and Norway. In: McNeish, J.A. and Logan, O. (eds.) Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas. Pluto: London. ISBN 9780745331188

Featherstone, D.J., Ince, A., Mackinnon, D., Strauss, K. and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2012) Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37(2), pp. 177-182. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00493.x)

2011

Marchese, Marco, Potter, Jonathan, del Castillo, Jamie, Chapple, Karen, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Mitra, Jay, Pinto, Ricardo and Wolfe, David (2011) Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development in Andalusia, Spain: A Review by the Local Economic Development and Employment Development (LEED) section of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD. Working Paper. OECD. (doi: 10.1787/20794797).

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Featherstone, D., Ince, A. and Strauss, K. (2011) Globalisation, Labour Markets and Communities in Contemporary Britain. Other. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2011) Alliance-driven governance in Scottish life science commodity chains and its contribution to regional development. In: Jones, M. (ed.) Life Science Ventures: Local Players on a Global Stage. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and MacKinnon, D. (2011) Putting “the political” back into the region: power, agency and a reconstituted regional political economy. In: Pike, A. and Tomaney, J. (eds.) Handbook of Local and Regional Development. Routledge: London.

MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2011) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Uneven Development, Globalisation and Place [2nd ed.]. Pearson/Prentice Hall: London. ISBN 9780273727279

2010

Cumbers, Andy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2010) Petróleo en el mar del Norte, el Estado y las trayectorias de desarrollo en el Reino Unido y Noruega = North Sea Oil, the state and divergent development trajectories in the UK and Norway. Umbrales, 20, pp. 267-284.

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, 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. (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. (doi: 10.1080/00343400802195147)

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2010) Knowledge, space, and economic governance: the implications of knowledge-based commodity chains for less-favoured regions. Environment and Planning A, 42(11), pp. 2581-2601. (doi: 10.1068/a43191)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Helms, G. and Swanson, K. (2010) Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 42(1), pp. 46-73. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00731.x)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2010) Socialism, knowledge, the instrumental valuation principle and the enhancement of individual dignity. Economy and Society, 39(2), pp. 247-270. (doi: 10.1080/03085141003620162)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Routledge, P. (2010) The entangled geographies of trans-national labour solidarity. In: Bergene, A.C., Endresen, S.B. and Knutsen, H.M. (eds.) Missing Links in Labour Geography. Series: Dynamics of economic space. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9780754677987

2009

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. (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. (doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01021.x)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2009) Marxism/Marxist geography. In: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 6. Elsevier: Oxford, pp. 461-473.

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2009) Regional integration. In: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 9. Elsevier: Oxford, pp. 252-258.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2009) Hearing What They Want. Scottish Left Review, 50, pp. 4-5.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2009) Inconvenient Truths For The Neoliberals. Scottish Left Review, 54, pp. 10-11.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Helms, Gesa and Keenan, Marilyn (2009) Beyond Aspiration: Young People And Decent Work In The De-Industrialised City. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Routledge, P. and Cumbers, A. (2009) Global Justice Networks: Geographies of Transnational Solidarity. Series: Perspectives on democratic practice. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719076855

2008

Cumbers, A., Nativel, C. and Routledge, P. (2008) Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), pp. 369-387. (doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbn008)

Cumbers, A., Routledge, P. and Nativel, C. (2008) The entangled geographies of global justice networks. Progress in Human Geography, 32(2), pp. 183-201. (doi: 10.1177/0309132507084818)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, MacKinnon, D. and Chapman, K. (2008) Innovation, collaboration and learning in regional clusters: a study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. In: Karlsson, C. (ed.) Handbook of Research on Innovation and Clusters. Series: Handbooks of research on clusters series (2). Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. ISBN 9781847208422

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. (doi: 10.1068/a39203)

2007

MacKinnon, Danny, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Pike, Andy and Birch, Kean (2007) Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Regional Adaptation and Political Economy. Working Paper. Centre for Public Policy for Regions.

Routledge, Paul, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Nativel, Corinne (2007) Grassrooting network imaginaries: relationality, power, and mutual solidarity in global justice networks. Environment and Planning A, 39(11), pp. 2575-2592. (doi: 10.1068/a38338)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Whittam, Geoffrey (Eds.) (2007) Reclaiming the Economy: Alternatives to Market Fundamentalism. Scottish Left Review Press: Biggar. ISBN 9780955036231

Birch, Kean and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2007) Public sector spending and the Scottish Economy: crowding out or adding value? Scottish Affairs, 58, pp. 36-56. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2007.0003)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2007) Economic democracy and public ownership. In: Cumbers, A. and Whittam, G. (eds.) Reclaiming the Economy: Alternatives to Market Fundamentalism in Scotland and Beyond. Scottish Left Review Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780955036231

