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  • Jones, Gareth A. (2025). Finding Ramón: navigating failure and luck in Mexico. Critical Criminology, 33(4), 707 - 721. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-025-09851-2 picture_as_pdf
  • Angelini, Alessandro, Jones, Gareth A. (2025). My neighbor the gringo: commercialized intimacies and newcomer hospitality in a Rio de Janeiro favela. Cultural Anthropology, 40(4), 726 - 752. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.4.07 picture_as_pdf
  • Ikemura Amaral, Aiko, Nogueira, Mara, Jones, Gareth A. (2025). Re-framing popular governance in Brazil: re-insurgent and entrepreneurial arrangements in the urban peripheries. Political Geography, 118, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103307 picture_as_pdf
  • Nair, Abhinav, Alagha, M. Abdulhadi, Cobb, Justin, Jones, Gareth (2024). Assessing the value of imaging data in machine learning models to predict patient-reported outcome measures in knee osteoarthritis patients. Bioengineering, 11(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11080824 picture_as_pdf
  • Ikemura Amaral, Aiko, Jones, Gareth A., Nogueira, Mara (2021). When the (face)mask slips: politics, performance and crisis in urban Brazil. City, 25(3-4), 235 - 254. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2021.1946325 picture_as_pdf
  • Ballard, Richard, Jones, Gareth A., Ngwenya, Makale (2021). Trickle-out urbanism are Johannesburg’s gated estates good for their poor neighbours? Urban Forum, 32(2), 165 - 182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-021-09425-9 picture_as_pdf
  • Jaffe, R., Dürr, E., Jones, Gareth A., Angelini, Alessandro, Osbourne, A., Vodopivec, B. (2020). What does poverty feel like? Urban inequality and the politics of sensation. Urban Studies, 57(5), 1015 - 1031. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018820177 picture_as_pdf
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2019). Ethnographies and/of violence. Ethnography, 20(3), 297 - 319. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138119839088 picture_as_pdf
  • Dürr, E., Jaffe, R., Jones, Gareth A. (2019). Brokers and tours: selling urban poverty and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean. Space and Culture, 23(1), 4-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331219865684 description
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2016). Standing on the shoulders of giants? Anthropology and the city. Etnofoor, 28(2), 13-32.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Sanyal, Romola (2015). Spectacle and suffering: the Mumbai slum as a worlded space. Geoforum, 65, 431-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.008
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2014). Where's the capital?: a geographical essay. British Journal of Sociology, 65(4), 721-735. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12112 picture_as_pdf
  • Jones, Gareth A., Thomas de Benitez, Sarah (2014). Lost opportunity: the Lydia Cacho case and child rights in Mexico. International Journal of Children's Rights, 22(2), 285-312. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02202002
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2012). Hang about: young people's frustrations at the state of progress. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2(1), 101-104. https://doi.org/10.1177/204382061200200112
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2011). Children and development III: making space for young people. Progress in Development Studies, 11(2), 145-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499341001100204
  • Ballard, Richard, Jones, Gareth A. (2011). Natural neighbors: indigenous landscapes and ‘eco-estates’ in Durban, South Africa. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 101(1), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2010.520224
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2011). Slumming about: aesthetics, art and politics. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 15(6), 696-706. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2011.609017
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2011). The World Bank's World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development: a critique through five vignettes. Journal of International Development, 23(7), 980-995. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1826
  • Jones, Gareth A., Corbridge, Stuart (2010). The continuing debate about urban bias: the thesis, its critics, its influence, and its implications for poverty reduction strategies. Progress in Development Studies, 10(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340901000101
  • Jones, Gareth A., Dallimore, Anthea (2009). Wither participatory banking?: experiences with village banks in South Africa. European Journal of Development Research, 21(3), 344-361. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2009.16
  • Jones, Gareth A., Chant, Sylvia (2009). Globalising initiatives for gender equality and poverty reduction: exploring 'failure' with reference to education and work among urban youth in The Gambia and Ghana. Geoforum, 40(2), 184-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.07.008
