2024

Traill, H., Anderson, S. , Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2024) Caring at the edges: infrastructures of care and repair in urban deprivation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 42(2), pp. 190-210. (doi: 10.1177/02637758241231106)

Traill, H. and Cumbers, A. (2024) The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany. Urban Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00420980241228467) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Paul, F. and Cumbers, A. (2023) The People versus TINA: The Public Banking Movement in California, USA. International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) 13th Annual Conference In Political Economy: The Chronicles of Multiple Crises Foretold, Madrid, Spain, 06-08 Sep 2023.

Paul, F. , Cumbers, A. and Brown, G. (2023) People Power: Movements for Public Ownership and Energy Transition in the US. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023, London, UK, 29 Aug - 01 Sep 2023.

Brown, G. , Traill, H., Anderson, S. , Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2023) Good Food for All in Glasgow: An Interim Assessment of the Glasgow City Food Plan. Other. University of Glasgow.

Traill, H., Shaw, D. , Anderson, S. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2023) Approaching the ethics of sustainability in an area of deprivation. In: Carrigan, M., Wells, V. K. and Papadas, K. A. (eds.) Research Handbook on Ethical Consumption: Contemporary Research in Responsible and Sustainable Consumer Behaviour. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 174-189. ISBN 9781802202014 (doi: 10.4337/9781802202021.00018)

Traill, H. and Cumbers, A. (2023) Creating local sustainability transitions: finance, citizen participation and the multi-scalar governance challenges of municipal energy transition. In: Arestis, P. and Sawyer, M. (eds.) Prospects and Policies for Global Sustainable Recovery: Promoting Environmental and Economic Sustainability. Series: International papers in political economy. Springer, pp. 265-307. ISBN 9783031192562 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-19256-2_7)

Traill, H. and Cumbers, A. (2023) The state of municipal energy transitions: multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions. European Urban and Regional Studies, 30(2), pp. 93-106. (doi: 10.1177/09697764221101740)

Cumbers, A. , Bilsland, K., McMaster, R. , Cabaço, S. and White, M. (2023) The condition of European economic democracy: a comparative analysis of individual and collective employment rights. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 44(1), pp. 109-137. (doi: 10.1177/0143831X211064919)

Paul, F. C. and Cumbers, A. (2023) The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), pp. 165-183. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X211050407)

2022

Arpini, E., Panez, A., Cumbers, A. and Pearson, B. (2022) New Municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile. Urban Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00420980221126269) (Early Online Publication)

Weghmann, V., Paul, F. and Cumbers, A. (2022) Struggles for Democratic Participation in the German Post-Remunicipalisation Process. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference: Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 Jul 2022.

Paul, F. and Cumbers, A. (2022) The Return of the Local State? Failing Neoliberalism, Remunicipalisation, and the Role of the State in Advanced Capitalism. 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG): Territorial Development: Evolution, Innovation, Disruption and Marginalisation under the Anthropocene and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Dublin, Ireland, 07-10 Jun 2022.

Tod, E. et al. (2022) What is the potential for plural ownership to support a more inclusive economy? A systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 11, 76. (doi: 10.1186/s13643-022-01955-y) (PMID:35461257) (PMCID:PMC9034259)

Cumbers, A. , Pearson, B. , Stegemann, L. and Paul, F. (2022) Mapping Remunicipalisation: Emergent Trends in the Global Deprivatisation Process. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Cumbers, A. and Paul, F. (2022) Remunicipalisation, mutating neoliberalism, and the conjuncture. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 54(1), pp. 197-217. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12761)

2021

Traill, H., Cumbers, A. and Gray, N. (2021) The state of European municipal energy transition: an overview of current trends. Documentation. mPOWER.

Pearson, B. , Paul, F. , Cumbers, A. and Stegemann, L. (2021) Public Futures Database Report. Technical Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Cumbers, A. and Traill, H. (2021) Public ownership in the pursuit of economic democracy in a post-neoliberal order. In: Arestis, P. and Sawyer, M. (eds.) Economic Policies for a Post-Neoliberal World. Series: International papers in political economy. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 225-268. ISBN 9783030567347 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-56735-4_6)

2020

Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. , Cabaço, S. and White, M. J. (2020) Reconfiguring economic democracy: generating new forms of collective agency, individual economic freedom and public participation. Work, Employment and Society, 34(4), pp. 678-695. (doi: 10.1177/0950017019875935)

Cumbers, A. and Paul, F. (2020) Adapting to the political moment and diverse terrain of 'actually existing municipalisms'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 74, pp. 40-53. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.74.03.2020)

Cumbers, A. (2020) The Case for Economic Democracy. Series: The case for. Polity Press: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA. ISBN 9781509533848

McCartney, G. , Fenton, L., Minton, J. , Fischbacher, C., Taulbut, M., Little, K., Humphreys, C., Cumbers, A. , Popham, F. and McMaster, R. (2020) Is austerity responsible for the recent change in mortality trends across high-income nations? A protocol for an observational study. BMJ Open, 10(1), e034832. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034832) (PMID:31980513) (PMCID:PMC7044814)

Cumbers, A. and Gray, N. (2020) Marxist geography. In: Kobayashi, A. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA, pp. 413-424. ISBN 9780081022962 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10671-7)

Traill, H., Shaw, D. , Anderson, S. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Marr, N. (2020) Baltic Street Adventure Playground Establishing a Community Food Hub. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.217178).

2019

Hastings, T. and Cumbers, A. (2019) “That type of thing does give you a boost”: control, self‐valorisation, and autonomist worker copings in call centres. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 51(5), pp. 1456-1473. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12567)

Paul, F. and Cumbers, A. (2019) Democratisation by Design or Default? Global Remunicipalisation and the Post-Neoliberal Turn. Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, London, UK, 27-30 Aug 2019.

McCartney, G. , Popham, F. , McMaster, R. and Cumbers, A. (2019) Defining health and health inequalities. Public Health, 172, pp. 22-30. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.03.023) (PMID:31154234) (PMCID:PMC6558275)

McCartney, G. , Hearty, W., Arnott, J., Popham, F. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2019) Impact of political economy on population health: a systematic review of reviews. American Journal of Public Health, 109(6), e1-e12. (doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305001) (PMID:31067117) (PMCID:PMC6507992)

Cumbers, A. (2019) A tale of two nationalisations: experiences of post 1945 public ownership in the UK and France compared. International Journal of Public Policy, 15(1/2), pp. 5-20. (doi: 10.1504/IJPP.2019.099047)

MacKinnon, D., Dawley, S., Pike, A. and Cumbers, A. (2019) Rethinking path creation: a geographical political economy approach. Economic Geography, 95(2), pp. 113-135. (doi: 10.1080/00130095.2018.1498294)

2018

MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2018) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalisation, Uneven Development and Place. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138924505 (doi: 10.4324/9781315684284)

Cumbers, A. and Becker, S. (2018) Making sense of remunicipalisation: theoretical reflections on and political possibilities from Germany’s Rekommumalisierung process. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 11(3), pp. 503-517. (doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsy025)

Bilsland, K. and Cumbers, A. (2018) Managerial control and the limits to employee participation in retail work spaces: evidence from a UK IKEA store. New Technology, Work and Employment, 33(2), pp. 130-148. (doi: 10.1111/ntwe.12110)

Cumbers, A. (2018) The Danish low carbon transition and the prospects for the democratic economy. In: North, P. and Scott Cato, M. (eds.) Towards Just and Sustainable Economies: the Social and Solidarity Economy North and South. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 179-194. ISBN 9781447327233

