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Professor Crispian Fuller
Professor of Economic Geography
School of Geography and Planning
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
My research focuses on urban and economic geography. Firstly, I am interested in the everyday politics and power relations characterising the governance of cities, including the practices of negotiation and argumentation between actors. In the last five years my research in this area has focused on examining how urban local authorities are mediating austerity, with particular focus on economic development and regeneration. This research has been undertaken with a number of city councils in the UK. research has been published in a number of journals, including EPA, Urban Studies, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, and Geoforum.
I am presently the PI on a Leverhulme Trust funded project examining local government Council Tax debt collection practices, and their impacts on citizens experienced Council Tax debts. The project is examining all metropolitan councils in England, as well as three individual case studies where there will be interviews with all critical stakeholders, and interviews and focus groups with citizens.
Secondly, I undertake research on the role of geography in the configuration of corporations, and their impact on geographical relations, particularly in relation to the Global Production Networks perspective. I am interested in how geography underpins power relations within the corporation, and the consequence of such power configurations on economic geographies. Research from this area has been published in journals such as the Journal of Economic Geography. I was Leverhulme Fellow between 2018-19, undertaking research on the impact of Brexit on foreign corporations in the UK. The study examined how corporations are mediating the impacts of Brexit, including examination of how supply chains are being reconfigured, and the early impact of Brexit on regional development. My present research in this area is examining the impacts of digitalisation on aerospace firms in certain English regions. A further project is examining the role the region in the development of the digital health sector.
Finally, I have a broadranging interest in the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Various aspects of process philosophy influence my research in urban and economic geography. I am particularly interested in Whitehead's concept of spacetime as generated through the extensive continuum.
Publication
2024
- Fuller, C. 2024. Agency, temporalities and the mediation of COVID within global production networks. Economic Geography 100(3), pp. 274-292. (10.1080/00130095.2024.2357093)
- Brown, A., Charkrabati, B., MacKie, P., Fuller, C., Bhattacharya, R., Bagchi, S. and Chakrabarti, D. 2024. Contested spaces of exchange: Informal cross-border trade on the India-Bangladesh border.. Forum for Development Studies 51(1), pp. 121-143. (10.1080/08039410.2023.2255211)
2023
- Fuller, C. 2023. Uncertainty, fictional expectations and economic agency. Geoforum 140, article number: 103699. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103699)
2022
- Fuller, C. 2022. Time for change: corporate conventions, space-time, and uneven development. Progress in Human Geography 46(2), pp. 441-462. (10.1177/03091325211018738)
- Fuller, C. 2022. Austerity, teleological 'ends' and the timespace practices of the state organisation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 40(1), pp. 298-317. (10.1177/23996544211021415)
- Fuller, C. 2022. Brexit, the mediation strategies of foreign corporate subsidiaries and regional resilience. Regional Studies 56(11), pp. 1961-1975. (10.1080/00343404.2021.2019213)
2021
- Fuller, C. 2021. Understanding the impact of Brexit: the case of foreign software corporations in Scotland and Southeast England. European Urban and Regional Studies 28(2), pp. 173-191. (10.1177/0969776421989401)
- Fuller, C. 2021. Brexit and the discursive construction of the corporation. Journal of Economic Geography 21(2), pp. 317-338. (10.1093/jeg/lbaa023)
- Morrell, K., Heracleous, L., Fuller, C. and Bradford, B. 2021. How does the state restore order during crisis? Lessons from the U.K.'s response to the "riots" of August 2011. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 57(1), pp. 80-103. (10.1177/0021886320953848)
2020
- Fuller, C. 2020. Mead, subjectivity, and urban politics. In: Wills, J. and Lake, R. eds. The Power of Pragmatism: Knowledge Production and Social Inquiry.. Manchester University Press
- Fuller, C. 2020. The institutions and heterogeneous geographical relations of austerity. Critical Policy Studies 14(4), pp. 445-465. (10.1080/19460171.2019.1670711)
2019
- Fuller, C. 2019. Brexit, foreign corporations and early regional impacts. Regions Magazine (10.1080/13673882.2018.00001054)
2018
- Fuller, C. 2018. Entrepreneural urbanism, austerity and economic governance. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 11(3), pp. 565-585. (10.1093/cjres/rsy023)
- Fuller, C. 2018. The region in international business and economic geography. In: Beaverstock, J. et al. eds. The Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business.. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 213-226.
