C Berndt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Berndt |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Berndt |
| SIGNATURE | BERNDT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0955-6585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Conjunctural crises and restructuring of south–south production networks: The example of the Chinese pesticide industry
This paper discusses the evolution of the Global Pesticide Complex during the last 30 years. We read the development of economic entities as a profoundly uneven spatiotemporal process patterned by intersecting challenges and contradictions which define conjunctural crises. Focusing on “south-south” supply chains, we demonstrate how Chinese producers have profoundly transformed the Global Pesticide Complex, influenced significantly by state interv…
The Generics Revolution and the New Economic Geography of the Global Pesticide Industry
The global pesticide industry transformed from one dominated by patented products and legacy multinationals with strong manufacturing bases in the United States and EU to one dominated by generic products produced in India and China. We use proprietary market research data, data from regulatory filings, industry press and bilateral trade data to map how the 'generics revolution' transformed production and trade in pesticides. Tracing significant …
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…
Geographies of marketization: Studying markets in postneoliberal times
This paper is as an invitation to rethink social studies of economization and geographies of marketization at a time when the heydays of neoliberal marketization seem to be over. After briefly summarizing the thrust of the economization/marketization approach, we make two suggestions to develop the perspective further. The first is to make use of economic geography’s heterodox tradition and contribute to the ongoing “provincialization” of the neo…
The Glyphosate Assemblage: Herbicides, Uneven Development, and Chemical Geographies of Ubiquity
The ubiquity of chemicals demands new ways of thinking about human–nature assemblages. This article develops a dialogue between agrarian political economy, critical commodity chains research, and chemical geographies through a case study of the world’s most widely used agrochemical: glyphosate, commonly known as Monsanto’s Roundup. In the 1980s, glyphosate triumphed as a benign biocide that promised both safety and effectiveness. This construct m…
Uneven development, commodity chains and the agrarian question
There has been a long overdue revival of interest recently amongst economic and development geographersin questions of geographical uneven development. On the one hand, this can be seen as a reaction to thepositive emphasis during the 1990s on the inclusion of firms, workers and regions in global value chains andproduction networks. On the other hand, there has been a growing awareness of the continuing importanceof agriculture and the question o…
Progress in Human Geography Best Paper Prize
Progress in Human Geography Best Paper Prize
Worlds of difference, different worlds: Geographies of globalization
No abstract available
Geographies of circulation and exchange III: The great crisis and marketization ‘after markets’
This report is a plea for ‘geographies of marketization’, a perspective that rests on the assumption that a world ‘after markets’ will only emerge on the terrain of ‘markets’ themselves. To sustain this claim we speculate about the role of economics in the breakdown and stabilization of neoliberal marketization. In an attempt to re-establish their discipline at a time of crisis and a loss of faith in information-efficient markets, economists incr…
Geographies of markets: Materials, morals and monsters in motion
Approaching processes of capitalist market exchange from a cultural economic perspective, we identify three strands of research that are all part of a widespread ‘pragmatic turn’ in the study of economic activities: (1) the conceptualization of markets as heterogeneous arrangements of people, things and sociotechnical devices; (2) the insight that multiple frames of reference are mobilized in everyday market activities in addition to instrumental…
Territorialized Key Words and Methodological Nationalism: Cultural Constructions of Institutional Change in Germany
The institutions around which the postwar German model has been constructed have increasingly been questioned both from within and from outside Germany, a transformation process which many observers have interpreted as cultural convergence to the currently hegemonic Anglo-American paradigm. Rather than representing change and resistance in Germany in terms of a transition from one stable cultural container to the other, the paper starts from a po…
Art in Arnhem Land
Geographies of markets: Materials, morals and monsters in motion
Approaching processes of capitalist market exchange from a cultural economic perspective, we identify three strands of research that are all part of a widespread ‘pragmatic turn’ in the study of economic activities: (1) the conceptualization of markets as heterogeneous arrangements of people, things and sociotechnical devices; (2) the insight that multiple frames of reference are mobilized in everyday market activities in addition to instrumental…
Geographies of circulation and exchange III: The great crisis and marketization ‘after markets’
This report is a plea for ‘geographies of marketization’, a perspective that rests on the assumption that a world ‘after markets’ will only emerge on the terrain of ‘markets’ themselves. To sustain this claim we speculate about the role of economics in the breakdown and stabilization of neoliberal marketization. In an attempt to re-establish their discipline at a time of crisis and a loss of faith in information-efficient markets, economists incr…
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…
The Glyphosate Assemblage: Herbicides, Uneven Development, and Chemical Geographies of Ubiquity
The ubiquity of chemicals demands new ways of thinking about human–nature assemblages. This article develops a dialogue between agrarian political economy, critical commodity chains research, and chemical geographies through a case study of the world’s most widely used agrochemical: glyphosate, commonly known as Monsanto’s Roundup. In the 1980s, glyphosate triumphed as a benign biocide that promised both safety and effectiveness. This construct m…
Geographies of marketization: Studying markets in postneoliberal times
This paper is as an invitation to rethink social studies of economization and geographies of marketization at a time when the heydays of neoliberal marketization seem to be over. After briefly summarizing the thrust of the economization/marketization approach, we make two suggestions to develop the perspective further. The first is to make use of economic geography’s heterodox tradition and contribute to the ongoing “provincialization” of the neo…
