Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers·2016·388× cited
Martín Müller, Carolin Schurr
This paper shows that assemblage thinking and actor‐network theory (ANT) have much more to gain from each other than debate has so far conceded. Exploring the conjunctions and disjunctions between the two approaches, it proposes three cross‐fertilisations that have implications for understanding three key processes in our socio‐material world: stabilisation, change and affect. First, the conceptual vocabulary of ANT can enrich assemblage thinking with an explicitly spatial account of the ways in…
productionOpen accessAssemblage (archaeology)Affect (linguistics)VocabularySpace (punctuation)
Journal of Economic Geography·2019·352× cited
Neil M. Coe, Henry Wai‐chung Yeung
Abstract In this framing paper for the special issue, we map significant research on global production networks during the past decade in economic geography and adjacent fields. In line with the core aim of the special issue to push for new conceptual advances, the paper focuses on the central elements of GPN theory to showcase recent rethinking related to the delimiting of global production networks, underlying political-economic drivers, actor-specific strategies and regional/national developm…
productionOpen accessFraming (construction)Conceptual frameworkPoliticsEconomic geography
Review of International Political Economy·2019·271× cited
Mark Dallas, Stefano Ponte, Timothy J. Sturgeon
Power has been a foundational concept in global value chain (GVC) research. Yet, in most GVC scholarship, power is not explicitly defined and is applied as a unitary concept, rather than as having multiple dimensions. Clarifying the concept of power has become particularly urgent in recent years as GVC research has proliferated beyond dyads of transacting firms or firm-state linkages and incorporated other stakeholders and mechanisms such as NGOs, labor unions, standards, norms and conventions. …
productionOpen accessGlobal value chainScholarshipPower (physics)Corporate governance
New Political Economy·2017·207× cited
Frederick W. Mayer, Nicola Phillips
Politics, and by extension states, are marginal in debates about the genesis, evolution and functioning of the global value chain (GVC)-based global economy. We contend here that the core complexity of state agency and state power needs to be much more carefully understood in GVC and related debates, as a basis on which the governance of the evolving GVC world can be properly theorised as revolving around the inseparability of economic and political power. We advance a framework for understandin…
productionOpen accessCorporate governanceOutsourcingPoliticsGlobal value chain
Progress in Human Geography·2015·182× cited
Gillian Rose
This paper addresses how geographers conceptualize cultural artifacts. Many geographical studies of cultural objects continue to depend heavily on an approach developed as part of the ‘new cultural geography’ in the 1980s. That approach examined the cultural politics of representations of place, space and landscape by undertaking close readings of specific cultural objects. Over three decades on, the cultural field (certainly in the Global North) has changed fundamentally, as digital technologie…
productionCultural geographyMeaning (existential)Cultural studiesField (mathematics)
Geopolitics·2023·180× cited
Seth Schindler, Ilias Alami, Jessica DiCarlo et al.
Relations between the US and China have deteriorated to their lowest point since their rapprochement in the 1970s. To make sense of contemporary geopolitics, our objective in this article is two-fold. First, we historically situate contemporary US-China rivalry to conceptualise the Second Cold War (SCW). We argue that in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, both the US and China launched ‘restorative’ political projects that harked back to imagined pasts. These projects are mutually exclusive …
productionOpen accessCentralityCompetition (biology)ChinaProduction (economics)