- Fuller, C. and Phelps, N. A. 2018. Revisiting the multinational enterprise in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography 18(1), pp. 139-161. (10.1093/jeg/lbx024)
- Fuller, C. 2018. Where is the 'organisation' in the urban political?. In: Enright, T. and Rossi, U. eds. The Urban Political: Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism.. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 83-101.
2017
- Fuller, C. and West, K. 2017. The possibilities and limits of political contestation in times of 'urban austerity'. Urban Studies 54(9), pp. 2087-2106. (10.1177/0042098016651568)
- Fuller, C. 2017. City government in an age of austerity: discursive institutions and critique. Environment and Planning A 49(4), pp. 745-766. (10.1177/0308518X16684139)
2016
- Fuller, C. 2016. Communities, abandonment and 'recognition': The case of post-state funding community bodies. Geoforum 76, pp. 118-129. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.09.007)
- Phelps, N. A. and Fuller, C. 2016. Inertia and change in multinational enterprise subsidiary capabilities: an evolutionary economic geography framework. Journal of Economic Geography 16(1), pp. 109-130. (10.1093/jeg/lbv002)
2013
- Fuller, C. 2013. Urban politics and the social practices of critique and justification: conceptual insights from French Pragmatism. Progress in Human Geography 37(5), pp. 639-657. (10.1177/0309132512469763)
2012
- Fuller, C. 2012. ‘Worlds of justification’ in the politics and practices of urban regeneration. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30(5), pp. 913-929. (10.1068/d19710)
2010
- Fuller, C. 2010. Crisis and institutional change in urban governance. Environment and Planning a 42(5), pp. 1121-1137. (10.1068/a42245)
2009
- Lupton, R. and Fuller, C. 2009. Mixed communities: a new approach to spatially-concentrated poverty in England. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(4), pp. 1014-1028. (10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00904.x)
2008
- Fuller, C. and Geddes, M. 2008. Urban governance under neoliberalism: New Labour and the restructuring of state-space. Antipode 40(2), pp. 252-282. (10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00591.x)
2007
- Ramsden, M., Bennett, R. J. and Fuller, C. 2007. Local economic development and the transition from TECs to new institutional structures in England: partnership, discretion and local flexibility. Policy Studies 28(3), pp. 225-245. (10.1080/01442870701437444)
- Geddes, M., Davies, J. and Fuller, C. 2007. Evaluating local strategic partnerships-theory and practice of change. Local Government Studies 33(1), pp. 97-116. (10.1080/03003930601081358)
2005
- Fuller, C. 2005. Corporate repeat investment and regional institutional capacity: the case of after-care services in Wales. European Urban and Regional Studies 12(1), pp. 5-21. (10.1177/0969776405048497)
- Ramsden, M., Bennett, R. J. and Fuller, C. 2005. The learning and skills council and the institutional infrastructure for post-16 education and training: an initial assessment. Journal of Education and Work 17(4), pp. 397-420. (10.1080/1363908042000292010)
2004
- Bennett, R. J., Fuller, C. and Ramsden, M. 2004. Local government and local economic development in Britain: an evaluation of developments under Labour. Progress in Planning 62(4), pp. 205-274. (10.1016/j.progress.2004.07.003)
- Fuller, C., Bennett, R. J. and Ramsden, M. 2004. Local Government and the changing institutional landscape of economic development. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 22(3), pp. 317-347. (10.1068/c31m)
- Fuller, C. and Phelps, N. A. 2004. Multinational enterprises, repeat investment and the role of after-care services in Wales and Ireland. Regional Studies 38(7), pp. 783-801. (10.1080/0034340042000265269)
- Ramsden, M., Bennett, R. J. and Fuller, C. 2004. Short-Term policy and the ever changing institutional landscape of post-16 education and training: the case of learning partnerships in England, Scotland and Wales. Journal of Education and Work 17(2), pp. 139-165. (10.1080/13639080410001677374)
2003
- Fuller, C., Bennett, R. J. and Ramsden, M. 2003. Organised for inward investment? RDAs, local government and firms in the inward investment process. Environment and Planning a 35(11), pp. 2025-2051. (10.1068/a35296)
2002
- Fuller, C., Bennett, R. J. and Ramsden, M. 2002. RDAs and economic development in England: the need for greater discretionary power. Regional Studies 36(4), pp. 421-443., article number: 10.1080/00343400220131188.
