Hello,
Please find attached my abstract for the conference.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Gale Raj Reichert
On 1/27/10, Neil Coe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers
> (RGS-IBG)
> Conference 2010, 1-3 September 2010, London
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Global Production Networks, Labour and Development
> Organisers: Neil Coe (University of Manchester), Martin Hess
> (University of Manchester) and Marina Prieto-Carrón (University of
> Portsmouth)
>
> Sponsored by EGRG (Economic Geography Research Group) and DARG (The
> Developing Areas Research Group)
>
> Economic geography research has a rich tradition of analysing the
> global economy and the places and spaces connected to it or excluded
> from it, but often the dominant geographical focus has been the advanced
> and emerging economies, with comparatively little theoretical and
> empirical attention paid to the Global South. Development geography and
> development studies, on the other hand, have by and large followed
> different epistemologies and hence there was not much of a real
> connection between these literatures. The Global Production Networks
> (GPN) approach and related network concepts could arguably bridge this
> gap by mobilising a relational concept of space and both its material
> and metaphorical production. We consider it important for
> non-reductionist understandings of development to draw from political
> economy as well as from more postmodern conceptualisations of culture,
> difference and meaning as deployed for instance in the post-development
> literature. While providing useful analytical frameworks, GPN and
> cognate approaches have hitherto tended to marginalise some important
> aspects of development, one of which is a much more explicit recognition
> of labour agency and the livelihood strategies of workers and
> households. In this context, there is a need to unpack ‘labour’ in
> GPN analysis and to differentiate between various groups of workers and
> their agency in various spatial and temporal contexts.
>
> We will have two sessions that theoretically, methodologically and
> empirically address the existing and perceived gaps in our knowledge by
> exploring the following issues:
>
> ● The potentials and limits of GPN research to integrate different
> epistemologies prevalent in economic geography, labour geography and
> (post-) development studies.
> ● The centrality of labour for global production networks through an
> enhanced dialogue between GPN research, labour and development
> geography.
> ● Understanding the agency of workers in GPNs under the conditions of
> neoliberalism and globalisation.
> ● Re-addressing the lack of attention to gender issues in GPN studies
> and recognizing the extent and significance of reproductive labour.
> ● Investigating GPNs from the “bottom up” starting with some of
> the diverse groups of workers in the Global South.
> ● The ways in which GPNs link and alter the nature of labour markets
> in the Global North and Global South.
> ● The impact GPNs have on the livelihoods of peripheral workers.
> ● The possibilities for social upgrading in GPN.
> ● The livelihood strategies of workers and households included in and
> excluded from GPNs.
>
> Interested people need to submit 250 words abstracts to us by January
> 31st 2010. We also welcome enquiries and ideas.
> Neil Coe ([log in to unmask]); Martin Hess,
> ([log in to unmask]); Marina Prieto-Carrón,
> ([log in to unmask])
>
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Ms. Gale Raj Reichert
PhD Candidate 2010
Institute for Development Policy & Management
School of Environment and Development
University of Manchester
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