Dear all,
AAG 2005 Call for Papers
THE POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF INWARD INVESTMENT
Co-sponsored by the Economic Geography Specialty Group and the Political Geography Specialty Group
Denver, Colorado, 5-9 April 2005
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/call_For_Papers/call_for_papers1.html
Organizers: Nicholas Phelps, School of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom, [log in to unmask]
Andrew Wood, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States, [log in to unmask]
Recent work in economic geography has emphasized the multi-scalar nature of economic activity and begun to trace the complex networks that link economic interests and processes at a variety of geographic scales.
Inward investment would seem to provide a particularly fertile vehicle for examining these linkages. Yet to this point studies of inward investment have tended to fix on a particular geographic scale. At the international level work has focused on the changing pattern of FDI stocks and flows, FDI in relation to neo-liberalism or the dynamics of FDI in particular globalizing sectors. At the local scale studies have examined the economic and political impact of inward investment on particular local and regional economies. In this session we want to bring together these two bodies of work and start to examine more closely the various ways in which inward investment serves to link economic interests and processes across geographic scales and how we might best theorize these linkages.
Possible topics here might include:
The political coalitions (at various scales) that sustain inward investment and inward investment policy
Neo-liberal discourse and local and regional policy
Territorial ideologies and inward investment
Theorizing scale and inter-scalar relations in the context of inward investment
Empirical studies of the complex geographies of the impacts of inward investment
Please send expressions of interest to either one of the organizers by 20 September 2004
Dr. Michael Samers
Secretary, Economic Geography Research Group, RGS-IBG
Director of Masters Programmes
School of Geography
University of Nottingham
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