Sören Scholvin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 316024 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sören Scholvin |
| PRENOMES | Sören |
| SOBRENOME | Scholvin |
| ASSINATURA | SCHOLVIN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universidad Católica del Norte |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5911-2718 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
El Desarrollo Endógeno en la Periferia
Tocopilla, in the north of Chile, is a typical case of towns shaped by extractivism.For more than a hundred years, thermoelectric power plants there supplied the mines in the hinterland.However, Tocopilla never benefitted from this essential role.With the closure of the plants that began in 2019, the town's future looks even more sombre.This article analyses whether there are prospects for endogenous development in Tocopilla.The authors present a…
New development paths through green hydrogen
Many developing countries seek to participate in the emerging global green hydrogen industry, not only as exporters of green hydrogen and its derivatives to Europe and the Far East, but also to use it for their own energy security and green transition. They hope that new development paths will lead to late-comer industrialisation. This article assesses corresponding prospects in Chile and Namibia, two countries that pursue particularly ambitious …
Green hydrogen and late-comer industrialization
Green hydrogen production appears to have opened a window of opportunity for late-comer industrialization. The article presents a new framework for assessing corresponding prospects. Details of investment projects, characteristics of the associated technologies and features that mark the host region explain linkage-based development. Features of the host region are influenced by strategic industrial policies. Bargaining with lead firms affects de…
Neither the dark side, nor the bright
Because of digitalization, telework has become increasingly important in many developing coun-tries. This includes the information and telecommunication (IT) sector. The existing literature hasuncovered downsides such as overwork and unsocial work hours, no social security and strongdownward pressure on salaries. This article calls the scepticism on IT telework into question,demonstrating that participation in a globalized labour market has much …
La industria de hidrógeno verde en Antofagasta
La industria de hidrgeno verde est marcada por una dinmica sin precedentes, lo que implica oportunidades para unos pases del Sur global, incluyendo Chile.Considerando los bajos costos de la energa fotovoltaica, la regin de Antofagasta podra convertirse en un nodo de la nueva industria.El artculo analiza si la futura produccin de hidrgeno verde es una oportunidad para el desarrollo regional.Empleando el marco conceptual de "linkages", se estudian …
More than an inter-scalar mediator
Recent contributions to the global production networks (GPN) literature delve into public governance as mediation between global networks and regional assets. They deal with the state as a buyer, producer and regulator. Further developing this line of research, the present article goes beyond inter-scalar mediation, explaining how Chile's National Mining Company (ENAMI, by its Spanish acronym) directly ties domestic production to international ma…
Why multinational development corridors don’t move ahead
Development corridors have become a key tool of economic policy in the Global South. Yet, it appears that many of these mega-projects already fail at the stage of implementation. The article deals with three problems that corridors face. Corresponding ideas are drawn from existing literature, and confirmed and expanded against the backdrop of a case study on the Bioceanic Corridor, which connects the central west of Brazil via Paraguay and Argent…
Place branding in resource peripheries
Cities in resource peripheries tend to be unattractive places. They lack the features that appeal to the knowledge elite – at least from the perspective of Richard Florida's influential work – and, therefore, face challenges to diversify their economy. The article deals with Antofagasta, which is the capital of one of the world's most important mining regions. In recent years, considerable efforts have been undertaken in terms of "place branding"…
El Corredor Bioceánico como motor del desarrollo
Los corredores de desarrollo tienen por objetivo vincular las regiones periféricas con la economía global. Son diversos en cuanto a su complejidad, pero siempre se basan en la mejora de la infraestructura de transporte. El artículo analiza las perspectivas de los proveedores de servicios de transporte en Antofagasta de internacionalizarse a través del Corredor Bioceánico - una ruta vial que conecta el Norte Grande chileno con las provincias de Ju…
Spaces of Global Production
Spaces of global production comprise a diverse set of spatial figures that result from and support a global division of labour. The proliferation of spatial figures in scholarly work on global production in economic geography and beyond maps a conceptual landscape. The network , the agglomeration , the frontier, the plantation, the gateway , the corridor , the zone , the enclave , and the archipelago are key concepts mobilized by social sciences …
World city making by branding
Cities engage in branding to present themselves as attractive locations. Some seek to gain recognition as world cities this way. The article identifies liveable environments with inclusive societies, events/mega-events, and iconic architecture as key components of such strategies. These thoughts are applied to Cape Town and Johannesburg. The former brands itself as an ‘opportunity city.’ It fits well into world city making through attraction as a…
