Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe.
Proposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geography
Develops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global production
Draws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industries
Makes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement
John Pickles is Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His publications include A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World (2004), Globalization and Regionalization in Post-socialist Economies: the Common Economic Spaces of Europe (edited, 2009), and Towards Better Work: Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains (co-edited with A. Rossi and A Luinstra, 2014).
Adrian Smith is Professor of Human Geography and Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. Editor-in-Chief of the journal European Urban and Regional Studies , Dr. Smith has authored and co-edited five books on post-socialist Europe, including Domesticating Neo-Liberalism: Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Cities (with A. Stenning, A. Rochovská, and D. '6;wi?tek, Wiley, 2010).
Robert Begg is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Regional Planning at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Milan Bu?ek is Professor and Head of the Department Public Administration and Regional Developmente at the University of Economics in Bratislava.
Poli Roukova is a Senior Research Fellow in Economic and Social Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Rudolf Pástor is Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department Public Administration and Regional Developmente at the University of Economics in Bratislava.
Autorentext
Zusammenfassung
Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe.
Leseprobe
Preface and Acknowledgements
Articulations of Capital weaves together three primary threads of conceptual and empirical research. First, it is concerned with the geographies of contemporary economic change, particularly with the ways in which late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century rounds of globalization have been scripted in terms of post-national spatial formations. As economic geographers we are, first and foremost, concerned with the ways in which what Peter Dicken calls "the global shift" is variously scripted through spatialized concepts such as footloose capital, slippery space, chain dynamics and network forms of integration. These emerging geographies and scriptings have important implications for the ways in which we understand contemporary spatial divisions of labour and the regional futures they portend, particularly for the employed and unemployed in communities throughout Europe.
Second, the book is grounded in the geographies of global value chains and global production networks. Each of these bodies of research - in conversation with each other - has opened up new ways of understanding the changing social composition and geographies of the global economy. We are particularly interested in the ways in which the study of inter-firm chains and networks enable and limit possibilities for thinking about capital-labour relations in a globalizing economy and their effects on the structures and practices of regional production systems. We focus on the detailed practices of the social economy in order to unpack chain and network analytics and the emerging multiplication of labour's forms under contemporary global capitalism.
Third, this is a work of methodology and social theory. The book makes three related epistemological moves. In the first, we are committed to regional analysis, grounded theory and actually occurring economic practices. The result is recognition of the value and necessity of abstract concepts, but with a deep suspicion of the generic concept divorced from the specificities of the concrete. Ours is a regional analysis that seeks to practise what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari called "subtraction", stepping down a level to the constitutive elements of any particular concept. In this sense, Articulations of Capital is an economic geography of context and conjuncture, and the multiplicities of opportunities and constraints they allow. In the second, we develop a theory of the global and regional economy in which our focus is increasingly on the multiplication of labour and its corresponding spatial divisions. Here we explore the ways in which the expansion of global production networks and the integration of the apparel industry in East-Central Europe was one way in which new multiplications of labour were elaborated in the context of transformations to post-socialism. In the third epistemological move, we de-centre the geographies of European economic transformation by gradually refocusing our analysis of post-socialism away from its more common passive rendering (as a region to which external forces impose agendas) to one in which we interrogate post-socialism in terms of its dynamic and productive capacities and effects in shapin…
Proposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geography
Develops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global production
Draws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industries
Makes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement
John Pickles is Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His publications include A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World (2004), Globalization and Regionalization in Post-socialist Economies: the Common Economic Spaces of Europe (edited, 2009), and Towards Better Work: Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains (co-edited with A. Rossi and A Luinstra, 2014).
Adrian Smith is Professor of Human Geography and Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. Editor-in-Chief of the journal European Urban and Regional Studies , Dr. Smith has authored and co-edited five books on post-socialist Europe, including Domesticating Neo-Liberalism: Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Cities (with A. Stenning, A. Rochovská, and D. '6;wi?tek, Wiley, 2010).
