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| Name: |
Gary Fields, Associate Professor
gfields@ucsd.edu |
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Vitae
"Landscapes
of Occupation:
Photos from Palestine" |
| Education: |
Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
(2002) |
| Research: |
My
research focuses on the political economy of territorial development
in both historical and contemporary settings with an emphasis on
the role of communications systems in the process of territorial
formation and change. I am particularly interested in comparative
research across historical time periods in the belief that the contemporary
world is intelligible through historical analogy.
My book, Territories
of Profit (2004), compares the Swift Meatpacking Company in
the 19th century and Dell Computer and reveals how new communications
systems are used by business firms in different historical periods
to innovate work processes, and reconfigure the territorial organization
of economies. My new work retains this focus on the political economy
of territorial development, along with an emphasis on comparison,
but extends these themes in a different direction in examining the
phenomenon of enclosure across time. This new project, tentatively
entitled, Ex-Communicated, seeks to position the current process
of enclosure and the construction of the Wall taking place in Palestine
within the context of the Enclosure Movement in Britain during the
late 18th and early 19th centuries.
At the core
of my work is a commitment to theoretically driven, actor-centered
accounts of development, power and processes of transformation.
My work seeks to build a theory and critique of power and the development
process by fusing studies of geography, history, political economy,
and the built environment while maintaining a commitment to a scholarship
of activism and critical engagement with the world both inside and
outside the university. |
| Books: |
Territories
of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development and Innovation
at G.F. Swift and Dell Computer (Stanford University Press,
January, 2004).
Territories of Profit Chapter
1 - PDF
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Selected Articles: |
"Innovation, Time and Territory: Space and the Business Organization
of Dell Computer." Economic Geography, Vol, 86, no.
2 (2006) 119-146.
"Power Not Markets! Networks, Managerialism and the Innovative
Enterprise of Dell Computer." Industrial and Corporate
Change (in review).
“Communications,
Innovation, and Territory: The Production Network of G.F. Swift
and the Creation of a National Marketplace.” Journal of
Historical Geography, Vol. 29, no. 4 (Fall, 2003), pp. 599-617.
“Social Capital and Capital Gains in Silicon Valley” [With
Stephen S. Cohen] California Management Review, Vol. 41,
no. 2 (1999), pp. 108-129.
“City Systems, Urban History and Economic Modernity: Urbanization
and the Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Society,” Berkeley
Planning Journal, Vol. 13 (1999), pp. 102-128.
“The Ascendancy and Calamity of the Centrally-Planned Economy,” International Review of Sociology, Vol. 7, (1997), pp. 243-66.
“The Road From Gdansk: How Poland’s Solidarity Found Haven
in the Marketplace,” Monthly Review, Vol. 43, no. 3
(1991), pp. 95-121. |
| Op
Ed Opinions: |
"Power,
Propaganda and the Promised Land." San Diego Union
Tribune. May 29, 2005.
"A
'Freedom Summer' in Palestine." Chicago Tribune. July
25, 2004.
"Thirsting to Breathe:
Qalqilya and Water are Metaphors of Israeli Occupation." San Diego Union Tribune. August 1, 2004.
"Build
Bridges, Not Walls," Chicago Tribune, February 22,
2004.
"Peace
through war: Orwell revisited", San Diego Union Tribune,
March 21, 2003
"Mapping
Peace: Territory, History and Democracy",
San Diego Union Tribune, July 16, 2003. |
| Courses: |
Undergraduate
Courses
COGN 150 Communications Revolutions in Historical Perspective
COSF 175 Communications, Dissent, and Protest
COSF
175 (A00) Advanced Topics in Communication as a Social Force
COSF
175 (B00) Communications, Industry and the Transformation
of Work
Ggraduate Courses
COGR
200 Communications as a Social Force
COGR
201 Historical Methods for Communication Research
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