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Both literatures have emerged as critiques of conventional, state-centric social science interpretations of their subject matters, and they both propose what might be called ‘global network alternatives’. Bringing together contributions of key researchers from human geography, economics, and sociology, the editors take advantage of this parallel to investigate how both models may benefit from each other.
Commodity Chains and World Cities
by Editor: Ben Derudder (Ghent University, Belgium ); Editor: Frank Witlox (Ghent University, Belgium )Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2010-08-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks in this area: the world city network (WCN) framework, in which researchers have studied the emergence of a globalized urban system; and secondly, the global commodity chain (GCC) framework, in which researchers have scrutinized the interconnected functions, operations and transactions through which specific goods are produced, distributed and consumed in a globalized economy.
Table of Contents
| World Cities and Global Commodity Chains: An introduction | |
| World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: Towards a World-Systems' Integration | |
| Global cities in Global Commodity Chains: Exploring the Role of Mexico City in the Geography of Global Economic Governance | |
| City Networks and Commodity Chains: Identifying Global Flows and Local Connections in Ho Chi Minh City | |
| Cities, Material Flows and the Geography of Spatial Interaction: Urban Places in the System of Chains | |
| Integrating World Cities into Production Networks: The Case of Port Cities | |
| Intra-firm and Extra-firm Linkages in the Knowledge Economy: The Case of the Emerging Mega-city Region of Munich | |
| Making Connections: Global Production Networks and World City Networks | |
| Global Inter-city Networks and Commodity Chains: Any Intersections? | |
| Index | |
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