Call for papers - 4th GCEG

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

Call for papers

Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography, Oxford, 19-22 August 2015
http://www.gceg2015.org/

Global Production Economies
Sponsored by the Global Production Networks Research Centre at the National 
University of Singapore (GPN@NUS http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/)

The Global Production Network (GPN) approach is a useful analytical tool for 
economic geographers seeking to unpack the networked nature of the global 
economy. The heuristic analytical framework has, however, been criticized by 
some commentators as ignoring fundamental capitalist imperatives and being too 
all-encompassing to retain explanatory power. Important dimensions such as 
finance and environment are also not fully incorporated into the original 
framework. Methodologically, the emphasis on micro-scale processes and "ties 
and networks" creates difficulties for validating the GPN framework empirically 
other than through qualitative case studies. A convergence of quantitative 
analyses and case study approaches is arguably required to mitigate the 
potential blind spots of micro-scale analyses and to enhance the GPN 
framework's explanatory power.

This theme welcomes submissions on topics including:


· Theoretical foundations of GPN analysis

§  GPNs and financial institutions (including global financial networks)

§  GPNs and environmental economic geographies

§  GPNs, the state, and politics

§  GPNS, labour and the labour process

§  GPNs, consumption, and the market

§  GPNs and even development

§  Alternative conceptualizations of GPNs

· Developing GPN methodologies

§  Strengths and weaknesses of case study approaches

§  Methods of mapping and visualizing ties and networks

§  Quantitative analyses: methods, validity and reliability

§  Evolutionary approaches to GPNs

Deadline for abstract submission: 30th April 2015

Please contact Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) 
for further details and the submission of abstract.



Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html
Associate Editor: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
GPN@NUS
http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/

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Call for papers - 4th GCEG

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Major theme at the Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography, Oxford, 
19-22 August 2015
http://www.gceg2015.org/

Global Production Economies
Sponsored by the Global Production Networks Research Centre at the National 
University of Singapore (GPN@NUS http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/)

The Global Production Network (GPN) approach is a useful analytical tool for 
economic geographers seeking to unpack the networked nature of the global 
economy. The heuristic analytical framework has, however, been criticized by 
some commentators as ignoring fundamental capitalist imperatives and being too 
all-encompassing to retain explanatory power. Important dimensions such as 
finance and environment are also not fully incorporated into the original 
framework. Methodologically, the emphasis on micro-scale processes and "ties 
and networks" creates difficulties for validating the GPN framework empirically 
other than through qualitative case studies. A convergence of quantitative 
analyses and case study approaches is arguably required to mitigate the 
potential blind spots of micro-scale analyses and to enhance the GPN 
framework's explanatory power.

This theme welcomes submissions on topics including:


· Theoretical foundations of GPN analysis

§  GPNs and financial institutions (including global financial networks)

§  GPNs and environmental economic geographies

§  GPNs, the state, and politics

§  GPNs, labour and the labour process

§  GPNs, consumption, and the market

§  GPNs and uneven development

§  Alternative conceptualizations of GPNs

· Developing GPN methodologies

§  Strengths and weaknesses of case study approaches

§  Methods of mapping and visualizing ties and networks

§  Quantitative analyses: methods, validity and reliability

§  Evolutionary approaches to GPNs

Deadline for abstract submission: 30th April 2015

Please contact Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) 
for further details and the submission of abstract.



Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html
Associate Editor: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
GPN@NUS
http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/

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Re: Call for papers - 4th GCEG

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography, Oxford, 19-23 August 2015
http://www.gceg2015.org/

Global Production Economies
Sponsored by the Global Production Networks Research Centre at the National 
University of Singapore (GPN@NUS http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/)

The Global Production Network (GPN) approach is a useful analytical tool for 
economic geographers seeking to unpack the networked nature of the global 
economy. The heuristic analytical framework has, however, been criticized by 
some commentators as ignoring fundamental capitalist imperatives and being too 
all-encompassing to retain explanatory power. Important dimensions such as 
finance and environment are also not fully incorporated into the original 
framework. Methodologically, the emphasis on micro-scale processes and "ties 
and networks" creates difficulties for validating the GPN framework empirically 
other than through qualitative case studies. A convergence of quantitative 
analyses and case study approaches is arguably required to mitigate the 
potential blind spots of micro-scale analyses and to enhance the GPN 
framework's explanatory power.

This theme welcomes submissions on topics including:


· Theoretical foundations of GPN analysis

§  GPNs and financial institutions (including global financial networks)

§  GPNs and environmental economic geographies

§  GPNs, the state, and politics

§  GPNs, labour and the labour process

§  GPNs, consumption, and the market

§  GPNs and uneven development

§  Alternative conceptualizations of GPNs

· Developing GPN methodologies

§  Strengths and weaknesses of case study approaches

§  Methods of mapping and visualizing ties and networks

§  Quantitative analyses: methods, validity and reliability

§  Evolutionary approaches to GPNs

Deadline for abstract submission: 30th April 2015

Please contact Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) 
for further details and the submission of abstract.




Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html
Associate Editor: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
GPN@NUS
http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/

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CFP - AAG Remaking the Gloabl Economy

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2016 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 29 
March to 2 April 2016

Remaking the Global Economy

Organisers:
Karen Lai and Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore)

Sponsored by:
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Global Production Networks Centre at the National University of Singapore 
(GPN@NUS)

We invite papers that addresses the theme of 'Remaking the Global Economy'. In 
conjunction with paper sessions, there will be a special panel discussion on 
this topic. Confirmed panellists so far include: Alex Hughes (Newcastle 
University), Andrew Jones (City University London), Andrés Rodríguez-Pose 
(London School of Economics) and Michael Storper (London School of Economics).

Whether from the perspectives of production networks, finance, labour or state 
institutions, economic geographers have made substantive contributions to 
understanding globalization as an uneven, differentiated and dynamic process. 
In particular, a strong and growing body of literature has emerged over the 
last decade in economic geography and cognate disciplines that uses a global 
production networks (GPN) framework to investigate and explain economic 
globalization and regional development. Building on earlier Global Commodity 
Chain (GCC) and Global Value Chain (GVC) approaches in economic sociology and 
development studies, GPN research has made steady progress in theoretical as 
well as empirical terms and produced sophisticated analyses of socio-economic 
development at scales ranging from the global to the local. However, the same 
dynamic character of global economic change also compels us to look outward and 
forward to explore new frontiers of global economic shifts and developmental 
outcomes.  This series of themed sessions and panel(s) will explore dynamic 
shifts in global production networks (broadly defined) along five key domains: 
firms, finance, consumption, state and labour.

We encourage empirically or theoretically informed paper submissions that 
reflect on these five domains. Research questions and issues could include (but 
are not limited to):


* To what extent have there been global shifts in corporate strategies 
and evolution of production networks of firms over the past decade? Are these 
shifts sector specific?

* To what extent are shifting geographies of demand (e.g. growing 
middle class in Asia and Latin America) shaping global dynamics of production, 
trade and services?

* How are financial and business services reshaping the production 
networks of firms and processes of capitalist market formation?

* What are the impacts of new financial actors and networks such as 
sovereign wealth funds and venture capital on the reformulation of corporate 
strategies and remaking of production networks?

