All articles available on request (olimould at gmail dot com). There’s also my Google Scholar profile.
Books (see my book pages)
Selected Academic Articles, Outputs and Book Chapters:
- Mould, O, Badger, A, Cole, J and Brown, P. (2022) Solidarity, not Charity: Learning the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic to reconceptualise the radicality of mutual aid. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
- Badger, A, Brown, P, Cole, J, Kispert, M and Mould, O. (2022) Manifesto For Mutual Aid. Available at mutualaid.uk/manifesto
- Squire, R, Mould, O and Adey, P. (2021) The Final Frontier? The Enclosure of a Commons of Outer Space. Society and Space Forum.
- Mould, O (2019) The spark, the spread, and ethics: Towards an object-orientated view of subversive creativity. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(3): 468 – 483.
- Mould, O (2018) The not-so-concrete Jungle: Material Precarity in the Calais Jungle Camp. Cultural Geographies, 25(3): 393 – 409.
- Mould, O (2017) The Calais Jungle: A slum of London’s making. City, 21(4): 388-404
- Mould, O (2017) Brutalism Redux: Relational monumentality and the urban politics of brutalist architecture. Antipode, 49(3): 701 – 720. (view it online here).
- Mould, O (2016) Who Creates the City? How the Long Live Southbank campaign championed inclusive creativity. Regions, 303(1): 16-17 (article available here).
- Mould, O (2016) Parkour, Activism & Young People. In Nairn, K, Kraftl, P and Skelton, T (eds.) Geographies of Children and Young People. Space, Place and Environment. Springer, New York.
- Mould, O (2016) A Limitless Urban Theory? A Response to Scott and Storper’s ‘The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(1):157 – 163 (view it online here).
- Mould, O and Comunian, R (2015) ‘Hung, Drawn and Cultural Quartered: Rethinking Cultural Quarter Development Policy in the UK. European Planning Studies, 23(12): 2356-2369
- Mould, O (2014) ‘Tactical Urbanism: The New Vernacular of the Creative City’. Geography Compass, 8(8): 529 – 539.
- Mould, O, Vorley, T and Liu, K. (2014) ‘Invisible Creativity? Highlighting the hidden impact of Freelancing in London’s Creative Industries’. European Planning Studies, 22(12): 2429 – 2435.
- Mould, O (2013) ‘The Cultural Dimension’. In Acuto, M and Steele, W. (eds.) Global City Challenges: Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice. Palgrave, Basingstoke: 140 – 154.
- Daskalaki, M and Mould, O (2013) ‘Beyond Urban Subcultures: Urban Subversions as Rhizomatic Social Formations’. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 37(1): 1-18.
- Mould, O (2012) ‘Been Through the Desert on a Horse With No Name’ In Koepsell, D and Arp, R. (ed.) Breaking Bad and Philosophy. Open Court Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Open Court Publishing, Chicago: 171 – 180.
- Vorley, T, Mould, O and Courtney, R. (2012) ‘My Networking is Notworking! Conceptualising the latent and dysfunctional dimensions the network paradigm’. Economic Geography. 88(1): 77-96. I presented a version of this paper at the CreativeWorks London event in June, 2014.
- Joel, S and Mould, O. (2010) ‘Knowledge networks in London’s Advertising Industry: A Social Network Analysis approach’. Area. 42(3): 281 – 292. (This paper is available as a GaWC research bulletin)
- Mould, O. (2009) ‘Parkour, the City, the Event’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 27(4): 738 – 750. A version is also available on the American Parkour website.
- Mould, O. (2009) ‘Lights, Camera, but where’s the Action? Actor-Network Theory and Film Production’. In Mayer V, Banks M, and Caldwell J. (eds.) Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries. Routledge, London: 202-213.
