Professor Mark Harvey
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Email
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Location
5.404, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Mark Harvey has a first degree in history from Oxford, followed by a PhD in Sociology (on historico-critical epistemology) from London School of Economics. He held a Susan Isaacs post-doctoral research fellowship at the Institute of Genetic Epistemology, working with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva (1968-70). He was a Lecturer in Sociology and Psychology at Brunel University (1971-4) and a Simon Industrial Fellow at the University of Manchester (1993-4). For the intervening 17 years, he worked as a building labourer, returning to academia in 1993. Now retired, Mark is Emeritus Professor at the Sociology Department 糖心Vlog. He joined the department as a Research Professor in September 2007, and established the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation. For the previous decade he had been at the ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition (CRIC) at the University of Manchester, as a Senior Research Fellow and Professorial Research Fellow. He undertook pioneering research on the tomato as a socio-economic and cultural phenomenon, followed by studies on genomics and bioinformatics. He now is Honorary Professor at the Sustainable Consumption Institute with whom he undertook an ESRC project with a focus on renewable transport energy and biofuels in the USA, Europe and Brazil. He then contributed to the ESRC Sustainable Practices Research Group, developing his neo-Polanyian approach to economy, society and nature, with a comparative and historical study of drinking water. His ESRC Professorial Fellowship research project (2013-2016) concerned the 鈥榝ood-energy-climate change trilemma鈥�, comparing Brazil, China, India and Europe. These long term research interests have all contributed to his most recent book: Climate Emergency. How societies create the crisis, Emerald.
Qualifications
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BA Oxford,
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PhD London,
Research and professional activities
Research interests
aim to develop the 鈥榥ew economic sociology鈥� using a neo-Polanyian framework of 鈥榠nstituted economic processes鈥� (IEP). An historical and comparative research agenda has been key here to an understanding of 鈥榲arieties of capitalism鈥�
the emergent bio-economy
food provisioning, supermarkets, and the sociology of food consumption
biotechnology and genomics
economics of knowledge
'rights over resources' within 'welfare states'
Current research
Research
Mark completed an ESRC project on The transition to a sustainable bio-economy: innovation and expectations. This project, which ran from October 2007 to 2010, compared different trajectories of innovation in Brazil, Europe and the USA, using the IEP approach. Faced by global climate change, depleting petro-chemical resources and energy insecurity, a major industrial transformation in energy and materials is at an early stage of transition. This transition poses challenges to the governance of the economy unique in the history of industrial societies. From 2010 to 2013, he has been engaged in the ESRC funded Sustainable Practices Research Group, and its programme of research on low carbon housing, heating and cooling, changing food habits and water use in the home. In this programme,he has been running a comparative and historical project on drinking and domestic water provision in Europe (the UK, Germany, and Italy), Delhi, Taiwan and Mexico City. This work has addressed key economic sociology questions on public and private appropriation, the qualities of water, and the trajectories of water provision within different environmental contexts. Researching water has been a useful way of analysing sociogenic sustainability crises as emergent and varied consequences of these different trajectories. Visit the SPRG website at http://www.sprg.ac.uk/ He has recently been awarded an ESRC Professorial Fellowship 鈥淭he food-energy-climate change trilemma: developing a neo-Polanyian analysis鈥� The world is facing three unprecedented challenges: anthropogenic climate change, the depletion of finite energy and material resources, and a growing population with increasing and changing demand for food. These three problems are deeply interconnected in 鈥榯he food-energy-climate change trilemma鈥�. Researching the different trilemma trajectories as they develop in Brazil, Europe, the USA and China provides a way of analysing the varied interactions between socio-economies, their environmental contexts, and their command over finite resources such as land, water, and fossil energy. This project will run from January 2014 to December 2016, with a Senior Research Officer and an ESRC Doctoral Studentship. The over-arching theme integrating his work across these research projects has been the development of a neo-Polanyian 鈥榠nstituted economic process鈥� approach to understanding of capitalist economic institutional variation and evolution as multi-modal, embracing the state, market and non-market dynamics. The new development of this approach is to understand the interactions between political economies, natural environments, and finite resources as a major dynamic of historical variation, including the sociogenesis of sustainability crises.
