Current Issues

50.4 (2025) - Varieties of Re-Figuration I 

Special Issue – Varieties of Re-Figuration? On Multiple Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements, and the Economy. (Nina Baur, Elettra Griesi, Lara Espeter, Florence Eyok, Elmar Kulke & Lynn Sibert)

• Nina Baur, Lynn Sibert, Florence Eyok, Lara Espeter, Elettra Griesi & Elmar Kulke: Varieties of Refiguration? Untangling the Dynamic Interdependence between Multiple Spatialities, Spatial Arrangements, and the Economy. [Open Access]

Contributions

The Re-Figuration of Economic Regions

• Rainer Diaz-Bone: Convention Theory, Economy, and Space.
• Beatriz Bustos & Javiera Larraín: Spatial Refiguration in Resource Frontiers: The Interplay of Infrastructure and Markets in Chile’s Central Region.
• Anke Hagemann, Philipp Misselwitz & Elke Beyer: Mapping the Spatialities of Global Garment Production: Integrating Concepts and Methodologies from Economic Geography and Architecture.
• Lech Suwala & Sarah-Juliane Starre: Envisioning Multiple Spatialities. Analysis and Prospects for the Berlin-Lausitz Corridor in the Capital Region Berlin-Brandenburg.
• Dorothea Biaback Anong: Varieties of Refiguration in Macro-Territories: Economic Stratification in Regional Free Movement Regimes beyond Europe.
• Elmar Kulke: Varieties of Refiguration of Food-Systems in Small Island Economies.

The Re-Figuration of Spaces and Infrastructure

• Liam Campling & Alejandro Colás: Maritime Logistics and Labour Regimes as Infrastructures of Accumulation.
• Alexander Kohrs: The Refiguration of Nairobi’s Urban Edges: From Colonial Frontiers to Recent Urban Growth Frontiers.
• Marian Burchardt: Revisiting the Sociology of Infrastructure: Multiple Spatialities, Experimentality, and Medical Drones in Rural Malawi.
• Nina Meier: Money Makes the World go Round: Refiguration of Monetary Orders.
• Sezgin Soenmez: The India Stack – Between Networked Growth and Territorial Control.

The Re-Figuration of Translocal Chains of Interdependence

• Lara M. Espeter: Power in Global Commodity Chains. Introducing Commodity Chain Mapping as a Method for Analysing Complex Spatialities.
• Linda Hering: The Spatial Politics of Food: Hawker Centres and Singapore’s National Identity.
• Şahan Savaş Karataşlı: Primitive Accumulations, Financial Expansions, and Varieties of Refiguration of the Capitalist World-Economy.
• Lynn Sibert: Research Security in Times of Geo-Economic Rivalry: Multiple Spatialities and Spatial Logics of De-Risking Sino-German Science Cooperation.