Dow, S., McMaster, R. and Cumbers, A. (2018) Sine praejudicio? Economics and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 42(3), pp. 597-615. (doi: 10.1093/cje/bex091)

Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Crossan, J. (2018) Scaling up community action for tackling climate change. British Journal of Management, 29(2), pp. 266-278. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12274)

Cumbers, A. , Shaw, D. , Crossan, J. and McMaster, R. (2018) The work of community gardens: reclaiming place for community in the city. Work, Employment and Society, 32(1), pp. 133-149. (doi: 10.1177/0950017017695042)

Bilsland, K. and Cumbers, A. (2018) Organizational Control and Autonomy in Retail Work Spaces: Evidence from a UK IKEA Store. In: 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018), Chicago, IL, USA, 10-14 Aug 2018, (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.12455abstract)

Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2018) Social welfare and social control. In: Jo, T.-H., Chester, L. and D'Ippoliti, C. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics: Theorizing, Analyzing and Transforming Capitalism. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 499-512. ISBN 9781138899940

2016

Shaw, D. , Crossan, J. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. , Trebeck, K. and Black, I. (2016) Open Space: Places of prosumption: Community gardens putting the ‘we’ into neighbourhoods. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(3), pp. 473-479. (doi: 10.1332/204674316X14758523887982)

Crossan, J. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Shaw, D. (2016) Contesting neoliberal urbanism in Glasgow's community gardens: The practice of DIY citizenship. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 48(4), pp. 937-955. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12220)

Cumbers, A. , Featherstone, D., MacKinnon, D., Ince, A. and Strauss, K. (2016) Intervening in globalization: the spatial possibilities and institutional barriers to labour's collective agency. Journal of Economic Geography, 16(1), pp. 93-108. (doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbu039)

Cumbers, A. (2016) Economic democracy: reclaiming public ownership as the pragmatic left alternative. Juncture, 22(4), pp. 324-328. (doi: 10.1111/j.2050-5876.2016.00882.x)

Cumbers, A. (2016) Remunicipalization, the low carbon transition, and energy democracy. In: State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable? Series: State of the world. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics: Washington DC, pp. 275-289. ISBN 9781610915694 (doi: 10.5822/978-1-61091-756-8_23)

Cumbers, A. (2016) Rethinking public ownership as economic democracy. In: Jones, B., O'Donnel, M. and Papadopoulos, T. (eds.) Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism. Policy Press: Bristol.

Pike, A., Cumbers, A. , Dawley, S., MacKinnon, D. and McMaster, R. (2016) Doing evolution in economic geography. Economic Geography, 92(2), pp. 123-144. (doi: 10.1080/00130095.2015.1108830)

2015

Cumbers, A. , Davis, J. and McMaster, R. (2015) Theorizing the social provisioning process under capitalism: developing a veblenian theory of care for the twenty-first century. Journal of Economic Issues, 49(2), pp. 583-590. (doi: 10.1080/00213624.2015.1042806)

Ince, A., Featherstone, D., Cumbers, A. , MacKinnon, D. and Strauss, K. (2015) British jobs for British workers? Contesting work, nation and globalisation through the Lindsey Oil Refinery disputes. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 47(1), pp. 139-157. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12099)

Crossan, J. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Shaw, D. (2015) Glasgow’s Community Gardens: Neoliberal Spaces or Sites of Radical Potential? Geographies of the Anthropocene. In: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, University of Exeter, 01-04 Sep 2015, (Unpublished)

Crossan, J. , Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2015) Glasgow's Community Gardens: Sustainable Communities of Care. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.114500).

Cumbers, A. (2015) Constructing a global commons in, against and beyond the state. Space and Polity, 19(1), pp. 62-75. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2014.995465)

Cumbers, A. (2015) Understanding Labour's agency under globalisation: Embedding GPNs within an open political economy. In: Newsome, K., Taylor, P., Bair, J. and Rainnie, A. (eds.) Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains. Palgrave: London ; New York. ISBN 9781137410351

Cumbers, A. , Crossan, J. , McMaster, R. and Shaw, D. (2015) Social Provisioning and Capabilities: The Case of Community Gardens in Glasgow. In: 15th World Congress of Social Economics, Ontario, Canada, 22-24 Jun 2015, (Unpublished)

Dawley, S., MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Pike, A. (2015) Policy activism and regional path creation: the promotion of offshore wind in North East England and Scotland. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8(2), pp. 257-272. (doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsu036)

Pike, A., MacKinnon, D., Coombes, M., Champion, T., Cumbers, A. , Robson, L. and Wymer, C. (2015) Tackling Declining Cities: UK City Trends and International Policy Review. Other. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Shaw, D. , Crossan, J. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2015) Community Gardens: New Spaces for DIY Citizenship? In: 40th Annual Macromarketing Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 25-28 Jun 2015, (Unpublished)

2014

Cumbers, A. (2014) Responding to Hayek from the left: beyond market socialism on the path to a radical economic democracy. In: Nell, G. L. (ed.) Austrian Theory and Economic Organization: Reaching Beyond Free Market Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan: New York ; Basingstoke, pp. 177-196. ISBN 9781349475568 (doi: 10.1057/9781137368805_8)

Sharp, J. , Cumbers, A. , Painter, J. and Wood, N. (2014) Deciding whose future? Challenges and opportunities of the Scottish independence referendum 2014 for Scotland and beyond. Political Geography, 41, pp. 32-42. (doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.04.002)

Cumbers, A. (2014) Advancing theory in urban research. Urban Studies, 51(5), pp. 865-867. (doi: 10.1177/0042098014525900)

Cumbers, A. (2014) Beyond market socialism. In: Nell, G. (ed.) Austrian Theory and Economic Organization : Reaching Beyond Free Market Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke ; New York. ISBN 9781137371416

Cumbers, A. (2014) Renewing Public Ownership: Constructing a Democratic Economy in the Twenty-First Century. Other. Centre for Labour and Social Studies, London.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Featherstone, D. (2014) Localism, decentralisation and economic development in Britain. In: Green, J. and Hay, C. (eds.) The British Growth Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke ; New York. ISBN 9781137441515

Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Crossan, J. (2014) Preliminary research findings. In: Making Local Food Happen: Community Gardening in Glasgow, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK, 13 June 2014,

2013

Cumbers, A. (2013) Making space for public ownership: The re-municipalisation of public services through grassroots struggle and local state action. Planning Theory and Practice, 14(4), pp. 547-551. (doi: 10.1080/14649357.2013.853470)

Cumbers, A. (2013) Making space for economic democracy: the Danish wind power revolution. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development,

Cumbers, A. , Danson, M., Whittman, G., Morgan, G. and Callaghan, G. (2013) Repossessing the Future: A Common Weal Strategy for Community and Democratic Ownership of Scotland's Energy Resources. Other. The Jimmy Reid Foundation, Biggar.

