CALL FOR PAPERS
Practicing and Performing ‘New’ Economic Geography: Method, Theory, Analysis and Impact
Sponsored by Sponsored by the Economic Geography Specialty Group
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Chicago, April 21-25, 2015
Organizers: John R. Bryson, University of Birmingham, UK,
Vida Vanchan, SUNY Buffalo State, US
The sub-discipline of economic geography plays an important role in understanding the complex relationships between space, place and economic activity. The economy is in a constant state of change; new ways of organizing the production of goods and services emerge along with developments in new technology and products. The recent economic downturn has provided many opportunities to explore the economic geographies of recession including regional and organizational adaption and transformation. The emergence of new forms of production technology or operations management is transforming hi-tech manufacturing into ‘advanced’ manufacturing. New forms of global or local production relations have emerged. The practice of economic geography involves many different approaches, methodologies and conceptual approaches – there are perhaps as many economic geographies as there are economic geographers. This session seeks to bring together a set of papers that illustrate the depth, breadth and diversity of economic geography. We are interested in understanding the current state of economic geography through papers that highlight some aspects of practice, performance, method, theory, analysis and impact. Papers are welcome that focus on one or more of these issues. We are not only interested in understanding the contribution economic geography is making to exploring and explaining economic activity (firms, networks, chains, clusters, labor markets, finance, regions, national, global economy etc.), but also in facilitating change.
This session invites theoretical and theoretically-grounded empirical papers that show the richness and diversity of economic geography. Papers can explore established debates or engage with new debates and topics.
Papers may examine topics including, but are not restricted to:
• Theory and method as well as theoretically grounded empirical analysis.
• New methodologies and economic geography.
• Theorizing space, place and economy.
• Economic geography and impact.
• Rethinking, redefining, and reconceptualizing aspects of the economy.
• The on-going evolution of the spatial division of labor.
• Business models and economic geography.
• The impacts of new technologies.
• Studies that explore the economy in particular regional or national settings.
• Understanding new geographies of advanced manufacturing or services.
• Understanding the geographies of emergent economic sectors.
• Economic geographies or recession, regional or organizational adaption.
• Power dynamics and economic geography.
• Contracts, law and economy.
• Energy and other inputs and economic geography.
• Skills and labor markets.
• Financialisation
• Infrastructure
Anyone interested in participating in the session should send an abstract conforming to the requirements of the AAG (see http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers/abstract_guidelines) by October 20, 2014 to John Bryson ([log in to unmask]) and Vida Vanchan ([log in to unmask]).
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