* How do we conceptualize changing power relations amongst 
nation-states, firms and non-firm actors, and what are the implications for 
national and global governance?

* What are the roles and impacts of small and medium enterprises in 
global production networks and how do they vary across different industries and 
regions?

* To what extent are changing labour standards reshaping production 
networks governance and what are their developmental impacts?

* How are protocols and institutional frameworks such as product 
certification, environmental standards and international governance structures 
reshaping corporate strategies, economic relationships and outcomes?

* How are non-state and non-firm actors reshaping the spatiality and 
territorialisation of global economic processes?

Please send expressions of interests/queries and abstracts (of not more than 
250 words) to Karen Lai (karen...@nus.edu.sg) or 
Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) by 30 September 
2015. The AAG website (http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/about_the_meeting) 
provides more information about the annual meeting.


Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS:
http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/
Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html


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CFP - AAG Remaking the Gloabl Economy

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2016 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 29 
March to 2 April 2016

Remaking the Global Economy

Organizers:
Karen Lai and Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore)

Sponsored by:
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Global Production Networks Centre at the National University of Singapore 
(GPN@NUS)

We invite papers that address the theme of 'Remaking the Global Economy'. In 
conjunction with paper sessions, there will be a special panel discussion on 
this topic. Confirmed panelists include: Alex Hughes (Newcastle University), 
Andrew Jones (City University London), Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (London School of 
Economics), Eric Sheppard (UCLA), and Michael Storper (London School of 
Economics).

Whether from the perspectives of production networks, finance, labor or state 
institutions, economic geographers have made substantive contributions to 
understanding globalization as an uneven, differentiated and dynamic process. 
In particular, a strong and growing body of literature has emerged over the 
last decade in economic geography and cognate disciplines that uses a global 
production networks (GPN) framework to investigate and explain economic 
globalization and regional development. Building on earlier Global Commodity 
Chain (GCC) and Global Value Chain (GVC) approaches in economic sociology and 
development studies, GPN research has made steady progress in theoretical as 
well as empirical terms and produced sophisticated analyses of socio-economic 
development at scales ranging from the global to the local. However, the same 
dynamic character of global economic change also compels us to look outward and 
forward to explore new frontiers of global economic shifts and developmental 
outcomes.  This series of themed sessions and panel(s) will explore dynamic 
shifts in global production networks (broadly defined) along five key domains: 
firms, finance, consumption, state and labor.

We encourage empirically or theoretically informed paper submissions that 
reflect on these five domains. Research questions and issues could include (but 
are not limited to):


* To what extent have there been global shifts in corporate strategies 
and evolution of production networks of firms over the past decade? Are these 
shifts sector specific?

* To what extent are shifting geographies of demand (e.g. growing 
middle class in Asia and Latin America) shaping global dynamics of production, 
trade and services?

* How are financial and business services reshaping the production 
networks of firms and processes of capitalist market formation?

* What are the impacts of new financial actors and networks such as 
sovereign wealth funds and venture capital on the reformulation of corporate 
strategies and remaking of production networks?

* How do we conceptualize changing power relations amongst 
nation-states, firms and non-firm actors, and what are the implications for 
national and global governance?

* What are the roles and impacts of small and medium enterprises in 
global production networks and how do they vary across different industries and 
regions?

* To what extent are changing labor standards reshaping production 
networks governance and what are their developmental impacts?

* How are protocols and institutional frameworks such as product 
certification, environmental standards and international governance structures 
reshaping corporate strategies, economic relationships and outcomes?

* How are non-state and non-firm actors reshaping the spatiality and 
territorialization of global economic processes?

Please send expressions of interests/queries and abstracts (of not more than 
250 words) to Karen Lai (karen...@nus.edu.sg) or 
Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) by 5 October 
2015. The AAG website (http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/about_the_meeting) 
provides more information about the annual meeting.


Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS:
http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/
Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html


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CFP - AAG-Boston - Evolutionary Economic Geography in Emerging and Developing Economies

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2017 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, 5-9 April 2017

Evolutionary Economic Geography in Emerging and Developing Economies

Organisers:
R Boschma (Utrecht University)
Canfei He (Peking University) and
Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore)

We invite papers that addresses the theme of 'Evolutionary Economic Geography 
in Emerging and Developing Economies'. In conjunction with paper sessions, 
there will be a special panel discussion on this topic.

Evolutionary economic geography (EEG) has made significant inroad in the 
economic geography literature through examining three specific phenomena and 
processes: clustering as evolutionary process (entry and exit patterns of 
firms), related variety and regional growth, and regional branching. Developed 
countries are normally used as empirical cases to illustrate these processes.

As already outlined by Boschma and Capone (2015, Research Policy), the 
varieties of capitalism (liberal versus coordinated market economies) could 
have a significant impact on the patterns of diversification in (un)related 
activities. With different institutional environment, the emerging and 
developing economies could provide interesting insights for some of the 
well-estimated hypotheses outlined in the EEG. Will the long-standing 
hypotheses of EEG hold for the emerging and developing economies? Will some of 
these explanatory variables play different roles in the evolutionary processes 
in regional development of emerging and developing economies? What may be the 
potential theoretical contributions to the EEG?

We encourage empirically or theoretically informed paper submissions that 
reflect on the domains of institutions and institutional environment, and its 
dynamic analysis. Research questions and issues could include (but are not 
limited to):

Issues:


* To what extent the different institutional environment in emerging 
and developing economies matter for the evolutionary processes and the 
subsequent clustering of firms?

* To what extent the technical change and innovation (through localized 
learning), related and unrelated varieties contribute to the regional 
development in emerging and developing economies?

* Will the product relatedness play different roles in the regional 
branching of emerging and developing economies? Are there specific patterns in 
the spatial evolution of industries, especially how economic actors and social 
institutions may or may not be able to break out of the existing lock-in 
through diversification of its products in these economies?

* What may be the potential theoretical implication for complexity and 
path dependency theories?

* The wider theoretical and methodological issues between firm-based 
evolutionary theories of economic change (c.f., Nelson & Winter, 1982) in the 
EEG (and its criticisms on the excessive focus on micro-scale actors and 
processes) and the potential importance of institutions, including social 
institutions and their wider power relations.

Please send expressions of interests/queries and abstracts (of not more than 
250 words) to Canfei He 
(hecan...@urban.pku.edu.cn) or Godfrey Yeung 
(geoy...@nus.edu.sg) by 5 October 2016. The AAG 
website 
(http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/)
 provides more information about the annual meeting.


Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS:
http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/
Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html


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CFP - AAG-Boston - Evolutionary Economic Geography in Emerging and Developing Economies

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2017 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, 5-9 April 2017

Evolutionary Economic Geography in Emerging and Developing Economies

Organisers:
R Boschma (Utrecht University)
Canfei He (Peking University) and
Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore)

We invite papers that addresses the theme of 'Evolutionary Economic Geography 
in Emerging and Developing Economies'. In conjunction with paper sessions, 
there will be a special panel discussion on this topic.

Evolutionary economic geography (EEG) has made significant inroad in the 
economic geography literature through examining three specific phenomena and 
processes: clustering as evolutionary process (entry and exit patterns of 
firms), related variety and regional growth, and regional branching. Developed 
countries are normally used as empirical cases to illustrate these processes.

