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Back to the future? Financialisation, local statecraft, and situational analysis

Kevin Ward

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space2026https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x261441479article
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In this short commentary, I assess Pike in relation to those other contributions in urban and regional studies that work with the notion of statecraft. Pike makes an important contribution to ongoing debates on the changing contours of the financialisation of English local government. That said, my argument is that the analysis stops short of revealing the details of the work done by the rather abstract notion of “financialisation” in terms of urban politics, and here I mean with a large and small “P.”

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@article{kevin2026,
  title        = {{Back to the future? Financialisation, local statecraft, and situational analysis}},
  author       = {Kevin Ward},
  journal      = {Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x261441479},
}

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0.50

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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