Call for Papers
SERVICES, MARKETS AND GLOBALIZATION
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
(New Orleans, April 10-14, 2018)
Organizers: Andrew Jones (City, University of London, UK) and James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University, UK)
The centrality of services to the global economy is now taken for granted. Sectors from advertising to accounting, architecture to law, finance to real estate are all fundamental to global trade and capitalist activity. Yet the way markets for global services emerge, are performed, embedded and contested has received less attention. It is now accepted in geographical work on markets that it is essential to unpack the distributed agency (human and non-human) that makes markets. But outside of studies of finance, such thinking has not be applied to service economies. This sessions seeks to explore different ways of theorising and empirical cases of global markets for services. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• How transnational markets for services are creates, coordinated, governed and performed
• The way markets for global services are embedded, translated and/or contested in different geographical contexts
• The way markets for services are made through different technologies (such as models, standards and other forms of calculation)
• The role of global service firms in the control and coordination of markets
• The geographical fixes of global service markets
• The significance of uneven regulatory landscapes in the development of global service markets
• Key practices that constitute and (re)produce global service market formation
If interested in participating please send an abstract conforming to AAG requirements to Andrew Jones ([log in to unmask]) or James Faulconbridge ([log in to unmask]) by 16 October 2017.
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