Formalization beyond legalization
Beyond offshoring
Trade in services has grown more rapidly than trade in manufactured goods in recent decades. Countries from the Global South are chiefly responsible for this shift. The research note draws attention to service investment that originates in Southern economies and is directed at markets of the same (sub)continent. Such dynamics have been neglected by academic debates focussed on global value chains and offshored, largely generic services. The autho…
Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional DevelopmentHarnessing Global Value Chains for Regional DevelopmentBy Riccardo Crescenzi and Oliver HarmanAbingdon, UK
For about two decades now, global value chains (GVCs) have been an essential analytical tool for scholars and policy makers. A new book by Riccardo Crescenzi and Oliver Harman presents the topic to
Failed development in global networks, exemplified by extractive industries in Bolivia and Ghana
For the World Bank, integration into the global economy is the path towards development. Its experts argue that the Global South will benefit from easing barriers to investment and trade, thus facilitating interaction between transnational corporations and local enterprises. Yet, there is growing scepticism regarding the prospects to develop in global networks. This article delves into their dark side. Following critical scholarship, the author s…
Victor Bravo & Nicolas Di Sbroiavacca
Bibliographie: Scholvin, Sören: Victor Bravo & Nicolas Di Sbroiavacca: Oil and Natural Gas Economy in Argentina. The Case of Fracking. Cham: Springer 2021 (= The Latin American Studies Book Series), 301 Seiten (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65520-4), PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Nr. 165+166 (1-2022), S. 238-240. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v42i1.22 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 05.07.2022 im Open Acce…
An unexpected gateway
The periphery of the world economy is integrated into global production networks (GPNs) by ‘gateways’. These are intermediary places from where transnational corporations organise their business activities in close cooperation with corporate service providers. Gateways may also serve as logistics nodes as well as sites of industrial processing and knowledge generation. While some claim that gateways are engines of growth, others argue that they p…
New perspectives on value chains in sub-Saharan Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) around the world.1 Trade wars were already posing challenges to current GVC arrangements and encouraging efforts to
Peripheral development through extractive industries
Regional value chains as new pathways to development
There is growing scepticism about global value chains because of their association with an unequal global trading system. Regionally coordinated and integrated production in Asia appears to have served as a better mechanism for promoting economic prosperity than direct integration into global markets. This is founded upon regional cooperation on investment, trade and value chains. This research note distinguishes different forms of these chains, …
Getting the territory wrong
Development corridors bring transport infrastructure together with regulatory reforms and other measures to produce regions that are functional in the sense that they can plug into global value chains. They promise regional development by ‘getting the territory right’. Yet, numerous studies show that the outcomes are mixed. Some corridors are marked by serious shortcomings. Contributing to our understanding of the dark side of corridors, this res…
Natural resources and divergence
Obstacles to linkage-based diversification in the oil and gas sector
Diversity in brokerage
The article invites readers to rethink cities in economic networks against the backdrop of the many ways in which ‘gateway cities’, serving as brokers, interlink their respective hinterlands globally. It adds logistics, industrial processing and knowledge transmission to the more established gateway dimensions of corporate control and related service provision. This open heuristic is applied to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cape Town (South Africa) a…
Limits of linkage-based development
The research note assesses the prospects of development through extractive industries in north Patagonia (Argentina), a region that holds considerably large unconventional oil and gas deposits. The author applies the linkage approach from the literature on global value chains, paying particular attention to backward and forward production linkages because they may trigger a structural transformation of the regional economy. He finds that north Pa…
Revisiting gateway cities
Gateway cities have received much attention from urban geographers. In spite of outstanding contributions being made, we think that the concept needs to be revisited with regard to regional development implications. Bringing together research on global production networks (GPNs) and world cities, this article shows that gateway cities are critical for development in networks, generating impulses for peripheral locations by engaging them in proces…
Power politics by economic means
Geoeconomics has become highly relevant for foreign policy practices and national security strategies, wherefore it has also started to receive increasing attention from academics. Unfortunately, there is no widely shared definition of geoeconomics. The term is often only used as a catchword that generates an audience for policy-oriented, semi-scientific outlets. This article addresses this weakness of the state of the art. The authors suggest th…