The Generics Revolution and the New Economic Geography of the Global Pesticide Industry
The global pesticide industry transformed from one dominated by patented products and legacy multinationals with strong manufacturing bases in the United States and EU to one dominated by generic products produced in India and China. We use proprietary market research data, data from regulatory filings, industry press and bilateral trade data to map how the 'generics revolution' transformed production and trade in pesticides. Tracing significant …
Territorialized Key Words and Methodological Nationalism: Cultural Constructions of Institutional Change in Germany
The institutions around which the postwar German model has been constructed have increasingly been questioned both from within and from outside Germany, a transformation process which many observers have interpreted as cultural convergence to the currently hegemonic Anglo-American paradigm. Rather than representing change and resistance in Germany in terms of a transition from one stable cultural container to the other, the paper starts from a po…
Uneven development, commodity chains and the agrarian question
There has been a long overdue revival of interest recently amongst economic and development geographersin questions of geographical uneven development. On the one hand, this can be seen as a reaction to thepositive emphasis during the 1990s on the inclusion of firms, workers and regions in global value chains andproduction networks. On the other hand, there has been a growing awareness of the continuing importanceof agriculture and the question o…
Conjunctural crises and restructuring of south–south production networks: The example of the Chinese pesticide industry
This paper discusses the evolution of the Global Pesticide Complex during the last 30 years. We read the development of economic entities as a profoundly uneven spatiotemporal process patterned by intersecting challenges and contradictions which define conjunctural crises. Focusing on “south-south” supply chains, we demonstrate how Chinese producers have profoundly transformed the Global Pesticide Complex, influenced significantly by state interv…
Art in Arnhem Land
Territorialized Key Words and Methodological Nationalism: Cultural Constructions of Institutional Change in Germany
The institutions around which the postwar German model has been constructed have increasingly been questioned both from within and from outside Germany, a transformation process which many observers have interpreted as cultural convergence to the currently hegemonic Anglo-American paradigm. Rather than representing change and resistance in Germany in terms of a transition from one stable cultural container to the other, the paper starts from a po…
Geographies of markets: Materials, morals and monsters in motion
Approaching processes of capitalist market exchange from a cultural economic perspective, we identify three strands of research that are all part of a widespread ‘pragmatic turn’ in the study of economic activities: (1) the conceptualization of markets as heterogeneous arrangements of people, things and sociotechnical devices; (2) the insight that multiple frames of reference are mobilized in everyday market activities in addition to instrumental…
Worlds of difference, different worlds: Geographies of globalization
No abstract available
Geographies of circulation and exchange III: The great crisis and marketization ‘after markets’
This report is a plea for ‘geographies of marketization’, a perspective that rests on the assumption that a world ‘after markets’ will only emerge on the terrain of ‘markets’ themselves. To sustain this claim we speculate about the role of economics in the breakdown and stabilization of neoliberal marketization. In an attempt to re-establish their discipline at a time of crisis and a loss of faith in information-efficient markets, economists incr…
Progress in Human Geography Best Paper Prize
Uneven development, commodity chains and the agrarian question
There has been a long overdue revival of interest recently amongst economic and development geographersin questions of geographical uneven development. On the one hand, this can be seen as a reaction to thepositive emphasis during the 1990s on the inclusion of firms, workers and regions in global value chains andproduction networks. On the other hand, there has been a growing awareness of the continuing importanceof agriculture and the question o…
Progress in Human Geography Best Paper Prize
Geographies of marketization: Studying markets in postneoliberal times
This paper is as an invitation to rethink social studies of economization and geographies of marketization at a time when the heydays of neoliberal marketization seem to be over. After briefly summarizing the thrust of the economization/marketization approach, we make two suggestions to develop the perspective further. The first is to make use of economic geography’s heterodox tradition and contribute to the ongoing “provincialization” of the neo…
The Glyphosate Assemblage: Herbicides, Uneven Development, and Chemical Geographies of Ubiquity
The ubiquity of chemicals demands new ways of thinking about human–nature assemblages. This article develops a dialogue between agrarian political economy, critical commodity chains research, and chemical geographies through a case study of the world’s most widely used agrochemical: glyphosate, commonly known as Monsanto’s Roundup. In the 1980s, glyphosate triumphed as a benign biocide that promised both safety and effectiveness. This construct m…
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…
Conjunctural crises and restructuring of south–south production networks: The example of the Chinese pesticide industry
This paper discusses the evolution of the Global Pesticide Complex during the last 30 years. We read the development of economic entities as a profoundly uneven spatiotemporal process patterned by intersecting challenges and contradictions which define conjunctural crises. Focusing on “south-south” supply chains, we demonstrate how Chinese producers have profoundly transformed the Global Pesticide Complex, influenced significantly by state interv…
The Generics Revolution and the New Economic Geography of the Global Pesticide Industry
The global pesticide industry transformed from one dominated by patented products and legacy multinationals with strong manufacturing bases in the United States and EU to one dominated by generic products produced in India and China. We use proprietary market research data, data from regulatory filings, industry press and bilateral trade data to map how the 'generics revolution' transformed production and trade in pesticides. Tracing significant …
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