Call for Papers
The Economic Geography of Creative Industries Global Conference on Economic Geography Date and location: July 24 - 28, 2018, University of Cologne Chair: Chun Yang (Hong Kong Baptist University) Co-Chair: Robert Hassink (Kiel University, Germany) Call for papers During the last decades, economic geographers have become increasingly interested in creative industries, the creative economy, creative cities, as well as the creative class. In addition to this increasing academic interest, testified by several recent special issues in economic geography journals, also policy-makers at several spatial levels (urban, regional, national, as well as supranational) try to find ways how to foster creative industries. Many studies focused both on the economic functions of creative industries, mainly in terms of labor, value-added production, and exports, as well as on their current organizational features. From a geographical perspective, this session aims at two main strands of papers. First, it invites papers exploring the agglomeration and clustering of creative industries, as well as papers explaining the evolution of these creative industry clusters. This strand of papers also deals with labor market issues, project ecologies, temporary clusters, field-configuring events, co-working spaces and creative labs, creativity and knowledge production, and creative cities and creative regions. Secondly, it invites papers analyzing creative industries from a globalization or global production networks' perspective. These papers might deal with TNCs and foreign direct investment and creative industries, strategic coupling and creative industries, the position of creative industry clusters in global production networks, and international migration and creative industries. We welcome both empirical, theoretical, as well as policy-related papers. The focus can be both on creative industries in general or any individual creative industry, such as publishing and literature, performing arts, music, film, video and photography, broadcasting, design, fashion, visual arts, advertising, computer games and interactive media, as well as on creative jobs. Please submit your abstract directly online through the conference website between November 15th 2017 and March 15th 2018: <https://www.gceg2018.com> https://www.gceg2018.com. For any other inquiries, feel free to contact Chun Yang ( <mailto:chuny...@hkbu.edu.hk> chuny...@hkbu.edu.hk) or Robert Hassink ( <mailto:hass...@geographie.uni-kiel.de> hass...@geographie.uni-kiel.de). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- Robert Hassink Professor of Economic Geography Dept. of Geography, Kiel University Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 9 24098 Kiel, Germany tel. 0049-431-880-2951 fax 0049-431-880-5290 e-mail: <mailto:hass...@geographie.uni-kiel.de> hass...@geographie.uni-kiel.de <http://www.wigeo.uni-kiel.de/en/People/robert-hassink> http://www.wigeo.uni-kiel.de/en/People/robert-hassink Visiting Professor in the School of Geography, Politics & Sociology (Centre for Urban & Regional Development Studies (CURDS)), Newcastle University, UK <http://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/people/visiting.htm> http://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/people/visiting.htm ResearchGate Profile: Robert Hassink <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Hassink> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Hassink Google Scholar Profile: Robert Hassink <http://scholar.google.de/citations?user=FtyhWG0AAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao> http://scholar.google.de/citations?user=FtyhWG0AAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao Publons Profile: Robert Hassink https://publons.com/author/1231174/robert-hassink#profile P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
