Ven
17
Apr
Seminari e Convegni
Conjunctural analysis: moments and methods
The presentation reflects on the recent (re)turn to conjunctural analysis in the critical social sciences, including geography and urban studies, exploring its implications for contemporary methodological practice.
The seminar will take place on 17 April 2026, at 10:00 am, with discussants Ugo Rossi and Alberto Valz Gris from the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST, and will be chaired by Emanuele Sciuva from the same department.
Abstract
In recent years, there has been a remarkable resurgence in the adoption of various forms of conjunctural analysis, over the long decade that began with the global financial crisis of 2008–2010 and was later marked by the COVID-19 pandemic-a period shaped by the rise of renewed currents of authoritarianism, populism, nationalism, protectionism, and more. With deep roots traceable to Machiavelli and Gramsci, and more recently to the work of Stuart Hall and his collaborators, conjunctural analysis enjoys a reputation for potency and contextual relevance, yet remains somewhat elusive and enigmatic, combining a critical ethos, ethic, and orientation with a set of practical approaches, without constituting a fully explicit methodology. Conjunctural analysis cannot be reduced to a method, but neither is it methodologically neutral or indifferent.
Biography
Jamie Peck, FRSC, FBA, FAcSS, FeRSA is University Killam Professor, Distinguished University Scholar, and professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His long-standing research interests include economic geography, urban and regional studies, and institutional political economy. His books include Variegated Economies (2023, Oxford), Offshore (Oxford, 2017), Fast Policy (Minnesota, 2015, with Nik Theodore), and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (Oxford, 2010). He is an editor of EPA: Economy & Space and the founder of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography.
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The seminar will take place on 17 April 2026, at 10:00 am, with discussants Ugo Rossi and Alberto Valz Gris from the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST, and will be chaired by Emanuele Sciuva from the same department.
Abstract
In recent years, there has been a remarkable resurgence in the adoption of various forms of conjunctural analysis, over the long decade that began with the global financial crisis of 2008–2010 and was later marked by the COVID-19 pandemic-a period shaped by the rise of renewed currents of authoritarianism, populism, nationalism, protectionism, and more. With deep roots traceable to Machiavelli and Gramsci, and more recently to the work of Stuart Hall and his collaborators, conjunctural analysis enjoys a reputation for potency and contextual relevance, yet remains somewhat elusive and enigmatic, combining a critical ethos, ethic, and orientation with a set of practical approaches, without constituting a fully explicit methodology. Conjunctural analysis cannot be reduced to a method, but neither is it methodologically neutral or indifferent.
Biography
Jamie Peck, FRSC, FBA, FAcSS, FeRSA is University Killam Professor, Distinguished University Scholar, and professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His long-standing research interests include economic geography, urban and regional studies, and institutional political economy. His books include Variegated Economies (2023, Oxford), Offshore (Oxford, 2017), Fast Policy (Minnesota, 2015, with Nik Theodore), and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (Oxford, 2010). He is an editor of EPA: Economy & Space and the founder of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography.
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