- Ramsden, M., Bennett, R. J. and Fuller, C. 2002. The end of TECs: a challenge for partners and successor bodies to maintain discretionary activity. Policy Studies 23(3/4), pp. 231-247. (10.1080/0144287022000046000)
2001
- Phelps, N. A. and Fuller, C. 2001. Taking care of business: after-care and the state-MNE nexus in Wales. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 19(6), pp. 817-832. (10.1068/c0055)
2000
- Phelps, N. and Fuller, C. 2000. Multinationals corporations, intra-corporate competition and regional development. Economic Geography 76(3), pp. 224-243. (10.1111/j.1944-8287.2000.tb00142.x)
1999
- Phelps, N., Morgan, K. J. and Fuller, C. 1999. Regions, governance and FDI: The case of Wales. In: Hood, N. and Young, S. eds. The Globalisation of Multinational Enterprise Activity and Economic Development. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 366-389., (10.1057/9780230599161)
Articles
- Fuller, C. 2024. Agency, temporalities and the mediation of COVID within global production networks. Economic Geography 100(3), pp. 274-292. (10.1080/00130095.2024.2357093)
- Brown, A., Charkrabati, B., MacKie, P., Fuller, C., Bhattacharya, R., Bagchi, S. and Chakrabarti, D. 2024. Contested spaces of exchange: Informal cross-border trade on the India-Bangladesh border.. Forum for Development Studies 51(1), pp. 121-143. (10.1080/08039410.2023.2255211)
- Fuller, C. 2023. Uncertainty, fictional expectations and economic agency. Geoforum 140, article number: 103699. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103699)
- Fuller, C. 2022. Time for change: corporate conventions, space-time, and uneven development. Progress in Human Geography 46(2), pp. 441-462. (10.1177/03091325211018738)
- Fuller, C. 2022. Austerity, teleological 'ends' and the timespace practices of the state organisation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 40(1), pp. 298-317. (10.1177/23996544211021415)
- Fuller, C. 2022. Brexit, the mediation strategies of foreign corporate subsidiaries and regional resilience. Regional Studies 56(11), pp. 1961-1975. (10.1080/00343404.2021.2019213)
- Fuller, C. 2021. Understanding the impact of Brexit: the case of foreign software corporations in Scotland and Southeast England. European Urban and Regional Studies 28(2), pp. 173-191. (10.1177/0969776421989401)
- Fuller, C. 2021. Brexit and the discursive construction of the corporation. Journal of Economic Geography 21(2), pp. 317-338. (10.1093/jeg/lbaa023)
- Morrell, K., Heracleous, L., Fuller, C. and Bradford, B. 2021. How does the state restore order during crisis? Lessons from the U.K.'s response to the "riots" of August 2011. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 57(1), pp. 80-103. (10.1177/0021886320953848)
- Fuller, C. 2020. The institutions and heterogeneous geographical relations of austerity. Critical Policy Studies 14(4), pp. 445-465. (10.1080/19460171.2019.1670711)
- Fuller, C. 2019. Brexit, foreign corporations and early regional impacts. Regions Magazine (10.1080/13673882.2018.00001054)
- Fuller, C. 2018. Entrepreneural urbanism, austerity and economic governance. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 11(3), pp. 565-585. (10.1093/cjres/rsy023)
- Fuller, C. and Phelps, N. A. 2018. Revisiting the multinational enterprise in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography 18(1), pp. 139-161. (10.1093/jeg/lbx024)
- Fuller, C. and West, K. 2017. The possibilities and limits of political contestation in times of 'urban austerity'. Urban Studies 54(9), pp. 2087-2106. (10.1177/0042098016651568)
- Fuller, C. 2017. City government in an age of austerity: discursive institutions and critique. Environment and Planning A 49(4), pp. 745-766. (10.1177/0308518X16684139)
