Matthew Sparke

Matt Sparke was born in Tonbridge, England in 1967. Educated at the University of Oxford (where David Harvey was his main mentor) and the University of British Columbia (where Derek Gregory was his PhD advisor), he became a Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1996. In 1999 anti-WTO protests transformed Seattle's downtown business district and made the city famous for conflict between global justice activists and advocates of global market rule. After this, Matt began to teach about globalization to students seeking to understand what the conflict was all about. Combining this teaching experience with his enduring interest in making academic theory accessible, his book 'Introducing Globalization' seeks to explain the fraught debates over global market ties in ways that make them easier to understand, engage and question. See the online interview at http://player.theplatform.com/p/U8-EDC/sCQX5QU3D8RR/embed/select/media/tsamJQuGAIE3?form=html