Routledge, P., Cumbers, A. and Nativel, C. (2013) Global justice networks: operational logics, imagineers and grassrooting vectors. In: Nicholls, W., Miller, B. and Beaumont, J. (eds.) Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements. Ashgate: London. ISBN 9780754677789

2012

Cumbers, A. (2012) Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy. Zed: London, UK. ISBN 9781780320076

Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2012) Revisiting public ownership: knowledge, democracy and participation in economic decision making. Review of Radical Political Economics, 44(3), pp. 358-373. (doi: 10.1177/0486613412440238)

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. (2012) Industrial transition in knowledge-based sectors: Changing economic governance and institutional arrangements in the Scottish life sciences. In: Fromhold-Eisebith, M. and Fuchs, M. (eds.) Industrial Transition. New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation. Series: Dynamics of economic space. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9781409431213

Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2012) Rethinking public ownership and participation. On the Horizon, 20(3), pp. 172-181. (doi: 10.1108/10748121211256775)

Cumbers, A. and Routledge, P. (2012) Place, space and solidarity in global justice networks. In: Featherstone, D. and Painter, J. (eds.) Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 213-223. ISBN 9781444338317 (doi: 10.1002/9781118278857.ch15)

Cumbers, A. (2012) North Sea oil, the state and divergent development in the UK and Norway. In: McNeish, J.A. and Logan, O. (eds.) Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas. Pluto: London. ISBN 9780745331188

Featherstone, D.J., Ince, A., Mackinnon, D., Strauss, K. and Cumbers, A. (2012) Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37(2), pp. 177-182. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00493.x)

2011

Marchese, M., Potter, J., del Castillo, J., Chapple, K., Cumbers, A. , Mitra, J., Pinto, R. and Wolfe, D. (2011) Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development in Andalusia, Spain: A Review by the Local Economic Development and Employment Development (LEED) section of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD. Working Paper. OECD. (doi: 10.1787/20794797).

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. , Featherstone, D., Ince, A. and Strauss, K. (2011) Globalisation, Labour Markets and Communities in Contemporary Britain. Other. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. (2011) Alliance-driven governance in Scottish life science commodity chains and its contribution to regional development. In: Jones, M. (ed.) Life Science Ventures: Local Players on a Global Stage. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.

Cumbers, A. and MacKinnon, D. (2011) Putting “the political” back into the region: power, agency and a reconstituted regional political economy. In: Pike, A. and Tomaney, J. (eds.) Handbook of Local and Regional Development. Routledge: London.

MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2011) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Uneven Development, Globalisation and Place [2nd ed.]. Pearson/Prentice Hall: London. ISBN 9780273727279

2010

Cumbers, A. (2010) Petróleo en el mar del Norte, el Estado y las trayectorias de desarrollo en el Reino Unido y Noruega = North Sea Oil, the state and divergent development trajectories in the UK and Norway. Umbrales, 20, pp. 267-284.

Cumbers, A. , MacKinnon, D. and Shaw, J. (2010) Labour, organisational rescaling and the politics of production: union renewal in the privatised rail industry. Work, Employment and Society, 24(1), pp. 127-144. (doi: 10.1177/0950017009353668)

Birch, K., MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2010) Old industrial regions in Europe: a comparative assessment of economic performance. Regional Studies, 44(1), pp. 35-53. (doi: 10.1080/00343400802195147)

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. (2010) Knowledge, space, and economic governance: the implications of knowledge-based commodity chains for less-favoured regions. Environment and Planning A, 42(11), pp. 2581-2601. (doi: 10.1068/a43191)

Cumbers, A. , Helms, G. and Swanson, K. (2010) Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 42(1), pp. 46-73. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00731.x)

Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2010) Socialism, knowledge, the instrumental valuation principle and the enhancement of individual dignity. Economy and Society, 39(2), pp. 247-270. (doi: 10.1080/03085141003620162)

Cumbers, A. and Routledge, P. (2010) The entangled geographies of trans-national labour solidarity. In: Bergene, A.C., Endresen, S.B. and Knutsen, H.M. (eds.) Missing Links in Labour Geography. Series: Dynamics of economic space. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9780754677987

2009

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A., Pike, A., Birch, K. and McMaster, R. (2009) Evolution in economic geography: institutions, political economy, and adaptation. Economic Geography, 85(2), pp. 129-150. (doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01017.x)

Pike, A., Birch, K., Cumbers, A., MacKinnon, D. and McMaster, R. (2009) A geographical political economy of evolution in economic geography. Economic Geography, 85(2), pp. 175-182. (doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01021.x)

Cumbers, A. (2009) Marxism/Marxist geography. In: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 6. Elsevier: Oxford, pp. 461-473.

Cumbers, A. (2009) Regional integration. In: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 9. Elsevier: Oxford, pp. 252-258.

Cumbers, A. (2009) Hearing What They Want. Scottish Left Review, 50, pp. 4-5.

Cumbers, A. (2009) Inconvenient Truths For The Neoliberals. Scottish Left Review, 54, pp. 10-11.

Cumbers, A. , Helms, G. and Keenan, M. (2009) Beyond Aspiration: Young People And Decent Work In The De-Industrialised City. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Routledge, P. and Cumbers, A. (2009) Global Justice Networks: Geographies of Transnational Solidarity. Series: Perspectives on democratic practice. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719076855

2008

Cumbers, A., Nativel, C. and Routledge, P. (2008) Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), pp. 369-387. (doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbn008)

Cumbers, A., Routledge, P. and Nativel, C. (2008) The entangled geographies of global justice networks. Progress in Human Geography, 32(2), pp. 183-201. (doi: 10.1177/0309132507084818)

Cumbers, A. , MacKinnon, D. and Chapman, K. (2008) Innovation, collaboration and learning in regional clusters: a study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. In: Karlsson, C. (ed.) Handbook of Research on Innovation and Clusters. Series: Handbooks of research on clusters series (2). Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. ISBN 9781847208422

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Shaw, J. (2008) Rescaling employment relations: key outcomes of change in the privatised rail industry. Environment and Planning A, 40(6), pp. 1347-1369. (doi: 10.1068/a39203)

2007

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. , Pike, A. and Birch, K. (2007) Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Regional Adaptation and Political Economy. Working Paper. Centre for Public Policy for Regions.

Routledge, P., Cumbers, A. and Nativel, C. (2007) Grassrooting network imaginaries: relationality, power, and mutual solidarity in global justice networks. Environment and Planning A, 39(11), pp. 2575-2592. (doi: 10.1068/a38338)

Cumbers, A. and Whittam, G. (Eds.) (2007) Reclaiming the Economy: Alternatives to Market Fundamentalism. Scottish Left Review Press: Biggar. ISBN 9780955036231

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. (2007) Public sector spending and the Scottish Economy: crowding out or adding value? Scottish Affairs, 58, pp. 36-56. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2007.0003)

Cumbers, A. (2007) Economic democracy and public ownership. In: Cumbers, A. and Whittam, G. (eds.) Reclaiming the Economy: Alternatives to Market Fundamentalism in Scotland and Beyond. Scottish Left Review Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780955036231

Cumbers, A. (2007) The fictitious commodity. Variant, 28, pp. 16-18.

Cumbers, A. , Leibovitz, J. and MacKinnon, D. (2007) Institutional features, path dependencies and regional industrial change: comparing mature and embryonic clusters in an old industrial region. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 7, pp. 424-444. (doi: 10.1504/IJEIM.2007.012892)

MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2007) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Uneven Development, Globalisation and Place. Prentice Hall: Harlow. ISBN 9780131293168

2006

Cumbers, A. , Birch, K. and MacKinnon, D. (2006) Revisiting the Old Industrial Region: Adaptation and Adjustment in an Integrating Europe. Working Paper. Centre for Public Policy for Regions.

Cumbers, A. and Birch, K. (2006) Public Sector Spending and Regional Economic Development: Crowding Out or Adding Value? Project Report. Centre for Public Policy for Regions.

Cumbers, A. and MacKinnon, D. (Eds.) (2006) Clusters in Urban and Regional Development. Series: Urban studies monographs. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415360111

Cumbers, A. (2006) The Profit Myth. Scottish Left Review, 33, pp. 14-15.

Cumbers, A. and Birch, K. (2006) Adding Value: Public Sector Spending and Scotland’s Economic Development. Project Report. UNISON Scotland, Glasgow.

