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The Spaces of Global Production: The Territorial Dimensions of Global Production Networks and World City Networks
The DFG- scientific network “The Spaces of Global Production: The Territorial Dimensions of Global Production Networks and World City Networks” connects scholars from Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium to exchange ideas and contribute to debates on the economic geographies of globalisation. Over the past years, theoretical approaches that pay attention to the global and transnational relations between actors engaged in the production of goods and services have been developed. Two prominent relational approaches are the “global production network” approach and the “world city network” approach. Both have gained much traction in economic geography and have been able to explain crucial features of contemporary globalisation. A remaining “blind spot” of these network-based approaches, however, is their impact on regional and urban development in particular places. We will systematically work towards strengthening the currently under-theorised territorial dimension of these network-based conceptualisations.
The “Spaces of Global Production” network’s members are (in alphabetical order):
- Peter Dannenberg, University of Cologne
- Sabine Dörry, LISER, Luxembourg
- Alexander Follmann, University of Cologne
- Anke Hagemann, Technische Universität Berlin
- Jana Kleibert, Leibniz IRS & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Michiel van Meeteren, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
- Stefan Ouma, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
- Sören Scholvin, University of Hannover
Coordination and contact (Dr. Jana Kleibert): jana.kleibert(at)leibniz-irs.de
All the network’s members are involved in various larger research projects that deal with global production networks, world city networks, and place-based transformations in different regions and sectors. During six meetings over the course of three years, the scientific network will serve as a platform that enables the discussion and dissemination of research findings, creates synergies between existing research networks members’ projects, and enables a theorisation at a higher level across the different cases and geographies.
The inaugural meeting took place at the IRS in Berlin and Erkner on April 23-24, 2018 with Prof. Neil Coe (University of Singapore) as our invited guest.
We appreciate funding from the DFG, project number 392362734.
