Relocating resource peripheries to the core of economic geography's theorizing: rationale and agenda

Hayter, Roger; Barnes, Trevor J.; Bradshaw, Michael J.

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“…One of the primary underpinnings of urban land teleconnections is that contemporary urbanization and globalization processes make the identification of distinct urban versus hinterland areas nearly impossible (31). The economic complexities and dynamic interrelations among local, regional, and global processes and commodity flows mean that there are important linkages between urban areas and nonurban places (32), which in turn have land use implications. Transboundary and nonlocal impacts on land from urbanization can occur in multiple and distant locations.…”

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Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

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This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate how three key themes that are currently addressed separately in the urban sustainability and land change literatures can lead to incorrect conclusions and misleading results when they are not examined jointly: the traditional system of land classification that is based on discrete categories and reinforces the false idea of a rural-urban dichotomy; the spatial quantification of land change that is based on place-based relationships, ignoring the connections between distant places, especially between urban functions and rural land uses; and the implicit assumptions about path dependency and sequential land changes that underlie current conceptualizations of land transitions. We then examine several environmental "grand challenges" and discuss how urban land teleconnections could help research communities frame scientific inquiries. Finally, we point to existing analytical approaches that can be used to advance development and application of the concept.coupled human-natural systems | land change science U rbanization and land change are two global processes with far-reaching consequences. Although the two are tightly intertwined, their literatures and analytical frameworks were largely developed separately. We argue that these parallel but distinct conceptualizations limit progress in these fields and in sustainability science, specifically given the environmental impacts of urbanization on the land system, and associated social and political challenges. The magnitude and accelerating rate of contemporary urbanization are reshaping land use locally and globally in ways that require a reexamination of land change and urban sustainability. Worldwide, urban populations are projected to increase by almost 3 billion by 2050 (1) and the total global urban land area by more than 1.5 million square kilometers-an area three times the size of Spain-by 2030 (2). Urban economies currently generate more than 90% of global gross value added, meaning few rural systems are unaffected by urbanization (3). Given such trends, we must reconsider how we conceptualize the many connections and feedbacks between urbanization and land change processes. To date, a large body of literature has considered the proximate land changes brought about by urbanization, but the more distant land-use implications of urbanization remain underexamined.In climate science, the concept of teleconnections refers to climate anomalies that correlate over large geographic distances. During warm phases of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, for instance, the incidence of synchronous wildfires increases in the western United States (4). The virtual shrinking of distances between places, strengthening connectivity between distant locations, and growing separation between places of consumption and production are emerging topics in "telecoupled" human-natural systems (5-7) and tropical teleconnections ...

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Section: Urban Land Teleconnectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

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Reenberg

Boone

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…The seasonal nature of the work, the shifting location of the worksites and a more ephemeral workforce comprised of post-secondary students, who usually only plant for a few seasons before exiting the industry, all contribute to this process. While mindful of Hayter et al (2003) caution against the uncritical application to resource peripheries of conceptual templates drawn from other contexts, we found that the concept of communities of practice, albeit in a modified form, provided useful insights into the development of work cultures amongst seasonal reforestation workers in northern Ontario.…”

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“…The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 52, no 2 (2008) 208 Brendan Sweeney and John Holmes Hayter et al (2003) argue that in debates about contemporary industrial restructuring and globalization, resource peripheries have not only tended to be treated as peripheral places but also peripheral to disciplinary theorizing in economic geography. They caution against the uncritical application to resource peripheries of conceptual templates based on the experience of industrial core regions.…”

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“…cultivate their own style, their own sense of taste, judgment, and appropriateness, their own slang and in-terms ' Brown and Duguid (2000, p. 141); features that then distinguishes them from other communities within the network. Individual communities of practice, therefore, tend to exist in specific geographical locales.The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 52, no 2 (2008) 208 Brendan Sweeney and John Holmes Hayter et al (2003) argue that in debates about contemporary industrial restructuring and globalization, resource peripheries have not only tended to be treated as peripheral places but also peripheral to disciplinary theorizing in economic geography. They caution against the uncritical application to resource peripheries of conceptual templates based on the experience of industrial core regions.…”

