Nina Ebner
Biographic Data
| ID | 958217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Ebner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Ebner |
| SIGNATURE | EBNER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Futures of industrial work? Economic restructuring and the ambivalent realities of technological change
The ‘future of work’ in manufacturing or similarly positioned ‘productive’ sectors is an increasing public and academic concern. Debate tends to polarize between anxious and dystopic accounts that explore the threat of technological change to existing industries and celebratory, optimistic accounts that focus on the ambitious promises of possible futures. In response, a critical labour studies scholarship has argued that these narratives tend to …
Militarization landscapes of labour social reproduction
This article examines the intersection of militarization, violence, and labour discipline in Mexico’s export-oriented manufacturing sector. While the country is often portrayed as navigating a paradox, marked by high levels of violence on one hand and economic dynamism on the other, we argue that these phenomena are not contradictory but mutually constitutive. Drawing on labour regime and social reproduction theory and qualitative research in Cel…
Social protection systems and gender
The negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have motivated an unprecedented level of global advocacy for gender-responsive and gender-transformative social protection systems that buffer individuals from shocks and vulnerabilities. This turn to a systems approach reflects growing recognition that the presence of one or two social protection programmes targeting women does not guarantee that they are protected throughout the course of their live…
Introduction
Capitalism; uneven development; social difference
From Paso del Norte to the Borderplex
Based on over two years of ethnographic research in the US–Mexico borderlands, this article examines how regional economic development actors work to position the border region as a competitive node in the global economy. In the context of the economic uncertainty generated by recent political and economic restructuring, like the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, actors deploy discourses of regionalism and practices of regional int…
Nearshoring and the Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border
Ciudad Juárez skyline, 2022. (ALEJANDRO ROSALES / CC BY-SA 4.0)In 2021, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, industry promoter Jon Barela testified at a joint hearing of the Texas House. CEO of
A borderland analytic
Economic geographers have long emphasized the ways in which borders are central to capitalism's uneven development. Yet even as scholarship outlines how borders are central devices for the articulation of the global political economy, they often are framed as functional to the system's immanent dynamics or as theoretical devices, with borderlands invisibilized as complex sites and spaces in their own right. Drawing on Margaret Ramírez's concept o…
Fantasy Island
In this article we trace mobilizations of the Hong Kong 'model' through mutating policy networks to highlight connections made by (and around) Nobel-prize-winning economist Paul Romer, as a roving policy advocate for charter cities and as an 'economist in the wild'. Frustrated in practice but politically resilient, the idea of charter cities recycles the notion of territorial enclaves founded on 'empty' land and governed in accordance with purifi…
Blood and Borders
Each week, thousands of Mexican nationals living in northern Mexican border cities cross the border into the United States with nonimmigrant visas to “donate” blood plasma at commercial collection centers in exchange for a prepaid Visa gift card (valued at up to US$50). For these individuals, many of whom work on maquiladora assembly lines, a single donation can nearly double their weekly wages. If the ability to keep wages low remains a key mean…
Thinking racial capitalism from the Inland Empire
Juan De Lara’s Inland Shift: Race, Space and Capital in Southern California is the product of a long-term engagement with Southern California’s Inland Empire, a region on the outskirts of Los Angel
Automotive global value chains in Mexico
International monetary organisations argue the ‘developing countries’ should foster linkages to the world economy as a means to overcome backwardness. In this article we refute the narrative that Mexico has experienced industrial upgrading. Rather, industrial growth in Mexico over the last 40 years has been shaped by neoliberal economic policies which have turned the Mexican economy into an export-led manufacturing platform designed to supply the…
Blood and Borders
Each week, thousands of Mexican nationals living in northern Mexican border cities cross the border into the United States with nonimmigrant visas to “donate” blood plasma at commercial collection centers in exchange for a prepaid Visa gift card (valued at up to US$50). For these individuals, many of whom work on maquiladora assembly lines, a single donation can nearly double their weekly wages. If the ability to keep wages low remains a key mean…
Fantasy Island
In this article we trace mobilizations of the Hong Kong 'model' through mutating policy networks to highlight connections made by (and around) Nobel-prize-winning economist Paul Romer, as a roving policy advocate for charter cities and as an 'economist in the wild'. Frustrated in practice but politically resilient, the idea of charter cities recycles the notion of territorial enclaves founded on 'empty' land and governed in accordance with purifi…
Automotive global value chains in Mexico
International monetary organisations argue the ‘developing countries’ should foster linkages to the world economy as a means to overcome backwardness. In this article we refute the narrative that Mexico has experienced industrial upgrading. Rather, industrial growth in Mexico over the last 40 years has been shaped by neoliberal economic policies which have turned the Mexican economy into an export-led manufacturing platform designed to supply the…