As already outlined by Boschma and Capone (2015, Research Policy), the 
varieties of capitalism (liberal versus coordinated market economies) could 
have a significant impact on the patterns of diversification in (un)related 
activities. With different institutional environment, the emerging and 
developing economies could provide interesting insights for some of the 
well-estimated hypotheses outlined in the EEG. Will the long-standing 
hypotheses of EEG hold for the emerging and developing economies? Will some of 
these explanatory variables play different roles in the evolutionary processes 
in regional development of emerging and developing economies? What may be the 
potential theoretical contributions to the EEG?

We encourage empirically or theoretically informed paper submissions that 
reflect on the domains of institutions and institutional environment, and its 
dynamic analysis. Research questions and issues could include (but are not 
limited to):

Issues:


* To what extent the different institutional environment in emerging 
and developing economies matter for the evolutionary processes and the 
subsequent clustering of firms?

* To what extent the technical change and innovation (through localized 
learning), related and unrelated varieties contribute to the regional 
development in emerging and developing economies?

* Will the product relatedness play different roles in the regional 
branching of emerging and developing economies? Are there specific patterns in 
the spatial evolution of industries, especially how economic actors and social 
institutions may or may not be able to break out of the existing lock-in 
through diversification of its products in these economies?

* What may be the potential theoretical implication for complexity and 
path dependency theories?

* The wider theoretical and methodological issues between firm-based 
evolutionary theories of economic change (c.f., Nelson & Winter, 1982) in the 
EEG (and its criticisms on the excessive focus on micro-scale actors and 
processes) and the potential importance of institutions, including social 
institutions and their wider power relations.

Please send expressions of interests/queries and abstracts (of not more than 
250 words) to Canfei He 
(hecan...@urban.pku.edu.cn) or Godfrey Yeung 
(geoy...@nus.edu.sg) by 5 October 2016. The AAG 
website 
(http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/)
 provides more information about the annual meeting.


Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS:
http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/
Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html


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Final CFP - AAG-Boston - Evolutionary Economic Geography in Emerging and Developing Economies

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2017 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, 5-9 April 2017

Economic Geography in Emerging and Developing Economies

Organisers:
Ron Boschma (Utrecht University)
Canfei He (Peking University) and
Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore)

We invite papers that addresses the theme of 'Evolutionary Economic Geography 
in Emerging and Developing Economies'.

Evolutionary economic geography (EEG) has made significant inroad in the 
economic geography literature through examining three specific phenomena and 
processes: clustering as evolutionary process (entry and exit patterns of 
firms), related variety and regional growth, and regional branching. Developed 
countries are normally used as empirical cases to illustrate these processes.

As already outlined by Boschma and Capone (2015, Research Policy), the 
varieties of capitalism (liberal versus coordinated market economies) could 
have a significant impact on the patterns of diversification in (un)related 
activities. With different institutional environment, the emerging and 
developing economies could provide interesting insights for some of the 
well-estimated hypotheses outlined in the EEG. Will the long-standing 
hypotheses of EEG hold for the emerging and developing economies? Will some of 
these explanatory variables play different roles in the evolutionary processes 
in regional development of emerging and developing economies? What may be the 
potential theoretical contributions to the EEG?

We encourage empirically or theoretically informed paper submissions that 
reflect on the domains of institutions and institutional environment, and its 
dynamic analysis. Research questions and issues could include (but are not 
limited to):

Issues:

* To what extent the different institutional environment in 
emerging and developing economies matter for the evolutionary processes and the 
subsequent clustering of firms?
* To what extent the technical change and innovation (through 
localized learning), related and unrelated varieties contribute to the regional 
development in emerging and developing economies?
* Will the product relatedness play different roles in the regional 
branching of emerging and developing economies? Are there specific patterns in 
the spatial evolution of industries, especially how economic actors and social 
institutions may or may not be able to break out of the existing lock-in 
through diversification of its products in these economies?
* What may be the potential theoretical implication for complexity 
and path dependency theories?
* The wider theoretical and methodological issues between 
firm-based evolutionary theories of economic change (c.f., Nelson & Winter, 
1982) in the EEG (and its criticisms on the excessive focus on micro-scale 
actors and processes) and the potential importance of institutions, including 
social institutions and their wider power relations.

Please send expressions of interests/queries and abstracts (of not more than 
250 words) to Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) by 27 October 2016. The AAG 
website (http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/) provides more information about 
the annual meeting.



Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS:
http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/
Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html


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GIS in human/economic geography

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

A new post in GIS human/economic geography at the NUS.
Godfrey


NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Department of Geography

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Geographic Information Science
(Internet Geography/Spatial analysis of big data)


The Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore invites 
applications for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position. The appointment will 
begin in June 2018 or as soon as possible thereafter for a period of three 
years with the possibility of extension.

The candidate should have a PhD and an interest in teaching advanced modules in 
and carrying out research on Internet Geography and/or Spatial analysis of big 
data. Preference will be given to candidates who combine expertise in a 
relevant area of human geography with experience in digital technologies that 
are often internet-based and that are transforming the ways in which people 
visualise and interact with the world, providing enhanced opportunities for 
many while also, potentially, more deeply entrenching inequalities for others. 
Potential areas of overlap between human geography and digital technologies of 
relevance to this advertised opportunity include economics and finance, 
knowledge and culture, politics and governance, security, well-being, 
inequality and urban informatics (i.e. smart cities).
The successful applicant will be required to contribute at least two new, 
elective modules to the Department's MSc Applied GIS 
(http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/graduate/msc-in-applied-gis.html ), in addition 
to contributing to undergraduate teaching, and to carry out high quality 
research.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The appointee 
(according to whether s/he is a Singaporean, permanent resident of Singapore or 
other nationality) may also enjoy some or all of the following benefits: 
subsidised housing, medical and leave benefits and relocation assistance.

Application review will begin on 15 January 2018 until a suitable candidate is 
identified. Candidates should send their letter of application detailing all 
teaching and research experience, brief outlines of two, MSc-level modules they 
would be interested in teaching as part of the Department's MSc Applied GIS, a 
short research statement, full curriculum vitae, and names and contact details 
of three referees to: Ms. WONG Lai Wa, Department of Geography, National 
University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 
117570,
 or email at geo...@nus.edu.sg. Informal enquiries 
about the post should be directed to the Chair of the Search Committee, 
Professor David Taylor (geo...@nus.edu.sg).







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CFP - AAG-Washington, D.C. - State, local and/or global production networks

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

CALL FOR PAPERS

CFP: AAG-Washington, D.C., 3-7 April 2018

State, local and/or global production networks

Sponsored by the Global Production Networks Research Centre at the National 
University of Singapore (GPN@NUS, http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/) &
AAG-Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG)

Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore) & Liu Yi (Sun Yat-sen 
University)

With the emphasis on the power of economic actors and their embedded 
institutional networks for territorial development, the Global Production 
Network (GPN) is a handy heuristic analytical framework to unpack the spatial 
asymmetrical capture of value-added in various manufacturing activities 
controlled by lead firms (TNCs) and their coupled firms as well as its 
subsequently impacts in regional development. Commentators criticize the 
firm-centric, actor based framework ignores the fundamental capitalist 
imperatives and being too all-encompassing to retain its explanatory power.