Is Brazil a Geoeconomic Node? Geography, Public Policy, and the Failure of Economic Integration in South America
Brazil has been labeled an anchor country, a leading area, and a regional power. Yet, even before the crisis triggered by Operation ‘Car Wash’ began, several scholars had called into question Brazil’s driving role in regional integration, stressing political challenges and economic weaknesses that hindered closer relationships among the South American countries. More optimistic research tends to concentrate on initiatives and visions of Brazil’s …
New development paths through green hydrogen
Many developing countries seek to participate in the emerging global green hydrogen industry, not only as exporters of green hydrogen and its derivatives to Europe and the Far East, but also to use it for their own energy security and green transition. They hope that new development paths will lead to late-comer industrialisation. This article assesses corresponding prospects in Chile and Namibia, two countries that pursue particularly ambitious …
Formalization beyond legalization
Endogenous Obstacles to Development in Global Value Chains
The World Bank promotes integration into global value chains as the path towards development. By liberalising their respective national economies, African countries are expected to benefit from economic impulses, with more and more activities beyond resource extraction being relocated to peripheral locations and generating so-called linkages there. This analytical report focuses on the upstream oil and gas sector, showing that Africa's hydrocarbo…
Buenos Aires as a gateway city
World cites are critical nodes in global production networks (GPNs). Being ‘gateways’, they serve as hubs for transport and logistics, industrial processing, corporate control and service provision as well as knowledge transmission. In this article, the concept of gateway cities is applied to Buenos Aires and the oil and gas sector. The author explains processes of concentration and dispersal, showing that Buenos Aires concentrates corporate cont…
Getting the territory wrong
Development corridors bring transport infrastructure together with regulatory reforms and other measures to produce regions that are functional in the sense that they can plug into global value chains. They promise regional development by ‘getting the territory right’. Yet, numerous studies show that the outcomes are mixed. Some corridors are marked by serious shortcomings. Contributing to our understanding of the dark side of corridors, this res…
Limits of linkage-based development
The research note assesses the prospects of development through extractive industries in north Patagonia (Argentina), a region that holds considerably large unconventional oil and gas deposits. The author applies the linkage approach from the literature on global value chains, paying particular attention to backward and forward production linkages because they may trigger a structural transformation of the regional economy. He finds that north Pa…
Obstacles to linkage-based diversification in the oil and gas sector
Diversity in brokerage
The article invites readers to rethink cities in economic networks against the backdrop of the many ways in which ‘gateway cities’, serving as brokers, interlink their respective hinterlands globally. It adds logistics, industrial processing and knowledge transmission to the more established gateway dimensions of corporate control and related service provision. This open heuristic is applied to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cape Town (South Africa) a…
A magic formula for economic development? Global market integration and spatial polarization in extractive industries
The World Bank, World Trade Organization and others promote integration into global markets as a certain path towards economic development. Some researchers share this optimism, arguing that development is the record of how one thing leads to another, once peripheral locations have plugged into global networks. Comparing resource peripheries in South America, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa with regard to the upstream oil and gas sector, we…
Developmental Regionalism and Regional Value Chains
Regional integration via the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) received a significant boost when the South African parliament signed the corresponding agreement in October 2018. This article uncovers the convictions and objectives that drive South Africa's commitment to the TFTA. It reveals that South Africa sees the TFTA as a means of 'developmental regionalism,' which is expected to facilitate region-wide industrialisation based on value additi…
Regional value chains as new pathways to development
There is growing scepticism about global value chains because of their association with an unequal global trading system. Regionally coordinated and integrated production in Asia appears to have served as a better mechanism for promoting economic prosperity than direct integration into global markets. This is founded upon regional cooperation on investment, trade and value chains. This research note distinguishes different forms of these chains, …
South Africa's Energy Policy
Pursuing a ‘natural-social scientific’ approach, I argue that constraints and opportunities provided by nature play a major role in South Africa's energy policy. Presently, the country's coal-dominated energy sector stands at a critical juncture. In order to overcome electricity shortages and provide a basis for economic growth, coal-fired power generation will have to expand. Regional cooperation on gas reserves and hydropower, a nuclear build-u…