Robert Begg is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Regional Planning at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Milan Bu?ek is Professor and Head of the Department Public Administration and Regional Developmente at the University of Economics in Bratislava.
Poli Roukova is a Senior Research Fellow in Economic and Social Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Rudolf Pástor is Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department Public Administration and Regional Developmente at the University of Economics in Bratislava.
Autorentext
John Pickles is Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His publications include A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World (2004), Globalization and Regionalization in Post-socialist Economies: the Common Economic Spaces of Europe (edited, 2009), and Towards Better Work: Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains (co-edited with A. Rossi and A Luinstra, 2014).
Adrian Smith is Professor of Human Geography and Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. Editor-in-Chief of the journal European Urban and Regional Studies, Dr. Smith has authored and co-edited five books on post-socialist Europe, including Domesticating Neo-Liberalism: Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Cities (with A. Stenning, A. Rochovská, and D. Swiatek, Wiley, 2010).
Robert Begg is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Regional Planning at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Milan Bucek is Professor and Head of the Department Public Administration and Regional Developmente at the University of Economics in Bratislava.
Poli Roukova is a Senior Research Fellow in Economic and Social Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Rudolf Pástor is Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department Public Administration and Regional Developmente at the University of Economics in Bratislava.
Zusammenfassung
Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe.
- Proposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geography
- Develops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global production
- Draws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industries
- Makes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement
Leseprobe
Preface and Acknowledgements
Articulations of Capital weaves together three primary threads of conceptual and empirical research. First, it is concerned with the geographies of contemporary economic change, particularly with the ways in which late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century rounds of globalization have been scripted in terms of post-national spatial formations. As economic geographers we are, first and foremost, concerned with the ways in which what Peter Dicken calls "the global shift" is variously scripted through spatialized concepts such as footloose capital, slippery space, chain dynamics and network forms of integration. These emerging geographies and scriptings have important implications for the ways in which we understand contemporary spatial divisions of labour and the regional futures they portend, particularly for the employed and unemployed in communities throughout Europe.
Second, the book is grounded in the geographies of global value chains and global production networks. Each of these bodies of research - in conversation with each other - has opened up new ways of understanding the changing social composition and geographies of the global economy. We are particularly interested in the ways in which the study of inter-firm chains and networks enable and limit possibilities for thinking about capital-labour relations in a globalizing economy and their effects on the structures and practices of regional production systems. We focus on the detailed practices of the social economy in order to unpack chain and network analytics and the emerging multiplication of labour's forms under contemporary global capitalism.
Third, this is a work of methodology and social theory. The book makes three related epistemological moves. In the first, we are committed to regional analysis, grounded theory and actually occurring economic practices. The result is recognition of the value and necessity of abstract concepts, but with a deep suspicion of the generic concept divorced from the specificities of the concrete. Ours is a regional analysis that seeks to practise what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari called "subtraction", stepping down a level to the constitutive elements of any particular concept. In this sense, Articulations of Capital is an economic geography of context and conjuncture, and the multiplicities of opportunities and constraints they allow. In the second, we develop a theory of the global and regional economy in which our focus is increasingly on the multiplication of labour and its corresponding spatial divisions. Here we explore the ways in which the expansion of global production networks and the integration of the apparel industry in East-Central Europe was one way in which new multiplications of labour were elaborated in the context of transformations to post-socialism. In the third epistemological move, we de-centre the geographies of European economic transformation by gradually refocusing our analysis of post-socialism away from its more common passive rendering (as a region to which external forces impose agendas) to one in which we interrogate post-socialism in terms of its dynamic and productive capacities and effects in shapin…
Titel
Articulations of Capital
Untertitel
Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations
Autor
EAN
9781118632888
ISBN
978-1-118-63288-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
10.12.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
12.07 MB
Anzahl Seiten
272
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch
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