  • Herrera, Elsa, Jones, Gareth A., Thomas de Benitez, Sarah (2009). Bodies on the line: identity markers among Mexican street youth. Children's Geographies, 7(1), 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733280802630932
  • Jones, Gareth A (2008). Children and development II: ‘youth’, violence and juvenile justice. Progress in Development Studies, 8(4), 345-348. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340800800404
  • Thomas de Benitez, Sarah, Jones, Gareth A. (2008). Reconnecting with youth on the streets: a rights-based approach. UN Youth Flash, 5(7), 1-2.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Herrera, Elsa, Thomas de Benitez, Sarah (2007). Tears, trauma and suicide: everyday violence among street youth in Puebla, Mexico. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 26(4), 462-479. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2007.00237.x
  • Jones, Gareth A., Moreno-Carranco, Maria (2007). Megaprojects: beneath the pavement, excess. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 11(2), 144-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604810701395969
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2007). Researching youth violence in contemporary Central America. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 26(4), 439-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2007.00233.x
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2007). Special issue: researching youth violence in contemporary Central America. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 26(4), 439-550.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2006). Culture and politics in the ‘Latin American’ city. Latin American Research Review, 41(1), 241-260. https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2006.0009
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2006). Methodology and ethics of working with street children. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 2(2), 39-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/17479894200600015
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2006). The Venice Biennale and beyond: an interview with Ricky Burdett. Oculum Ensaios: Revista de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 5, 103-114.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2005). Children and development: rights, globalization and poverty. Progress in Development Studies, 5(4), 336-342. https://doi.org/10.1191/1464993405ps118pr
  • Chant, Sylvia, Jones, Gareth A. (2005). Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: perspectives from Ghana and The Gambia. Children's Geographies, 3(2), 185-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733280500161602
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2004). Book review: Mexico’s mandarins: crafting a power elite for the twenty-first century. Progress in Development Studies, 4(2), 156-158.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2003). Chile: political economy of urban development (review). Journal of Economic Geography, 3(4), 453-455. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbg018
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2003). Book review: the exploited child. Progress in Development Studies, 3(1), 90-92.
  • Datta, Kavita, Jones, Gareth A. (2001). Housing and finance in developing countries: invisible issues on research and policy agendas. Habitat International, 25(3), 333-357. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0197-3975(00)00038-2
  • Jones, Gareth A., Varley, Ann (2001). La reconquista del centro histórico: conservación urbana y gentrification en la ciudad de Puebla. Anuario de Espacios Urbanos: Historia, Cultura y Diseño, 8, 137-159.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Datta, Kavita (2000). Enabling markets to work?: housing policy in the 'new' South Africa. International Planning Studies, 5(3), 393-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/713672861
  • Jones, Gareth A., Pisa, Rosaria A. (2000). Public–private partnerships for urban land development in Mexico: a victory for hope versus expectation? Habitat International, 24(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0197-3975(99)00024-7
  • Jones, G. A., Varley, A. (1999). The reconquest of the historic centre: urban conservation and gentrifcation in Puebla, Mexico. Environment and Planning A, 31(9), 1547-1566. https://doi.org/10.1068/a311547
  • Varley, Ann, Jones, Gareth A. (1999). Decentramento o frammentazione?: riflessioni sulla riforma del mercato dei suoli urbani in Messico. Storia Urbana, 23(88/89), 93-117.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Bromley, Rosemary D. F (1999). Investing in conservation: the historic centre in Latin America. Built Environment, 25(3), 196-210.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (1999). La vague des réformes foncières dans le monde. Urbanissimo, (20),
  • Jones, Gareth A. (1998). Comparative policy perspectives on urban land market reform. Land Lines, 10(6).
    • Book
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2009). Youth violence in Latin America: gangs and juvenile justice in perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Datta, Kavita, Jones, Gareth A. (Eds.) (1998). Housing and finance in developing countries. Routledge.