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Work and life in the clear‐cut: communities of practice in the northern Ontario tree planting industry

Sweeney

Holmes

2008

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Based on ethnography, interviews with tree planters and a survey of tree planting contractors, this article focuses on work cultures in northernIf you can plant trees, you can do anything. (Anthonisen, in Cyr 1998, p. 138) Tree planting is the last step in the process of industrial forestry, and the first step in its renewal (Braxton-Little 2001). Although the most expensive, manual tree planting is the most reliable method of forest regeneration when compared with natural regeneration or seeding by aerial or mechanical methods, one important aspect of tree planting is that, like logging, the labour process occurs in the woods rather than the mill or factory (Prudham 2005). This has important consequences for production relations and the organization and management of work in the industry. In the case of tree planting, labour demands are seasonal and discontinuous, the work sites are not spatially fixed, there is a dispersed deployment of workers at the site and both the weather and the terrain on which trees are planted can be highly variable. All these factors present challenges for labour supervision and 'impede the predictability and rationalization of production' (Prudham 2005, p. 31). Furthermore, the compressed planting season and the relatively high yearly turnover in the workforce means that new workers must quickly learn how to plant efficiently. They must also become accepted and integral members of their tree planting crews. These imperatives have resulted in the development of distinctive work cultures and practices that facilitate learning and the sharing of tacit knowledge between planters. In this article, we use the concept of communities of practice to analyze how these work cultures are produced and reproduced in the tree planting industry in northern Ontario.Recognizing the importance of social relations in producing (and reproducing), spaces of production is central to our study and to the broader discipline of economic geography (Harvey 1989;Peck 1996;Herod 2001;Hudson 2001;Castree et al. 2004). Beynon and Hudson (1993) differentiate capital's use of space from labour's use of place. They see space as the domain of capital, 'a domain which capital is constantly searching in pursuit of greater profits' (p. 182), while place comprises the 'meaningful situations established by labour' (ibid.). In these places, workers are not simply reproduced as bearers of the commodity labour power, but socialized as human beings in distinct and diverse communities. In our context, Ontario's boreal forests are both the space where forest products companies and tree planting contractors pursue profits, and the places (campsites, worksites, travel Figure 6s), and it is estimated that there are over 2,000 tree planting jobs in Ontario every year, held primarily by post-secondary students from Southern Ontario (Sweeney 2005). Tree planting work is both physically and mentally taxing. Quit rates are high, especially during the early stages of a contract. Those who survive for a whole planting season, however,...

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“…In many ways, Rossport could be used to illustrate all of these approaches. As a resource conflict, it provides an interesting illustration of critical resource geographies that centres such an analysis in the European Union, albeit at the western periphery of the EU (Hayter et al, 2003). It has been analysed as an environmental movement by a variety of sociologists, interested in understanding Rossport as yet another iteration of protests fuelled primarily by environmental concerns (Leonard, 2006).…”

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Border thinking: Rossport, Shell and the political geographies of a gas pipeline

Gilmartin

2009

Political Geography

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Rossport is a small, sparsely populated rural area in the West of Ireland. Over the past seven years, some of its residents have been engaged in a struggle against the building of a gas pipeline through their locality by multinational corporations, including Shell and Statoil. Their struggle has garnered opposition and support within Ireland and internationally. This paper takes the story of Rossport as the starting point for a broader discussion of epistemology within political geography. Drawing on the work of Walter Mignolo, in particular his ideas about 'border thinking' and the 'decoloniality of knowledge', it argues that Rossport offers the possibility for a redeployment of postcolonial thought within political geography.

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Relocating resource peripheries to the core of economic geography's theorizing: rationale and agenda

Cited by 147 publications

References 31 publications

Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

Work and life in the clear‐cut: communities of practice in the northern Ontario tree planting industry

Border thinking: Rossport, Shell and the political geographies of a gas pipeline

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