Institutional networks (including non-firm organizations) is incorporated in 
the GPN framework but the existing literature on roles of state in the 
establishment of production networks is largely focused in specific industrial 
sectors. There is no consensus on roles and effectiveness of states, especially 
in the form of pro-active industrial policies, on the establishment of 
production networks. For instance, a number of studies have confirmed the 
dominance of foreign lead firms on the development trajectories of domestic 
industries, e.g., Pavlínek and Janak (2007), Sturgeon et al. (2010), Özatağan 
(2011), Pavlínek (2016), etc. Other researches however have highlighted the 
importance of proactive local state policies on the development of new 
industries, e.g., Butollo and ten Brink (2018) and Yeung (forthcoming). The 
changing global competitive dynamics and local developmental conditions have 
also lead to a changing inter/intra-firm relationships between global lead 
firms and latecomer manufactures (Liu, 2017).

This CFP focuses, but not exclusively, on the following actors and actors' 
strategies on the establishment of local or global production networks:

· Roles of non-firm actors

· Roles and effectiveness of industrial policies

· Resilience of lead firm-suppliers governance

· Inter-firm partnership or intra-firm coordination & its impacts

Deadline for abstract submission: Please email abstracts (250 words maximum) to 
Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) by 8 October 2018.


References:
Butollo, F., & ten Brink, T. (2018). A great leap? Domestic market growth and 
local state support in the upgrading of China's LED lighting industry. Global 
Networks, 18(2), 285-306.
Liu, Y. (2017). The dynamics of local upgrading in globalizing latecomer 
regions: a geographical analysis, Regional Studies, 51(6), 880-893.
Özatağan, G. (2011). Shifts in value chain governance and upgrading in the 
European periphery of automotive production: evidence from Bursa, Turkey. 
Environment and Planning A, 43, 885-903.
Pavlínek, P, (2016). Whose success? The state-foreign capital nexus and the 
development of the automotive industry in Slovakia. European Urban and Regional 
Studies, 23(4): 571-593.
Pavlínek, P. & Janak, L. (2007). Regional restructuring of the Skoda Auto 
supplier network in the Czech Republic. European Urban and Regional Studies, 
14(2), 133-155.
Sturgeon, T.J., Gereffi, G., Rogers, K.B. & Fernandez-Stark, K. (2010). The 
prospects for Mexico in the North American automotive industry: A global value 
chain perspective. Actes du GERPISA, 42(June): 11-22.
Yeung, G. (forthcoming) "Made in China 2025": The Development of a New Energy 
Vehicle Industry in China. Area Development and Policy. doi: 
https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2018.1505433


__
Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS: http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/
Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html

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CFP - AAG-Washington, D.C. - State, local and/or global production networks

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

CALL FOR PAPERS

CFP: AAG-Washington, D.C., 3-7 April 2018

State, local and/or global production networks

Sponsored by the Global Production Networks Research Centre at the National 
University of Singapore (GPN@NUS, http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/) &
AAG-Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG)

Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore) & Liu Yi (Sun Yat-sen 
University)

With the emphasis on the power of economic actors and their embedded 
institutional networks for territorial development, the Global Production 
Network (GPN) is a handy heuristic analytical framework to unpack the spatial 
asymmetrical capture of value-added in various manufacturing activities 
controlled by lead firms (TNCs) and their coupled firms as well as its 
subsequently impacts in regional development. Commentators criticize the 
firm-centric, actor based framework ignores the fundamental capitalist 
imperatives and being too all-encompassing to retain its explanatory power.

Institutional networks (including non-firm organizations) is incorporated in 
the GPN framework but the existing literature on roles of state in the 
establishment of production networks is largely focused in specific industrial 
sectors. There is no consensus on roles and effectiveness of states, especially 
in the form of pro-active industrial policies, on the establishment of 
production networks. For instance, a number of studies have confirmed the 
dominance of foreign lead firms on the development trajectories of domestic 
industries, e.g., Pavlínek and Janak (2007), Sturgeon et al. (2010), Özatağan 
(2011), Pavlínek (2016), etc. Other researches, however, have highlight the 
importance of proactive local state policies for the development of new 
industries, e.g., Butollo and ten Brink (2018) and Yeung (forthcoming). The 
changing global competitive dynamic and local development conditions have also 
lead to changing inter/intra-firm relationships between global lead firms and 
latecomer manufacturers (Liu, 2017).

This CFP focuses, but not exclusively, on the following actors and actors' 
strategies on the establishment of local or global production networks:

· Roles of non-firm actors

· Roles and effectiveness of industrial policies

· Resilience of lead firm-suppliers governance

· Inter-firm partnership or intra-firm coordination & its impacts

Deadline for abstract submission: Please email abstracts (250 words maximum) to 
Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) by 15 October 
2018.


References:
Butollo, F., & ten Brink, T. (2018). A great leap? Domestic market growth and 
local state support in the upgrading of China's LED lighting industry. Global 
Networks, 18(2), 285-306.
Liu, Y. (2017). The dynamics of local upgrading in globalizing latecomer 
regions: a geographical analysis, Regional Studies, 51(6), 880-893.
Özatağan, G. (2011). Shifts in value chain governance and upgrading in the 
European periphery of automotive production: evidence from Bursa, Turkey. 
Environment and Planning A, 43, 885-903.
Pavlínek, P, (2016). Whose success? The state-foreign capital nexus and the 
development of the automotive industry in Slovakia. European Urban and Regional 
Studies, 23(4): 571-593.
Pavlínek, P. & Janak, L. (2007). Regional restructuring of the Skoda Auto 
supplier network in the Czech Republic. European Urban and Regional Studies, 
14(2), 133-155.
Sturgeon, T.J., Gereffi, G., Rogers, K.B. & Fernandez-Stark, K. (2010). The 
prospects for Mexico in the North American automotive industry: A global value 
chain perspective. Actes du GERPISA, 42(June): 11-22.
Yeung, G. (forthcoming) "Made in China 2025": The Development of a New Energy 
Vehicle Industry in China. Area Development and Policy. doi: 
https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2018.1505433


__
Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS: http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/
Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html

Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the 
intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not 
copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. 
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intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not 
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CFP - AAG-Washington, D.C. - State, local and/or global production networks

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

CALL FOR PAPERS

CFP: AAG-Washington, D.C., 3-7 April 2018

State, local and/or global production networks

Sponsored by the Global Production Networks Research Centre at the National 
University of Singapore (GPN@NUS, http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/) &
AAG-Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG)

Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore) & Liu Yi (Sun Yat-sen 
University)

With the emphasis on power of economic actors and their embedded institutional 
networks for territorial development, the Global Production Network (GPN) is a 
handy heuristic analytical framework to unpack the spatial asymmetrical capture 
of value-added in various manufacturing activities controlled by lead firms 
(TNCs) and their coupled firms as well as its subsequently impacts in regional 
development. Commentators criticize the firm-centric, actor based framework 
ignores the fundamental capitalist imperatives and being too all-encompassing 
to retain its explanatory power.

