Annual Symposia
2007 University of Sussex
6th-7th June
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Postgraduate Symposium
Wednesday 6th June
Economic geographies of globalization and its impacts
Chairs and discussants:
Mia Gray (University of Cambridge).
Adam Swain (University of Nottingham).
The first day will be devoted to short presentations by research students. Any research student wishing to take part and to make a presentation should send a title and short abstract to Mick Dunford () or Godfrey Yeung (), University of Sussex. The organisers have a small budget to meet the costs of those participants who cannot get funding from their own institutions.
Annual Symposium
Thursday 7th June
Global commodity chains, global value chains and global production networks: governance and development
Convenor: Mick Dunford (University of Sussex)
John Humphrey (University of Sussex) 'Governance in global value chains'
Neil Coe (University of Manchester) ' Global Production Networks: The Developing Research Agenda'
Alex Hughes (Newcastle), 'Spaces of responsible governance in global production networks: a UK-US comparison of retailers' ethical trading programmes' (co-authored with Neil Wrigley (Southampton) and Martin Buttle (Newcastle))
Stephanie Barrientos (University of Sussex) 'Do Workers Benefit from EthicalTrade? An assessment of the Impact of Codes of Labour Practice in GlobalProduction Systems'
Suzy Reimer (University of Southampton) 'Geographers and commodities'
Adrian Smith (Queen Mary, University of London) 'Global value chains, trade liberalisation and the uneven upgrading of the East European clothing industry: beyond the 'race to the bottom''?