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2007) The fictitious commodity. Variant, 28, pp. 16-18.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Leibovitz, Joesph and MacKinnon, Danny (2007) Institutional features, path dependencies and regional industrial change: comparing mature and embryonic clusters in an old industrial region. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 7, pp. 424-444. (doi: 10.1504/IJEIM.2007.012892)

MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2007) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Uneven Development, Globalisation and Place. Prentice Hall: Harlow. ISBN 9780131293168

2006

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Birch, Kean and MacKinnon, Danny (2006) Revisiting the Old Industrial Region: Adaptation and Adjustment in an Integrating Europe. Working Paper. Centre for Public Policy for Regions.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Birch, Kean (2006) Public Sector Spending and Regional Economic Development: Crowding Out or Adding Value? Project Report. Centre for Public Policy for Regions.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and MacKinnon, D. (Eds.) (2006) Clusters in Urban and Regional Development. Series: Urban studies monographs. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415360111

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2006) The Profit Myth. Scottish Left Review, 33, pp. 14-15.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Birch, Kean (2006) Adding Value: Public Sector Spending and Scotland’s Economic Development. Project Report. UNISON Scotland, Glasgow.

Helms, Gesa and Cumbers, Andy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2006) Regulating the new urban poor: Local labour market control in an old industrial city. Space and Polity, 10(1), pp. 67-86. (doi: 10.1080/13562570600796804)

Routledge, P, Nativel, C and Cumbers, A (2006) Entangled logics and grassroots imaginaries of global justice networks. Environmental Politics, 15, pp. 839-859. (doi: 10.1080/09644010600937272)

2005

Cumbers, A (2005) Genuine renewal or pyrrhic victory? The scale politics of trade union recognition in the UK. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 37(1), pp. 116-138. (doi: 0.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00476.x)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2005) An alternative economic strategy for Scotland. Perspectives, 8, pp. 16-17.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2005) Renewing Economic Democracy. Scottish Left Review, 30, pp. 20-21.

2004

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Routledge, Paul (2004) Introduction: alternative geographical imaginations. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 36(5), pp. 818-828. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00456.x)

Cumbers, A (2004) Embedded internationalisms: building transnational solidarity in the British and Norwegian trade union movements. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 36(5), pp. 829-850. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00457.x)

MacKinnon, D., Chapman, K. and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2004) Networking, trust and embeddedness amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 16, pp. 87-106. (doi: 10.1080/08985620410001677826)

Chapman, K, MacKinnon, D and Cumbers, A (2004) Adjustment or renewal in regional clusters? A study of diversification amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29, pp. 382-396.

Cumbers, Andy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Mackinnon, Danny (2004) Introduction: clusters in urban and regional development. Urban Studies, 41(5-6), pp. 959-969. (doi: 10.1080/00420980410001675896)

2003

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Mackinnon, D. and Chapman, K. (2003) Innovation, collaboration, and learning in regional clusters: a study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Environment and Planning A, 35(9), pp. 1689-1706. (doi: 10.1068/a35259)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Mackinnon, D. and McMaster, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2003) Institutions, power and space - Assessing the limits to institutionalism in economic geography. European Urban and Regional Studies, 10(4), pp. 325-342. (doi: 10.1177/09697764030104003)

2002

Chapman, K., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and MacKinnon, D. (2002) Diversification, Adjustment and Local Economic Development: An Assessment of SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

Chapman, K., MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2002) Innovation, Collaboration and Learning in Regional Clusters: A Study of SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

Cumbers, A (2002) When brown was red. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 12, pp. 64-78.

Mackinnon, D., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Chapman, K. (2002) Learning, innovation and regional development: a critical appraisal of recent debates. Progress in Human Geography, 26(3), pp. 293-311. (doi: 10.1191/0309132502ph371ra)

2001

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Martin, S. (2001) Changing relationships between multinational companies and their host regions? A case study of Aberdeen and the international oil industry. Scottish Geographical Journal, 117(1), pp. 31-48. (doi: 10.1080/00369220118737109)

MacKinnon, D., Chapman, K. and Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2001) Networks, Learning and Embeddedness amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Chapman, K. (2001) Diversification and Innovation Amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex: Policy Report. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Chapman, K. (2001) Learning Innovation and Regional Renewal: A Critical Appraisal of Current Debates in Regional Development Studies. Working Paper. Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Chapman, K. (2001) Methodological Reflections on Researching Innovation, Learning and Regional Development. Working Paper. Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen.