Institutional networks (including non-firm organizations) is incorporated in 
the GPN framework but the existing literature on roles of state in the 
establishment of production networks is largely focused in specific industrial 
sectors. There is no consensus on roles and effectiveness of states, especially 
in the form of pro-active industrial policies, on the establishment of 
production networks. For instance, a number of studies have confirmed the 
dominance of foreign lead firms on the development trajectories of domestic 
industries, e.g., Pavlínek and Janak (2007), Sturgeon et al. (2010), Özatağan 
(2011), Pavlínek (2016), etc. Other researches, however, have highlight the 
importance of proactive local state policies for the development of new 
industries, e.g., Butollo and ten Brink (2018) and Yeung (forthcoming). The 
changing global competitive dynamic and local development conditions have also 
lead to changing inter/intra-firm relationships between global lead firms and 
latecomer manufacturers (Liu, 2017).

This CFP focuses, but not exclusively, on the following actors and actors' 
strategies on the establishment of local or global production networks:

· Roles of non-firm actors

· Roles and effectiveness of industrial policies

· Resilience of lead firm-suppliers governance

· Inter-firm partnership or intra-firm coordination & its impacts

Deadline for abstract submission: Please email abstracts (250 words maximum) to 
Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) by 22 October 
2018.


References:
Butollo, F., & ten Brink, T. (2018). A great leap? Domestic market growth and 
local state support in the upgrading of China's LED lighting industry. Global 
Networks, 18(2), 285-306.
Liu, Y. (2017). The dynamics of local upgrading in globalizing latecomer 
regions: a geographical analysis, Regional Studies, 51(6), 880-893.
Özatağan, G. (2011). Shifts in value chain governance and upgrading in the 
European periphery of automotive production: evidence from Bursa, Turkey. 
Environment and Planning A, 43, 885-903.
Pavlínek, P, (2016). Whose success? The state-foreign capital nexus and the 
development of the automotive industry in Slovakia. European Urban and Regional 
Studies, 23(4): 571-593.
Pavlínek, P. & Janak, L. (2007). Regional restructuring of the Skoda Auto 
supplier network in the Czech Republic. European Urban and Regional Studies, 
14(2), 133-155.
Sturgeon, T.J., Gereffi, G., Rogers, K.B. & Fernandez-Stark, K. (2010). The 
prospects for Mexico in the North American automotive industry: A global value 
chain perspective. Actes du GERPISA, 42(June): 11-22.
Yeung, G. (forthcoming) "Made in China 2025": The Development of a New Energy 
Vehicle Industry in China. Area Development and Policy. doi: 
https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2018.1505433


__
Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS: http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/
Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html

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Final CFP - AAG-Washington, D.C. - State, local and/or global production networks

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

Final CFP: AAG-Washington, D.C., 3-7 April 2018

State, local and/or global production networks

Sponsored by the Global Production Networks Research Centre at the National 
University of Singapore (GPN@NUS, http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/) &
AAG-Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG)

Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore) & Liu Yi (Sun Yat-sen 
University)

With the emphasis on power of economic actors and their embedded institutional 
networks for territorial development, the Global Production Network (GPN) is a 
handy heuristic analytical framework to unpack the spatial asymmetrical capture 
of value-added in various manufacturing activities controlled by lead firms 
(TNCs) and their coupled firms as well as its subsequently impacts in regional 
development. Commentators criticize the firm-centric, actor based framework 
ignores the fundamental capitalist imperatives and being too all-encompassing 
to retain its explanatory power.

Institutional networks (including non-firm organizations) is incorporated in 
the GPN framework but the existing literature on roles of state in the 
establishment of production networks is largely focused in specific industrial 
sectors. There is no consensus on roles and effectiveness of states, especially 
in the form of pro-active industrial policies, on the establishment of 
production networks. For instance, a number of studies have confirmed the 
dominance of foreign lead firms on the development trajectories of domestic 
industries, e.g., Pavlínek and Janak (2007), Sturgeon et al. (2010), Özatağan 
(2011), Pavlínek (2016), etc. Other researches, however, have highlight the 
importance of proactive local state policies for the development of new 
industries, e.g., Butollo and ten Brink (2018) and Yeung (forthcoming). The 
changing global competitive dynamic and local development conditions have also 
lead to changing inter/intra-firm relationships between global lead firms and 
latecomer manufacturers (Liu, 2017).

This CFP focuses, but not exclusively, on the following actors and actors' 
strategies on the establishment of local or global production networks:

· Roles of non-firm actors

· Roles and effectiveness of industrial policies

· Resilience of lead firm-suppliers governance

· Inter-firm partnership or intra-firm coordination & its impacts

Deadline for abstract submission: Please email abstracts (250 words maximum) to 
Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) before 6 November 
2018.


References:
Butollo, F., & ten Brink, T. (2018). A great leap? Domestic market growth and 
local state support in the upgrading of China's LED lighting industry. Global 
Networks, 18(2), 285-306.
Liu, Y. (2017). The dynamics of local upgrading in globalizing latecomer 
regions: a geographical analysis, Regional Studies, 51(6), 880-893.
Özatağan, G. (2011). Shifts in value chain governance and upgrading in the 
European periphery of automotive production: evidence from Bursa, Turkey. 
Environment and Planning A, 43, 885-903.
Pavlínek, P, (2016). Whose success? The state-foreign capital nexus and the 
development of the automotive industry in Slovakia. European Urban and Regional 
Studies, 23(4): 571-593.
Pavlínek, P. & Janak, L. (2007). Regional restructuring of the Skoda Auto 
supplier network in the Czech Republic. European Urban and Regional Studies, 
14(2), 133-155.
Sturgeon, T.J., Gereffi, G., Rogers, K.B. & Fernandez-Stark, K. (2010). The 
prospects for Mexico in the North American automotive industry: A global value 
chain perspective. Actes du GERPISA, 42(June): 11-22.
Yeung, G. (forthcoming) "Made in China 2025": The Development of a New Energy 
Vehicle Industry in China. Area Development and Policy. doi: 
https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2018.1505433


__
Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/
Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS: http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/
Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1467-9493
Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS):
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html

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Assistant Professor (tenure track) in urban geography/urban politics

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

Faculty Position, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

Assistant Professor (tenure track) in urban geography/urban politics


We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any area of urban 
geography/ urban politics. The position will sit within the Department's 
'Politics, Economies and Space (PEAS)' research group. Previous experience of 
researching in/on Asia will be viewed positively, as will a clear plan for 
developing a future research trajectory within the region. We encourage 
applications from candidates with experience in developing postcolonial and 
comparative approaches to theorizing the urban.



The Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore stands 
among the top Geography departments in the world and offers Bachelors, Masters 
and Doctoral degrees. Although there are many overreaching and interconnecting 
projects and themes, our research and teaching are constituted through three 
groups: the aforementioned Politics, Economies and Space; Social and Cultural 
Geographies; and Tropical Environmental Change.



The Department comprises an international mix of about 35 faculty members and 
has over 300 undergraduate majors and 60 graduate students. It continues to 
develop and shape research agendas in the global academic arena, while 
maintaining a strong commitment to graduate and undergraduate education. Recent 
initiatives include a taught MSc in Applied GIS. For additional information, 
please consult the Department web site at: 
https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fas.nus.edu.sg%2Fgeog%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C4466182e068d4950e9ba08d702d8c730%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636981002400850412&sdata=8xpffDqk4u784L%2FeASnNaGyrQJFtqYxdghZTfm7DnyQ%3D&reserved=0.



