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Entangling global chains of wealth and value through CSR-ization: A critical Polanyian perspective on Weda Bay Nickel 通过企业社会责任化纠缠全球财富和价值链:对韦达湾镍业的批判性波兰观点

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231191946

F. Palpacuer, C. Roussey

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Can polycentric urban development simultaneously achieve both economic growth and regional equity? A multi-scale analysis of German regions 多中心城市发展能否同时实现经济增长和区域公平?德国地区的多尺度分析

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231191943

Wenzheng Li, Stephan Schmidt, S. Siedentop

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Stratified pathways into platform work: Migration trajectories and skills in Berlin’s gig economy 进入平台工作的分层路径:柏林零工经济中的移民轨迹和技能

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231191933

Barbara Orth

{"title":"Stratified pathways into platform work: Migration trajectories and skills in Berlin’s gig economy","authors":"Barbara Orth","doi":"10.1177/0308518x231191933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x231191933","url":null,"abstract":"Platform labour scholars have noted the prevalence of migrant workers in the gig economy. This paper builds on this research but interrogates the broad concept of ‘migrant labour’. The study draws on biographical interviews with platform workers in grocery delivery and domestic work platforms in Berlin, Germany as well as expert interviews with union representatives, migrant organisations and white-collar platform company employees. Through an examination of the mobility strategies of platform workers in this subset of the platform economy, the study reveals a stratification of migrant trajectories and of skills needed to engage in platform work across different types of labour platforms. The study finds that platform companies draw on a workforce that consists of recently arrived young migrants with comparatively high education, language skills and digital literacy. Through close analysis of an understudied section of the gig economy, the paper contributes to the ongoing theorisation of the nexus of migration regimes and platform-mediated labour regimes. The findings complicate the notion of ‘accessibility’ of platform work and call for the inclusion of visa regimes, immigration categories and particular skill sets in future research on platform labour.","PeriodicalId":48432,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84354266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Uneven and combined development in anthropology 人类学的不平衡与综合发展

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231189385

Sharryn Kasmir, Jaume Franquesa, Lesley Gill, Winnie Lem, Gavin Smith

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The firm-territory nexus in a fragmented economy: Scales of global value and wealth chain entanglement 碎片化经济中的企业-领土关系:全球价值和财富链纠缠的尺度

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231189384

Leonard Seabrooke, Saila Stausholm

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State action and inaction in the shaping of value and wealth entanglements: The role of Singapore in the global ‘gold chain’ 价值和财富纠缠的形成:新加坡在全球“金链”中的作用

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-21 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231181128

Lotte Thomsen, Karen P. Y. Lai, S. Ponte

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Analytical eclecticism for vigor and rigor? 分析折衷主义的活力和严谨?

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231189391

Heather Whiteside

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Incendiary assets: Risk, power, and the law in an era of catastrophic fire 易燃资产:灾难性火灾时代的风险、权力和法律

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231191930

John Schmidt

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Why is causal explanation critical in/to economic geography? 为什么因果解释对经济地理学至关重要?

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231191923

H. Yeung

{"title":"Why is causal explanation critical in/to economic geography?","authors":"H. Yeung","doi":"10.1177/0308518x231191923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x231191923","url":null,"abstract":"This intervention elaborates on why causal explanation can serve as an indispensable building block towards robust theory development in economic geography. It argues for the critical importance of causal explanation in the subfield’s intellectual development and to its wider appeal to the social sciences. First, I show how this vital importance is premised on explanations that uncover the causal mechanisms of economic events, practices and processes that make things happen in society and space. Put differently, explanation needs causal connections as its necessary condition of explanatory power and practical adequacy. Its empirical operation is grounded in contextual contingencies and place-based specificities in an economic-geographical world characterized by complexity, multiplicity and emergence. Second, I explain why causal explanation represents a necessary step towards pragmatic research in economic geography. Our socio-spatial interventions can be better developed if we have a clearer sense of why and how carefully theorized causal mechanisms interact with contingent contexts to produce specific events and outcomes in the space-economy. Framed in this double hermeneutic sense of being both vital and pragmatic, causal explanation is critical in/to economic geography.","PeriodicalId":48432,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91034903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From coca to cocoa: Conflicts, violence and hegemonic compromises in the turbulent Peruvian Amazonia settlement process: The case of Tocache 从古柯到可可:动荡的秘鲁亚马逊流域定居过程中的冲突、暴力和霸权妥协:托卡什的案例

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231189569

Daniel Coq-Huelva, A. Higuchi, Ruth Arias-Gutiérrez, Rafaela Alfalla-Luque

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