Professor Wendy Larner

BSocSc ( Waikato), MA (Hons) (Cant), PhD (Carl)

Contact
office: 2.15n
tel: +44 (0)117 92 88306
fax: +44 (0)117 928 7878
email: w.larner@bristol.ac.uk

Research and teaching interests
Globalisation, Governance and Gender

Research Specialties
Intellectually, my research programme is situated in the interdisciplinary fields of globalisation, governance and gender, and links insights from critical social theory with a strong commitment to empirical research. My aim is to challenge conventional understandings of globalisation as an inevitable 'new reality' by showing that it is a contested and contradictory process in the making. Relatedly, I have a long standing research interest in theorising neo-liberalism and 'post-welfarist' governance. My empirical projects include research on economic and social policies, industry restructuring, and community development. I have received a number of national and international awards, including a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship, a Canadian Government Faculty Research Award, a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant (with Richard Le Heron), a Fulbright New Zealand Senior Fellowship, and a Queen Mary Distinguished Visiting Fellowship.

Current funded research projects
2005-7 Placing Voluntary Activism in Neoliberal Welfare States: A comparative study of Manchester and Auckland. (Economic and Social Research Council, AI with Christine Milligan (PI), Liz Bondi, Nick Fyfe and Robin Kearns).

2006-07 Fashioning Globalisation: The New Zealand designer fashion industry ( British Academy, co-PI with Maureen Molloy)

Other Current Research Activities
2003- International Advisory Board, Studies in Political Economy
2004-09 Member of the New Zealand Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences Network (made up of 40 leading New Zealand social scientists).
2007- Associate Editor, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society.
2008- Editorial Board, Geopolitics
2008- Co-Editor, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

Supervision
I have supervised over twenty graduate and post graduate students on a wide range of topics, and from across the social sciences. I am concerned to encourage students to recognise the importance of theory, while at the same time assisting them with their engagement with substantive topics. I am also interested in the challenges associated with ensuring students have a strong disciplinary base, while recognising cognate linkages between the social sciences. In this regard my own multi-disciplinary background (human geography, sociology, political studies) is particularly useful.

Current PhD Students:
Cat Downey. Topic: Science, Interdisciplinarity, Policy (co-supervision with Sarah Cornell, Earth Science)2008-

Naomi Millner. Topic: Learning Cities (co-supervision with JD Dewsbury, Geography) 2008-

Nick Soucek. Topic: New Knowledge Spaces (co-supervision with Mark Jackson, Geography) 2008-

Aisling Gallagher. Topic: Professionalising Motherhood: Regulation, Childminding and the Irish Welfare State (co- supervision with Julie MacLeavy, Geography) 2006-

Simon Moreton. Topic: Affordable Studio Space and New Creative Selves? (co-supervision with Susan Robertson, Education) 2006-

Birgul Kutan. Topic: Non-state Actors in the Shaping of Turkey's EU Accession (co-supervision with Malcolm Fairbrother, Geography) 2006-

Lucy Hood. Topic: Geography, Cultural Policy and Planning (co-supervision with JD Dewsbury, Geography) 2005-

Completed PhD Students (Bristol only)
Russell Prince. Topic: Global Political Economy and the Creative Industries (co-supervision with Adam Tickell, Geography, completed 2008) Now: Lecturer in Geography, Massey University, New Zealand

Nick Gill. Topic: State Theory and Asylum Seekers (PhD, co-supervision with Adam Tickell, Geography, completed 2007) Now: Lecturer in Geography, Lancaster University, UK

Jess Pykett. Topic: Geographies of Citizenship Education (PhD, co- supervision with John Morgan, Education, completed 2006) Now: ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Geography, Open University.

Publications since 2005:

Refereed Journal Articles
Larner W and M Molloy (2008) 'Globalization, the New Economy and Working Women: Theorizing from the New Zealand designer fashion industry'. Feminist Theory (forthcoming)

Larner, W (2008) 'Neoliberalism, Mike Moore and the WTO', Environment and Planning A (forthcoming)

Elizabeth, V and W Larner (2008) 'Racialising the 'Social Development' State: Investing in Children in Aotearoa/New Zealand'. Social Politics (forthcoming)

Lewis, N., Larner W and R Le Heron (2008) 'The New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry: Making industries and co-constituting political projects'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33(1): 42-59.

Larner, W (2007) Expatriate Experts and Globalising Governmentalities: The New Zealand Diaspora Strategy. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32(3): 331-345.

Larner, W., Molloy, M. with A Goodrum (2007) Globalisation, Cultural Economy and Not-so-Global Cities: The New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(3): 381 - 400.

Larner, W and R Le Heron (2005) 'Neoliberalising Spaces and Subjectivities: Reinventing New Zealand Universities.' Organization 12(6): 843-862

Larner, W and D Craig (2005) 'After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa New Zealand. Antipode 37(3): 402-424.

Larner, W and M Butler (2005) Governmentalities of Local Partnerships: The rise of a 'partnering state' in New Zealand. Studies in Political Economy 75: 85-108. (pdf available via ROSE)

Larner, W (2005) 'Neoliberalism in (Regional) Theory and Practice'. Geographical Research: Journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers 43(1): 9-18

Book Chapters
Larner, W (2007) 'Spatial Imaginaries: Economic Globalisation and the War against Terror'. In M de Goede and L Amoore (eds) Risk and the War on Terror. Routledge (forthcoming)

Larner, W (2007) Urban Geography: Urban Neoliberalism. In R Kitchin and N Thrift (eds) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier (forthcoming)

Larner, W (2007) Political Geography: Neoliberalism. In R Kitchin and N Thrift (eds) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier (forthcoming)

Larner, W (2007) The State Spaces of 'After Neoliberalism': Co-constituting the New Zealand designer fashion industry. In R Keil and R Mahon (eds) The Political Economy of Scale. University of British Columbia Press (forthcoming).

Larner, W (2007) Expatriate Experts: New Zealand's Diaspora Strategy. In Hanson, H-K and S Salskov-Iversen (eds) Critical Perspectives on Private Authority in Global Politics. Palgrave/Macmillan (forthcoming)

Larner, W., Le Heron, R and N Lewis (2007) 'Co-constituting 'After Neoliberalism?': Political projects and globalising governmentalities in Aotearoa New Zealand'. In K England and K Ward (eds) Neo-liberalization: States, Networks, People. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Larner, W and M Butler (2007) 'Strategic Brokers and the Politics of Partnership: After Neoliberalism in Aotearoa New Zealand' In Helga Leitner, Eric Sheppard and Jamie Peck (eds) Contested Urban Futures: Neoliberalisms and their discontents. Guilford Publications Inc.

Larner, W (2006) 'Researching Local Partnerships: Governmentality, Politics and Policy'. In C McDonald and G Marston (eds) Reframing Social Policy: A governmental approach. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

Larner, W (2006) 'Brokering Citizenship Claims: Neoliberalism, Tino Rangatiratanga and Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand'. In E Tastsoglou and A Dobrowolsky (eds) Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making local, national and transnational connections. Aldershot:Ashgate.

Also, an old but frequently requested article:
Larner, W (2000) 'Neo-liberalism: Policy, Ideology, Governmentality.' Studies in Political Economy 63: 5-26. (pdf available via ROSE)