All applicants should have an established research profile commensurate with 
this tenure-track position. They should have a PhD in geography or an allied 
field (the PhD must be awarded prior to taking up the position) with 
demonstrable expertise in urban geography/urban politics. Prior experience of 
university teaching is also highly desirable.



In terms of teaching and academic responsibilities, the successful candidate 
will be expected to:

a.   Contribute to the Department's internationally recognised research 
activities;

b.  Teach a minimum of two modules a year at the undergraduate and/or graduate 
level;

c.   Perform administrative/service duties commensurate with a tenure-track 
Assistant Professor appointment.



The successful candidate will ideally start work at NUS from January 2020 or as 
soon as possible thereafter.



Interested candidates should submit an application comprising: a letter of 
interest with details of their research credentials and future plans; a full 
curriculum vitae; evidence of teaching experience, including feedback if 
available; and the names and contact details of three referees. The review of 
applications will commence on 9th September 2019. Shortlisted candidates will 
be notified soon thereafter and plans will then be made for a campus visit and 
interview. It is envisaged that these interviews will take place in October 
2019. A competitive remuneration package, including a period of subsidized 
housing and medical benefits and relocation expenses (where applicable), will 
be offered to the successful candidate.



For further enquiries, please contact the Chair of the Search Committee: 
Professor Tim Bunnell (geo...@nus.edu.sg).



Please send completed applications to:

Geography Search Committee (Urban Geography)

c/o Ms Wong Lai Wa

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences National 
University of Singapore

1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570



Email applications are strongly encouraged. Please send to Ms Wong Lai Wa at:

geo...@nus.edu.sg.


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Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line)  Fax: +65-6777 3091
E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg
Web: 
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Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geo

CFP - 2022 Global Economic Geography Conference

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.*

Godfrey Yeung, National University of Singapore
Javier Revilla Diez, University of Cologne
Yi Liu, Sun Yat-sen University

Theme: State-driven decarbonization and spatial reconfiguration of industries

The signing of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which imposes a 1.5oC limit of global 
warming target, creates the necessary condition for ratified countries to 
decarbonize their economies. Wind and solar power for energy generation is 
widely adopted in European countries. To have a realistic chance to reach the 
emission cut and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on climate 
change (net zero emissions) by 2050, all countries realize the importance of a 
wider adoption of renewable energy on electricity generation.

At the recently concluded COP26 summit in Glasgow, it is agreed that all 
countries should accelerate their efforts towards the phasing-down of usage of 
fossil fuels and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. During the negotiation 
processes, 46 countries (but excluding China, India, the US and Australia) have 
signed a non-binding pledge to decarbonize their economies by phrasing out the 
use of thermal coal in unabated power generation by 2030 and 2040 for developed 
and developing countries, respectively. Moreover, 25 countries and development 
banks pledged to end public finance for new fossil fuel exploration and 
production overseas by the end of 2022.

Global production network (GPN) is one of analytical frameworks to examine the 
spatial configuration of industries in economic geography. Inter-firm 
competition rather than direct state intervention have long been the crucial 
factor in the strategic coupling of global lead firms: suppliers and 
contractors in developing countries have to use local endowments to 
strategically link to lead firms and engage in GPNs (Coe et al., 2008; Yeung, 
2016; Hamilton-Hart and Yeung, 2021). The spatial patterns of fossil 
fuel-depended industries could change under the accelerated drive for 
decarbonization.

Different from other manufacturing sectors, states have been play a more 
pro-active role in the drive for decarbonization in developed and developing 
countries, from the provision of financial incentives to energy suppliers 
through feed-in tariffs and the tax allowance on the purchase of battery 
electric vehicles to the direct subsidies on the development of renewable 
industrial clusters. In addition to energy generation, there are some earlier 
signs for the changing market demand in the personal transport sector: battery 
electric vehicles account for a rising share for new passenger vehicle sale in 
the European market, from over 10% in Germany, France, the UK to over 20% in 
the Netherlands (and the ratio is as high as 75+% in the first mover Norway).

The rising rivalry between the US (to a less extent the EU) and China 
highlights the importance of energy security during the accelerated transition 
to renewable energy in economic and energy policies. The drive for 
decarbonization could lead to a spatial reconfiguration of manufacturing GPNs, 
including the changing inter-firm competitive dynamics between developed and 
developing countries. The race for the establishment of renewable energy 
industries and the rapid electrification of the transport sector, which 
accounts for 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, under the remit of energy 
security have further ramification on the state industrial policies. For 
instance, European governments have formed an alliance with global automotive 
giants for the establishment of electric vehicle battery gigafactories, the 
mass production of (green) hydrogen, and the development of next-generation 
batteries.

In addition to the geopolitical tension, the recent severe shortage of 
semi-conductors underlines the importance of supply chains security in economic 
policies. This is especially the case when major economies are decarbonizing 
and this in turn could leading to a scramble for essential scarce raw 
materials, which in turn could lead to the spatial reconfiguration of mining 
GPNs, from thermal coal, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas to lithium, 
cobalt, nickel, copper, polysilicon, etc.

One of the challenges for the state is to calibrate the pace of adopting 
renewable energy and establishing the corresponding supporting infrastructures 
without compromising the energy security and supply chains security on the one 
hand and yet managing the shock on the (energy-intensive) industries relying on 
fossil fuels on the other hand.

Existing literature, such as the disarticulation approach (Bair and Werner, 
2011) and 'dark side' of GPNs (Coe and Hess, 2008; Phelps et al., 2018), is 
unable to reconcile the (potential) changes in the competitive dynamics of 
global economy under the accelerated drive for decarbonization. This CFP aims 
to address the following (inconclusive) issues related to the drive for 
decarbonization:


·

CFP - 2022 Global Economic Geography Conference

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.*

Godfrey Yeung, National University of Singapore
Javier Revilla Diez, University of Cologne
Yi Liu, Sun Yat-sen University

Theme: State-driven decarbonization and spatial reconfiguration of industries

The signing of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which imposes a 1.5oC limit of global 
warming target, creates the necessary condition for ratified countries to 
decarbonize their economies. Wind and solar power for energy generation is 
widely adopted in European countries. To have a realistic chance to reach the 
emission cut and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on climate 
change (net zero emissions) by 2050, all countries realize the importance of a 
wider adoption of renewable energy on electricity generation.

At the recently concluded COP26 summit in Glasgow, it is agreed that all 
countries should accelerate their efforts towards the phasing-down of usage of 
fossil fuels and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. During the negotiation 
processes, 46 countries (but excluding China, India, the US and Australia) have 
signed a non-binding pledge to decarbonize their economies by phrasing out the 
use of thermal coal in unabated power generation by 2030 and 2040 for developed 
and developing countries, respectively. Moreover, 25 countries and development 
banks pledged to end public finance for new fossil fuel exploration and 
production overseas by the end of 2022.

Global production network (GPN) is one of analytical frameworks to examine the 
spatial configuration of industries in economic geography. Inter-firm 
competition rather than direct state intervention have long been the crucial 
factor in the strategic coupling of global lead firms: suppliers and 
contractors in developing countries have to use local endowments to 
strategically link to lead firms and engage in GPNs (Coe et al., 2008; Yeung, 
2016; Hamilton-Hart and Yeung, 2021). The spatial patterns of fossil 
fuel-depended industries could change under the accelerated drive for 
decarbonization.