Helms, G. and Cumbers, A. (2006) Regulating the new urban poor: Local labour market control in an old industrial city. Space and Polity, 10(1), pp. 67-86. (doi: 10.1080/13562570600796804)

Routledge, P., Nativel, C. and Cumbers, A. (2006) Entangled logics and grassroots imaginaries of global justice networks. Environmental Politics, 15, pp. 839-859. (doi: 10.1080/09644010600937272)

2005

Cumbers, A. (2005) Genuine renewal or pyrrhic victory? The scale politics of trade union recognition in the UK. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 37(1), pp. 116-138. (doi: 0.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00476.x)

Cumbers, A. (2005) An alternative economic strategy for Scotland. Perspectives, 8, pp. 16-17.

Cumbers, A. (2005) Renewing Economic Democracy. Scottish Left Review, 30, pp. 20-21.

2004

Cumbers, A. (2004) Embedded internationalisms: building transnational solidarity in the British and Norwegian trade union movements. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 36(5), pp. 829-850. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00457.x)

Cumbers, A. and Routledge, P. (2004) Introduction: alternative geographical imaginations. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 36(5), pp. 818-828. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00456.x)

MacKinnon, D., Chapman, K. and Cumbers, A. (2004) Networking, trust and embeddedness amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 16, pp. 87-106. (doi: 10.1080/08985620410001677826)

Chapman, K., MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2004) Adjustment or renewal in regional clusters? A study of diversification amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29, pp. 382-396.

Cumbers, A. and Mackinnon, D. (2004) Introduction: clusters in urban and regional development. Urban Studies, 41(5-6), pp. 959-969. (doi: 10.1080/00420980410001675896)

2003

Cumbers, A. , Mackinnon, D. and Chapman, K. (2003) Innovation, collaboration, and learning in regional clusters: a study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Environment and Planning A, 35(9), pp. 1689-1706. (doi: 10.1068/a35259)

Cumbers, A. , Mackinnon, D. and McMaster, R. (2003) Institutions, power and space - Assessing the limits to institutionalism in economic geography. European Urban and Regional Studies, 10(4), pp. 325-342. (doi: 10.1177/09697764030104003)

2002

Chapman, K., Cumbers, A. and MacKinnon, D. (2002) Diversification, Adjustment and Local Economic Development: An Assessment of SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

Chapman, K., MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2002) Innovation, Collaboration and Learning in Regional Clusters: A Study of SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

Cumbers, A. (2002) When brown was red. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 12, pp. 64-78.

Mackinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Chapman, K. (2002) Learning, innovation and regional development: a critical appraisal of recent debates. Progress in Human Geography, 26(3), pp. 293-311. (doi: 10.1191/0309132502ph371ra)

2001

Cumbers, A. and Martin, S. (2001) Changing relationships between multinational companies and their host regions? A case study of Aberdeen and the international oil industry. Scottish Geographical Journal, 117(1), pp. 31-48. (doi: 10.1080/00369220118737109)

MacKinnon, D., Chapman, K. and Cumbers, A. (2001) Networks, Learning and Embeddedness amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Chapman, K. (2001) Diversification and Innovation Amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex: Policy Report. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Chapman, K. (2001) Learning Innovation and Regional Renewal: A Critical Appraisal of Current Debates in Regional Development Studies. Working Paper. Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Chapman, K. (2001) Methodological Reflections on Researching Innovation, Learning and Regional Development. Working Paper. Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen.

2000

Wills, J., Cumbers, A. and Berndt, C. (2000) The workplace at the millennium: new geographies of employment. Environment and Planning A, 32(9), pp. 1523-1528. (doi: 10.1068/a3297)

Cumbers, A. (2000) Globalization, local economic development and the branch plant region: the case of the Aberdeen oil complex. Regional Studies, 34(4), pp. 371-382. (doi: 10.1080/00343400050078141)

Cumbers, A. (2000) The national state as mediator of regional development outcomes in a global era - A comparative analysis from the UK and Norway. European Urban and Regional Studies, 7(3), pp. 237-252. (doi: 10.1177/096977640000700304)

Cumbers, A. and Atterton, J. (2000) Globalisation and the contested process of international corporate restructuring: employment reorganisation and the issue of labour consent in the international oil industry. Environment and Planning A, 32(9), pp. 1529-1544.

Cumbers, A. and Farrington, J. (2000) Keeping privatization on track: the active state, the unwilling investor and the case of rail freight in the UK. Area, 32(2), pp. 157-167. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2000.tb00126.x)

1999

Cumbers, A. (1999) A regional comparison of the experience of Japanisation in Garrahan. In: Garrahan, P. and Ritchie, J. (eds.) East Asian Direct Investment in Britain. Series: Studies in Asia Pacific business. Frank Cass: London. ISBN 0714680443

Smallbone, D., Cumbers, A. , Syrett, S. and Leigh, R. (1999) The single European market and SMEs: A comparison of its effects in the food and clothing sectors in the UK and Portugal. Regional Studies, 33(1), pp. 51-62. (doi: 10.1080/00343409950118913)

1998

Cumbers, A. (1998) The transformation of employment relations in the UK's old industrial regions: a regional comparison of the experience of Japanization. Asia Pacific Business Review, 5(2), pp. 183-200. (doi: 10.1080/13602389912331288043)

Samllbone, D., Cumbers, A. , Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1998) Internationalisation, the single market and SMEs. Piccola Impresa, 12(3), pp. 27-50.

1996

Smallbone, D., Cumbers, A. and Leigh, R. (1996) The single market process and SMEs in the UK food processing sector. International Small Business Journal, 14(4), pp. 55-71. (doi: 10.1177/0266242696144004)

Cumbers, A. (1996) Continuity or change in employment relations? Evidence from the UK's old industrial regions. Capital and Class, 20(1), pp. 33-57. (doi: 10.1177/030981689605800103)

1995

Cumbers, A. (1995) Development prospects for the European offshore oil industry. European Urban and Regional Studies, 2(4), pp. 362-367. (doi: 10.1177/096977649500200408)

Cumbers, A. (1995) North Sea oil and regional economic development: the case of the north east of England. Area, 27(3), pp. 208-217.

Cumbers, A. , Smallbone, D., Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1995) Internationalisation, the Single European Market and the Threats and Opportunities for SMEs in the UK Clothing Sector: Some Survey Evidence. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Cumbers, A. , Smallbone, D., Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1995) The Single European Market and the Threats and Opportunities for SMEs in the UK Food Manufacturing Sector: Some Survey Evidence. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Cumbers, A. , Leigh, R. and Smallbone, D. (1995) The single European market and the new regulatory regime in the food sector. British Food Journal, 97(4), pp. 13-18. (doi: 10.1108/00070709510085620)

1994

Cumbers, A. (1994) New forms of work and employment in an 'old industrial region'? The offshore construction industry in the North East of England. Work, Employment and Society, 8(4), pp. 531-552. (doi: 10.1177/095001709484003)

Cumbers, A. , Smallbone, D., Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1994) The Implications of the Single European Market for SMEs in the Food Sector. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Cumbers, A. (1994) A critical analysis of the impact of North Sea oil upon the North East of England. Northern Economic Review, 22, pp. 9-17.

