[HTML][HTML] Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains

G Bridge, E Faigen - Energy Research & Social Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing role of electricity as an energy carrier in decarbonising economies is driving
a growing demand for electrical energy storage in the form of battery systems. Two battery …

State capitalism and the new global D/development regime

I Alami, AD Dixon, E Mawdsley - Antipode, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Official discourses of Development are being redefined. If the key geopolitical contexts
shaping the post‐war Development project were decolonisation and the Cold War, the …

Uneven and combined state capitalism

I Alami, AD Dixon - … and planning A: economy and space, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article contributes to the development of state capitalism as a reflexively critical project
focusing on the morphology of present-day capitalism, and particularly on the changing role …

Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy

S Schindler, I Alami, N Jepson - New Political Economy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Recent scholarship has narrated the financialization of development, which Gabor (2021)
refers to as the Wall Street Consensus (WSC), whose purpose is to facilitate the investment …

Structure and context: A multi-level approach to supply chain governance

J Steinberg - Annual Review of Political Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The structure and governance of global supply chains not only shape social and
environmental outcomes for both countries and firms, but also affect the quality of life at the …

The trouble with global production networks

HW Yeung - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Some sympathetic critics have recently found trouble with the latest iteration of the global
production networks theory (GPN 2.0) developed in economic geography. I term these …

Special issue introduction: what is the new state capitalism?

I Alami, M Babic, AD Dixon, IT Liu - Contemporary politics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article introduces and lays the groundwork for this Contemporary Politics special issue
on the 'new'state capitalism. We start by noting that the rubric state capitalism tends to elicit …

[HTML][HTML] Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK

G Bridge, E Faigen - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
As demand for electrical energy storage scales, production networks for lithium-ion battery
manufacturing are being re-worked organisationally and geographically. The UK-like the US …

Revisiting economic geography and foreign direct investment in less developed regions

P Pavlínek - Geography Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article focuses on the long‐term effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in less
developed regions (LDRs). It identifies different types and mechanisms of FDI in more …

Rethinking social upgrading in global value chains: Worker power, state‒labour relations and intersectionality

K Marslev, C Staritz… - Development and Change, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article builds on critiques of the concept of social upgrading in global value chain (GVC)
research, which problematize its coupling to lead firm strategies and economic upgrading by …