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Stretching Global Production Networks: The International Second-hand Clothing Trade
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In this paper, a second-hand trade network is investigated and the societal, network and territorial embeddedness of GPNs are investigated illuminating how there are coordinated and non-integrated patterns of trade.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 97 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Clothing & Socially necessary labour time.read more
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Globalizing regional development: aglobal production networks perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the strategic coupling of the global production networks of transnational corporations and regional economies which ultimately drives regional development through the processes of value creation, enhancement and capture.
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Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development
TL;DR: Brennan as mentioned in this paper argues that poststructuralism's infinitely interchangeable metaphors of dispersal: decentered subjects, nomadism, ambivalence, the supplement, rhizomatic identity, and the constructed self can be traced back to the rise of a neoliberalism which commoditized otherness and stripped away the buffers of the welfare state.
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Global production networks, labour and development
Neil M. Coe,Martin Hess +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a small but growing body of research explores the connections between global production networks, labour and development, and the potential for worker agency within shifting global production network structures, asserting that such agency is shaped both by relations within production networks and territorial institutional systems.
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Sustainability governance of chains and networks: a review and future outlook
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the extent to which sustainability governance has been integrated into the literature on sustainable chains and networks, concluding that the literature has not adequately conceptualised distinct modes of sustainability governance.
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Structure of the global plastic waste trade network and the impact of China’s import Ban
Chao Wang,Longfeng Zhao,Longfeng Zhao,Ming K. Lim,Ming K. Lim,Wei-Qiang Chen,John W. Sutherland +6 more
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the spatiotemporal evolution of the global plastic waste trade networks and evaluated the direct and indirect impacts of China's plastic waste import ban on the GPWTNs.
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We Have Never Been Modern
TL;DR: This article argued that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology, which allowed the formidable expansion of the Western empires.
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The Limits to Capital
TL;DR: The Limits to Capital as mentioned in this paper is a theory of capital that links a general Marxian theory of financial and geographical crises with the incredible turmoil now being experienced in world markets, and provides one of the best theoretical guides to the contradictory forms found in the historical and geographical dynamics of capitalist development.
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Global production networks and the analysis of economic development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework for the analysis of economic integration and its relation to the asymmetries of economic and social development, which is more adequate to the exigencies and consequences of globalization than has traditionally been the case in development studies.
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Global production networks: realizing the potential
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of one interpretive framework (the global production networks (GPN) perspective) for analysing the global economy and its impacts on territorial development is evaluated.
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Governance and Trade in Fresh Vegetables: The Impact of UK Supermarkets on the African Horticulture Industry
Catherine Dolan,John Humphrey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the role of large retailers in structuring the production and processing of fresh vegetables exported from Africa, and the control over the fresh vegetables trade exercised by UK supermarkets has clear consequences for inclusion and exclusion of producers and exporters of differing types.