Different from other manufacturing sectors, states have been play a more 
pro-active role in the drive for decarbonization in developed and developing 
countries, from the provision of financial incentives to energy suppliers 
through feed-in tariffs and the tax allowance on the purchase of battery 
electric vehicles to the direct subsidies on the development of renewable 
industrial clusters. In addition to energy generation, there are some earlier 
signs for the changing market demand in the personal transport sector: battery 
electric vehicles account for a rising share for new passenger vehicle sale in 
the European market, from over 10% in Germany, France, the UK to over 20% in 
the Netherlands (and the ratio is as high as 75+% in the first mover Norway).

The rising rivalry between the US (to a less extent the EU) and China 
highlights the importance of energy security during the accelerated transition 
to renewable energy in economic and energy policies. The drive for 
decarbonization could lead to a spatial reconfiguration of manufacturing GPNs, 
including the changing inter-firm competitive dynamics between developed and 
developing countries. The race for the establishment of renewable energy 
industries and the rapid electrification of the transport sector, which 
accounts for 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, under the remit of energy 
security have further ramification on the state industrial policies. For 
instance, European governments have formed an alliance with global automotive 
giants for the establishment of electric vehicle battery gigafactories, the 
mass production of (green) hydrogen, and the development of next-generation 
batteries.

In addition to the geopolitical tension, the recent severe shortage of 
semi-conductors underlines the importance of supply chains security in economic 
policies. This is especially the case when major economies are decarbonizing 
and this in turn could leading to a scramble for essential scarce raw 
materials, which in turn could lead to the spatial reconfiguration of mining 
GPNs, from thermal coal, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas to lithium, 
cobalt, nickel, copper, polysilicon, etc.

One of the challenges for the state is to calibrate the pace of adopting 
renewable energy and establishing the corresponding supporting infrastructures 
without compromising the energy security and supply chains security on the one 
hand and yet managing the shock on the (energy-intensive) industries relying on 
fossil fuels on the other hand.

Existing literature, such as the disarticulation approach (Bair and Werner, 
2011) and 'dark side' of GPNs (Coe and Hess, 2008; Phelps et al., 2018), is 
unable to reconcile the (potential) changes in the competitive dynamics of 
global economy under the accelerated drive for decarbonization. This CFP aims 
to address the following (inconclusive) issues related to the drive for 
decarbonization:


·

CFP - 2022 Global Economic Geography Conference

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.*

Godfrey Yeung, National University of Singapore
Javier Revilla Diez, University of Cologne
Yi Liu, Sun Yat-sen University

Theme: State-driven decarbonization and spatial reconfiguration of industries

The signing of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which imposes a 1.5oC limit of global 
warming target, creates the necessary condition for ratified countries to 
decarbonize their economies. Wind and solar power for energy generation is 
widely adopted in European countries. To have a realistic chance to reach the 
emission cut and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on climate 
change (net zero emissions) by 2050, all countries realize the importance of a 
wider adoption of renewable energy on electricity generation.

At the recently concluded COP26 summit in Glasgow, it is agreed that all 
countries should accelerate their efforts towards the phasing-down of usage of 
fossil fuels and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. During the negotiation 
processes, 46 countries (but excluding China, India, the US and Australia) have 
signed a non-binding pledge to decarbonize their economies by phrasing out the 
use of thermal coal in unabated power generation by 2030 and 2040 for developed 
and developing countries, respectively. Moreover, 25 countries and development 
banks pledged to end public finance for new fossil fuel exploration and 
production overseas by the end of 2022.

Global production network (GPN) is one of analytical frameworks to examine the 
spatial configuration of industries in economic geography. Inter-firm 
competition rather than direct state intervention have long been the crucial 
factor in the strategic coupling of global lead firms: suppliers and 
contractors in developing countries have to use local endowments to 
strategically link to lead firms and engage in GPNs (Coe et al., 2008; Yeung, 
2016; Hamilton-Hart and Yeung, 2021). The spatial patterns of fossil 
fuel-depended industries could change under the accelerated drive for 
decarbonization.

Different from other manufacturing sectors, states have been play a more 
pro-active role in the drive for decarbonization in developed and developing 
countries, from the provision of financial incentives to energy suppliers 
through feed-in tariffs and the tax allowance on the purchase of battery 
electric vehicles to the direct subsidies on the development of renewable 
industrial clusters. In addition to energy generation, there are some earlier 
signs for the changing market demand in the personal transport sector: battery 
electric vehicles account for a rising share for new passenger vehicle sale in 
the European market, from over 10% in Germany, France, the UK to over 20% in 
the Netherlands (and the ratio is as high as 75+% in the first mover Norway).

The rising rivalry between the US (to a less extent the EU) and China 
highlights the importance of energy security during the accelerated transition 
to renewable energy in economic and energy policies. The drive for 
decarbonization could lead to a spatial reconfiguration of manufacturing GPNs, 
including the changing inter-firm competitive dynamics between developed and 
developing countries. The race for the establishment of renewable energy 
industries and the rapid electrification of the transport sector, which 
accounts for 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, under the remit of energy 
security have further ramification on the state industrial policies. For 
instance, European governments have formed an alliance with global automotive 
giants for the establishment of electric vehicle battery gigafactories, the 
mass production of (green) hydrogen, and the development of next-generation 
batteries.

In addition to the geopolitical tension, the recent severe shortage of 
semi-conductors underlines the importance of supply chains security in economic 
policies. This is especially the case when major economies are decarbonizing 
and this in turn could leading to a scramble for essential scarce raw 
materials, which in turn could lead to the spatial reconfiguration of mining 
GPNs, from thermal coal, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas to lithium, 
cobalt, nickel, copper, polysilicon, etc.

One of the challenges for the state is to calibrate the pace of adopting 
renewable energy and establishing the corresponding supporting infrastructures 
without compromising the energy security and supply chains security on the one 
hand and yet managing the shock on the (energy-intensive) industries relying on 
fossil fuels on the other hand.

Existing literature, such as the disarticulation approach (Bair and Werner, 
2011) and 'dark side' of GPNs (Coe and Hess, 2008; Phelps et al., 2018), is 
unable to reconcile the (potential) changes in the competitive dynamics of 
global economy under the accelerated drive for decarbonization. This CFP aims 
to address the following (inconclusive) issues related to the drive for 
decarbonization:


·

CFP - 2022 Global Economic Geography Conference

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.*

SS07-11: State-driven decarbonization and spatial reconfiguration of industries

Godfrey Yeung, National University of Singapore
Javier Revilla Diez, University of Cologne
Yi Liu, Sun Yat-sen University

The signing of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which imposes a 1.5oC limit of global 
warming target, creates the necessary condition for ratified countries to 
decarbonize their economies. Wind and solar power for energy generation is 
widely adopted in European countries. To have a realistic chance to reach the 
emission cut and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on climate 
change (net zero emissions) by 2050, all countries realize the importance of a 
wider adoption of renewable energy on electricity generation.

