Publications
Papers
- Chatterton, P and Maxey, L (2009 – in press) Introduction: Whatever Happened to Ethics and Responsibility in Geography? ACME 8(2) p1-11
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- Chatterton, P (2009 – in press) So what does it mean to be anti-capitalist? Conversations with activists from urban social centres. Urban Studies.
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- Chatterton, P, Hodkinson, S. and Pickerill, J (2009 in press) Beyond scholar activism: making strategic interventions inside and outside the neoliberal university. ACME. 8(1).
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- Chatterton, P (2008) Becoming a public scholar: academia and activism. Antipode. Vol 40 (3) p421-428
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- Chatterton, P (2008) ‘Using Geography to Teach Freedom and Defiance: Lessons in Social Change from ‘Autonomous Geographies”. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 32:3 p 419 – 440.
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- Chatterton, P and Featherstone, D (2007) Editorial. Intervention: Elsevier, critical geography and the arms trade Political Geography 26. p3-7.
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- Pickerill, J and Chatterton, P. (2006) Notes towards autonomous geographies. Creation, resistance and self management as survival tactics. Progress in Human Geography. 30(6) p1-17.
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- Hodkinson, S and Chatterton, P (2006) Autonomy in the city? Reflections on the social centres movement in the UK. City. 10(3) p305-315
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- Chatterton, P (2006) ‘Give up activism’ and change the world in unknown ways. Or, learning to walk with others on uncommon ground. Antipode. 38(2) p259-282
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- Chatterton, P (2005) Making Autonomous Geographies: Argentina’s popular uprising and the ‘Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados’ (Unemployed Workers Movement). Geoforum. Vol 36 pg 545-561.
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- Chatterton, P (2005) How to live when the war comes home. City. Vol 9.3. pg 351-356.
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- Chatterton, P. and R. Unsworth (2004). “Making space for culture(s) in Boomtown. Some alternative futures for development, ownership and participation in Leeds city centre.” Local Economy November. P361-379
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- Hollands, R and Chatterton, P. (2003) Producing Nightlife in the New Urban Entertainment Economy: Corporatisation, Branding and Market Segmentation. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. July.
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- Chatterton, P (2002) Governing Nightlife: Profit, Fun and (Dis)Order in the Contemporary City. Entertainment Law, Vol.1, No.2, Summer 2002, pp.23–49.
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- Chatterton, P. (2002) Be realistic. Demand the impossible’. Moving towards ‘strong’ sustainable development in an old industrial region? Regional Studies. Vol. 35, No 5. p 552-561.
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- Hollands, R. and Chatterton, P. (2002) Changing times for an old industrial city. Hard times, hedonism and corporate power in Newcastle’s nightlife. City. Vol. 6, No. 3, p291-317.
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- Chatterton, P. (2002) ‘Squatting is still legal, necessary and free’. A brief intervention in the corporate city. Antipode. 34,1. Pp1-7.
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- Chatterton, P. and Hollands, R (2001) Theorising Urban Playscapes: Producing, Regulating and Consuming Youthful Nightlife City Spaces. Urban Studies, Vol. 39 No 1. p95-116. (50% contribution)
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- Chatterton, P. and Style, S (2001) Putting sustainable development into practice? The role of local ‘policy partnership networks’. Local Environment. Vol. 6, No 4. pp 439-452.

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- Chatterton. P and Goddard, J,B. (2000) The response of higher education institutions to regional needs. European Journal of Education. Vol. 35 No. 4 p475-496.
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- Chatterton. P (2000) Will the real creative city please stand up. City. 4, 3. pp. 390-397
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- Chatterton, P. (2000) The cultural role of universities in the community. Revisiting the university-community debate. Environment and Planning A, 32, 165-181
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- Chatterton, P., Bradley, D. (2000) Bringing Britain together? The limitations of area based strategies in addressing deprivation. Local Economy. 15, 298-112.
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- Chatterton, P. (1999) Exclusive Geographies: University students in the City, Geoforum, 30, 117-133.
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- Goddard, J,B. and Chatterton, P. (1999) Regional Development Agencies and the knowledge economy: Harnessing the potential of Universities. Environment and Planning C. 17, 685-699
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Books
- Chatterton, P. Cutler, A and Bryan K. (eds.) (2007) Do it yourself. A handbook for Changing our world. Pluto: London.
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- Gordon, N. and Chatterton, P. (2004) ‘Taking back control: A journey through Argentina’s popular uprising’
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- Chatterton, P. and Hollands, R. (2003) ‘Urban nightscapes. Youth cultures, pleasure spaces and corporate power’ London, Routledge
- Chatterton, P. and Hollands, R. (2001) ‘Changing our ‘toon’. Youth, nightlife and urban change. Newcastle upon Tyne’ University of Newcastle
- Chatterton, P. and Goddard, J.B. (2001) The Response of Universities to Regional Needs. OECD, Paris
Book Chapters
- Chatterton, P (2009 – forthcoming) ‘Nine Principles for Reclaiming the Good City’ in Miles, M, Cultural agency. University of Plymouth Press..
- Chatterton, P and Heynen, N (2009 – forthcoming) ‘Resistance(s) and Collective Social Action’ in Del Casino Jr, V Thomas, M, Cloke, P and Panelli, R (eds.) A Companion to Social Geography. Sage: London.
- Chatterton, P (2009 – forthcoming) ‘Do it yourself: a politics for changing our world’, in Birch, K, Mykhenko, V. and Trebeck, K (eds.) The rise and fall of Neoliberalism. Zed Books: London.
- Chatterton, P., Fuller, D and Routledge, P (2008) Relating Action to Activism: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections, in Pain, R and Kesby, M (eds.) Connecting people, participation and place. London: Routledge. p245-287.
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- Chatterton, P. Cutler, A and Bryan K. (eds.) (2007) ‘Why we still have a lot to learn’. in Do it yourself. A handbook for Changing our world. Pluto: London. p 108-120.
- Chatterton, P. (eds.) (2007) ‘Why we need to take direct action’. Do it yourself. A handbook for Changing our world. Pluto: London. p 266-277
- Chatterton, P and Goddard, JB (2000) ‘The Response of Universities to Regional Needs’, in Maskell, P and Gibbons, M. Universities, Knowledge Infrastructure and the Learning Region. Edward Elgar, London.
Other Publications
- Chatterton, P (2006) ‘Retrofitting the corporate city. 5 principles for urban survival’. In Orta, L Collective Space. Ixia: London. P 69-91
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- The rocky road to a real transition: The transition towns movement for social change.
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- Chatterton, P & Pickerill, J (2008), Autonomous Geographies Final Report to ESRC,
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- Chatterton, P, & Hodkinson, S (2007), ‘Leeds: Skyscraper City’, The Yorkshire and Humber Regional Review, Vol. 17:1, Spring, pp. 30-32
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- Hodkinson, S & Chatterton, P (2007), ‘Leeds: an affordable, viable, sustainable, democratic city?’, The Yorkshire and Humber Regional Review, Vol 17: 2, pp.24-26, Summer
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- Chatterton, P (2008), Autonomous spaces and social centres, Shift, pp.7-11
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- Chatterton, P (2008), What’s this place?, Red Pepper Magazine August/September, pp.51-3
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- Against the green State. Peace News. March 2009
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- The emerging anti-coal Debate. Clean Slate Magazine. 2008
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- Pusey, A & Chatterton, P (2008), ‘Hotspots: Social Centres’, New Internationalist November
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