Owen Parker
Associate Fellow, SPERI, & Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield
COVID19 and the EU: crisis too far or transformative moment?
Owen Parker - 20 April 2020Will the covid-19 pandemic prompt the EU to take the decisive integrative steps that it failed to take in the context of the Eurozone crisis? Or will this be a crisis too far?
Post-election reflections on the Labour Party: Part 2
Owen Parker - 24 December 2019Whatever it does moving forwards, Labour must continue to reject the neoliberalism of the New and the nativism of the Blue.
Post-election reflections on the Labour Party: Part 1
Owen Parker - 20 December 2019Whatever the future holds Labour should beware both the New and the Blue.
Book review: Race and the Undeserving Poor
Owen Parker - 17 September 2018Robbie Shilliam’s brilliant book highlights the historical importance of race in social and welfare policy in Britain and in so doing makes a crucial and timely intervention into contemporary progressive debate
Book review: Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union
Owen Parker - 24 July 2018Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley’s new book provides a nuanced picture of why people voted as they did in 2016
The Labour Party’s free movement dilemma
Owen Parker - 31 July 2017There are good pragmatic and principled reasons for the Labour Party to reverse its opposition to the free movement of EU citizens
The political economy of the White Paper on The Future of Europe: Part Two
Owen Parker - 22 March 2017The Commission’s White Paper understates both the depth of the crisis associated with the EU status quo and what needs to be done about it
The political economy of the White Paper on the Future of Europe: Part One
Owen Parker - 21 March 2017The Commission’s new White Paper offers some interesting post-Brexit scenarios for ‘the future of Europe’, but realising any of these will be difficult in a context of political divisions among the remaining 27 states
Brexit and the left: heading deeper into the void?
Owen Parker - 27 June 2016The support in traditional Labour party heartlands for leaving the EU should serve as a wake up call for the British and European left
Lexit? Careful what you wish for…
Owen Parker - 12 April 2016A number of voices on the British left have in recent months pushed the idea of ‘Lexit’ – a progressive position in favour of Britain leaving the EU. While their critique of the EU has merit, their solution is counterproductive
Spanish politics in major flux
Owen Parker - 20 January 2016Two recent events will complicate and shape Spanish politics in the coming year, with broader implications for Europe and its political economy
The self-protection of European society (inside and outside the EU)
Owen Parker - 24 September 2015Growing political turmoil in Greece, Spain and Turkey could be a precursor to a Polanyian ‘great transformation’ away from neoliberalism
Fundamental rights and neoliberalism in Crisis Spain (and Crisis EU)
Owen Parker - 25 July 2015The gap between rhetoric and reality with regard to transport investment in the North of England encapsulates all the problems of Northern economic development
Dilemmas for the left on EU citizenship
Owen Parker - 25 November 2014The Conservative agenda on pension investments is inherently shallow and increasingly moralistic in tone
Citizenship for sale?
Owen Parker - 04 September 2014Individual investor programmes in Europe raise huge questions about citizenship and borders in a globalising world
Everyday life in crisis Spain: are we all Roma now?
Owen Parker - 01 October 2013As the hardships of life touch more and more sectors of Spanish society, so new forms of resistance are spreading too
Why entrepreneurs will not save the world
Owen Parker - 30 May 2013Governments have championed ‘entrepreneurs’ as figures capable of reviving stagnant economies and alleviating social problems. But who are they, and are they worth celebrating?