The Internationalisation/Globalisation of Retailing: Towards an Economic – Geographical Research Agenda

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 1571-1594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil M Coe
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Geographical Research

scholarly journals The business of care

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 706-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisling Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Economic Entity

The aim of this article is to outline a geographical research agenda for studying the marketization of childcare in Western neoliberal contexts. While childcare has been a key site of interrogation for feminist geographers, highlighting the profound inequities of marketized care for many who work in and use childcare, the contours of the childcare market as a situated and constructed economic entity has remained under-examined. I suggest that at a time when more families than ever rely on extra-familial childcare, an appreciation of how childcare markets function is urgently needed.

Global population issues: towards a geographical research agenda

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan M. Findlay ◽  
Caroline Hoy
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Global Population

The geographies of social finance: Poverty regulation through the ‘invisible heart’ of markets

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Rosenman
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
The Public ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Private Profit ◽  
The Invisible

The global financial and anti-poverty industries are embracing an investment philosophy called social finance, which claims that private profit-making can create positive benefits for society. Attempting to resolve the problems of capitalism from within the system, social finance reframes finance as a force for engendering, rather than disrupting, the public good. This article argues that social finance raises theoretical concerns for geographical research on finance, poverty, and neoliberalizing capitalism. I outline a typology of social finance’s forms and propose a geographical research agenda, arguing that social finance practitioners’ simplistic framings of geography belie many other geographies that constitute what is both an emerging financial marketplace and a logic of poverty regulation.

Which ‘being’ in wellbeing? Ontology, wellness and the geographies of happiness

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 807-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S.J. Smith ◽  
Louise Reid
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Inquiry

This article examines current approaches to wellbeing research in the social sciences, reviewing their underlying ontologies to explore which ‘being’ is implied in contemporary research on wellbeing. It critically analyses themes from the ‘science of happiness’ for their focus on a decontextualized and individualized subject and highlights the emergence of an alternative, developing geographical research agenda in the study of wellbeing, termed here ‘intra-active wellbeing’. It is argued that this research agenda draws together formerly disparate aspects of geographical thought – classically humanistic wellbeing research and more-than-human inquiry – and creates space for a more pluralistic field of wellbeing scholarship.

scholarly journals Power and space in the drone age: a literature review and politico-geographical research agenda

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Klauser ◽  
S. Pedrozo
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Institutional Contexts

Abstract. Camera-fitted drones are now easily affordable to the public. The resulting proliferation of the aerial gaze raises a series of critical issues, ranging from the changing regimes of visibility across urban and rural space to the novel risks and dynamics of control implied by current drone developments. The paper argues that a distinct "spatial curiosity" and "power sensitivity" are required if we are to grasp and explore these issues. On this basis, and grounded in an extensive literature review, the paper outlines a politico-geographical research agenda for the investigation of the making, functioning and implications of drone systems. Such an agenda, it is claimed, could afford deepened insight into the driving forces that are behind current drone developments, would show how drones work in different institutional contexts, and could highlight how drones impact on the envisioned reality. This in turn would provide a deepened understanding of the "politics of visibility", "politics of the air" and "politics of the ground" conveyed by drones, and open up a wider conceptual reflection on the role of the aerial dimension in the projection of power across and within space.

Towards New Economic Geographies of Retail Globalization

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil M. Coe ◽  
Neil Wrigley
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Transnational Corporation ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
New Era ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
Structural Shifts

Since the mid-to-late 1990s, retail globalization has intensified, and a growing multidisciplinary literature profiles these dynamics. This chapter provides a snapshot of current levels of retail globalization, before briefly reviewing the literature on the drivers and dynamics of retail globalization from the late 1990s onwards. The analysis then advances current understandings in two ways. Firstly, the evidence on the impacts of globalization is reviewed to highlight that, far from being an inevitable process of rapid retail transnational corporation-led modernization, the outcomes have been highly variable and uneven, with profound variations across different national contexts. Secondly, focusing on the period since the global economic crisis of 2007–08, a new era of globalized distribution is characterized in which economic crisis and profound Internet-induced structural shifts have changed the dynamics of the process. To conclude, an economic geographical research agenda that builds upon these two dimensions is mapped out.Chapter keywords

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