Globalization and the Impacts of Emergent Commodity Networks on Local Economic and Cultural Geographies

这个项目将调查过去15年来新兴经济市场的快速全球化。这项研究将审查这一进程的主要驱动因素以及对当地经济、社区和个人的影响。该项目在三个关键方面补充和扩展了现有的全球化研究。首先，该项目超越了将全球北方主要公司作为全球化关键经济驱动力的传统关注，转而分析全球南方中小型制造商、贸易商和消费者的运营。其次，该项目侧重于在很大程度上独立于西欧和北美的国家之间的新兴联系。第三，该项目为分析跨国宏观经济和政治进程与日常经验、行动和反应之间的关系开发了一种创新和可转让的方法框架。项目结果将在海湾和东非以及美国的实地地点传播。这些研究结果可用于地方、区域和国际政府的经济政策规划，供小型、中型和大型私营部门的行动者以及广大公众使用。因此，该项目可以支持这些地方企业部门的未来发展，促进学术界和工业界之间的伙伴关系，改善社会经济福利。该项目还发展和加强了美国、海湾地区和东非的教育机构、学生和教师之间的联系，促进了美国与国际机构的合作。该研究吸引了目前在STEM学科中合作研究和合著方面代表性不足的美国少数族裔本科生和研究生，加强了地理教育和研究多样化的努力。鉴于该项目的基础重点，它也有可能促进公众对地理科学的更多参与，并吸引少数民族和妇女进入该领域。该项目有三个目标：1。研究过去15年来非洲-中东关系的空间、社会文化、经济和意识形态转变及其驱动因素；2. 探究西欧和北美以外的全球贸易商品的“社会生活”，包括这些新的全球联系回路是如何被各种权力关系塑造的；和3。更好地了解市场一体化加剧对地方和区域经济市场、社区和个人的社会文化和经济影响。在这个项目中使用了一种创新的跨国关系方法。这使得女权主义和后殖民主义视角对经济地理学中的传统商品链分析产生了影响，揭示了经常被忽视的全球化的宏观-微观权力负载运作。通过访谈、观察、调查、视觉文本和基于实物的分析，以及对迪拜和乌干达这两个非洲-海湾联系的关键地点的实证关注，该项目将为全球南方在当代全球化进程中的重要作用提供新的视角。

This project will investigate the rapid globalization of emergent economic markets over the last fifteen years. The research will examine both the primary drivers of this process and the impacts on local economies, communities and individuals. The project complements and extends existing scholarship on globalization in three key ways. First, the project moves beyond a traditional focus on major global north corporations as key economic drivers of globalization to analyze the operations of small to mid-sized manufacturers, traders, and consumers based in the global south. Second, the project focuses on emerging ties between countries that are largely independent of Western Europe and North America. Third, the project develops an innovative and transferable methodological framework for analyzing the ties between transnational macro economic and political processes and everyday experiences, actions and reactions. Project results will be disseminated in field site locations in the Gulf and East Africa, and in the US. These findings may be used in local, regional and international government economic policy planning, by actors in the small, mid-sized and larger private sector, and by the wider public. The project may thus support future development of the entrepreneurial sector in these locales, promoting partnerships between academia and industry and improving socio-economic well being. The project also develops and strengthens ties between educational establishments, students and faculty based in the US, the Gulf Region and East Africa, promoting US-International institutional collaboration. The research engages US-based minority undergraduate and graduate students currently underrepresented in STEM disciplines in collaborative research and co-authorship, enhancing efforts to diversify geographical education and research. Given the grounded focus of the project, it also has potential to promote increased public engagement in the geographical sciences and draw minorities and women into the field.The project has three objectives: 1. to examine the spatial, socio-cultural, economic and ideological transformations in and drivers of African-Middle Eastern ties over the last 15 years; 2. to interrogate the poorly understood "social life" of commodities globally traded outside of Western Europe and North America, including the way these new circuits of global connection are shaped by varied power relations; and 3. to better understand the social-cultural and economic impacts of heightened market integration on local and regional economic markets, communities and individuals. An innovative transnational, relational methodology is utilized in this project. This brings feminist and postcolonial perspectives to bear on traditional commodity chain analyses in economic geography, revealing macro-micro power-laden operations of globalization that are often overlooked. Through a mixture of interviews, observation, surveys, and both visual-textual and material object-based analysis, and an empirical focus on Dubai and Uganda, key sites of African-Gulf connection, the project will shed new light on the significant role of the global south in contemporary processes of globalization.