- Fuller, C. 2016. Communities, abandonment and 'recognition': The case of post-state funding community bodies. Geoforum 76, pp. 118-129. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.09.007)
- Phelps, N. A. and Fuller, C. 2016. Inertia and change in multinational enterprise subsidiary capabilities: an evolutionary economic geography framework. Journal of Economic Geography 16(1), pp. 109-130. (10.1093/jeg/lbv002)
- Fuller, C. 2013. Urban politics and the social practices of critique and justification: conceptual insights from French Pragmatism. Progress in Human Geography 37(5), pp. 639-657. (10.1177/0309132512469763)
- Fuller, C. 2012. ‘Worlds of justification’ in the politics and practices of urban regeneration. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30(5), pp. 913-929. (10.1068/d19710)
- Fuller, C. 2010. Crisis and institutional change in urban governance. Environment and Planning a 42(5), pp. 1121-1137. (10.1068/a42245)
- Lupton, R. and Fuller, C. 2009. Mixed communities: a new approach to spatially-concentrated poverty in England. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(4), pp. 1014-1028. (10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00904.x)
- Fuller, C. and Geddes, M. 2008. Urban governance under neoliberalism: New Labour and the restructuring of state-space. Antipode 40(2), pp. 252-282. (10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00591.x)
- Ramsden, M., Bennett, R. J. and Fuller, C. 2007. Local economic development and the transition from TECs to new institutional structures in England: partnership, discretion and local flexibility. Policy Studies 28(3), pp. 225-245. (10.1080/01442870701437444)
- Geddes, M., Davies, J. and Fuller, C. 2007. Evaluating local strategic partnerships-theory and practice of change. Local Government Studies 33(1), pp. 97-116. (10.1080/03003930601081358)
- Fuller, C. 2005. Corporate repeat investment and regional institutional capacity: the case of after-care services in Wales. European Urban and Regional Studies 12(1), pp. 5-21. (10.1177/0969776405048497)
- Ramsden, M., Bennett, R. J. and Fuller, C. 2005. The learning and skills council and the institutional infrastructure for post-16 education and training: an initial assessment. Journal of Education and Work 17(4), pp. 397-420. (10.1080/1363908042000292010)
- Bennett, R. J., Fuller, C. and Ramsden, M. 2004. Local government and local economic development in Britain: an evaluation of developments under Labour. Progress in Planning 62(4), pp. 205-274. (10.1016/j.progress.2004.07.003)
- Fuller, C., Bennett, R. J. and Ramsden, M. 2004. Local Government and the changing institutional landscape of economic development. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 22(3), pp. 317-347. (10.1068/c31m)
- Fuller, C. and Phelps, N. A. 2004. Multinational enterprises, repeat investment and the role of after-care services in Wales and Ireland. Regional Studies 38(7), pp. 783-801. (10.1080/0034340042000265269)
- Ramsden, M., Bennett, R. J. and Fuller, C. 2004. Short-Term policy and the ever changing institutional landscape of post-16 education and training: the case of learning partnerships in England, Scotland and Wales. Journal of Education and Work 17(2), pp. 139-165. (10.1080/13639080410001677374)
- Fuller, C., Bennett, R. J. and Ramsden, M. 2003. Organised for inward investment? RDAs, local government and firms in the inward investment process. Environment and Planning a 35(11), pp. 2025-2051. (10.1068/a35296)
- Fuller, C., Bennett, R. J. and Ramsden, M. 2002. RDAs and economic development in England: the need for greater discretionary power. Regional Studies 36(4), pp. 421-443., article number: 10.1080/00343400220131188.
