Commodity Chains and World Cities
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Beschreibung
Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which tostudy the geographies of contemporary globalization. This bookassesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the mostnotable analytical frameworks - the world city network frameworkand the global commodity chain framework.
* Transnational spatial relations have become a key analyticallens through which to study the geographies of contemporaryglobalization
* Brings together contributions of key researchers from differentbackgrounds and different parts of the world
* Offers a set of original approaches to the study of thenetworked geography of globalization
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Ben Derudder
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"The Global Commodity Chain framework looks at the interconnectedfunctions, operations, and transactions through which specificcommodities are produced, distributed, and consumed. The purposehere is to assess the possible cross-fertilization of the two inorder to strengthen the critique of conventional state-centricsocial science that both engage in separately. Contributors whosedisciplines are not revealed - presumably economists andgeographers like the editors - consider such topics as exploringthe role of Mexico City in the geography of global economicgovernance, urban places in the system of chains, and intra-firmand extra-firm linkages in the knowledge economy as exemplified bythe emerging mega-city where Munich once stood." (Reference andResearch Book News, February 2011)
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