The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’

Michiel van Meeteren; Jana Kleibert

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The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’

Michiel van Meeteren
, Jana Kleibert

Geography and Education

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Abstract

Contemporary globalisation faces several challenges, for instance related to climate change, technological disruption and shifting geopolitics, that have repercussions for the organisa- tion of value chains and the global division of labour. Analysing the long-term geographies of globalisation we observe how successive reconfigurations of ‘new’ and ‘newer’ global divisions of labour share an archipelagic socio-spatial structure. The paper theorizes the articulations of this archipelago spatial figure as a combination of de/bordering, dis/con- necting and dis/association. We apply this framework to provide a nuanced assessment of how global capitalism might restructure when some processes that defined globalisation during the last decades kick in reverse.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	389-406
Number of pages	18
Journal	Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
Volume	15
Issue number	2
Early online date	15 Apr 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsac007
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2022

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The collaborative work on the article was facilitated through funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

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© 2022 The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society.

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Keywords

International division of labour
archipelago economy
de-globalisation
macroeconomic geography
uneven development
world-economy

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The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’

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