Smallbone, D., Syrett, S., Cumbers, A. and Leigh, R. (1994) Threats and Opportunities of the Single Market for SMEs: A Conceptual Framework. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Articles

Traill, H., Anderson, S. , Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2024) Caring at the edges: infrastructures of care and repair in urban deprivation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 42(2), pp. 190-210. (doi: 10.1177/02637758241231106)

Traill, H. and Cumbers, A. (2024) The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany. Urban Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00420980241228467) (Early Online Publication)

Traill, H. and Cumbers, A. (2023) The state of municipal energy transitions: multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions. European Urban and Regional Studies, 30(2), pp. 93-106. (doi: 10.1177/09697764221101740)

Cumbers, A. , Bilsland, K., McMaster, R. , Cabaço, S. and White, M. (2023) The condition of European economic democracy: a comparative analysis of individual and collective employment rights. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 44(1), pp. 109-137. (doi: 10.1177/0143831X211064919)

Paul, F. C. and Cumbers, A. (2023) The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), pp. 165-183. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X211050407)

Arpini, E., Panez, A., Cumbers, A. and Pearson, B. (2022) New Municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile. Urban Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00420980221126269) (Early Online Publication)

Tod, E. et al. (2022) What is the potential for plural ownership to support a more inclusive economy? A systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 11, 76. (doi: 10.1186/s13643-022-01955-y) (PMID:35461257) (PMCID:PMC9034259)

Cumbers, A. and Paul, F. (2022) Remunicipalisation, mutating neoliberalism, and the conjuncture. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 54(1), pp. 197-217. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12761)

Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. , Cabaço, S. and White, M. J. (2020) Reconfiguring economic democracy: generating new forms of collective agency, individual economic freedom and public participation. Work, Employment and Society, 34(4), pp. 678-695. (doi: 10.1177/0950017019875935)

Cumbers, A. and Paul, F. (2020) Adapting to the political moment and diverse terrain of 'actually existing municipalisms'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 74, pp. 40-53. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.74.03.2020)

McCartney, G. , Fenton, L., Minton, J. , Fischbacher, C., Taulbut, M., Little, K., Humphreys, C., Cumbers, A. , Popham, F. and McMaster, R. (2020) Is austerity responsible for the recent change in mortality trends across high-income nations? A protocol for an observational study. BMJ Open, 10(1), e034832. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034832) (PMID:31980513) (PMCID:PMC7044814)

Hastings, T. and Cumbers, A. (2019) “That type of thing does give you a boost”: control, self‐valorisation, and autonomist worker copings in call centres. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 51(5), pp. 1456-1473. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12567)

McCartney, G. , Popham, F. , McMaster, R. and Cumbers, A. (2019) Defining health and health inequalities. Public Health, 172, pp. 22-30. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.03.023) (PMID:31154234) (PMCID:PMC6558275)

McCartney, G. , Hearty, W., Arnott, J., Popham, F. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2019) Impact of political economy on population health: a systematic review of reviews. American Journal of Public Health, 109(6), e1-e12. (doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305001) (PMID:31067117) (PMCID:PMC6507992)

Cumbers, A. (2019) A tale of two nationalisations: experiences of post 1945 public ownership in the UK and France compared. International Journal of Public Policy, 15(1/2), pp. 5-20. (doi: 10.1504/IJPP.2019.099047)

MacKinnon, D., Dawley, S., Pike, A. and Cumbers, A. (2019) Rethinking path creation: a geographical political economy approach. Economic Geography, 95(2), pp. 113-135. (doi: 10.1080/00130095.2018.1498294)

Cumbers, A. and Becker, S. (2018) Making sense of remunicipalisation: theoretical reflections on and political possibilities from Germany’s Rekommumalisierung process. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 11(3), pp. 503-517. (doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsy025)

Bilsland, K. and Cumbers, A. (2018) Managerial control and the limits to employee participation in retail work spaces: evidence from a UK IKEA store. New Technology, Work and Employment, 33(2), pp. 130-148. (doi: 10.1111/ntwe.12110)

Dow, S., McMaster, R. and Cumbers, A. (2018) Sine praejudicio? Economics and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 42(3), pp. 597-615. (doi: 10.1093/cje/bex091)

Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Crossan, J. (2018) Scaling up community action for tackling climate change. British Journal of Management, 29(2), pp. 266-278. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12274)

Cumbers, A. , Shaw, D. , Crossan, J. and McMaster, R. (2018) The work of community gardens: reclaiming place for community in the city. Work, Employment and Society, 32(1), pp. 133-149. (doi: 10.1177/0950017017695042)

Shaw, D. , Crossan, J. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. , Trebeck, K. and Black, I. (2016) Open Space: Places of prosumption: Community gardens putting the ‘we’ into neighbourhoods. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(3), pp. 473-479. (doi: 10.1332/204674316X14758523887982)

Crossan, J. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Shaw, D. (2016) Contesting neoliberal urbanism in Glasgow's community gardens: The practice of DIY citizenship. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 48(4), pp. 937-955. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12220)

Cumbers, A. , Featherstone, D., MacKinnon, D., Ince, A. and Strauss, K. (2016) Intervening in globalization: the spatial possibilities and institutional barriers to labour's collective agency. Journal of Economic Geography, 16(1), pp. 93-108. (doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbu039)

Cumbers, A. (2016) Economic democracy: reclaiming public ownership as the pragmatic left alternative. Juncture, 22(4), pp. 324-328. (doi: 10.1111/j.2050-5876.2016.00882.x)

Pike, A., Cumbers, A. , Dawley, S., MacKinnon, D. and McMaster, R. (2016) Doing evolution in economic geography. Economic Geography, 92(2), pp. 123-144. (doi: 10.1080/00130095.2015.1108830)

Cumbers, A. , Davis, J. and McMaster, R. (2015) Theorizing the social provisioning process under capitalism: developing a veblenian theory of care for the twenty-first century. Journal of Economic Issues, 49(2), pp. 583-590. (doi: 10.1080/00213624.2015.1042806)

Ince, A., Featherstone, D., Cumbers, A. , MacKinnon, D. and Strauss, K. (2015) British jobs for British workers? Contesting work, nation and globalisation through the Lindsey Oil Refinery disputes. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 47(1), pp. 139-157. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12099)

Cumbers, A. (2015) Constructing a global commons in, against and beyond the state. Space and Polity, 19(1), pp. 62-75. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2014.995465)

Dawley, S., MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Pike, A. (2015) Policy activism and regional path creation: the promotion of offshore wind in North East England and Scotland. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8(2), pp. 257-272. (doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsu036)

Sharp, J. , Cumbers, A. , Painter, J. and Wood, N. (2014) Deciding whose future? Challenges and opportunities of the Scottish independence referendum 2014 for Scotland and beyond. Political Geography, 41, pp. 32-42. (doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.04.002)

Cumbers, A. (2014) Advancing theory in urban research. Urban Studies, 51(5), pp. 865-867. (doi: 10.1177/0042098014525900)

Cumbers, A. (2013) Making space for public ownership: The re-municipalisation of public services through grassroots struggle and local state action. Planning Theory and Practice, 14(4), pp. 547-551. (doi: 10.1080/14649357.2013.853470)

Cumbers, A. (2013) Making space for economic democracy: the Danish wind power revolution. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development,

Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2012) Revisiting public ownership: knowledge, democracy and participation in economic decision making. Review of Radical Political Economics, 44(3), pp. 358-373. (doi: 10.1177/0486613412440238)

Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2012) Rethinking public ownership and participation. On the Horizon, 20(3), pp. 172-181. (doi: 10.1108/10748121211256775)

Featherstone, D.J., Ince, A., Mackinnon, D., Strauss, K. and Cumbers, A. (2012) Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37(2), pp. 177-182. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00493.x)

Cumbers, A. (2010) Petróleo en el mar del Norte, el Estado y las trayectorias de desarrollo en el Reino Unido y Noruega = North Sea Oil, the state and divergent development trajectories in the UK and Norway. Umbrales, 20, pp. 267-284.