Introduction
Capitalism; uneven development; social difference
A borderland analytic
Economic geographers have long emphasized the ways in which borders are central to capitalism's uneven development. Yet even as scholarship outlines how borders are central devices for the articulation of the global political economy, they often are framed as functional to the system's immanent dynamics or as theoretical devices, with borderlands invisibilized as complex sites and spaces in their own right. Drawing on Margaret Ramírez's concept o…
From Paso del Norte to the Borderplex
Based on over two years of ethnographic research in the US–Mexico borderlands, this article examines how regional economic development actors work to position the border region as a competitive node in the global economy. In the context of the economic uncertainty generated by recent political and economic restructuring, like the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, actors deploy discourses of regionalism and practices of regional int…
Thinking racial capitalism from the Inland Empire
Juan De Lara’s Inland Shift: Race, Space and Capital in Southern California is the product of a long-term engagement with Southern California’s Inland Empire, a region on the outskirts of Los Angel
Thinking racial capitalism from the Inland Empire
Juan De Lara’s Inland Shift: Race, Space and Capital in Southern California is the product of a long-term engagement with Southern California’s Inland Empire, a region on the outskirts of Los Angel
Automotive global value chains in Mexico
International monetary organisations argue the ‘developing countries’ should foster linkages to the world economy as a means to overcome backwardness. In this article we refute the narrative that Mexico has experienced industrial upgrading. Rather, industrial growth in Mexico over the last 40 years has been shaped by neoliberal economic policies which have turned the Mexican economy into an export-led manufacturing platform designed to supply the…
Blood and Borders
Each week, thousands of Mexican nationals living in northern Mexican border cities cross the border into the United States with nonimmigrant visas to “donate” blood plasma at commercial collection centers in exchange for a prepaid Visa gift card (valued at up to US$50). For these individuals, many of whom work on maquiladora assembly lines, a single donation can nearly double their weekly wages. If the ability to keep wages low remains a key mean…
Fantasy Island
In this article we trace mobilizations of the Hong Kong 'model' through mutating policy networks to highlight connections made by (and around) Nobel-prize-winning economist Paul Romer, as a roving policy advocate for charter cities and as an 'economist in the wild'. Frustrated in practice but politically resilient, the idea of charter cities recycles the notion of territorial enclaves founded on 'empty' land and governed in accordance with purifi…
Nearshoring and the Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border
Ciudad Juárez skyline, 2022. (ALEJANDRO ROSALES / CC BY-SA 4.0)In 2021, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, industry promoter Jon Barela testified at a joint hearing of the Texas House. CEO of
A borderland analytic
Economic geographers have long emphasized the ways in which borders are central to capitalism's uneven development. Yet even as scholarship outlines how borders are central devices for the articulation of the global political economy, they often are framed as functional to the system's immanent dynamics or as theoretical devices, with borderlands invisibilized as complex sites and spaces in their own right. Drawing on Margaret Ramírez's concept o…
Social protection systems and gender
The negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have motivated an unprecedented level of global advocacy for gender-responsive and gender-transformative social protection systems that buffer individuals from shocks and vulnerabilities. This turn to a systems approach reflects growing recognition that the presence of one or two social protection programmes targeting women does not guarantee that they are protected throughout the course of their live…
Introduction
Capitalism; uneven development; social difference
From Paso del Norte to the Borderplex
Based on over two years of ethnographic research in the US–Mexico borderlands, this article examines how regional economic development actors work to position the border region as a competitive node in the global economy. In the context of the economic uncertainty generated by recent political and economic restructuring, like the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, actors deploy discourses of regionalism and practices of regional int…
Futures of industrial work? Economic restructuring and the ambivalent realities of technological change
The ‘future of work’ in manufacturing or similarly positioned ‘productive’ sectors is an increasing public and academic concern. Debate tends to polarize between anxious and dystopic accounts that explore the threat of technological change to existing industries and celebratory, optimistic accounts that focus on the ambitious promises of possible futures. In response, a critical labour studies scholarship has argued that these narratives tend to …
Militarization landscapes of labour social reproduction
This article examines the intersection of militarization, violence, and labour discipline in Mexico’s export-oriented manufacturing sector. While the country is often portrayed as navigating a paradox, marked by high levels of violence on one hand and economic dynamism on the other, we argue that these phenomena are not contradictory but mutually constitutive. Drawing on labour regime and social reproduction theory and qualitative research in Cel…
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