- Ramsden, M., Bennett, R. J. and Fuller, C. 2002. The end of TECs: a challenge for partners and successor bodies to maintain discretionary activity. Policy Studies 23(3/4), pp. 231-247. (10.1080/0144287022000046000)
- Phelps, N. A. and Fuller, C. 2001. Taking care of business: after-care and the state-MNE nexus in Wales. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 19(6), pp. 817-832. (10.1068/c0055)
- Phelps, N. and Fuller, C. 2000. Multinationals corporations, intra-corporate competition and regional development. Economic Geography 76(3), pp. 224-243. (10.1111/j.1944-8287.2000.tb00142.x)
Book sections
- Fuller, C. 2020. Mead, subjectivity, and urban politics. In: Wills, J. and Lake, R. eds. The Power of Pragmatism: Knowledge Production and Social Inquiry.. Manchester University Press
- Fuller, C. 2018. The region in international business and economic geography. In: Beaverstock, J. et al. eds. The Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business.. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 213-226.
- Fuller, C. 2018. Where is the 'organisation' in the urban political?. In: Enright, T. and Rossi, U. eds. The Urban Political: Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism.. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 83-101.
- Phelps, N., Morgan, K. J. and Fuller, C. 1999. Regions, governance and FDI: The case of Wales. In: Hood, N. and Young, S. eds. The Globalisation of Multinational Enterprise Activity and Economic Development. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 366-389., (10.1057/9780230599161)
Research
My research focuses on urban and economic geography. Firstly, I am interested in the everyday politics and power relations characterising the governance of cities, including the practices of negotiation and argumentation between actors. In the last five years my research in this area has focused on examining how urban local authorities are mediating austerity, with particular focus on economic development and regeneration. This research has been undertaken with a number of city councils in the UK. research has been published in a number of journals, including EPA, Urban Studies, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, and Geoforum.
I am presently the PI on a Leverhulme Trust funded project examining local government Council Tax debt collection practices, and their impacts on citizens experienced Council Tax debts. The project is examining all metropolitan councils in England, as well as three individual case studies where there will be interviews with all critical stakeholders, and interviews and focus groups with citizens.
Secondly, I undertake research on the role of geography in the configuration of corporations, and their impact on geographical relations, particularly in relation to the Global Production Networks perspective. I am interested in how geography underpins power relations within the corporation, and the consequence of such power configurations on economic geographies. Research from this area has been published in journals such as the Journal of Economic Geography. I was Leverhulme Fellow between 2018-19, undertaking research on the impact of Brexit on foreign corporations in the UK. The study examined how corporations are mediating the impacts of Brexit, including examination of how supply chains are being reconfigured, and the early impact of Brexit on regional development. My present research in this area is examining the impacts of digitalisation on aerospace firms in certain English regions. A further project is examining the role the region in the development of the digital health sector.
Finally, I have a broadranging interest in the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Various aspects of process philosophy influence my research in urban and economic geography. I am particularly interested in Whitehead's concept of spacetime as generated through the extensive continuum.
Teaching
CP0144 Urban Economies
CP0211 Spaces of Production
CPT888 Urban and Regional Dynamics
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising students in the following areas:
- Urban governance
- Urban politics
- Urban regeneration
- Urban and regional economic development
- Corporations and regional economic development
- Global Production Networks and regional economic development
Contact Details
+44 29208 74705
Glamorgan Building, Room Room 2.53, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA
Research themes
Specialisms
- Urban geography
- Economic geography
- Global Production Networks
- Urban politics and governance