Blog posts/essays on other sites:
- ‘The epidemic here isn’t Covid, the epidemic is poverty’: The future of mutual aid in Food Bank Britain – The Big Issue
- Mutual aid: can community fridges bring anarchist politics to the mainstream? – The Conversation
- Dune – a prophetic tale about the environmental destruction wrought by the colonisation of Africa -The Conversation
- The planet is burning. Why do golf courses still exist? – Prospect
- The Gentrification of Football, and everything else – Tribune Magazine
- Revolutionary ideals of the Paris Commune live on in Black Lives Matter autonomous zone in Seattle – The Conversation
- The 1% want to solve climate change. But they won’t do the one thing that might actually work – Prospect
- First, There Was Artwashing. Now There’s … Squatter Chic? CityLab
- The creative industries are hurting, not helping artists – Prospect Magazine
- Ignore liveable cities rankings – they do citizens a disservice by trying to quantify urban life – The Conversation
- Das Kappuccino – Buffalo Zine
- Against Creativity – Jacobin Magazine
- Does “being creative” just mean maintaining the status quo? – OpenDemocracy
- Identity and Place – U&I Matter Magazine
- The Old New Brutalism? Rekindling Brutalist Ethics from Artwashed Aesthetics – Antipode Foundation
- Gutsy organized Londoners have learned to stop gentrification in its tracks – here’s how – The Conversation
- Why culture competitions and ‘artwashing’ drive urban inequality – OpenDemocracy
- The Graffiti Trucks of Paris: Subverting the Street – Huck Magazine
- Parkour is now officially a sport – here’s to jumping for joy – The Conversation
- Loss of Fabric nightclub is latest blow to London’s cultural capital – The Conversation
- The urban politics of parkour: how traceurs use sport to rediscover the city – The Conversation
- Aid and instability: an urbanist’s perspective on the Calais Jungle – The Conversation
- Can memorialisation be a form of urban protest? – OpenDemocracy
- Cereal Killer Cafe attack: who’s wrong and who’s right in the great gentrification battle? – The Conversation
- ‘Love where you live’, and other lies of gentrification – OpenDemocracy
- Southbank skaters’ victory shows grassroots culture still worth fighting for – The Conversation
- What do we talk about when we talk about creativity? – OpenDemocracy
- The Southbank and the Skaters: The Cultural Politics of Subversion – Antipode Intervention
- No need for a Blade Runner sequel, we’ve already had Prometheus – ThatFilmGuy
- ‘Explore Everything’ by Bradley Garrett, a book review. Antipode Online
- Creative Shanghai: A Photo Essay – ThisBigCity
- Creative City: Four Projects bringing Arts & Culture to Dubai – ThisBigCity
- Temporary initiatives need a permanent place in urban creativity policies – NewStart
- ‘Real’ Creative Cities: Grassroots Tel Aviv – the Polis Blog
- The death and life of Jane Jacobs critiques – The Global Urbanist
- Ranking Creative Cities: An exercise in futility – The Global Urbanist
Media References (for those related to the books, go to the Books page)
- Rooftopping: A Report from London. Political Critique – 11 October 2017
- Skater als Vorhut der Gentrifizierung – Deutschlandfunk Kultur – 16 September 2017
- How skaters make cities safer – and the fight to save the Southbank skate spot. Guardian 7 August 2017 (online & print)
- The Brutalist Revival. Design Build Network – 7 February 2017
- Artisan cafés and luxury flats: How bad can gentrification really be? Independent online (3rd June 2016)
- Terminator Tour, Los Angeles – Empire Magazine, August 2015, page 25.
- Occupy Wall Street, The Tour – New York Times, 2 April 2015 (online & print)
- CreativeWorks London, Networking in the Creative Economy – 28 May 2014 (featured in the film)
- Long Live Southbank: The Bigger Picture – 11 November 2013 (featured in the film)
- Hollywood Reporter – ‘Breaking Bad’: Philosophers Tackle Heisenberg in Book – 22 August 2013
- New Start (website and print) – A Permanent Home for Temporary Initiatives – 7 June 2012
- Guardian – MediaCity on Monday – 4 July 2011
- Hareetz (press edition) – ‘Urban Subversions’ – 10 April 2011
- Newsweek – The Urban Jungle Gym – 8 September 2010
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