Geographies Of Commodity Chains

Author : Alex Hughes,Suzanne Reimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134301942

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Geographies of Commodity Chains by Alex Hughes,Suzanne Reimer Pdf

Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production, distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each section.

Author : Ben Derudder,Frank Witlox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444351965

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Commodity Chains and World Cities by Ben Derudder,Frank Witlox Pdf

Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks - the world city network framework and the global commodity chain framework. Transnational spatial relations have become a key analytical lens through which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization Brings together contributions of key researchers from different backgrounds and different parts of the world Offers a set of original approaches to the study of the networked geography of globalization

Author : Juliana Mansvelt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781446232255

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Geographies of Consumption by Juliana Mansvelt Pdf

This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides an engaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumption is intimately related to the production of space in everyday life. In Geographies of Consumption Juliana Mansvelt provides readers with a detailed explanation of political-economic and social-cultural perspectives on consumption at different scales. She opens with overview chapters on the history and conceptualisation of consumption and moves on to thematic chapters on consumption spaces; the body and identity; commodity chains; globalization commercial cultures. The text is illustrated throughout with comparative case study-material and features boxes and annotated notes for further reading. A review of consumption from a spatial perspective, this critical analysis of the key debates is the first synoptic overview in the geographic literature. Geographies of Consumption will be widely used in modules in economic and social geography, and should be the core text for those with a focus on consumption

Author : Jennifer Bair
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804759243

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Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research by Jennifer Bair Pdf

Featuring new contributions by leading globalization scholars, this timely volume analyzes the organization, geography, politics, and power dynamics of international trade and production networks understood as global commodity chains.

Author : Gary Gereffi,Miguel Korzeniewicz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313389931

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Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism by Gary Gereffi,Miguel Korzeniewicz Pdf

The current restructuring of the world-economy under global capitalism has further integrated international trade and production. It thus has brought to the fore the key role of commodity chains in the relationships of capital, labor, and states. Commodity chains are most simply defined as the link between successive processes of manufacturing that result in a final product available for individual consumption. Each production site in the chain involves organizing the acquisition of necessary raw materials plus semifinished inputs, the recruitment of labor power and its provisioning, arranging transportation to the next site, and the construction of modes of distribution (via markets and transfers) and consumption. The contributors to this volume explore and elaborate the global commodity chains (GCCs) approach, which reformulates the basic conceptual categories for analyzing varied patterns of global organization and change. The GCC framework allows the authors to pose questions about development issues, past and present, that are not easily handled by previous paradigms and to more adequately forge the macro-micro links between processes that are generally assumed to be discretely contained within global, national, and local units of analysis. The paradigm that GCCs embody is a network-centered, historical approach that probes above and below the level of the nation-state to better analyze structure and change in the contemporary world.

Author : Richard Le Heron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317183518

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Agri-Food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks by Richard Le Heron Pdf

Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention. They are: (1) the established notions of networks and commodity chains that are being revisited by way of critical engagement informed by the insights of in-depth empirical work, (2) the metrics of calculation and institutional embedding that underpin the rise and functionality of governance technologies, (3) the place of regional networking in creating conditions that make possible agri-food producer participation in local provisioning and supply, and (4) the geo-historical dimensions of interconnection and interdependency in the agri-food sphere. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists, economists, business and management academics and geographers to examine a wide range of case studies illustrating various agri-food commodity chains and networks around the world and to discuss how they link globally.

Author : Kieran Donaghy,Arash Beheshtian,Ziye Zhang,Benjamin Brown-Steiner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030785550

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The Co-evolution of Commodity Flows, Economic Geography, and Emissions by Kieran Donaghy,Arash Beheshtian,Ziye Zhang,Benjamin Brown-Steiner Pdf

This book presents extensions to current commodity-flow models to analyze the economic and environmental impacts of recent structural changes, such as fragmentation of production and lengthening supply chains. The extensions enable augmented commodity-flow models to analyze the vulnerability of supply chains and regions to climate change and extreme weather events. The models allow the explicit treatment of trade in intermediate goods; the so-called “new economic geography” behavioral foundations for production and inter-industry and interregional trade; endogenous determination of capital investment and employment; and changes in emissions associated with production, consumption and freight movement. Presenting a modeling framework and simulations that are based on a thirty-year, spatial time-series of inter-industry and interstate trade in the US, this unique book is a valuable resource for regional scientists, economic geographers and transportation modelers, as well as environmental and atmospheric scientists.

