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
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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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FW: Call for Panellists NGM Stockholm 2017: Brexit Futures Roundtable Discussion

[Sarah Marie Hall]

With apologies for cross posting...


Call for Panellists: Brexit Futures Roundtable Discussion

7th Nordic Geographers Meeting 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, June 18th–21st 2017

Conveners: Dr Kathy Burrell, Dept. of Geography and Planning, University of 
Liverpool and Dr Sarah M Hall, Dept. of Geography, University of Manchester

Since the referendum result for ‘Brexit’ in June 2016, the UK has entered a 
period of potentially seismic change. While most obviously this threatens to 
reconfigure the UK’s relationship with the rest of the European Union and 
European mobility regimes, the political and economic restructuring that Brexit 
is likely to entail brings with it many other possible and equally fundamental 
uncertainties.

There is a sense of history in the making in front of us – the question is how 
this history will unfold, how well we are going to be able to understand it, 
and how attentive we are going to be to how it plays out in people’s lived 
experiences.

This roundtable discussion seeks to explore these possible ‘Brexit futures’, 
asking what it means for the EU and the wider continent of Europe, but also 
what it might mean for people living in the UK in their day to day lives and 
the futures they foresee in front of them.

Key questions include:
•   what does Brexit mean for mobility, and mobility equalities, within 
Europe and the EU?
•   how might Brexit impact on European imaginaries in the UK?
•   what implications are there for EU migrants in the UK – does it herald 
a new type of precarity?
•   how might Brexit be experienced socially in the UK?
•   what hidden inequalities might be revealed as a result of Brexit?
•   what does Brexit mean for an austere Europe?
•   how might Brexit be understood as something lived and experienced?
•   how might Brexit impact on the way people imagine the future – their 
own but also national and European futures?
•   how might Brexit be understood as part of a prefigurative politics?

We welcome expressions of interest from potential panel members to be emailed 
to kburr...@liverpool.ac.uk and sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk by 15 December 
2016.

Please tell us what you would be able to talk about, which questions you would 
like to address or other perspectives you could bring.