From Rejection to Acceptance
The relations of post-apartheid South Africa with its neighboring states in Southern Africa have been marked by contestation and followership to the regional hegemon, shifting from the former to the latter at the beginning of this millennium. Analyzing the most important cases of regional security policy from the 1990s and 2000s, I show that four conditions explain whether the other regional states contest or follow South Africa: a demand for Sou…
The gateway to Africa? Geography and South Africa's role as an economic hinge joint between Africa and the world
The authors argue that South Africa's role as an economic gateway for various African countries primarily depends on geography, that is, on naturally given and man-made structures in geographical space. Hence, they first examine South Africa's location and physio-geographical conditions in Southern Africa in order to show important factors that affect the scope of the South African gateway. Second, they shed light on regional transport infrastruc…
From Rejection to Acceptance
The relations of post-apartheid South Africa with its neighboring states in Southern Africa have been marked by contestation and followership to the regional hegemon, shifting from the former to the latter at the beginning of this millennium. Analyzing the most important cases of regional security policy from the 1990s and 2000s, I show that four conditions explain whether the other regional states contest or follow South Africa: a demand for Sou…
South Africa's Energy Policy
Pursuing a ‘natural-social scientific’ approach, I argue that constraints and opportunities provided by nature play a major role in South Africa's energy policy. Presently, the country's coal-dominated energy sector stands at a critical juncture. In order to overcome electricity shortages and provide a basis for economic growth, coal-fired power generation will have to expand. Regional cooperation on gas reserves and hydropower, a nuclear build-u…
A New Scramble for Africa?
Mozambique has long been considered one of the few resource-poor economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nowadays, however, Mozambique is experiencing a resource boom, one triggered by recent massive discoveries of energy resources and related increases in foreign investment in the country primarily in the coal, gas and hydropower industries. Mozambique is expected to soon become one of the world's top 10 coal producers and one of the top 20 producers o…
Geographical conditions and political outcomes
Geopolitical research is frequently pictured as a dead end. This article aims to revitalize geopolitics, reflecting both on the critique of the subject and the strengths that have marked it for more than a century. It is argued that geographical conditions constitute a set of opportunities and constraints, a structure that is independent of agency. General patterns and long-term processes can be explained well by this structure. Understanding spe…
Power politics by economic means
Geoeconomics has become highly relevant for foreign policy practices and national security strategies, wherefore it has also started to receive increasing attention from academics. Unfortunately, there is no widely shared definition of geoeconomics. The term is often only used as a catchword that generates an audience for policy-oriented, semi-scientific outlets. This article addresses this weakness of the state of the art. The authors suggest th…
Developmental Regionalism and Regional Value Chains
Regional integration via the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) received a significant boost when the South African parliament signed the corresponding agreement in October 2018. This article uncovers the convictions and objectives that drive South Africa's commitment to the TFTA. It reveals that South Africa sees the TFTA as a means of 'developmental regionalism,' which is expected to facilitate region-wide industrialisation based on value additi…
Global city makers
Research on global/world cities has been shaped by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) network, an international group of leading scholars directed by Peter Taylor and hosted at Loughborough
Buenos Aires as a gateway city
World cites are critical nodes in global production networks (GPNs). Being ‘gateways’, they serve as hubs for transport and logistics, industrial processing, corporate control and service provision as well as knowledge transmission. In this article, the concept of gateway cities is applied to Buenos Aires and the oil and gas sector. The author explains processes of concentration and dispersal, showing that Buenos Aires concentrates corporate cont…
Revisiting gateway cities
Gateway cities have received much attention from urban geographers. In spite of outstanding contributions being made, we think that the concept needs to be revisited with regard to regional development implications. Bringing together research on global production networks (GPNs) and world cities, this article shows that gateway cities are critical for development in networks, generating impulses for peripheral locations by engaging them in proces…
Rezension
Bibliographie: Scholvin, Sören: Christian Schmidt-Häuer: Tatort Panama. Konquistadoren, Kanalbauer, Steuerflüchtlinge. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2018, 471 Seiten, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, 3-2019, S. 502-504. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v39i3.17
Stefano Ponte, Gary Gereffi, Gale Raj-Richert (Hrsg.)