    • Chapter
  • Jones, Gareth A., Corbridge, Stuart (2024). Urban bias. In Dauncey, Emil, Desai, Vandana, Potter, Robert B. (Eds.), The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 439 - 443). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282348-88
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2023). Beyond the city limits: comparison, global urbanism, and the Chicago School of Sociology. In Le Galès, Patrick, Robinson, Jennifer (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies (pp. 33 - 47). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429287961-3
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2017). The geographies of capital in the twenty-first century: inequality, political economy, and space. In Boushey, H, DeLong, J. Bradford, Steinbaum, Marshall (Eds.), After Piketty: the Agenda for Economics and Inequality (pp. 280-303). Harvard University Press.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2017). Street gangs. In Orum, Anthony M. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies . Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2016). The violence of development: guerrillas, gangs, and goondas in perspective. In Grugel, Jean, Hammett, Daniel (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of International Development (pp. 415-431). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-42724-3
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2015). Gangs, guns and the city: urban policy in dangerous places. In Lemanski, Charlotte, Marx, Colin (Eds.), The City in Urban Poverty (pp. 205-226). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367433.0016
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2015). Gentrification, neoliberalism and loss in Puebla, Mexico. In Leese, Loretta, Shin, Hyun Bang, López-Morales, Ernesto (Eds.), Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement (pp. 265-284). Policy Press.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2015). Fremde, Zombies und desorientierte Identität in der Post-Apartheid-Stadt. In Witzgall, Susanne, Stakemeier, Kerstin (Eds.), Fragile Identitäten (pp. 126-138). Diaphanes.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2014). Hecho en Mexico: gangs, identities and the politics of public security. In Hazen, J., Rodgers, Dennis (Eds.), Global Gangs: Street Violence Across the World (pp. 255-280). University of Minnesota. Press.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Corbridge, Stuart (2014). Urban bias. In Desai, Vandana, Potter, Rob (Eds.), The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 286 - 290). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203528983-62
  • Ballard, Richard, Jones, Gareth A. (2014). The sugarcane frontier: governing the production of gated space in KwaZulu-Natal. In Haferburg, Christoph, Huchzermeyer, Marie (Eds.), Urban Governance in Post-apartheid Cities: Modes of Engagement in South Africa's Metropoles (pp. 295-312). E. Schweizerbart and Gebr. Borntraeger.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2012). Homeless People: street children in Mexico. In Smith, Susan J., Elsinga, Marja, Fox O'Mahony, Lorna, Ong, Seow Eng, Wachter, Susan (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home (pp. 138-144). Elsevier (Firm).
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2011). Drugs, violence and insecurity in Mexico. In South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2012 . Routledge.
  • Herrera, Elsa, Jones, Gareth A., Thomas de Benitez, Sarah (2011). Bodies on the line: identity markers among Mexican street youth. In Researching Young People . SAGE Publications.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Ballard, Richard (2011). Dinámicas de inclusión y exclusión en los procesos contemporáneos de gobernanza urbana en Sudáfrica. In Bassols, Mario, Mendoza, Cristobal (Eds.), Gobernanza. Teoría y Prácticas Colectivas (pp. 235-263). Anthropos, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2011). The cultures of the metropolis. In Burdett, Ricky, Sudjic, Deyan (Eds.), Living in the Endless City: an In-Depth and Multidisciplinary Examination of Our Rapidly Urbanizing World (pp. 156-161). Phaidon Press.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2010). Mexico and the war on drugs. In West, Jackie (Ed.), South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2011 . Routledge.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Thomas de Benitez, Sarah (2010). Youth, gender and work on the streets of Mexico. In Chant, Sylvia (Ed.), International Handbook on Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (pp. 195-200). Edward Elgar.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2009). Mean streets: gangs, violence and daily life in Mexico. In Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (Eds.), Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective (pp. 289-315). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2009). Youth violence in Latin America: an overview and agenda for research. In Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (Eds.), Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective (pp. 1-24). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Thomas de Benítez, Sarah (2009). Tales of two or many worlds?: when ‘street’ kids go global. In Wetherell, Margaret (Ed.), Theorizing Identities and Social Action (pp. 75-94). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Moreno-Carranco, Maria (2008). Liminal cities: global spaces, everyday lives. In Valença, Marcio M., Nel, Etienne, Leimgruber, Walter (Eds.), The Global Challenge and Marginalization (pp. 209-225). Nova Science.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2007). Perspectivas polítcas comparativas de la reforma del mercado de la tierra urbana. In Smolka, Martim O., Mullahy, Laura (Eds.), Perspectivas Urbanas: Temas Críticos En Polítcas De Suelo En América Latina (pp. 38-44). Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2007). Prólogo. In Zamorano, Abel Perez (Ed.), Tenencia De la Tierra e Industria Azucarera (pp. ix-xv). Editorial Porrúa.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Corbridge, Stuart (2007). Urban bias. In Desai, Vandana, Potter, Robert B. (Eds.), The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 243 - 247). Hodder Education (Firm).
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2005). Children and development. In Forsyth, Tim (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of International Development (pp. 69-72). Routledge.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2005). Housing policy (Mexico). In Herrick, John M., Stuart, Paul H. (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Social Welfare History in North America (pp. 170-174). SAGE Publications.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2005). Introduction: photography and violence. In DeCesare, Donna (Ed.), Hijos Del Destino: Youth Violence in the Americas . London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2004). Street children. In Forsyth, Tim (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of International Development (pp. 659-660). Routledge.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2004). Bridging the urban-rural divide: what can the urban learn from the rural? Reflections on the case of Mexico. In Zetter, Roger, Hamza, Mohamed (Eds.), Market Economy and Urban Change: Impacts in the Developing World (pp. 123-146). Earthscan Publications Ltd..
