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Call for Papers Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG), Cologne, July 24-28 2018 Production networks and development in an era of polycentric trade Organisers: Khalid Nadvi (University of Manchester, UK) and Rory Horner (University of Manchester, UK) Global production networks, and related global value chains, analysis has made valuable insights into the linkages that transform raw materials into final products and services, illustrating how value is created, and also differentially captured. A common, and arguably dominant, perspective amongst GPN and GVC scholars and policymakers has been an implicit focus on global trade involving North-South flows, stretching from initial stages of production in the global South to end markets in the global North. Now, however, whether it be the prominence of the global South in manufacturing exports, its growing share of consumption or the fact that the dominant trade direction is now South-South rather than South-North, considerable change is afoot. Rather than emphasizing North-South oriented value chains/production networks, contemporary trade involves overlapping, multiple production networks oriented towards different end markets – domestic, regional and global – across both global North and South. This session invites papers that explore shifting geographies of trade and which consider the existence of multiple, and often overlapping value chains and production networks, which include those targeted towards end markets in the global South. Topics could include, but are not limited to: · Conceptualising polycentric production networks · Domestic and Regional, as well as global, end markets · New lead firms · Standards in Southern end markets · Network segmentation, switching and diversification · Development strategies and outcomes (economic, social, environmental) across multiple value chains Please submit your abstract at https://www.gceg2018.com/nc/call-for-sessions-and-papers/submit-an-abstract.html and select this session (‘Production networks and development in an era of polycentric trade’) as your session choice, from now until 15 March 2018. We will finalise acceptance of abstracts before the end of March 2018. For any inquiries, please contact: Khalid Nadvi ([log in to unmask]) Rory Horner ([log in to unmask]) Rory Horner| Lecturer, ESRC Future Research Leader & Hallsworth Research Fellow | The Global Development Institute | School of Environment, Education and Development | Arthur Lewis Building, 2.027 | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13 9PL |www.gdi.manchester.ac.uk<https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=LrKT4gzi6NxgsDCwUxGwnTaWIWUKhAc8hLQgLBxZl8xBKYvGP97TCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AdwB3AHcALgBnAGQAaQAuAG0AYQBuAGMAaABlAHMAdABlAHIALgBhAGMALgB1AGsA&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.gdi.manchester.ac.uk> Recent publications: Horner, R., S. Schindler, D. Haberly and Y. Aoyama (2018) Globalisation, uneven development and the North-South 'big switch'<https://academic.oup.com/cjres/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cjres/rsx026/4819300>, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsx026 Horner, R. and D. Hulme (2018) From international development to global development: new geographies of twenty-first century global development<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dech.12379/epdf>, Development and Change, DOI: 10.1111/dech.12379 Horner, R. and K. Nadvi (2017) Global value chains and the rise of the global South: unpacking twenty-first century polycentric trade<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12180/full>, Global Networks, DOI: 10.1111/glob.12180