Author : Philipp Strobl Andreas Exenberger (Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.).)
Publisher : innsbruck University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783903122239

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Globalization and the City by Philipp Strobl Andreas Exenberger (Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.).) Pdf

The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about “global city”, especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains.

Author : Dorothee Niebuhr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783658132873

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Making Global Value Chains by Dorothee Niebuhr Pdf

This book investigates the recent rise of the market-oriented value chain approach in development policy with a focus on the agro-export sector in the Global South. The research project aims at unveiling the political, social and cultural processes around the circulation of market rationales at the global scale and on the ground. In-depth analyses of two exemplary settings, Peru and Ghana, reveal the extent to which national policies, development programs, laws and academic curricula have adopted a "thinking in terms of value chains" in the last decade. By embracing the perspectives of policymakers, consultants, entrepreneurs and producers, this book provides exciting first-hand insights about the making of markets for scholars and development practitioners alike.

Author : Christina Stringer,Richard B. Le Heron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Agricultural industries
ISBN : 1315566273

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Agri-food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks by Christina Stringer,Richard B. Le Heron Pdf

Author : Juan De Lara
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289581

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Inland Shift by Juan De Lara Pdf

Global goods and the infrastructure of desire -- The spatial politics of Southern California's logistics regime -- Labor and the circuits of capital -- Cyborg labor and the global logistics matrix -- Contesting contingency -- Mapping the American dream -- Land, capital, and race -- Latinx frontiers

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 12469 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780080449104

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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Anonim Pdf

The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in different parts of the world. This groundbreaking project covers every field of human geography and the discipline’s relationships to other disciplines, and is global in scope, involving an international set of contributors. Given its broad, inclusive scope and unique online accessibility, it is anticipated that the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography will become the major reference work for the discipline over the coming decades. The Encyclopedia will be available in both limited edition print and online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/books/ref_works/coming/ Available online on ScienceDirect and in limited edition print format Broad, interdisciplinary coverage across human geography: Philosophy, Methods, People, Social/Cultural, Political, Economic, Development, Health, Cartography, Urban, Historical, Regional Comprehensive and unique - the first of its kind in human geography

Author : Shengjun Zhu,John Pickles,Canfei He
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662536018

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Geographical Dynamics and Firm Spatial Strategy in China by Shengjun Zhu,John Pickles,Canfei He Pdf

This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China’s export-oriented industries. The topics covered are relevant to post-socialist geography, development studies, economics, economic sociology and international studies. It offers academics, international researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in these fields an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in developing countries and emerging economies. It is of particular interest to economic geographers and economic sociologists involved in the growing debates over local clusters, embeddedness, global sourcing and global production, and over the global value chain/global production network. It also appeals to national policymakers, since it directly addresses economic and industrial policy issues, such as industrial competitiveness, regional and national development, industrial and employment restructuring and trade regulation.

Author : Neil M. Coe,Philip F. Kelly,Henry W. C. Yeung
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470943380

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Economic Geography by Neil M. Coe,Philip F. Kelly,Henry W. C. Yeung Pdf

Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction, 2nd Edition tackles major questions of economic life, from the activities of transnational corporations and states, to places of work and consumption. In accessible but sophisticated terms, this book invites students to explore how geographies (location, territory, place and scale) shape both large-scale economic processes and our lived experiences. Throughout this comprehensive text, the authors present contemporary insights from the field of Economic Geography, drawing on examples from across the globe. As students engage with this readable account of the field, they will come away with an understanding of how economic processes are rooted in social, cultural and political realities.

Author : Dennis Conway,Nik Heynen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135986247

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Globalization's Contradictions by Dennis Conway,Nik Heynen Pdf

Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being ‘disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, ‘transformed’ by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, among other disastrous disruptions, are also globalization’s legacy. This collection of geographical treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization on peoples’ lives. Globalizations Contradictions firstly introduces globalization in all its intricacy and contrariness, followed on by substantive coverage of globalization’s dimensions. Other areas that are covered in depth are: globalization’s macro-economic faces globalization’s unruly spaces globalization’s geo-political faces ecological globalization globalization’s cultural challenges globalization from below fair globalization. Globalizations Contradictions is a critical examination of the continuing role of international and supra-national institutions and their involvement in the political economic management and determination of global restructuring. Deliberately, this collection raises questions, even as it offers geographical insights and thoughtful assessments of globalization’s multifaceted ‘faces and spaces.’