Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University (USA)
His research seeks to understand the structures, agencies, relations and spatialities that shape contemporary economic, development, and urban geographies and examines the prospects for more fair, sustainable and resilient forms of development in the Global South. This work draws on concepts, theories, and epistemologies from diverse fields, including economic and urban geography, development studies, sociology, Science and Technology studies (STS), and sustainable transitions research.
His research contributes to three academic areas: 1) Relational economic geographies of industrial change, globalization, urbanization, and socioeconomic development; 2) Geographies of sociotechnical systems and transitions to sustainability; and 3) The development of innovative conceptual frameworks, concepts, and epistemologies that advance the understanding of socio-spatial and socioeconomic phenomena.
Su investigación actual se centra en las formas emergentes de capitalismo de Estado y sus implicaciones para la economía mundial (por ejemplo, las que emanan de China) y la dinámica de las transiciones urbanas en el África subsahariana actual. Además, como redactor jefe (desde 2014) del Economic Geography ha prestado apoyo a diversos programas de investigación y ha desempeñado un papel importante en el desarrollo, la promoción, la expansión y el fortalecimiento de este campo.