Teaching and supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 10/8/2022
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 29/11/2018
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/12/2017
Degree subject: Sociological Research
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 16/5/2017
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 17/5/2016
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 17/6/2014
Degree type: Occasional Postgraduate Study
Awarded date: 28/2/2013
Publications
Journal articles (30)
Harvey, M., (2019). Slavery, Indenture and the Development of British Industrial Capitalism. History Workshop Journal. 88 (1), 66-88
Harvey, M., (2016). For a New West: Essays, 1919鈥�1958. By Karl Polanyi. Edited by Giorgio Resta and Mariavittorio Catanzariti. Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, 2014. Pp. xvi+258. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).. American Journal of Sociology. 121 (4), 1326-1327
Behling, F. and Harvey, M., (2015). . Work, Employment and Society. 29 (6), 969-988
Harvey, M., (2014). . Theory, Culture & Society. 31 (5), 155-182
Harvey, M., (2014). . Anthropology of food (S10)
Harvey, M. and Pilgrim, S., (2013). . New Political Economy. 18 (3), 364-390
Harvey, M. and McMeekin, A., (2013). . Economics of Innovation and New Technology. 22 (7), 666-683
Harvey, M. and Pilgrim, S., (2011). . Food Policy. 36 (SUPPL. 1), S40-S51
Harvey, M., (2011). Book Review: Karl Polanyi. The Limits of the Market. The Sociological Review. 59 (2), 378-380
Harvey, M. and Pilgrim, S., (2011). The new competition for land: Food, energy, and climate change. Food Policy. 36 (S1), S40-S51
Frericks, P., Harvey, M. and Maier, R., (2010). . Critical Social Policy. 30 (3), 315-336
Pilgrim, S. and Harvey, M., (2010). . Sociological Research Online. 15 (3), 45-60
Schofield, PN., Eppig, J., Huala, E., de Angelis, MH., Harvey, M., Davidson, D., Weaver, T., Brown, S., Smedley, D., Rosenthal, N., Schughart, K., Aidinis, V., Tocchini-Valentini, G. and Hancock, JM., (2010). . Science. 330 (6004), 592-593
Harvey, M. and McMeekin, A., (2010). . International Journal of the Commons. 4 (1), 481-506
Harvey, M., (2006). . Supply Chain Management. 5 (1), 197-205
Wales, C., Harvey, M. and Warde, A., (2006). . Appetite. 47 (2), 187-195
Harvey, M. and McMeekin, A., (2005). . Economy and Society. 34 (4), 634-658
Harvey, M. and Metcalfe, S., (2004). . Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines. 14 (2), 1-31
Harvey, M. and McMeekin, A., (2004). . Nature Biotechnology. 22 (7), 807-810
Coombs, R., Harvey, M. and Tether, B., (2003). . Industrial and Corporate Change. 12 (6), 1125-1155
Ramlogan, R. and Harvey, M., (2003). . International Review of Sociology. 13 (2), 321-326
Green, K., Harvey, M. and McMeekin, A., (2003). . Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 5 (2), 145-163
Lee, MA., Harvey, M. and Neustrom, A., (2002). . Rural sociology. 67 (4), 556-577
Harvey, M., McMeekin, A. and Miles, I., (2002). . foresight. 4 (4), 13-30
McMeekin, A. and Harvey, M., (2002). . Revue D'Economie Industrielle. 101 (1), 47-64
Harvey, M. and Randles, S., (2002). . Revue d'锟絚onomie industrielle. 101 (1), 11-30
Harvey, M., (2000). . Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. 5 (1), 15-21
Harvey, M., (1999). . Sociological Research Online. 4 (3)
Harvey, M., (1999). . Cambridge Journal of Economics. 23 (4), 485-501
Harvey, M., (1996). . New Left Review. 217, 88-101
Books (11)
Harvey, M., (2021). Climate Emergency. Emerald Publishing Limited. 1800433336. 9781800433335
Harvey, M. and Geras, N., (2018). Inequality and democratic egalitarianism
Harvey, M., (2015). . Routledge. 9781138816978
Harvey, M., (2010). . Manchester University Press. 9780719076701
Harvey, M. and McMeekin, A., (2007). . 9781845420963
Kj忙rnes, U., Harvey, M. and Warde, A., (2007). . Palgrave Macmillan UK. 9781349547395
Harvey, M., Ramlogan, R. and Randles, S., (2007). . Manchester University Press. 9780719073328
Harvey, M. and McMeekin, A., (2007). Public or Private Economies of Knowledge?. Edward Elgar Publishing. 9781845420963
