Ngai-Ling Sum
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Ngai-Ling Sum PhD, MSocSc, MEd, MA | |||||||||||
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岑艾玲 | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 岑艾玲 | ||||||||||
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| Title | Honorary Researcher | ||||||||||
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| Alma mater | Lancaster University | ||||||||||
| Thesis | Reflections on Accumulation, Regulation, the State, and Societalization: A stylized model of East Asian capitalism and an integral economic analysis of Hong Kong (1994) | ||||||||||
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| Discipline | Sociology | ||||||||||
| Website | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/people/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 the book 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 several academic journals like 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.