Cumbers, A. , MacKinnon, D. and Shaw, J. (2010) Labour, organisational rescaling and the politics of production: union renewal in the privatised rail industry. Work, Employment and Society, 24(1), pp. 127-144. (doi: 10.1177/0950017009353668)

Birch, K., MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2010) Old industrial regions in Europe: a comparative assessment of economic performance. Regional Studies, 44(1), pp. 35-53. (doi: 10.1080/00343400802195147)

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. (2010) Knowledge, space, and economic governance: the implications of knowledge-based commodity chains for less-favoured regions. Environment and Planning A, 42(11), pp. 2581-2601. (doi: 10.1068/a43191)

Cumbers, A. , Helms, G. and Swanson, K. (2010) Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 42(1), pp. 46-73. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00731.x)

Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2010) Socialism, knowledge, the instrumental valuation principle and the enhancement of individual dignity. Economy and Society, 39(2), pp. 247-270. (doi: 10.1080/03085141003620162)

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A., Pike, A., Birch, K. and McMaster, R. (2009) Evolution in economic geography: institutions, political economy, and adaptation. Economic Geography, 85(2), pp. 129-150. (doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01017.x)

Pike, A., Birch, K., Cumbers, A., MacKinnon, D. and McMaster, R. (2009) A geographical political economy of evolution in economic geography. Economic Geography, 85(2), pp. 175-182. (doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01021.x)

Cumbers, A. (2009) Hearing What They Want. Scottish Left Review, 50, pp. 4-5.

Cumbers, A. (2009) Inconvenient Truths For The Neoliberals. Scottish Left Review, 54, pp. 10-11.

Cumbers, A., Nativel, C. and Routledge, P. (2008) Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), pp. 369-387. (doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbn008)

Cumbers, A., Routledge, P. and Nativel, C. (2008) The entangled geographies of global justice networks. Progress in Human Geography, 32(2), pp. 183-201. (doi: 10.1177/0309132507084818)

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Shaw, J. (2008) Rescaling employment relations: key outcomes of change in the privatised rail industry. Environment and Planning A, 40(6), pp. 1347-1369. (doi: 10.1068/a39203)

Routledge, P., Cumbers, A. and Nativel, C. (2007) Grassrooting network imaginaries: relationality, power, and mutual solidarity in global justice networks. Environment and Planning A, 39(11), pp. 2575-2592. (doi: 10.1068/a38338)

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. (2007) Public sector spending and the Scottish Economy: crowding out or adding value? Scottish Affairs, 58, pp. 36-56. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2007.0003)

Cumbers, A. (2007) The fictitious commodity. Variant, 28, pp. 16-18.

Cumbers, A. , Leibovitz, J. and MacKinnon, D. (2007) Institutional features, path dependencies and regional industrial change: comparing mature and embryonic clusters in an old industrial region. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 7, pp. 424-444. (doi: 10.1504/IJEIM.2007.012892)

Cumbers, A. (2006) The Profit Myth. Scottish Left Review, 33, pp. 14-15.

Helms, G. and Cumbers, A. (2006) Regulating the new urban poor: Local labour market control in an old industrial city. Space and Polity, 10(1), pp. 67-86. (doi: 10.1080/13562570600796804)

Routledge, P., Nativel, C. and Cumbers, A. (2006) Entangled logics and grassroots imaginaries of global justice networks. Environmental Politics, 15, pp. 839-859. (doi: 10.1080/09644010600937272)

Cumbers, A. (2005) Genuine renewal or pyrrhic victory? The scale politics of trade union recognition in the UK. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 37(1), pp. 116-138. (doi: 0.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00476.x)

Cumbers, A. (2005) An alternative economic strategy for Scotland. Perspectives, 8, pp. 16-17.

Cumbers, A. (2005) Renewing Economic Democracy. Scottish Left Review, 30, pp. 20-21.

Cumbers, A. (2004) Embedded internationalisms: building transnational solidarity in the British and Norwegian trade union movements. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 36(5), pp. 829-850. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00457.x)

Cumbers, A. and Routledge, P. (2004) Introduction: alternative geographical imaginations. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 36(5), pp. 818-828. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00456.x)

MacKinnon, D., Chapman, K. and Cumbers, A. (2004) Networking, trust and embeddedness amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 16, pp. 87-106. (doi: 10.1080/08985620410001677826)

Chapman, K., MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2004) Adjustment or renewal in regional clusters? A study of diversification amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29, pp. 382-396.

Cumbers, A. and Mackinnon, D. (2004) Introduction: clusters in urban and regional development. Urban Studies, 41(5-6), pp. 959-969. (doi: 10.1080/00420980410001675896)

Cumbers, A. , Mackinnon, D. and Chapman, K. (2003) Innovation, collaboration, and learning in regional clusters: a study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. Environment and Planning A, 35(9), pp. 1689-1706. (doi: 10.1068/a35259)

Cumbers, A. , Mackinnon, D. and McMaster, R. (2003) Institutions, power and space - Assessing the limits to institutionalism in economic geography. European Urban and Regional Studies, 10(4), pp. 325-342. (doi: 10.1177/09697764030104003)

Cumbers, A. (2002) When brown was red. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 12, pp. 64-78.

Mackinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Chapman, K. (2002) Learning, innovation and regional development: a critical appraisal of recent debates. Progress in Human Geography, 26(3), pp. 293-311. (doi: 10.1191/0309132502ph371ra)

Cumbers, A. and Martin, S. (2001) Changing relationships between multinational companies and their host regions? A case study of Aberdeen and the international oil industry. Scottish Geographical Journal, 117(1), pp. 31-48. (doi: 10.1080/00369220118737109)

Wills, J., Cumbers, A. and Berndt, C. (2000) The workplace at the millennium: new geographies of employment. Environment and Planning A, 32(9), pp. 1523-1528. (doi: 10.1068/a3297)

Cumbers, A. (2000) Globalization, local economic development and the branch plant region: the case of the Aberdeen oil complex. Regional Studies, 34(4), pp. 371-382. (doi: 10.1080/00343400050078141)

Cumbers, A. (2000) The national state as mediator of regional development outcomes in a global era - A comparative analysis from the UK and Norway. European Urban and Regional Studies, 7(3), pp. 237-252. (doi: 10.1177/096977640000700304)

Cumbers, A. and Atterton, J. (2000) Globalisation and the contested process of international corporate restructuring: employment reorganisation and the issue of labour consent in the international oil industry. Environment and Planning A, 32(9), pp. 1529-1544.

Cumbers, A. and Farrington, J. (2000) Keeping privatization on track: the active state, the unwilling investor and the case of rail freight in the UK. Area, 32(2), pp. 157-167. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2000.tb00126.x)

Smallbone, D., Cumbers, A. , Syrett, S. and Leigh, R. (1999) The single European market and SMEs: A comparison of its effects in the food and clothing sectors in the UK and Portugal. Regional Studies, 33(1), pp. 51-62. (doi: 10.1080/00343409950118913)

Cumbers, A. (1998) The transformation of employment relations in the UK's old industrial regions: a regional comparison of the experience of Japanization. Asia Pacific Business Review, 5(2), pp. 183-200. (doi: 10.1080/13602389912331288043)

Samllbone, D., Cumbers, A. , Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1998) Internationalisation, the single market and SMEs. Piccola Impresa, 12(3), pp. 27-50.

