Collab

The Sparke Collab is a collaboratory rather than a traditional scientific laboratory.  It names an ongoing intellectual process of collaboration, deliberation and shared support with students and advisees.  The thematic topics that we address in the collab range from global health, neoliberalism and regional educational development to global security, geopolitics and geoeconomics.  Individual contributions from collaborators focus on issues as varied as venture capitalism, transnational political movements, health citizenship, access to medicines, farmworker health, global cities, traffic safety, AI, borders, biopolitics, and drones. But what we all share is a commitment to keep learning from and with each other in an open-ended way.

current & Recent Advisee PUBLICATIONS & Reports

2025, GCH 190 Task Force report, Cultivando Futuros: Educational Pathways, Workforce Opportunities, and Health-Related Careers in Farmworker Communities, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VSHsyZKIcuS_9ZPLhaHrb61-o61wHPtM/view?usp=sharing

2024, Sarah Cheikhali, Ingy Higazy, Mark Howard, Henry McLaughlin, Gabriela Segura, Matthew Sparke & Lucia Vitale, “Alternative Archives: Researching Politics with Chunks of Reality,” Politics, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02633957241292492

2024, GCH 190 Task Force report, California Farmworker Vulnerabilities: Community Health Challenges in a Changing Climate, UC Santa Cruz: GCH 190 Task Force Report, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_mjSVxPao-z8d9dh14M-iCLz9KmLA-0E/view

2024, Higazy, I. “Infrastructural (im) mobility: Urban maritime development in the Suez Canal Zone and Marseille.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241302233

2024, Shipton, L., & Vitale, L. Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Avoidance in Global Health. Social Science & Medicine, 117274.

2024, Fischer, S. E., Vitale, L., Agutu, A. L., & Kavanagh, M. M.  Intellectual Property and the Politics of Public Good during COVID-19: Framing Law, Institutions, and Ideas during TRIPS Waiver Negotiations at the WTO. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 49(1), 9-42. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37522338/

2024, Howard M. The rapacious ambivalence of VC investment: Venture capital, value capture, and the valorization of crisis. Finance and Society. Published online 2024:1-24. doi:10.1017/fas.2024.1

2024, Howard, M. Book Review: Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. Review of Radical Political Economics, https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134241247885

2023, Howard, M.  “Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?” (July 2023) Review of Radical Political Economics, https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134231183739

2023, Matthew Sparke, Edwina Malmberg & Ted Malpass, “Bio-Pharma Hub Development in Global Production Networks: Contrasting State Policies and Conjunctural Value Strategies,” Area, Development and PolicyDOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2216258

2023, Matthew Sparke & Orly Levy, “Immunizing Against Access? Philanthro-Capitalist COVID Vaccines and the Preservation of Patent Monopolies,” in The Routledge Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism, New York: Routledge, eds. Katharyne Mitchell and Polly Pallister-Wilkins.

2022,  Ingy Higazy, “The Violence of Memory and Movement: Reading Cairo from its Ring Road” p.105-120 https://doi.org/10.4000/ema.14759 (November 2022)

2022, Sara Cheikhali,  “The Spatial Antecedents for Drone Governance in Afghanistan” –Human Geography, 
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19427786221135600

2022, Howard, Mark. “The Necropolice Economy: Mapping Biopolitical Priorities and Human Expendability in the Time of COVID-19” Societies 12, no. 1: 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12010002

2022, Matthew Sparke & Orly Levy, “Competing responses to global inequalities in access to COVID vaccines:  Vaccine Diplomacy and Vaccine Charity Versus Vaccine Liberty,” Clinical Infectious Diseases, 75, 1: S86-92, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac361

2022, Matthew Sparke &  Lucia Vitale, “COVID’s Co-Pathogenesis,” Syndemic Magazine, Issue 1, February 14.

2022, Matthew Sparke & Orly Levy, “Competing responses to global inequalities in access to COVID vaccines:  Vaccine Diplomacy and Vaccine Charity Versus Vaccine Liberty,” Clinical Infectious Diseases, 75, 1: S86-92, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac361

2021, Segura-Ballar, G. “Defending “Western” Values: Reactionary Neoliberalism in the Americas.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 23(1), 7. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol23/iss1/7/

2021, Aarushi Saharan, Manya Balanchander, & Matthew Sparke “Sharing the Burden of Treatment Navigation: Social Work and the Experiences of Unhoused Women in Accessing Health Services in Santa Cruz,” Social Work in Health Care. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2021.1986457

2020, Rehrig, Jessica H., Lucia Vitale, Divya L. Padmanabhan, Sharmeen Jaffry, Jane Suh, AnneMarie Tomosky, and Christopher Boni. “Evaluating medication habits in medical mission patients: A cross-sectional study.” Cureus 12, no. 9.