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The real subsumption of nature and cryopolitics: Temporal fixes in dairy farming in Southern Italy 自然和低温政治的真正归属：意大利南部奶牛场的时间固定性

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241251477

László Cseke

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Introduction: Uneven development and social difference in capitalism 导言：资本主义的不均衡发展和社会差异

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241249555

Mikael Omstedt, Nina Ebner

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Erratum to State capacity and the ‘value’ of sustainable finance: Understanding the state-mediated rent and value production through the Seychelles Blue Bonds 国家能力与可持续金融的 "价值"》勘误：通过塞舌尔蓝色债券了解以国家为中介的租金和价值生产

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241246629

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The spatial polarization of housing wealth accumulation across Spain 西班牙住房财富积累的空间两极分化

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241247738

R. Arundel, José Manuel Torrado, Ricardo Duque-Calvache

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Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns 重塑社会空间定势：两个铁矿镇的行动者、时间和危机

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241247733

Tom Barratt, Johan Sandström, B. Ellem

{"title":"Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns","authors":"Tom Barratt, Johan Sandström, B. Ellem","doi":"10.1177/0308518x241247733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x241247733","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘spatial fix’ has been central to economic geography for nearly 50 years, examining capitalist development through both stability and change. Harvey’s original conceptions of the fix prioritised capital’s capacity to fix space to accumulate and forestall crisis. We continue this by considering the ‘ socio-spatial fix’, allowing closer investigation of who makes the landscapes of capitalism, and how actor choices and actor inter- and intra-relationships forestall crises of accumulation. We show how crisis, time and actors are central to making and re-making socio-spatial fixes and in turn to understanding both the socio-spatial dialectic and the spatial fix. Empirically, we compare two remote but globally networked mining towns, Kiruna, Sweden and Newman, Australia. Mining towns are rewarding case-studies because capital’s relative immobility and the dominance of a single industry make strikingly clear how both production and social reproduction are remade. We enrich general theorisations in three ways, by explaining: first, how crisis-threatening events require renegotiation of socio-spatial arrangements; second, how time and timing are critical in remaking fixes; third, how actor agency and heterogeneity are central because the actors who make fixes change over time and are in complex relationships with each other.","PeriodicalId":507698,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space","volume":" 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140687672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Centring or suburbanization? Changing locations of producer services in Shanghai 中心化还是郊区化？上海生产者服务地点的变化

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-04-14 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241245322

Y. Wei, Weiye Xiao, Yangyi Wu

{"title":"Centring or suburbanization? Changing locations of producer services in Shanghai","authors":"Y. Wei, Weiye Xiao, Yangyi Wu","doi":"10.1177/0308518x241245322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x241245322","url":null,"abstract":"Producer services are a critical indicator of global cities in advanced economies, whose spatial-temporal dynamics reflect the trajectory of urban transformation. However, the growth of producer services in China cannot be fully explained by current theories (e.g. neoclassical, institutional, global city and human capital theories), especially regarding their development process and geographical contexts. This study developed a context-sensitive analytical framework to comprehensively examine the location of producer services in Shanghai, a global city. We used rigorous geospatial analytical methods and considered sectoral differences and local contexts, especially institutional factors and urban spatial structure. We found that producer services in Shanghai were still concentrated in the city centre, but a dispersion trend could be detected, and subcentres were emerging in suburban areas. Further analysis highlighted producer service firms’ significant sector differences and various underlying spatiotemporal locational determinants. We identified positive effects of agglomeration on the emergence of centres for IT and research services. However, the concentration of financial and real estate services needs diversity, and agglomeration had a negative impact on them. Also, access to public transit promoted the development of IT and research services. Our study suggests that none of the existing theories alone can explain the location of producer servicer firms in Shanghai, and that sectoral heterogeneity and spatiality of producer services should be seriously considered in policy development and future studies.","PeriodicalId":507698,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140706036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Which ‘globalisations’ explain the overseas expansion of Chinese multinational enterprises through city-networks? 哪些 "全球化 "解释了中国跨国企业通过城市网络进行海外扩张？

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-03-30 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241239502

Weiyang Zhang, Thomas Sigler

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Planning incapacitated: Environmental planning and the political ecology of austerity 失去能力的规划：环境规划与紧缩的政治生态学

