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Brief Biography :
Richard Walker is Professor and former Chair of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1975. He received a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University in 1969 and a Doctorate in Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, under the direction of David Harvey, in 1977. He has written on a diverse range of topics in economic and urban geography, as well as environmental policy and the odd foray into philosophy. He is co-author, with Michael Storper, of The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989) and, with Andrew Sayer, of The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor (Cambridge USA: Blackwell, 1992). Most recently, his focus has been on the regional peculiarities of California -- one of the most important economic, political and cultural hearths of world capitalism, and one of the least studied. He is a co-founder and current Chair of the California Studies Association and Chair of the California Studies Center at UC Berkeley. Walker is currently at work on a book on the San Francisco Bay Area since 1945 and another on the long-term development of California. He has several published articles on Californiaâs economic history, urban landscapes, immigration and current political dilemmas. Walker is a leading figure in contemporary geography and a widely respected Marxist scholar. He has been the principal editor of Antipode for the last decade.
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Public Lecture Topics:
- "Immigration and the California Laborforce", Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Fellows Program, Institute for East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, July 27, 1999; Tour of Downtown San Francisco, American Studies Summer Institute, UCB, August 6, 1999.
- "California's Golden Road to Development: Resources and Growth, 1850-1940", Dept. of ESPM, UC Berkeley, Sept 13, 1999
- "History of the Bay Area", Visiting Fellows, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, Sept 27, 1999
- "Globalization and the fate of labor", Keynote address to Critical Perspectives on Internationalization Conference, Uppsala, Sweden 10-11, January 2000
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Recent Publications:
- "Landscape and city life: four ecologies of residence in the San Francisco Bay Area", Ecumene, 2(1): pp. 33-64, 1995
- "California rages against the dying of the light", New Left Review, #209: 42-74, 1995
- "Another round of globalization in San Francisco", Urban Geography, 17/1: 60-94, 1996
- "Californiaâs collision of race and class", Representations, 55: 163-83, 1996
- "Field of dreams, or the best game in town", Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring, Michael Watts and David Goodman, eds., Routledge, pp 273-284, 1997
- "An appetite for the city", Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics and Culture, James Brook, Chris Carlsson and Nancy Peters, eds., San Francisco: City Lights Books. pp. 1- 20, 1998
- "California rages: regional capitalism and the politics of renewal", Geographies of Economies, Wills, Jane and Lee, Roger. eds., London: Edward Arnold. pp. 345-56, Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics and Culture, 1997
- "Capitalâs global turbulence", Against the Current, January-February 1999, pp. 29-35, 1999
- "Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier: Industry and the Spread of North American Cities, 1850-1950", Journal of Historical Geography with Lewis Robert, 1999 (in press)
- "Industry builds the city: industrial decentralization in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1850-1940", Journal of Historical Geography, 1999 (in press)
- "Putting capital in its place: globalization and the prospects for labor", Geoforum, 30/3: 263-84, 1999
- "The geography of production", Companion to Economic Geography, Sheppard, Eric and Barnes, Trevor, eds., Cambridge: Blackwell, 2000 (in press)
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