The Diversity of Gateways
Densidade, distância, divisão e as redes de produção globais
Além de fomentar o aumento do comércio entre países, a globalização tem mudado significativamente os processos econômicos ao possibilitar que as empresas dividam as cadeias de produção e comercialização em vários segmentos, que se espalham por todo o mundo. Nesse sentido, as redes de produção globais (RPGs), fragmentadas organizacionalmente e dispersas espacialmente, têm se constituído em uma nova estrutura que impulsiona cada vez mais a economia…
A magic formula for economic development? Global market integration and spatial polarization in extractive industries
The World Bank, World Trade Organization and others promote integration into global markets as a certain path towards economic development. Some researchers share this optimism, arguing that development is the record of how one thing leads to another, once peripheral locations have plugged into global networks. Comparing resource peripheries in South America, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa with regard to the upstream oil and gas sector, we…
Is Brazil a Geoeconomic Node? Geography, Public Policy, and the Failure of Economic Integration in South America
Brazil has been labeled an anchor country, a leading area, and a regional power. Yet, even before the crisis triggered by Operation ‘Car Wash’ began, several scholars had called into question Brazil’s driving role in regional integration, stressing political challenges and economic weaknesses that hindered closer relationships among the South American countries. More optimistic research tends to concentrate on initiatives and visions of Brazil’s …
Endogenous Obstacles to Development in Global Value Chains
The World Bank promotes integration into global value chains as the path towards development. By liberalising their respective national economies, African countries are expected to benefit from economic impulses, with more and more activities beyond resource extraction being relocated to peripheral locations and generating so-called linkages there. This analytical report focuses on the upstream oil and gas sector, showing that Africa's hydrocarbo…
An unexpected gateway
The periphery of the world economy is integrated into global production networks (GPNs) by ‘gateways’. These are intermediary places from where transnational corporations organise their business activities in close cooperation with corporate service providers. Gateways may also serve as logistics nodes as well as sites of industrial processing and knowledge generation. While some claim that gateways are engines of growth, others argue that they p…
New perspectives on value chains in sub-Saharan Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) around the world.1 Trade wars were already posing challenges to current GVC arrangements and encouraging efforts to
Peripheral development through extractive industries
Regional value chains as new pathways to development
There is growing scepticism about global value chains because of their association with an unequal global trading system. Regionally coordinated and integrated production in Asia appears to have served as a better mechanism for promoting economic prosperity than direct integration into global markets. This is founded upon regional cooperation on investment, trade and value chains. This research note distinguishes different forms of these chains, …
Getting the territory wrong
Development corridors bring transport infrastructure together with regulatory reforms and other measures to produce regions that are functional in the sense that they can plug into global value chains. They promise regional development by ‘getting the territory right’. Yet, numerous studies show that the outcomes are mixed. Some corridors are marked by serious shortcomings. Contributing to our understanding of the dark side of corridors, this res…
Natural resources and divergence
Obstacles to linkage-based diversification in the oil and gas sector
Diversity in brokerage
The article invites readers to rethink cities in economic networks against the backdrop of the many ways in which ‘gateway cities’, serving as brokers, interlink their respective hinterlands globally. It adds logistics, industrial processing and knowledge transmission to the more established gateway dimensions of corporate control and related service provision. This open heuristic is applied to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cape Town (South Africa) a…
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