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CALL FOR PAPERS - 2008 AAG ANNUAL MEETING BOSTON
Session Title: Events, Industrial Governance and the Space Economy
This session aims to build on increasing interest in the role of events
(such as trade fairs or fashion weeks) in industrial governance and the
structure of the space economy. The crowded international calendar of events
is not only a means of product marketing by firms, place promotion by
cities, or social network formation by economic actors. It also represents a
shift in the governance of economic processes as various discourses, places
and intermediaries work to link otherwise disparate economic activities and
create new, transnational circuits of value creation and capture. In this
session we seek papers that explore different aspects the 'event' economy,
such as the role of events in place promotion, inter-city competition, local
and extra-local networks of association and communities of practice. We
particularly welcome papers that examine the economic configuration of the
global event industry or probe the role of events in industry governance -
their influence on the shifting relationship between production, wholesale
and retail businesses; the new inter-firm associations formed around ideas -
such as fashion - rather than (or in addition to) direct supply chain links;
and the implications of these trends for the location of economic activity
and regional fortunes.
Please send your title and abstract, in AAG format, by October 15th to
Wendy Larner ([log in to unmask]) and Sally Weller([log in to unmask] )
Wendy Larner, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
Sally Weller, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Aust.
**** Sponsored by the Economic Geography Specialty Group ****
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