At the recently concluded COP26 summit in Glasgow, it is agreed that all 
countries should accelerate their efforts towards the phasing-down of usage of 
fossil fuels and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. During the negotiation 
processes, 46 countries (but excluding China, India, the US and Australia) have 
signed a non-binding pledge to decarbonize their economies by phrasing out the 
use of thermal coal in unabated power generation by 2030 and 2040 for developed 
and developing countries, respectively. Moreover, 25 countries and development 
banks pledged to end public finance for new fossil fuel exploration and 
production overseas by the end of 2022.

Global production network (GPN) is one of analytical frameworks to examine the 
spatial configuration of industries in economic geography. Inter-firm 
competition rather than direct state intervention have long been the crucial 
factor in the strategic coupling of global lead firms: suppliers and 
contractors in developing countries have to use local endowments to 
strategically link to lead firms and engage in GPNs (Coe et al., 2008; Yeung, 
2016; Hamilton-Hart and Yeung, 2021). The spatial patterns of fossil 
fuel-depended industries could change under the accelerated drive for 
decarbonization.

Different from other manufacturing sectors, states have been play a more 
pro-active role in the drive for decarbonization in developed and developing 
countries, from the provision of financial incentives to energy suppliers 
through feed-in tariffs and the tax allowance on the purchase of battery 
electric vehicles to the direct subsidies on the development of renewable 
industrial clusters. In addition to energy generation, there are some earlier 
signs for the changing market demand in the personal transport sector: battery 
electric vehicles account for a rising share for new passenger vehicle sale in 
the European market, from over 10% in Germany, France, the UK to over 20% in 
the Netherlands (and the ratio is as high as 75+% in the first mover Norway).

The rising rivalry between the US (to a less extent the EU) and China 
highlights the importance of energy security during the accelerated transition 
to renewable energy in economic and energy policies. The drive for 
decarbonization could lead to a spatial reconfiguration of manufacturing GPNs, 
including the changing inter-firm competitive dynamics between developed and 
developing countries. The race for the establishment of renewable energy 
industries and the rapid electrification of the transport sector, which 
accounts for 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, under the remit of energy 
security have further ramification on the state industrial policies. For 
instance, European governments have formed an alliance with global automotive 
giants for the establishment of electric vehicle battery gigafactories, the 
mass production of (green) hydrogen, and the development of next-generation 
batteries.

In addition to the geopolitical tension, the recent severe shortage of 
semi-conductors underlines the importance of supply chains security in economic 
policies. This is especially the case when major economies are decarbonizing 
and this in turn could leading to a scramble for essential scarce raw 
materials, which in turn could lead to the spatial reconfiguration of mining 
GPNs, from thermal coal, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas to lithium, 
cobalt, nickel, copper, polysilicon, etc.

One of the challenges for the state is to calibrate the pace of adopting 
renewable energy and establishing the corresponding supporting infrastructures 
without compromising the energy security and supply chains security on the one 
hand and yet managing the shock on the (energy-intensive) industries relying on 
fossil fuels on the other hand.

Existing literature, such as the disarticulation approach (Bair and Werner, 
2011) and 'dark side' of GPNs (Coe and Hess, 2008; Phelps et al., 2018), is 
unable to reconcile the (potential) changes in the competitive dynamics of 
global economy under the accelerated drive for decarbonization. This CFP aims 
to address the following (inconclusive) issues related to the drive for 
decarbonization:

Final CFP - 2022 Global Economic Geography Conference

[Yeung Kwok Yung, Godfrey]

*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.*

SS07-11: State-driven decarbonization and spatial reconfiguration of industries

Godfrey Yeung, National University of Singapore
Javier Revilla Diez, University of Cologne
Yi Liu, Sun Yat-sen University

The signing of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which imposes a 1.5oC limit of global 
warming target, creates the necessary condition for ratified countries to 
decarbonize their economies. Wind and solar power for energy generation is 
widely adopted in European countries. To have a realistic chance to reach the 
emission cut and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on climate 
change (net zero emissions) by 2050, all countries realize the importance of a 
wider adoption of renewable energy on electricity generation.

At the recently concluded COP26 summit in Glasgow, it is agreed that all 
countries should accelerate their efforts towards the phasing-down of usage of 
fossil fuels and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. During the negotiation 
processes, 46 countries (but excluding China, India, the US and Australia) have 
signed a non-binding pledge to decarbonize their economies by phrasing out the 
use of thermal coal in unabated power generation by 2030 and 2040 for developed 
and developing countries, respectively. Moreover, 25 countries and development 
banks pledged to end public finance for new fossil fuel exploration and 
production overseas by the end of 2022.

Global production network (GPN) is one of analytical frameworks to examine the 
spatial configuration of industries in economic geography. Inter-firm 
competition rather than direct state intervention have long been the crucial 
factor in the strategic coupling of global lead firms: suppliers and 
contractors in developing countries have to use local endowments to 
strategically link to lead firms and engage in GPNs (Coe et al., 2008; Yeung, 
2016; Hamilton-Hart and Yeung, 2021). The spatial patterns of fossil 
fuel-depended industries could change under the accelerated drive for 
decarbonization.

Different from other manufacturing sectors, states have been play a more 
pro-active role in the drive for decarbonization in developed and developing 
countries, from the provision of financial incentives to energy suppliers 
through feed-in tariffs and the tax allowance on the purchase of battery 
electric vehicles to the direct subsidies on the development of renewable 
industrial clusters. In addition to energy generation, there are some earlier 
signs for the changing market demand in the personal transport sector: battery 
electric vehicles account for a rising share for new passenger vehicle sale in 
the European market, from over 10% in Germany, France, the UK to over 20% in 
the Netherlands (and the ratio is as high as 75+% in the first mover Norway).

The rising rivalry between the US (to a less extent the EU) and China 
highlights the importance of energy security during the accelerated transition 
to renewable energy in economic and energy policies. The drive for 
decarbonization could lead to a spatial reconfiguration of manufacturing GPNs, 
including the changing inter-firm competitive dynamics between developed and 
developing countries. The race for the establishment of renewable energy 
industries and the rapid electrification of the transport sector, which 
accounts for 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, under the remit of energy 
security have further ramification on the state industrial policies. For 
instance, European governments have formed an alliance with global automotive 
giants for the establishment of electric vehicle battery gigafactories, the 
mass production of (green) hydrogen, and the development of next-generation 
batteries.

In addition to the geopolitical tension, the recent severe shortage of 
semi-conductors underlines the importance of supply chains security in economic 
policies. This is especially the case when major economies are decarbonizing 
and this in turn could leading to a scramble for essential scarce raw 
materials, which in turn could lead to the spatial reconfiguration of mining 
GPNs, from thermal coal, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas to lithium, 
cobalt, nickel, copper, polysilicon, etc.

One of the challenges for the state is to calibrate the pace of adopting 
renewable energy and establishing the corresponding supporting infrastructures 
without compromising the energy security and supply chains security on the one 
hand and yet managing the shock on the (energy-intensive) industries relying on 
fossil fuels on the other hand.

Existing literature, such as the disarticulation approach (Bair and Werner, 
2011) and 'dark side' of GPNs (Coe and Hess, 2008; Phelps et al., 2018), is 
unable to reconcile the (potential) changes in the competitive dynamics of 
global economy under the accelerated drive for decarbonization. This CFP aims 
to address the following (inconclusive) issues related to the drive for 
decarbonization: