This seminar will discuss contributions of critical economic geography to understanding the presentation and management of diverse ecological, economic, and political crises in supply chains.
To do this Alexandra Huges will draw on three recent research projects on different forms of crisis in supply chains – the challenge of drug-resistant infections in food supply chains, pandemic impacts on the global supply of medical goods to the healthcare sector, and environmental sustainability challenges in the food and horticulture sectors.
In each case, Alexandra will reflect on the value of combining Global Value Chain (GVC) perspectives with insights from more-than-human geographies and postcolonial and decolonial approaches. This combination enables a nuanced understanding of how agency is distributed through the supply chain in practice, with implications for how problems are framed and approached.
Meet our speaker
Alexandra Hughes is Professor of Economic Geography at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), Dean of Research & Innovation.
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This talk is co-sponsored by the Economic Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG.
Organisers: Dr Julia Corwin & Dr Carolin Hulke.
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