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

这个项目将调查新兴经济市场在过去15年中的快速全球化。这项研究将研究这一进程的主要驱动因素及其对当地经济、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学术研究。首先，该项目超越了将主要的全球北方公司作为全球化的关键经济驱动力的传统关注，而是分析了总部位于全球南方的中小型制造商、贸易商和消费者的运营。其次，该项目关注的是在很大程度上独立于西欧和北美的国家之间正在形成的联系。第三，该项目为分析跨国宏观经济和政治进程与日常经验、行动和反应之间的联系开发了一个创新和可移植的方法框架。项目成果将在海湾和东非以及美国的实地地点传播。这些调查结果可用于地方、区域和国际政府的经济政策规划，供中小型和大型私营部门的行为者以及广大公众使用。因此，该项目可以支持这些地区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，改善社会经济福祉。该项目还发展和加强了美国、海湾地区和东非的教育机构、学生和教职员工之间的联系，促进了美国与国际机构的合作。这项研究让目前在STEM学科中代表性不足的美国少数族裔本科生和研究生参与合作研究和合作，加强努力使地理教育和研究多样化。鉴于该项目的落脚点，它还有可能促进公众更多地参与地理科学，并吸引少数族裔和女性进入该领域。该项目有三个目标：1.考察过去15年来非洲-中东关系在空间、社会文化、经济和意识形态方面的变化及其驱动因素；2.询问西欧和北美以外的全球贸易商品鲜为人知的“社会生活”，包括这些新的全球联系回路是如何由不同的权力关系塑造的；以及3.更好地了解市场一体化程度提高对当地和区域经济市场、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论。这使女权主义和后殖民主义观点适用于经济地理学中传统的商品链分析，揭示了经常被忽视的全球化的宏观-微观权力运作。通过采访、观察、调查以及基于视觉文本和实物的分析，以及对非洲-海湾连接的关键地点迪拜和乌干达的经验关注，该项目将使人们对全球南方在当代全球化进程中的重要作用有新的认识。

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.