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Thomas Smith is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2022–2024) at LMU’s Department of Geography. He holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. From 2018 to 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in environmental studies at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. Smith is a member of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) and is interested in community-based economic practices for post-growth and post-capitalist futures. His project, RESHORE, examines the potential for insurgent industrial cultures and alternative production networks (APNs) in the Czech Republic and Germany, at a time of economic disruption, supply chain crisis, and deglobalization.
More information on the project can be found here, while relevant publications can be found here.
RCC Research Project: Participatory Pathways for Reshoring European Manufacturing (RESHORE)
Selected Publications:
- with Mariusz Baranowski and Benedikt Schmid. “Intentional Degrowth and Its Unintended Consequences: Uneven Journeys towards Post-Growth Transformations.” Ecological Economics 190 (December 2021): 107215.
- with Beneditk Schmid. “Social Transformation and Postcapitalist Possibility: Emerging Dialogues between Practice Theory and Diverse Economies.” Progress in Human Geography 45, no. 2 (2021): 253–75.
- with Kelly Dombroski. “Practicing Wellbeing through Community Economies: An Action Research Approach.” In A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research, edited by Beverley A. Searle, Jessica Pykett, and M.J. Alfaro Simmonds, 84–102. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.