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A 45-year retrospective of the European Union’s fishing access agreements with coastal States of the Global South Open
Since the end of the 1970s, the European Union (EU) has formalized and developed its member States’ longstanding and significant presence in the waters of developing coastal States through fishing access agreements. This study provides the…
Hidden costs and propped-up profits: unraveling the economics of Europe’s purse-seine tuna fishing industry Open
Despite tuna fisheries’ global economic significance and contributions to food security and trade, we find that without substantial subsidies, notably fuel tax exemptions and fishing access agreement fees supported by public funds from the…
Pelagic Imperialism in the 21st Century? A Geopolitical Economy of China's Distant Water Fishing Industry Open
China is the home of the world's largest distant water fishing (DWF) fleet. Narratives of its expansion portray China as a voracious consumer of ocean resources, as a serial abuser of labour and as aggressively expanding into developing co…
View article: The Ocean System Pathways (OSPs): A New Scenario and Simulation Framework to Investigate the Future of the World Fisheries
The Ocean System Pathways (OSPs): A New Scenario and Simulation Framework to Investigate the Future of the World Fisheries Open
The Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems Model Intercomparison Project (FishMIP) has dedicated a decade to unraveling the future impacts of climate change on marine animal biomass. FishMIP is now preparing a new simulation protocol to assess th…
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry Open
We develop and deploy a business politics lens to examine the mechanisms and processes of negotiation through which multinational enterprises (MNEs) and various host country actors interact, leading to different regional trajectories of ec…
View article: The Ocean System Pathways (OSPs): a new scenario and simulation framework to investigate the future of the world fisheries
The Ocean System Pathways (OSPs): a new scenario and simulation framework to investigate the future of the world fisheries Open
The Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems Model Intercomparison Project (FishMIP) has dedicated a decade to unravelling the future impacts of climate change on marine animal biomass. FishMIP is now preparing a new simulation protocol to assess t…
A geopolitical-economy of distant water fisheries access arrangements Open
In recent decades, fishing fleets and effort have grown in aggregate throughout the waters of lower-income coastal countries, much of which is carried out by vessels registered in higher-income countries. Fisheries access arrangements (FAA…
Elite agency in the growth of offshore business services in Romania Open
Processes of outsourcing and offshoring have driven the changing spatial divisions of labour through foreign investment and development of peripheral regions into key offshore destinations for business services. This paper focuses on the r…
Maritime temporalities and capitalist development Open
This intervention develops arguments in our book Capitalism and the Sea on the complex temporalities attached to capitalism's intense and peculiar relationship to the global ocean. Technological innovations like the steamship or containeri…
Global inequality chains: how global value chains and wealth chains (re)produce inequalities of wealth Open
CHAINS VI 3.2 Overview of orchestration options in coffee and biofuel global value chains 7.1 Top ten European lead firms at the top of banana chains, 2020 7.2 Evolution of civil society's role in influencing the lead firm to change VII No…
Industrial Fisheries and Ocean Accumulation Open
Three-fourths of the world’s marine capture fisheries are at or beyond ‘full exploitation’, indicating the likelihood that many fish populations, and the ecosystem of which they are a part, will decline (if they are not already) with curre…
Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour Open
Covid‐19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explo…
The corporation and resource geography Open
This chapter asks whether the study of the corporation can enrich critical resource geography (CRG) and, conversely, the ways in which CRG can contribute to our understanding of contemporary capitalism as dominated by multinational corpora…
Capitalist crisis in the “age of global value chains” Open
In this article, we analyze the strategies, surprises, and sidesteps in the World Bank’s 2020 World Development Report, Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains . Strategically, the Report promotes an expansion of neoliber…
Beyond rentiership: Standardisation, intangibles and value capture in global production Open
We examine corporate rentiership in the contemporary economy and suggest that the idea we are in a moment of step-change within capitalism may be premature. Implicit in arguments for a step-change is the claim that the present-day economy …
South Korea's Automotive Labour Regime, Hyundai Motors’ Global Production Network and Trade‐Based Integration with the European Union Open
This article explores the interrelationship between global production networks (GPNs) and free trade agreements (FTAs) in the South Korean auto industry and its employment relations. It focuses on the production network of the Hyundai Moto…
Class dynamics of development: a methodological note Open
This article argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. Class is conceived as arising out of exploitative social relations of production, but …
The influence of tariff regimes on global production networks (GPNs) Open
Despite the recognition that trade policy—in particular, tariff regimes and rules of origin—can affect the geography of production, much GPN analyses pay scant attention to the tariff context of the sector studied. This paper proposes an a…
The Trade-Labour Nexus: Global Value Chains and Labour Provisions in European Union Free Trade Agreements Open
Labour standards provisions contained within the European Union’s (EU) free trade agreements (FTAs) are a major iteration of attempts to regulate working conditions in the global economy. This article develops an analysis of how the legal …
Labour Standards Provisions in EU Free Trade Agreements: Reflections on the European Commission's Reform Agenda Open
Labour standards provisions within the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters of EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are presented as a key element of the EU's commitment to a ‘value-based trade agenda’. But criticism of TSD chapters…
Labor Regimes, Global Production Networks, and European Union Trade Policy: Labor Standards and Export Production in the Moldovan Clothing Industry Open
This article examines the relations between workplace and local labor regimes, global production networks (GPNs), and the state-led creation of expanded markets as spaces of capitalist regulation through trade policy. Through an examinatio…
Governing Labour Standards through Free Trade Agreements: Limits of the European Union's Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters Open
The EU has established a new architecture of international labour standards governance within the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters of its Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). To examine the operationalization of this framework, we…
Workers’ rights are now a basic element of trade deals. What stance will Britain take? Open
Labour rights are now a basic component of many of the kinds of trade agreements the UK wants to sign post-Brexit, but there has been little discussion of what sort of provisions the UK wants to see in them. James Harrison and colleagues h…
Small Vulnerable Economies and Fisheries Subsidies Disciplines Open
This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics reflects on one aspect of the trade-related implementation agenda of SDG14. Around 90 per cent fished to full capacity or over fished. In order to overcome this tragedy of the commons, securing a…
Where Chain Governance and Environmental Governance Meet: Interfirm Strategies in the Canned Tuna Global Value Chain Open
In value chain scholarship, chain governance is the relationship of power among firms in a production network. For economic geographers working on the environment, governance refers primarily to state- and nonstate-based institutional and …