2000

Wills, Jane, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Berndt, Christian (2000) The workplace at the millennium: new geographies of employment. Environment and Planning A, 32(9), pp. 1523-1528. (doi: 10.1068/a3297)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2000) Globalization, local economic development and the branch plant region: the case of the Aberdeen oil complex. Regional Studies, 34(4), pp. 371-382. (doi: 10.1080/00343400050078141)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2000) The national state as mediator of regional development outcomes in a global era - A comparative analysis from the UK and Norway. European Urban and Regional Studies, 7(3), pp. 237-252. (doi: 10.1177/096977640000700304)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Atterton, J. (2000) Globalisation and the contested process of international corporate restructuring: employment reorganisation and the issue of labour consent in the international oil industry. Environment and Planning A, 32(9), pp. 1529-1544.

Cumbers, Andy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Farrington, John (2000) Keeping privatization on track: the active state, the unwilling investor and the case of rail freight in the UK. Area, 32(2), pp. 157-167. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2000.tb00126.x)

1999

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (1999) A regional comparison of the experience of Japanisation in Garrahan. In: Garrahan, P. and Ritchie, J. (eds.) East Asian Direct Investment in Britain. Series: Studies in Asia Pacific business. Frank Cass: London. ISBN 0714680443

Smallbone, David, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Syrett, Stephen and Leigh, Roger (1999) The single European market and SMEs: A comparison of its effects in the food and clothing sectors in the UK and Portugal. Regional Studies, 33(1), pp. 51-62. (doi: 10.1080/00343409950118913)

1998

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (1998) The transformation of employment relations in the UK's old industrial regions: a regional comparison of the experience of Japanization. Asia Pacific Business Review, 5(2), pp. 183-200. (doi: 10.1080/13602389912331288043)

Samllbone, D., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1998) Internationalisation, the single market and SMEs. Piccola Impresa, 12(3), pp. 27-50.

1996

Smallbone, D., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Leigh, R. (1996) The single market process and SMEs in the UK food processing sector. International Small Business Journal, 14(4), pp. 55-71. (doi: 10.1177/0266242696144004)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (1996) Continuity or change in employment relations? Evidence from the UK's old industrial regions. Capital and Class, 20(1), pp. 33-57. (doi: 10.1177/030981689605800103)

1995

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (1995) Development prospects for the European offshore oil industry. European Urban and Regional Studies, 2(4), pp. 362-367. (doi: 10.1177/096977649500200408)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (1995) North Sea oil and regional economic development: the case of the north east of England. Area, 27(3), pp. 208-217.

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Smallbone, D., Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1995) Internationalisation, the Single European Market and the Threats and Opportunities for SMEs in the UK Clothing Sector: Some Survey Evidence. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Smallbone, D., Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1995) The Single European Market and the Threats and Opportunities for SMEs in the UK Food Manufacturing Sector: Some Survey Evidence. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Leigh, Roger and Smallbone, David (1995) The single European market and the new regulatory regime in the food sector. British Food Journal, 97(4), pp. 13-18. (doi: 10.1108/00070709510085620)

1994

Cumbers, Andy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (1994) New forms of work and employment in an 'old industrial region'? The offshore construction industry in the North East of England. Work, Employment and Society, 8(4), pp. 531-552. (doi: 10.1177/095001709484003)

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Smallbone, D., Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1994) The Implications of the Single European Market for SMEs in the Food Sector. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (1994) A critical analysis of the impact of North Sea oil upon the North East of England. Northern Economic Review, 22, pp. 9-17.

Smallbone, D., Syrett, S., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Leigh, R. (1994) Threats and Opportunities of the Single Market for SMEs: A Conceptual Framework. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

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Articles

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2014) Advancing theory in urban research. Urban Studies, 51(5), pp. 865-867. (doi: 10.1177/0042098014525900)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2013) Making space for economic democracy: the Danish wind power revolution. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development,

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2009) Hearing What They Want. Scottish Left Review, 50, pp. 4-5.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2009) Inconvenient Truths For The Neoliberals. Scottish Left Review, 54, pp. 10-11.

Cumbers, A., Nativel, C. and Routledge, P. (2008) Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), pp. 369-387. (doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbn008)

Cumbers, A., Routledge, P. and Nativel, C. (2008) The entangled geographies of global justice networks. Progress in Human Geography, 32(2), pp. 183-201. (doi: 10.1177/0309132507084818)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2007) The fictitious commodity. Variant, 28, pp. 16-18.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2006) The Profit Myth. Scottish Left Review, 33, pp. 14-15.