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241238880

Gareth Fearn

{"title":"Planning incapacitated: Environmental planning and the political ecology of austerity","authors":"Gareth Fearn","doi":"10.1177/0308518x241238880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x241238880","url":null,"abstract":"Coal mining in the UK, once central to its political economy, has been in terminal decline for decades for both political and more recently environmental reasons. Against the grain of this decline, the proposal of a new metallurgical coal mine near Whitehaven (on the north west coast of England) has caused significant controversy. Those supporting the mines development say it is necessary to ‘level up’ from the previous decade of austerity, whereas opponents argue that new coal mining would severely undermine the transition to low carbon energy sources. Through a discourse analysis and open-ended interviews, this paper analyses the contestation of the mine through the environmental planning process, identifying how both the discursive contestation and decision-making practices are shaped by political logics (austerity/levelling up) and ecological logics (climate change). The paper finds that, as states turn towards greater levels of public subsidies as a new form of crisis management, the environmental decision-making processes which can determine the shape of investments have been severely undermined through a decade or more of reduced public investment, policy streamlining and a lack of public expertise. The paper argues that even though states may be turning towards policies subsidising energy projects, they are doing so in a context where there is a lack of state capacity due to a ‘political ecology of austerity’, limiting public capacity to plan for a better future.","PeriodicalId":507698,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140210881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The anti-politics of impact investment: Financial self-regulation, market competition and over-indebtedness in Cambodia 影响力投资的反政治：柬埔寨的金融自律、市场竞争和过度负债问题

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241239797

W. N. Green

{"title":"The anti-politics of impact investment: Financial self-regulation, market competition and over-indebtedness in Cambodia","authors":"W. N. Green","doi":"10.1177/0308518x241239797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x241239797","url":null,"abstract":"Social impact investors claim to promote sustainable development by mobilizing private finance capital to solve pressing global challenges like poverty alleviation. In this paper, I interrogate this claim through an examination of microfinance in Cambodia, a major destination for impact investment. In the past decade, Cambodia has received nearly 10% of global investments from microfinance-specific funds. It now has the largest microfinance-debt per capita ratio of any country in the world. Based on qualitative research between 2021 and 2023, I argue that impact investment functions as an anti-politics of development that reinforces finance as a political technology of neoliberal governance. Over the past two decades, impact investors have poured capital into the country’s microfinance industry to expand access to credit without acknowledging structural political-economic conditions that have produced rising over-indebtedness among microfinance borrowers. Instead, they have argued that the problems created by the microfinance industry are best resolved through a self-regulation model that uses a voluntary code of conduct based on global standards of responsible finance. Thus, impact investors have been integral in broader transformations that have extended financial logics, technologies and accumulation imperatives into people’s daily lives. This paper contributes to economic geography and critical development studies by explaining how impact investment deepens neoliberal financialization.","PeriodicalId":507698,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space","volume":"7 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140227914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa 中国对非洲私人投资的跨国化内部创业

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space Pub Date : 2024-03-09 DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241235578

Ding Fei

{"title":"Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa","authors":"Ding Fei","doi":"10.1177/0308518x241235578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x241235578","url":null,"abstract":"The paper investigates the structures, forces, and actors that drive and constrain transnationalizing intrapreneurship—the overseas business initiatives taken by subsidiaries—under Chinese private investment in Africa. Drawing upon the economic-geographic literature on entrepreneurship, it integrates process- and agency-perspectives to understand the interplay between political-economic contexts, institutional structures, and leadership actions in shaping the intrapreneurial endeavors of Chinese private firms. The process perspective entails seeing intrapreneurial ventures not as singular events but a recursive development of resources, capabilities, and networks in transnational contexts. The agency perspective emphasizes the motivations and actions of subsidiary leaders in charting out new spaces of business opportunities, while also acknowledging the embeddedness of these intrapreneurs in the broader institutional and political-economic landscapes of both host and home countries. The empirical analyses draw upon a multi-year ethnographic research with a Chinese automobile assembler in Ethiopia. Discussions of the firm’s internationalization trajectory—initial market venture, subsidiary business expansion, and recent decline in intrapreneurial momentum—over the past two decades offer a nuanced understanding of the contingent, context-specific, and fluid nature of transnationalizing intrapreneurship associated with Chinese private investment in Africa.","PeriodicalId":507698,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space","volume":"174 S404","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140256570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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