Harvey, M., McMeekin, A. and Warde, A., (2004). . Manchester University Press. 9780719068546
Clasquin, B., Moncel, N., Harvey, M. and Friot, B., (2004). . Peter Lang. 9052012148
Harvey, M., Quilley, S. and Beynon, H., (2002). . Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 978-1843761891
Book chapters (18)
Harvey, M., (2018). Making People Work for Wages: Instituting the Capital鈥揕abour Exchange in the United Kingdom. In: Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism. Manchester University Press. 98- 129. 9781526114020
Harvey, M., (2018). Journeying through Marxism. In: Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism. Manchester University Press. 1- 18. 9781526114020
Harvey, M., (2018). Coercive Capitalisms: Politico-economies of Slavery, Indentured Labour and Debt Peonage. In: Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism. Manchester University Press. 130- 155. 9781526114020
Harvey, M., (2018). A Note on Profit and Inequality. In: Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism. Manchester University Press. 77- 97. 9781526114020
Harvey, M. and Bharucha, ZP., (2016). . In: Global Bioethanol. Elsevier. 63- 92. 9780128031414
Harvey, M., (2010). . In: Markets, Rules and Institutions of Exchange. Editors: Harvey, M., . Manchester University Press. 9780719076701
McMeekin, A. and Harvey, M., (2010). . In: Markets, Rules and Institutions of Exchange. Editors: Harvey, M., . Manchester University Press. 9780719076701
Harvey, M. and Randles, S., (2010). . In: Markets, Rules and Institutions of Exchange. Editors: Harvey, M., . Manchester University Press. 9780719076701
Harvey, M. and Metcalfe, S., (2010). . In: Markets, Rules and Institutions of Exchange. Editors: Harvey, M., . Manchester University Press. 9780719076701
Harvey, M., (2007). . In: Supermarkets and agri-food supply chains: transformations in the production and consumption of foods. Editors: Burch, D. and Lawrence, G., . Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 51- 73. 9781781008546
Harvey, M., (2007). . In: Karl Polanyi: New perspectives on the place of the economy in society. Editors: Harvey, M., Ramlogan, R. and Randles, S., . Manchester University Press. 9780719073328
Harvey, M., Ramlogan, R. and Randles, S., (2007). . In: Karl Polanyi: New Perspectives on the Place of Economy in Society. Editors: Harvey, M., Ramlogan, R. and Randles, S., . Manchester University Press. 1- 12. 9780719073328
Kj锟絩nes, U., Warde, A. and Harvey, M., (2006). . In: Ethics and the Politics of Food: Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. Editors: Kaiser, M. and Lien, ME., . Wageningen. 162- 166. 9789086860081
McMeekin, A., Harvey, M. and Gee, S., (2004). . In: The Economic Dynamics of Modern Biotechnologies: European and Global Trends. Editors: Laage-Hellman, J., McKelvey, M. and Rickne, A., . Edward Elgar. 235- 261. 9781845420611
Harvey, M., (2003). . In: Building Chaos: A International Comparison of Deregulation in the Construction Industr. Editors: Bosch, G. and Philips, P., . Routledge. 188- 209. 9780415260909
Harvey, M., Summers, GF., Pickering, K. and Richards, P., (2002). . In: Rural dimensions of welfare reform. Editors: Weber, BA., Duncan, GJ. and Whitener, LA., . Upjohn Institute Press. 375- 410. 9780880992404
Harvey, M., (2002). . In: Innovation By Demand: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Demand and its Role in Innovation. Editors: McMeekin, A., Tomlinson, M., Green, K. and Walsh, V., . Manchester University Press. 187- 208. 9780719062674
Harvey, M., (2000). . In: The Dynamics of Wage Relations in the New Europe. Editors: Clarke, L., de Gijsel, P. and Janssen, J., . Springer. 267- 278. 978-1-4613-7002-4
Reports and Papers (4)
Harvey, M. and Geras, N., (2013).
Harvey, M., (2012).
Harvey, M. and McMeekin, A., (2010).
Harvey, M., (2009).
Grants and funding
2013
The Food-Energy-Climate Change Trilemma: Developing a Neo-Polanyian Analysis
Economic & Social Research Council
2012
Social Change and Systems of Drinking Water Provision in Taiwan
The British Academy
2010
Sustainable Practices Research Group
Economic & Social Research Council
