Rural geography I: Resource peripheries and the creation of new global commodity chains

Title
Rural geography I: Resource peripheries and the creation of new global commodity chains
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Argent, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4005-5837
Email: nargent@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nargent
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1177/0309132516660656
UNE publication id
une:22580
Abstract
This report focuses on the now substantial international rural geography literature on the emergence of so-called 'resource peripheries', linked to the economic expansion of rapidly industrializing nations such as India and China. The report outlines the major foci and key arguments of this body of work, noting its connections to, but also elaborations of, important concepts used within rural geography, including global commodity chains and their multi-scalar governance, involving, in part, political, economic and social relations between corporations and local communities. Noting the influence of numerous Marxian concepts in this body of work's intellectual development, the report draws further potential links with the 'dis/articulations' scholarship that has recently emerged out of a critique of the global commodity/value chain research, including notions of dispossession, disempowerment and primitive accumulation. Relatedly, aspects of multi-scalar and multi-sector governance in natural resource extraction are highlighted.
Link
Citation
Progress in Human Geography, 41(6), p. 803-812
ISSN
1477-0288
0309-1325
Start page
803
End page
812

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