# Matthew Sparke

> Matthew Sparke works as Distinguished Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz. Their published research is indexed in Social Sciences, specifically Urban Studies, across 30 works listed on their ORCID profile. Recent indexed output includes “Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality” (2026) and “On the frontier of party-state capitalism: mapping the geopolitical economies of China’s Greater Bay Area” (2025).

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/researchers/matthew-sparke/](https://selltoscientists.com/researchers/matthew-sparke/)*

**Institution:** University of California, Santa Cruz
**Field:** Social Sciences
**ORCID:** `0000-0001-7253-7681`

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