Ngai-Ling Sum

Ngai-Ling Sum (born 1952) is a British sociologist and political economist and co-director of the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre at Lancaster University.^[1]

Her 2006 book Beyond the Regulation Approach. Putting Capitalist Economies in their Place (co-authored with Bob Jessop) was awarded the Gunnar Myrdal Prize awarded given by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Geografiska Annaler called Beyond the Regulation Approach a good introduction to the theory of Regulation Approach.^[2] Sum's contributions to the book were considered "central in pushing its boundaries to the emerging project of cultural political economy" by Ray Hudson in Economic Geography.^[3] She also was awarded a British Academy BARDA Award in 2008 for her work with Jessop on Changing Cultures of Competitiveness: A Cultural Political Economy Approach.^[4] Her work has appeared in Competition & Change,^[5] Urban Studies,^[6] New Political Economy,^[7] Critical Policy Studies,^[8] Critical Asian Studies,^[9] Economy and Society,^[10] and Capital & Class,^[11] among others.

Major works

• Sum, Ngai-Ling (2003). "Rethinking Globalisation: Re-articulating the Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-Border Spaces". In Brenner, Neil; Jessop, Bob; Jones, Martin; et al. State/Space: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0631230335. 
• Beyond the Regulation Approach. Putting Capitalist Economies in their Place (co-authored with Bob Jessop) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2006.
• Towards A Cultural Political Economy. Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy (co-authored with Bob Jessop) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2014.

References

1. ↑ "Dr Ngai-Ling Sum". Lancaster University. Retrieved 2 December 2015. 
2. ↑ "Book Reviews". Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 90 (1): 89–99. 2008-03-01. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0467.2008.00279.x. ISSN 1468-0467. 
3. ↑ Hudson, Ray (July 2007). "Beyond the Regulation Approach: Putting Capitalist Economies in Their Place (Book)". Economic Geography. 83 (3): 325–326. Retrieved 2 December 2015. (subscription required (help)). 
4. ↑ "British Academy BARDA Award (2008-2010) Cultures of Competitiveness in India and China". Cultural Political Economy Research Centre. Lancaster University. Retrieved 2 December 2015. 
5. ↑ Sum, Ngai-Ling; Ngai, Pun (2005-06-01). "Globalization and Paradoxes of Ethical Transnational Production: Code of Conduct in a Chinese Workplace". Competition & Change. 9 (2): 181–200. doi:10.1179/102452905X45427. ISSN 1024-5294. 
6. ↑ Jessop, Bob; Sum, Ngai-Ling (2000-11-01). "An Entrepreneurial City in Action: Hong Kong's Emerging Strategies in and for (Inter)Urban Competition". Urban Studies. 37 (12): 2287–2313. doi:10.1080/00420980020002814. ISSN 0042-0980. 
7. ↑ Jessop, Bob; Sum, Ngai-Ling (2001-03-01). "Pre-disciplinary and Post-disciplinary Perspectives". New Political Economy. 6 (1): 89–101. doi:10.1080/13563460020027777. ISSN 1356-3467. 
8. ↑ Sum, Ngai-Ling (2009-12-18). "The production of hegemonic policy discourses: 'competitiveness' as a knowledge brand and its (re-)contextualizations". Critical Policy Studies. 3 (2): 184–203. doi:10.1080/19460170903385668. ISSN 1946-0171. 
9. ↑ Sum, Ngai-Ling (2003-09-01). "INFORMATIONAL CAPITALISM AND U.S. ECONOMIC HEGEMONY: Resistance and Adaptations in East Asia". Critical Asian Studies. 35 (3): 373–398. doi:10.1080/1467271032000109890. ISSN 1467-2715. 
10. ↑ Sum, Ngai Ling (1995-02-01). "More than a 'war of words': identity, politics and the struggle for dominance during the recent 'political reform' period in Hong Kong". Economy and Society. 24 (1): 67–100. doi:10.1080/03085149500000003. ISSN 0308-5147. 
11. ↑ Sum, Ngai-Ling (2001-07-01). "An Integral Approach to the Asian 'Crisis': The (Dis)Articulation of the Production and Financial (Dis-)Orders". Capital & Class. 25 (2): 141–166. doi:10.1177/030981680107400107. ISSN 0309-8168. 

External links

• Ngai-Ling Sum's homepage at University of Lancaster