GaWC Annual Lecture 2012 - All welcome
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/lecture.html
Friday 25 May 2012, 1pm-2pm, Loughborough University
Professor Andrew Jones, Birkbeck
Globalization, Cities and the Rise of Global Work
It is widely understood that globalization has dramatically transformed
cities across the planet. However, much of the world city debate has
focused on economic and social transformations within cities along with
analysis of the nature of connections between them. Despite broad
debates about the nature of the ‘space of flows’ and ‘mobilities’, the
world city literature has had relatively little to say about how cities
are key sites that are shaping the globalization of work itself. In
this context, this lecture argues for a theoretical perspective that
takes the globalization of work seriously, and which in so doing enables
an understanding how in today’s world conventional concepts of work as a
form of economic practice, along with its spatiality, require radical
reformulation. Using recent research into the nature of international
youth volunteering, it examines how the concept of ‘global work’
provides new insight into how globalization has transformed the
practices we associate with the term ‘work’, along with the nature of
what we might understand to be a workplace and a labour market. It
furthermore uses this case of youth voluntary work to examine how the
material spaces of world city networks are key influences on the
spatiality of globalized work.
The lecture will be followed by a postgraduate seminar on ‘Practice and
Economic Geography’. Places are limited; please email Dr Sarah Mills
([log in to unmask]) if you wish to attend.
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Michael Hoyler
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Associate Director, Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network
Department of Geography
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1509 222740
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/
International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=13622
Global Urban Analysis http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781849712132/
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