Smallbone, D., Cumbers, A. and Leigh, R. (1996) The single market process and SMEs in the UK food processing sector. International Small Business Journal, 14(4), pp. 55-71. (doi: 10.1177/0266242696144004)

Cumbers, A. (1996) Continuity or change in employment relations? Evidence from the UK's old industrial regions. Capital and Class, 20(1), pp. 33-57. (doi: 10.1177/030981689605800103)

Cumbers, A. (1995) Development prospects for the European offshore oil industry. European Urban and Regional Studies, 2(4), pp. 362-367. (doi: 10.1177/096977649500200408)

Cumbers, A. (1995) North Sea oil and regional economic development: the case of the north east of England. Area, 27(3), pp. 208-217.

Cumbers, A. , Leigh, R. and Smallbone, D. (1995) The single European market and the new regulatory regime in the food sector. British Food Journal, 97(4), pp. 13-18. (doi: 10.1108/00070709510085620)

Cumbers, A. (1994) New forms of work and employment in an 'old industrial region'? The offshore construction industry in the North East of England. Work, Employment and Society, 8(4), pp. 531-552. (doi: 10.1177/095001709484003)

Cumbers, A. (1994) A critical analysis of the impact of North Sea oil upon the North East of England. Northern Economic Review, 22, pp. 9-17.

Books

Cumbers, A. (2020) The Case for Economic Democracy. Series: The case for. Polity Press: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA. ISBN 9781509533848

MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2018) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalisation, Uneven Development and Place. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138924505 (doi: 10.4324/9781315684284)

Cumbers, A. (2012) Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy. Zed: London, UK. ISBN 9781780320076

MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2011) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Uneven Development, Globalisation and Place [2nd ed.]. Pearson/Prentice Hall: London. ISBN 9780273727279

Routledge, P. and Cumbers, A. (2009) Global Justice Networks: Geographies of Transnational Solidarity. Series: Perspectives on democratic practice. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719076855

MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2007) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Uneven Development, Globalisation and Place. Prentice Hall: Harlow. ISBN 9780131293168

Book Sections

Traill, H., Shaw, D. , Anderson, S. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2023) Approaching the ethics of sustainability in an area of deprivation. In: Carrigan, M., Wells, V. K. and Papadas, K. A. (eds.) Research Handbook on Ethical Consumption: Contemporary Research in Responsible and Sustainable Consumer Behaviour. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 174-189. ISBN 9781802202014 (doi: 10.4337/9781802202021.00018)

Traill, H. and Cumbers, A. (2023) Creating local sustainability transitions: finance, citizen participation and the multi-scalar governance challenges of municipal energy transition. In: Arestis, P. and Sawyer, M. (eds.) Prospects and Policies for Global Sustainable Recovery: Promoting Environmental and Economic Sustainability. Series: International papers in political economy. Springer, pp. 265-307. ISBN 9783031192562 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-19256-2_7)

Cumbers, A. and Traill, H. (2021) Public ownership in the pursuit of economic democracy in a post-neoliberal order. In: Arestis, P. and Sawyer, M. (eds.) Economic Policies for a Post-Neoliberal World. Series: International papers in political economy. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 225-268. ISBN 9783030567347 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-56735-4_6)

Cumbers, A. and Gray, N. (2020) Marxist geography. In: Kobayashi, A. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA, pp. 413-424. ISBN 9780081022962 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10671-7)

Cumbers, A. (2018) The Danish low carbon transition and the prospects for the democratic economy. In: North, P. and Scott Cato, M. (eds.) Towards Just and Sustainable Economies: the Social and Solidarity Economy North and South. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 179-194. ISBN 9781447327233

Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2018) Social welfare and social control. In: Jo, T.-H., Chester, L. and D'Ippoliti, C. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics: Theorizing, Analyzing and Transforming Capitalism. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 499-512. ISBN 9781138899940

Cumbers, A. (2016) Remunicipalization, the low carbon transition, and energy democracy. In: State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable? Series: State of the world. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics: Washington DC, pp. 275-289. ISBN 9781610915694 (doi: 10.5822/978-1-61091-756-8_23)

Cumbers, A. (2016) Rethinking public ownership as economic democracy. In: Jones, B., O'Donnel, M. and Papadopoulos, T. (eds.) Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism. Policy Press: Bristol.

Cumbers, A. (2015) Understanding Labour's agency under globalisation: Embedding GPNs within an open political economy. In: Newsome, K., Taylor, P., Bair, J. and Rainnie, A. (eds.) Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains. Palgrave: London ; New York. ISBN 9781137410351

Cumbers, A. (2014) Responding to Hayek from the left: beyond market socialism on the path to a radical economic democracy. In: Nell, G. L. (ed.) Austrian Theory and Economic Organization: Reaching Beyond Free Market Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan: New York ; Basingstoke, pp. 177-196. ISBN 9781349475568 (doi: 10.1057/9781137368805_8)

Cumbers, A. (2014) Beyond market socialism. In: Nell, G. (ed.) Austrian Theory and Economic Organization : Reaching Beyond Free Market Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke ; New York. ISBN 9781137371416

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Featherstone, D. (2014) Localism, decentralisation and economic development in Britain. In: Green, J. and Hay, C. (eds.) The British Growth Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke ; New York. ISBN 9781137441515

Routledge, P., Cumbers, A. and Nativel, C. (2013) Global justice networks: operational logics, imagineers and grassrooting vectors. In: Nicholls, W., Miller, B. and Beaumont, J. (eds.) Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements. Ashgate: London. ISBN 9780754677789

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. (2012) Industrial transition in knowledge-based sectors: Changing economic governance and institutional arrangements in the Scottish life sciences. In: Fromhold-Eisebith, M. and Fuchs, M. (eds.) Industrial Transition. New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation. Series: Dynamics of economic space. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9781409431213

Cumbers, A. and Routledge, P. (2012) Place, space and solidarity in global justice networks. In: Featherstone, D. and Painter, J. (eds.) Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 213-223. ISBN 9781444338317 (doi: 10.1002/9781118278857.ch15)

Cumbers, A. (2012) North Sea oil, the state and divergent development in the UK and Norway. In: McNeish, J.A. and Logan, O. (eds.) Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas. Pluto: London. ISBN 9780745331188

Birch, K. and Cumbers, A. (2011) Alliance-driven governance in Scottish life science commodity chains and its contribution to regional development. In: Jones, M. (ed.) Life Science Ventures: Local Players on a Global Stage. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.

Cumbers, A. and MacKinnon, D. (2011) Putting “the political” back into the region: power, agency and a reconstituted regional political economy. In: Pike, A. and Tomaney, J. (eds.) Handbook of Local and Regional Development. Routledge: London.

Cumbers, A. and Routledge, P. (2010) The entangled geographies of trans-national labour solidarity. In: Bergene, A.C., Endresen, S.B. and Knutsen, H.M. (eds.) Missing Links in Labour Geography. Series: Dynamics of economic space. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9780754677987

Cumbers, A. (2009) Marxism/Marxist geography. In: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 6. Elsevier: Oxford, pp. 461-473.

Cumbers, A. (2009) Regional integration. In: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 9. Elsevier: Oxford, pp. 252-258.