Routledge, P, Nativel, C and Cumbers, A (2006) Entangled logics and grassroots imaginaries of global justice networks. Environmental Politics, 15, pp. 839-859. (doi: 10.1080/09644010600937272)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2005) An alternative economic strategy for Scotland. Perspectives, 8, pp. 16-17.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2005) Renewing Economic Democracy. Scottish Left Review, 30, pp. 20-21.

Cumbers, A (2002) When brown was red. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 12, pp. 64-78.

Samllbone, D., Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1998) Internationalisation, the single market and SMEs. Piccola Impresa, 12(3), pp. 27-50.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (1995) North Sea oil and regional economic development: the case of the north east of England. Area, 27(3), pp. 208-217.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (1994) A critical analysis of the impact of North Sea oil upon the North East of England. Northern Economic Review, 22, pp. 9-17.

Books

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2020) The Case for Economic Democracy. Series: The case for. Polity Press: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA. ISBN 9781509533848

Cumbers, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2012) Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy. Zed: London, UK. ISBN 9781780320076

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Crossan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290 (2015) Glasgow’s Community Gardens: Neoliberal Spaces or Sites of Radical Potential? Geographies of the Anthropocene. In: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, University of Exeter, 01-04 Sep 2015, (Unpublished)

Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Crossan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4449-1644, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2015) Community Gardens: New Spaces for DIY Citizenship? In: 40th Annual Macromarketing Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 25-28 Jun 2015, (Unpublished)

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Grants

January 2019 – December 2023 “Global Remunicipalisation and The Post - Neoliberal Turn”, European Research Council Advanced Grant, €1,766,626. Principal Investigator (PI).

May 2018 – April 2022 “Municipal Action, Public Engagement and Routes Towards Energy Transition”, EU Horizon 2020, £1,999,396. PI.

April – December 2017 “The Community Food Hub: Phase 1”, European Social Fund/Social Innovation Fund, £51,751.23. PI.

April - September 2017 “Implementing New forms of Municipal Public Ownership in the Energy Sector, ESRC Impact Acceleration Award, £11,229.50. PI.

January 2016: ‘Economic Democracy and Public Policy’, ESRC Transformative Research Programme (£249,408).

January 2014: 'Tackling Declining Cities: the UK in Comparative Context', Joseph Rowntree Foundation with colleagues at CURDS Newcastle (£100,000).

January 2011: ‘Urban Studies in Human Geography’, Urban Studies Foundation, Principle Investigator (£200,000).

April 2010: 'Connection, empowerment and exclusion in contemporary Britain: lived experiences of globalisation', Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Principle Investigator (£50,000)

January 2008 (with Paddison): ‘Urban Studies and Urban Political Economy’, Urban Studies Foundation, Principal Investigator (£1,000,000).

January 2007 (with Birch) ESRC: ‘Biotechnology Commodity Chains’, co-applicant. (£91,000).

November 2005 (with Birch) UNISON: ‘Impact of Public Sector Spending in Scotland’, Principal Investigator (£1,500).

October 2004 (with Shaw and MacKinnon) ESRC: ‘Changing Employment Relations in Privatised Industries: the Case of Rail’, co-applicant (£27,300).

June 2004 (with Routledge) ESRC: ‘The Politics of Convergence Space in Global Justice Networks’, Principal Investigator (£80,635).

August 2003 (with Maclennan et al) SHEFC RDG: ‘Centre for Public Policy for Regions’ (CPPR), co-applicant (circa £1,000,000).

Supervision

Brown, Grace
To what extent does remunicipalisation contribute to a counter-hegemonic project of the left?
Lippert, Cassandra
Transforming lives and cities through decent work? A comparative exploration from employee perspective on decent work, living wages and their impactsellbeing)
Stegemann, Laura
Basic service provision in the context of hegemonic social relations of productivity. A study of re/municipalised basic service provision in Germany.

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Uneven Development and the Global Economy
Economic Crises
Social and Community Entrepreneurship.

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Management Issues and Controversies

Research datasets

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Number of items: 1.

2009

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. (2009) Beyond clusters: the implications of life science commodity chains for less-favoured regions. [Data Collection]

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Andrew is Editor in Chief of the journal Urban Studies and has served on the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society. He is also on the editorial team of Competition and Change. He is an internationally renowned researcher in the fields of economic geography, political economy and economic democracy. He has been a collaborating researcher with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Andrew has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Cologne and Frankfurt and the Leibniz Institute for Urban and Regional Planning in Berlin. In 2015 he won the Gunnar Myrdal Prize for Evolutionary Political Economy for his book Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy (Zed). In 2018 he was awarded a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant to study the global remunicipalisation process as part of his ongoing work into economic democracy. His most recent monography for Polity Press "The Case for Economic Democracy" was published in early 2020.

Professor Andrew Cumbers, Professor in Regional Political Economy

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