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2004). Regularization of land tenure: thinking hard outside the box. In Fernandes, E., Smolka, M. (Eds.), Mercados De Terras Informais e Programas De Regularizacao Fundiaria Na America Latina: Um Manual Para Formuladores De Politicas . Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2004). Slums. In Harrison, Stephan, Pile, Steve, Thrift, N (Eds.), Patterned Ground: Entanglements of Nature and Culture (pp. 190-192). Reaktion Books (Firm).
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2004). The geopolitics of democracy and citizenship in Latin America. In Barnett, Clive, Low, Murray (Eds.), Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation (pp. 161-184). SAGE Publications.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2003). Camels, chameleons, and coyotes: problematising the "histories" of land law reform. In Holder, Jane, Harrison, Carolyn (Eds.), Law and Geography (pp. 169-190). Oxford University Press.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2003). Imaginative geographies of Latin America. In Swanson, Philip (Ed.), The Companion to Latin American Studies (pp. 5-25). Hodder Education (Firm).
  • Jones, Gareth A., Ward, Peter M. (2000). Privatización de la tierra comunal: la reforma ejidal y el desarollo urbano en México. In Fernándes, Edésio (Ed.), Derecho, Espacio Urbano y Medio Ambiente (pp. 143-174). Editorial Dykinson.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2000). Between a rock and a hard place: institutional reform and the performance of land privatization in peri-urban Mexico. In Zoomers, Annelies, van der Haar, Gemma (Eds.), Current Land Policy in Latin America: Regulating Land Tenure Under Neo-Liberalism (pp. 201-226). KIT publications.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2000). The geographies of law and resistance: an example from Mexico. In Direito e Governança: Novas Tendências Da Gestão Urbano-Ambiental e a Reforma Do Setor Público (pp. 29-51). Fundação João Pinheiro.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Pisa, Rosaria A. (1999). Public–private partnerships for urban land development in Mexico: a victory for hope versus expectation? In Payne, Geoffrey (Ed.), Making Common Ground: Public-Private Partnerships in the Provision of Land for Housing (pp. 1-18). Practical Action (Organization).
  • Jones, Gareth A., Datta, Kavita (1998). From self-help to self-finance: the changing focus of urban research and policy. In Datta, Kavita, Jones, Gareth A. (Eds.), Housing and Finance in Developing Countries (pp. 3-25). Routledge.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Mitlin, Diana (1998). Housing finance and NGOs in developing countries. In Datta, Kavita, Jones, Gareth A. (Eds.), Housing and Finance in Developing Countries (pp. 26-43). Routledge.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Drought, Beverley L. (1998). Housing finance for refugees and forced migrants in Russia. In Datta, Kavita, Jones, Gareth A. (Eds.), Housing and Finance in Developing Countries (pp. 136-154). Routledge.
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  • Thomas de Benitez, Sarah, Jones, Gareth A. (2009). Being in public: the multiple childhoods of Mexican 'street' children. (Programme flyer). Economic and Social Research Council Identities and Social Action Programme.
  • Thomas de Benitez, Sarah, Jones, Gareth A. (2008). Youth on the streets. (Briefing note on youth 3). UN Youth Social, Policy and Development Division.
  • Corbridge, Stuart, Jones, Gareth A. (2005). The continuing debate about urban bias: the thesis, its critics, its influence, and implications for poverty reduction. (Research papers in environmental and spatial analysis 99). Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Morgan, Beverley, Gelsthorpe, Verity, Crawley, Heaven, Jones, Gareth A. (2003). Country of origin information: a user and content evaluation. (Home Office research study 271). Home Office.
    • Online resource
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2012). Book review: invisible users: youth in the internet cafés of urban Ghana.
    • Working paper
  • Jones, Gareth A., Rodgers, Dennis (2016). Anthropology and the city: standing on the shoulders of giants? (Working Paper Series 21). Centre for Urban Studies.
  • Jones, Gareth A. (2003). Introduction: urban land markets in transition. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
    • Blog post
  • Jones, Gareth A., Ikemura Amaral, Aiko, Nogueira-Teixeira, Mara Nogueira (19 June 2020) Mixing food with politics: how COVID-19 exposed inequalities in Brazil’s food supply chain. LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Nogueira-Teixeira, Mara Nogueira, Ikemura Amaral, Aiko, Jones, Gareth A. (3 June 2020) The impact of COVID-19 on Brazil’s precarious labour market calls for far-reaching policies like universal basic income. LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Ikemura Amaral, Aiko, Jones, Gareth A., Nogueira, Mara (14 May 2020) Brazil’s so-called invisibles will need more than resilience to redress the unequal impacts of COVID-19. LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog. picture_as_pdf