Cumbers, A. , MacKinnon, D. and Chapman, K. (2008) Innovation, collaboration and learning in regional clusters: a study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex. In: Karlsson, C. (ed.) Handbook of Research on Innovation and Clusters. Series: Handbooks of research on clusters series (2). Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. ISBN 9781847208422

Cumbers, A. (2007) Economic democracy and public ownership. In: Cumbers, A. and Whittam, G. (eds.) Reclaiming the Economy: Alternatives to Market Fundamentalism in Scotland and Beyond. Scottish Left Review Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780955036231

Cumbers, A. (1999) A regional comparison of the experience of Japanisation in Garrahan. In: Garrahan, P. and Ritchie, J. (eds.) East Asian Direct Investment in Britain. Series: Studies in Asia Pacific business. Frank Cass: London. ISBN 0714680443

Edited Books

Cumbers, A. and Whittam, G. (Eds.) (2007) Reclaiming the Economy: Alternatives to Market Fundamentalism. Scottish Left Review Press: Biggar. ISBN 9780955036231

Cumbers, A. and MacKinnon, D. (Eds.) (2006) Clusters in Urban and Regional Development. Series: Urban studies monographs. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415360111

Research Reports or Papers

Brown, G. , Traill, H., Anderson, S. , Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2023) Good Food for All in Glasgow: An Interim Assessment of the Glasgow City Food Plan. Other. University of Glasgow.

Cumbers, A. , Pearson, B. , Stegemann, L. and Paul, F. (2022) Mapping Remunicipalisation: Emergent Trends in the Global Deprivatisation Process. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Traill, H., Cumbers, A. and Gray, N. (2021) The state of European municipal energy transition: an overview of current trends. Documentation. mPOWER.

Pearson, B. , Paul, F. , Cumbers, A. and Stegemann, L. (2021) Public Futures Database Report. Technical Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Traill, H., Shaw, D. , Anderson, S. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Marr, N. (2020) Baltic Street Adventure Playground Establishing a Community Food Hub. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.217178).

Crossan, J. , Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2015) Glasgow's Community Gardens: Sustainable Communities of Care. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.114500).

Pike, A., MacKinnon, D., Coombes, M., Champion, T., Cumbers, A. , Robson, L. and Wymer, C. (2015) Tackling Declining Cities: UK City Trends and International Policy Review. Other. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Cumbers, A. (2014) Renewing Public Ownership: Constructing a Democratic Economy in the Twenty-First Century. Other. Centre for Labour and Social Studies, London.

Cumbers, A. , Danson, M., Whittman, G., Morgan, G. and Callaghan, G. (2013) Repossessing the Future: A Common Weal Strategy for Community and Democratic Ownership of Scotland's Energy Resources. Other. The Jimmy Reid Foundation, Biggar.

Marchese, M., Potter, J., del Castillo, J., Chapple, K., Cumbers, A. , Mitra, J., Pinto, R. and Wolfe, D. (2011) Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development in Andalusia, Spain: A Review by the Local Economic Development and Employment Development (LEED) section of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD. Working Paper. OECD. (doi: 10.1787/20794797).

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. , Featherstone, D., Ince, A. and Strauss, K. (2011) Globalisation, Labour Markets and Communities in Contemporary Britain. Other. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Cumbers, A. , Helms, G. and Keenan, M. (2009) Beyond Aspiration: Young People And Decent Work In The De-Industrialised City. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. , Pike, A. and Birch, K. (2007) Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Regional Adaptation and Political Economy. Working Paper. Centre for Public Policy for Regions.

Cumbers, A. , Birch, K. and MacKinnon, D. (2006) Revisiting the Old Industrial Region: Adaptation and Adjustment in an Integrating Europe. Working Paper. Centre for Public Policy for Regions.

Cumbers, A. and Birch, K. (2006) Public Sector Spending and Regional Economic Development: Crowding Out or Adding Value? Project Report. Centre for Public Policy for Regions.

Cumbers, A. and Birch, K. (2006) Adding Value: Public Sector Spending and Scotland’s Economic Development. Project Report. UNISON Scotland, Glasgow.

Chapman, K., Cumbers, A. and MacKinnon, D. (2002) Diversification, Adjustment and Local Economic Development: An Assessment of SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

Chapman, K., MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2002) Innovation, Collaboration and Learning in Regional Clusters: A Study of SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

MacKinnon, D., Chapman, K. and Cumbers, A. (2001) Networks, Learning and Embeddedness amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Chapman, K. (2001) Diversification and Innovation Amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen Oil Complex: Policy Report. Working Paper. ESRC Learning Regions Project.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Chapman, K. (2001) Learning Innovation and Regional Renewal: A Critical Appraisal of Current Debates in Regional Development Studies. Working Paper. Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen.

MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. and Chapman, K. (2001) Methodological Reflections on Researching Innovation, Learning and Regional Development. Working Paper. Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen.

Cumbers, A. , Smallbone, D., Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1995) Internationalisation, the Single European Market and the Threats and Opportunities for SMEs in the UK Clothing Sector: Some Survey Evidence. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Cumbers, A. , Smallbone, D., Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1995) The Single European Market and the Threats and Opportunities for SMEs in the UK Food Manufacturing Sector: Some Survey Evidence. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Cumbers, A. , Smallbone, D., Leigh, R. and Syrett, S. (1994) The Implications of the Single European Market for SMEs in the Food Sector. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Smallbone, D., Syrett, S., Cumbers, A. and Leigh, R. (1994) Threats and Opportunities of the Single Market for SMEs: A Conceptual Framework. Project Report. Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex.

Conference or Workshop Item

Paul, F. and Cumbers, A. (2023) The People versus TINA: The Public Banking Movement in California, USA. International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) 13th Annual Conference In Political Economy: The Chronicles of Multiple Crises Foretold, Madrid, Spain, 06-08 Sep 2023.

Paul, F. , Cumbers, A. and Brown, G. (2023) People Power: Movements for Public Ownership and Energy Transition in the US. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023, London, UK, 29 Aug - 01 Sep 2023.

Weghmann, V., Paul, F. and Cumbers, A. (2022) Struggles for Democratic Participation in the German Post-Remunicipalisation Process. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference: Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 Jul 2022.

Paul, F. and Cumbers, A. (2022) The Return of the Local State? Failing Neoliberalism, Remunicipalisation, and the Role of the State in Advanced Capitalism. 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG): Territorial Development: Evolution, Innovation, Disruption and Marginalisation under the Anthropocene and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Dublin, Ireland, 07-10 Jun 2022.

Paul, F. and Cumbers, A. (2019) Democratisation by Design or Default? Global Remunicipalisation and the Post-Neoliberal Turn. Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, London, UK, 27-30 Aug 2019.

Conference Proceedings

Bilsland, K. and Cumbers, A. (2018) Organizational Control and Autonomy in Retail Work Spaces: Evidence from a UK IKEA Store. In: 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2018), Chicago, IL, USA, 10-14 Aug 2018, (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.12455abstract)

Crossan, J. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Shaw, D. (2015) Glasgow’s Community Gardens: Neoliberal Spaces or Sites of Radical Potential? Geographies of the Anthropocene. In: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, University of Exeter, 01-04 Sep 2015, (Unpublished)

Cumbers, A. , Crossan, J. , McMaster, R. and Shaw, D. (2015) Social Provisioning and Capabilities: The Case of Community Gardens in Glasgow. In: 15th World Congress of Social Economics, Ontario, Canada, 22-24 Jun 2015, (Unpublished)

Shaw, D. , Crossan, J. , Cumbers, A. and McMaster, R. (2015) Community Gardens: New Spaces for DIY Citizenship? In: 40th Annual Macromarketing Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 25-28 Jun 2015, (Unpublished)

Shaw, D. , Cumbers, A. , McMaster, R. and Crossan, J. (2014) Preliminary research findings. In: Making Local Food Happen: Community Gardening in Glasgow, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK, 13 June 2014,