Studying GPNs through the lens of dissociations: Symbolic value and the restructuring of the global fur-fashion complex
| Dates: | 17 October 2018 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Current University students |
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Oliver Ibert, Jana M. Kleibert Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (Erkner)
Seminar hosted by the Global Production Networks, Trade and Labour Research Group
Globalized production arrangements have been theorized as driven by three crucial dynamics: cost-capability ratio, market development, and financial discipline. In our presentation, we suggest the addition of a fourth driver of ‘symbolic value construction’ that is important for understanding spatial and organizational risk management strategies in globalized production processes. The construction of symbolic value depends on practices of association (enhancing symbolic value by linking commodities with entities that represent some form of positive value) and dissociation (weakening or obscuring negative links to that commodity). Using the global fur-fashion complex as empirical example, we show how a dissociation lens can provide important new insights and complement existing GPN 2.0 research.
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