Adam Swain

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Research Summary

Dr Swain studies the geography of post-soviet Europe. Through a focus on the Ukrainian economy his work examines the ways economic practices, discourses and identities are forged, aligned and… read more

Recent Publications

• OLDFIELD, J., MATLESS, D. and SWAIN, A., 2011. The making of a sub-discpline: State initiatives and the production of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series.
• SMITH, A. and SWAIN, A., 2010. The Global Economic Crisis, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union: Models of Development and the Contradictions of Internationalization Eurasian Geography and Economics. 51(1), 1-34
• SWAIN, A., MYKHNENKO, V. and FRENCH, S., 2010. The corruption industry and transition: Neoliberalising post-soviet space. In: BIRCH, K. and MYKHNENKO, V., eds., The rise and fall of neoliberalism: The collapse of an economic order? Zed Books. 112-132
• MYKHNENKO, V. and SWAIN, A., 2010. Ukraine’s diverging space-economy: The Orange Revolution, Post-Soviet development models and regional trajectories European Urban and Regional Studies. 17(2), 141-165

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Current Research

Dr Swain studies the geography of post-soviet Europe. Through a focus on the Ukrainian economy his work examines the ways economic practices, discourses and identities are forged, aligned and stabilised thereby influencing the comparative economic performance of regional economies. This work is complemented by historical research on British geographies of the Soviet bloc during the Cold War.

• OLDFIELD, J., MATLESS, D. and SWAIN, A., 2011. The making of a sub-discpline: State initiatives and the production of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series.
• SMITH, A. and SWAIN, A., 2010. The Global Economic Crisis, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union: Models of Development and the Contradictions of Internationalization Eurasian Geography and Economics. 51(1), 1-34
• SWAIN, A., MYKHNENKO, V. and FRENCH, S., 2010. The corruption industry and transition: Neoliberalising post-soviet space. In: BIRCH, K. and MYKHNENKO, V., eds., The rise and fall of neoliberalism: The collapse of an economic order? Zed Books. 112-132
• MYKHNENKO, V. and SWAIN, A., 2010. Ukraine’s diverging space-economy: The Orange Revolution, Post-Soviet development models and regional trajectories European Urban and Regional Studies. 17(2), 141-165
• MATLESS, D, OLDFIELD, J and AND SWAIN, A., 2008. Geographically touring the eastern bloc: British geography, travel cultures and the Cold War Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 33, 354-375
• MATLESS, D., OLDFIELD, J. and SWAIN, A., 2007. Encountering Soviet Geography: Oral Histories of British Geographical Studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945-1991 Social & Cultural Geography. 8(3), 353-372
• SWAIN, A., 2007. Projecting 'transition' in the Ukrainian Donbas: policy transfer and the restructuring of the coal industry. In: SWAIN, A., ed., Re-constructing the post-soviet industrial region: The Donbas in transition London: Routledge. 161-187
• SWAIN, A., ed., 2007. Re-constructing the post-Soviet industrial region Abingdon: Routledge.
• SWAIN, A. and MYKHNENKO, V., 2007. The Ukrainian Donbas in 'transition'. In: SWAIN, A., ed., Re-constructing the post-soviet industrial region: The Donbas in transition London: Routledge. 7-46
• SWAIN, A., 2006. Soft capitalism and a hard industry: virtualism, the 'transition industry' and the restructuring of the Ukrainian coal industry Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 31(2), 208-233
• SWAIN, A., 2005. Are oranges the only fruit? A comment on the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election Geoforum. 36, 885-687
• BRADSHAW, M. J. and SWAIN, A., 2004. Foreign investment and regional development. In: BRADSHAW, M. J. and STENNING, A., eds., The transition economies of East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union Pearson. 59-86
• SWAIN, A., 2002. Broken networks and a <i>tabula rasa</i>? 'Lean production', employment and the privatisation of the east German automobile industry. In: RAINNIE, A., SMITH, A. and SWAIN, A., eds., Work, employment and livelihoods in transition: restructuring livelihoods in post-communism London: Routledge. 74-96
• RAINNIE, A., SMITH, A. and SWAIN, A., 2002. Employment and restructuring in transition. In: Work, Employment and Transition: restructuring livelihoods in 'post-communist' eastern Europe
• RAINNIE, A, SMITH, A. and SWAIN, A., eds., 2002. Work, employment and transition: restructuring livelihoods in post-communism Routledge.
• SMITH, A. and SWAIN, A., 2001. Regulating and institutionalising capitalisms: the micro-foundations of transformation in eastern and central Europe. In: Regulation Theory and the Crisis of Capitalism IV.
• SWAIN, A. and HARDY, J., 1998. Regional Studies In: Unknown.
• SWAIN, A., 1998. Transforming the motor vehicle industry in Hungary, 1989-1995. In: A European Geography Longman Group Ltd, Harlow, Essex, UK. 172-4
• SWAIN, A., 1998. Governing the Workplace: The Workplace and Regional Development Implications of Automotive Foreign Direct Investment in Hungary Regional Studies. VOL 32(NUMBER 7), 653-672
• SWAIN, A. and HARDY, J., 1998. Globalization, institutions, foreign investment and the reintegration of east and central Europe and the former Soviet Union with the world economy: Introduction Regional Studies. 32(7), 587-590
• SWAIN, A., 1998. Dismantling the Coal Mining Industry in Ukraine Labour Focus on Eastern Europe. ISSUE 60, 69-92
• SWAIN, A., 1998. Institutions and regional development: evidence from Hungary and Ukraine In: Unknown.
• SWAIN, A., 1998. Regulating and institutionalising capitalisms: the micro-foundations of tranformation in Eastern and Central Europe. In: Theorizing transition: the political economy of change in central and eastern Europe Routledge, London and New York. 25-53
• SWAIN, A., 1998. Governing the workplace In: Integration and transition in Europe: The Economic Geography of Interaction, Phare-ACE Project P96-7438-0.
• SWAIN, A. and FILATOTCHEV, I., 1997. Problems of restructuring of former state-owned enterprises in Russia, Hungary and China: case studies from car-making firms 6(6), 1-11
• SWAIN, A., 1997. International Labour Office, Central and Eastern European Team. The Ukrainian Challenge: Reforming Labour Market and Social Policy Work, Employment & Society. VOL 11(NUMBER 4), 798-799
• SWAIN, A. and AMIN, A., 1996. Learning and embeddedness: evolving transnational firm strategies in Europe, 7, 20-23
• SWAIN, A., 1996. Geographies of transformation: approaching regional economic restructuring in central and eastern Europe In: Unknown.