Geographies of production III

Global production in/through nature

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11948522
AutoresMarion Werner (0000-0002-5000-3053, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen46
Número1
Páginas234-244
Fecha de publicación2021-10-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/03091325211022810
OpenAlexW3205971732
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23
Referencias citadas65

This report draws upon political ecology and nature–society geography to examine the production network–nature nexus. Indebted to these approaches, a growing number of production network and value chain studies are expanding well beyond the field’s traditional remit of environmental governance. This work centers the institutional arrangements of firms, laboratories, workers, and regulations that organize and combine extensive and intensive strategies to appropriate nature’s value. ‘Nature’ is neither input nor output here; rather, it is metabolized in and through the functional coordination of these spatially distributed activities. I explore these themes in recent studies of resource extraction and frontier-making, chemical geographies of biocides, and the material-cum-geographical claims of ethical supply chains. Expanding and deepening the dialogue between conjunctural analyses of states, labor, and supply chains, on the one hand, and how socionatures condition these arrangements, on the other, is both analytically and politically necessary. I offer this, my final report, as a modest contribution to this endeavor

Corporate governance · Economics · Field (mathematics · Frontier · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Microeconomics · Nexus (standard · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Sociology · Supply chain · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Engineering · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management