Re: Call for Papers - Path Creation and Regional Development
Dear Peter, Are the deadlines not in 2018? Kind regards, Ronald Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Peter Kedron Date: 16/10/2018 07:10 (GMT+01:00) To: ECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L@LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU Subject: Call for Papers - Path Creation and Regional Development Call for Papers Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 3-7, 2019 Path Creation and Regional Development: Diverse Research Trajectories and Directions Session Organisers: Danny Mackinnon (CURDS, Newcastle University, UK); Michaela Trippl (Dep. of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria); Arne Isaksen (School of Business and Innovation, University of Agder, Norway) Sponsored by the Economic Geography Speciality Group of the AAG In recent years, work on path creation and regional branching has gathered momentum in Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) and regional studies. Building upon an established strand of sociological research, the idea that place-specific legacies and conditions play a critical role in fostering new path creation is a founding assumption of this research. In particular, new models such as the ‘path as a process model’ and the rapidly growing body of literature on regional diversification highlight the role of pre-existing local structures, competences and resources in facilitating new path development. Subsequent contributions have offered insights into the processes and mechanisms that underpin different forms of path development, ranging from the creation of new paths to the importation of paths from outside the region, related and unrelated path diversification and the upgrading of existing industrial paths. EEG studies have recently attracted criticism for building on too narrowly conceptualised models of endogenous and firm-driven structural change and for neglecting the role of power, institutions and multi-scalar interrelatedness and embeddedness of firms and non-firm actors. In response, scholars have begun to develop broader conceptualisations of new path development by combining EEG with insights from research on regional and technological innovation systems, socio-technical transitions, global production and innovation networks and institutional entrepreneurship. This has opened up a range of perspectives on the emergence and transformation of regional industrial paths. Recent studies reflect a growing interest in multi-actor and multi-scalar approaches and provide richer explanations of why regions differ in their capacity to nurture new paths by harnessing local assets and attracting (and anchoring) exogenous resources. They also offer deeper insights into enabling and constraining factors that reside within old paths and innovation systems and cast light on the roles played by different forms of agency in creating and exploiting favourable conditions for new growth paths. This AAG session aims to further advance path creation research in economic geography and regional studies. In particular, it is designed to address the tendency for researchers to adopt different terminology, theoretical approaches and substantive research foci by encouraging increased dialogue and cross-fertilisation between them. As such, the organisers are seeking a range of contributions that seek to both advance research on path creation and foster debate about future directions and agendas. We very much welcome theoretical, methodological, empirical and policy analyses which address the following themes. * Definitions and conceptualisations of path creation relative to overlapping concepts such as path renewal, path importation / transplantation and path diversification / branching. * Assessments of the strengths and weaknesses of different theoretical frameworks, particularly in contributing to the understanding of path creation in different types of regions (core versus peripheral) and ‘challenge-led’ path development driven by underlying societal transitions to green and digital technologies. * The significance of different forms of agency and actors in fostering and shaping path creation, including entrepreneurs, trans-national corporations, universities and state agencies. * The contribution of different mechanism of path creation such as diversification, transplantation and indigenous path creation. * Different forms of technological and non-technological relatedness between pre-existing and emerging economic paths and the degree to which the importance of these different forms of relatedness varies across regions and industries * The role of multi-scalar institutional environments in enabling and constraining particular forms of regional path creation and how this may change over time. * The processes by which key ‘path advocates’ seek to empower and legitimate emerging paths within broader multi-scalar
AAG CFP (Final): Realising transformative climate economies? The place(s) of green finance in the Anthropocene
CfP AAG 2019, Washington DC, April 3-7. Realising transformative climate economies? The place(s) of green finance in the Anthropocene Organizers: Bregje van Veelen (Durham University), Mark Cooper (University of California, Davis), Richard Lane (Utrecht University) Discussant: Sabine Dörry (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research) Sponsorship: Economic Geography Specialty Group, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group This session aims to explore the cultural and political economy of green finance and its place in social and environmental transformations. We seek papers that examine the place of finance in the construction of diverse or transformative climate economies and the ways in which finance and its governance might contribute to – or hinder – a “new economic ethics for the Anthropocene” (Gibson-Graham and Roelvink 2010, 343). The Paris Agreement prioritizes finance as a core component of the global response to climate change. This focus on making finance work for climate change has contributed to the emergence of a range of new green finance initiatives, yet the role finance might play in social and environmental transitions and the emergence of diverse or transformative economies remains unclear. The existing literature on the cultural and political economy of green finance remains modest relative to the scale of the speed at which the issue has developed, and the transformative potential of remaking finance. Similarly, there is significant diversity within the forms of green finance and the places through which its flows, which is underexplored. In this session we seek to bring critical cultural and political economy approaches to bear on these emergent forms of finance. We are particularly interested in works that seek to “dislocate the hegemonic framing of capitalism” (Gibson-Graham 2008) to understand the role(s) of green finance in fostering diverse or transformative economies (see also Dörry and Schulz 2018). This includes work from the diverse economies approach, which challenges assumptions that the economy is inherently capitalist, a determining force rather than a site for transformation, and is separable from ecology (Gibson-Graham 2008; Gibson-Graham and Roelvink 2010). At the same time, we welcome papers that draw on critical approaches (e.g. Polanyian, performativity, pragmatics) that consider or critique the potential of the diverse economies concept for understanding emerging configurations of green finance. We therefore invite both conceptual and empirical contributions that seek to analyse the intersection between green finance and transformative/diverse economies to understand emerging climate economies. Questions could include, but are not limited to: -How does green finance contribute to the establishment of diverse relations – or complicate existing diverse relations – of production, labour and exchange? -How do the diverse debt relations of green finance manifest themselves in different places? -What role do metrics, indices, standards, and expertise play in supporting or obscuring difference/diversity in new financial relations? -What actors are at the heart of establishing new financial relations that can contribute to the establishment of diverse economies? -What financial struggles are taking place in particular places that are (re)defining what our economy is and who it is for, in a climate-challenged world? -How is finance engaged in the materialisation of new forms of ‘the economy’ (Mitchell 2008) through technologies of calculation and representation? We also welcome reflective contributions that consider for example the following questions: -How can our research open up new possibilities? What role can different theoretical approaches play? -Is a diverse economies lens a suitable approach to build a political research agenda for climate finance? What are its limitations? -What transformative potentials are present in finance not explicitly labelled green? How does finance in housing, transportation, food, mining, and energy contribute to new climate economies? References: Dörry and Schulz 2018 Green financing, interrupted. Potential directions for sustainable finance in Luxembourg. Local Environment. 23(7), 717-733 Gibson-Graham 2008 Diverse economies: performative practices for `other worlds'. Progress in Human Geography. 32(5), 613-632 Gibson-Graham and Roelvink 2010 An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene. Antipode. 41(s1), 320-346. Mitchell 2008 Rethinking Economy. Geoforum. 39(3), 1116-1121. __ Multiple sessions with an additional discussant may be organized if there is sufficient interest. To aid the discussant(s) for this session, presenters will be asked to submit a written paper several weeks before the conference. We welcome
