It is no longer controversial to assert that the ‘mainstream’ of economic-geographical theorising, including that which defines itself as ‘international’, emerges from the experiences of Anglo-American regions and is articulated largely in the pages of ‘major international journals’,...

Birmingham is re-inventing itself through a strategy of prestige city centre regeneration. Drawing on the theoretical lenses of transnationalism and postcolonialism, we sketch one alternative vision of Birmingham’s economic place in the world. Through a focus on ‘ethnic diversity’, and the...

This paper draws on critiques of ‘global cities’ to conceptualise Birmingham, the UK’s second largest metropole, as a ‘global’ city by highlighting forms of economic globalisation that draw on the city’s residents, their histories and their social and cultural networks. The paper...