September 5, 2013, 10:39 am, STEFAN KRÄTKE, Allgemein.
In this article, I concentrate on a macro-level analysis of inter-urban linkages in a ‘world city network’. Empirical research on the formation of a world city network has mostly concentrated on global service providers. Yet, globally operating manufacturing firms also choose distinct urban regions throughout the world as locational anchoring points. In this article, using social network analysis, I present the first global-scale analysis of how manufacturing firms connected cities across the world (in 2010). To detect the differing ‘sectoral profiles’ and nodal centralities of cities functioning as geographical hubs of transnational production networks, it is necessary to analyse the network structure of distinct industrial subsectors within the global urban system. The data collected for analysis cover 120 top global firms from three manufacturing subsectors, of which two are analysed in more detail than the third. I then compare the nodal centralities of cities included in these subsectors‘ global networks with the GaWC research on the producer services sector that has been at the centre of previous analyses of the world city network. The comparison reveals the cities‘ differing positioning within ‘multiple globalizations’. The aim of the article is to extend research on world city networks.
September 5, 2013, 10:39 am, WOUTER JACOBS, ARNOUD LAGENDIJK, Allgemein.
Strategic coupling refers to the process of matching local assets with global network demands. Although the concept has benefited from an increase in relational thinking, several critical issues remain unresolved. In this article, we identify and discuss three such issues – the characteristics of the entities involved in strategic coupling, the way in which the ‘local’ is conceptualized in the context of ‘global’ positioning, and the understanding of strategic action. To address these issues, we use Cox’s notion of ‘spaces of dependence and engagement’ in combination with Ball’s concept of the ‘structure of provision’. The case of the port of Rotterdam demonstrates the value of our perspective in elucidating the process of ‘strategic coupling’ within global networks of containerized traffic.
September 5, 2013, 10:36 am, MAJELLA KILKEY, LAURA MERLA, Allgemein.
Scholars sometimes conceptualize migrants and their kin as ‘transnational families‘ in acknowledgement that migration does not end with settlement and that migrants maintain regular contacts and exchange care across borders. Recent studies reveal that state policies and international regulations influence the maintenance of transnational family solidarity. We aim to contribute to our understanding of how families‘ care-giving arrangements are situated within institutional contexts. We specify an analytical framework comprising a typology of care-giving arrangements within transnational families, a typology of resources they require for care giving, and a specification of institutions through which those resources are in part derived. We illustrate the framework through a comparative analysis of two groups of migrants – Salvadorans in Belgium and Poles in the UK. We conclude by arguing that while institutions matter they are not the sole factor, and identify how future research might develop a more fully comprehensive situated transnationalism.
September 4, 2013, 8:25 pm, Indiana University Press: History and Memory,
article.
Tim Cole
History and Memory, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 102-131, Fall/Winter 2013.
September 4, 2013, 8:25 pm, Indiana University Press: History and Memory,
article.
Lynn A. Struve
History and Memory, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 5-31, Fall/Winter 2013.
September 4, 2013, 8:25 pm, Indiana University Press: History and Memory,
article.
History and Memory, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 174-175, Fall/Winter 2013.
September 4, 2013, 8:25 pm, Indiana University Press: History and Memory,
article.
Marek Kucia, Marta Duch-Dyngosz and Mateusz Magierowski
History and Memory, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 132-173, Fall/Winter 2013.
September 4, 2013, 8:25 pm, Indiana University Press: History and Memory,
article.
Annebella Pollen
History and Memory, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 66-101, Fall/Winter 2013.
September 4, 2013, 8:25 pm, Indiana University Press: History and Memory,
article.
Peter Donaldson
History and Memory, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 32-65, Fall/Winter 2013.
September 3, 2013, 11:27 am, Bernd Gausemeier, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1002%2Fbewi.201301636