Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography-Economic Geography, Manufacturing, and Ethical Action in the Anthropocene

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ID4043040
AuthorsK Gibson (0000-0003-4605-1818, Western Sydney University, corresponding author), J K Gibson-Graham (Institute of Culture and SocietyWestern Sydney University, Penrith NSW 2751 Australia), Jenny Cameron (0000-0003-1983-506X, Center for Urban and Regional StudiesUniversity of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia), Sally Healy (0000-0002-2394-3488, Western Sydney University), Stephen Healy (0000-0002-5001-0368, Institute of Culture and SocietyWestern Sydney University, Penrith NSW2751 Australia), Joanne Mcneill (0000-0002-9435-7849, Institute of Culture and SocietyWestern Sydney University, Penrith NSW 2751 Australia)
Year2019
Volume95
Issue1
Pages1-21
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00130095.2018.1538697
OpenAlexW2910329882
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited36

In a world beset by the problems of climate change and growing socioeconomic inequality, industrial manufacturing has been implicated as a key driver. In this article we take seriously Roepke’s call for geographic research to intervene in obvious problems and ask can manufacturing contribute to different pathways forward? We reflect on how studies have shifted from positioning manufacturing as a matter of fact (with an emphasis on exposing the exploitative operations of capitalist industrial restructuring) to a matter of concern (especially in advanced economies experiencing the apparent loss of manufacturing). Our intervention is to position manufacturing for the Anthropocene as a matter of care. To do this we pull together feminist insights into care as an embodied entanglement of ethical doings and material transformation, and applied insights into the building of just sustainabilities in place. This thinking frames our discussion of four diverse manufacturing enterprises in Australia (two capitalist firms, a cooperative, and a social enterprise). We make the case for economic geography to attend to ethical economic actions that make other worlds possible

Action (physics · Anthropocene · Capitalism · Economic geography · Economics · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Restructuring · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Management and Organizational Studies

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