Focus: A Geographical Appreciation of Harold A. Innis

Barnes, Trevor J.

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0064.1993.tb00393.x

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“…These studies provide important insights into the nature of staple develop-ment. The work of Barnes (1993Barnes ( , 1996, Hayter (2000), and Barnes, Hayter, and Hay (2001), for example, provides an innovative integration of the concept of Fordism into staple theory. However, these case studies display a range of analytical approaches that cut across the spectrum from the dependency paradigm to the comparative advantage paradigm, with conflicting conclusions.…”

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Natural Resources and Regional Development: An Assessment of Dependency and Comparative Advantage Paradigms

Gunton¹

2003

Economic Geography

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The role of natural resources in regional development is the subject of a debate between dependency theorists, who argue that natural resources impede development, and comparative‐advantage theorists, who argue that resources can expedite development. This debate is assessed by a case study analysis of the impact of resource development on a regional economy. The case study uses a model to estimate the comparative advantage of the resource sector. The results show that natural resources have the potential to provide a significant comparative advantage relative to other economic sectors by virtue of generating resource rent, which is a surplus above normal returns to other factors of production. The case study also shows that there are considerable risks in resource‐led growth, including the propensity to dissipate rent and increase community instability by building surplus capacity. These risks are amenable to mitigation because they are largely the result of poor management of resource development. The case study demonstrates that the most productive analytical approach for understanding the role of natural resources in the development process is a synthetic approach, which combines the insights of the dependency and comparative‐advantage paradigms into a unified framework. It also demonstrates that the concept of resource rent, which has frequently been ignored in development theory, must be reintegrated into the unified framework to improve the understanding of the role of natural resources in the regional development process.

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Natural Resources and Regional Development: An Assessment of Dependency and Comparative Advantage Paradigms

Gunton¹

2003

Economic Geography

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“…For all the undoubted emphasis in literary criticism and communication theory associated with the Toronto School of Communication, it also offered a spatial research program with lasting impact on internet studies. This stream of research was distinctly developed in the works of Eric Havelock and Harold Innis, the latter of whom offered an intensely geographic exploration of communication networks (Barnes, 1993;Innis, 2007). It also transpired in the late work of Marshall McLuhan that came to be associated with the school, particularly the axiomata about the media.…”

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From Global Village to Identity Tribes: Context Collapse and the Darkest Timeline

Bastos

2021

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In this article we trace the development of two narratives describing social media that informed much of internet scholarship. One draws from McLuhan’s axiom positing that communication networks would bring forth a ‘global village,’ a deliberate contradiction in terms to foreground the seamless integration of villages into a global community. Social media would shrink the world and reshape it into a village by moving information instantaneously from any location at any time. By leveraging network technology, it would further increase the density of connections within and across social communities, thereby integrating geographic and cultural areas into a village stretching across the globe. The second narrative comprises a set of metaphors equally inspired by geography but emphasizing instead identity and tribalism as opposed to integration and cooperation. Both narratives are spatially inspired and foreground real-world consequences, either by supporting cooperation or by ripping apart the fabric of society. They nonetheless offer opposing accounts of communication networks: the first is centered on communication and collaboration, and the second highlights polarization and division. The article traces the theoretical and technological developments driving these competing narratives and argues that a digitally enabled global society may in fact reinforce intergroup boundaries and outgroup stereotyping typical of geographically situated communities.

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Living on the Edge: Conditions of Marginality in the Canadian Urban System

Bourne¹

2000

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Focus: A Geographical Appreciation of Harold A. Innis

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Natural Resources and Regional Development: An Assessment of Dependency and Comparative Advantage Paradigms

Natural Resources and Regional Development: An Assessment of Dependency and Comparative Advantage Paradigms

From Global Village to Identity Tribes: Context Collapse and the Darkest Timeline

Living on the Edge: Conditions of Marginality in the Canadian Urban System

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