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The Political Economy of Hydropower in the Communist Space: Iron Gates Revisited

Remus Creţan, Lucian Vesalon

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 688 - 701

This paper proposes a critical discussion of the political economy of hydropower construction in the communist space. We use political economy, economic history and political ecology literature in order to reveal the economic and political relations in which hydropower is embedded in socialist states. The case analysed is the Iron Gates, a joint Romanian‐Yugoslav project which raises specific questions...

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Why Do People Hike? Hiking the Israel National Trail

Noga Collins‐Kreiner, Nurit Kliot

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 669 - 687

The main aim of this study is to better understand why people hike the Israel National Trail (INT) and the behavioural, experiential, and spatiotemporal phenomena that accompany this activity. In this explorative study, we assumed that hiking the INT encompasses both universalistic aspects of hiking, in its capacity as a mobility system shared by hikers of long‐distance trails worldwide, and particularistic...

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Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 521 - 523

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The Governance of Local Productive Systems: Co‐Ordination Problems Regarding Pyrotechnic Production in Tultepec, Mexico

Víctor Manuel Velázquez Durán, Rocío Rosales Ortega

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 625 - 640

This paper examines the governance of local productive systems by articulating two fundamental concepts from geographical institutionalism: path dependency and contingency. We identify internal and external contingencies that have significantly impacted the development trajectory of pyrotechnic production in Tultepec, Mexico, giving rise to governance dynamics characterised by a lack of co‐ordination...

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Whose Reality Counts? Critical Junctures in Livelihood Trajectories Under Deforestation

Robin Biddulph, Pelle Amberntsson

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 540 - 553

Livelihoods approaches focus on the poor and their knowledge and agency, but risk underplaying broader contextual forces which constrain and shape that agency. Livelihood trajectories approaches attend more fully to these structural, contextual dynamics. A three‐year study using quantitative and qualitative methods investigated livelihood trajectories over two decades in a village affected by deforestation...

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Standing in the Shadows of Obesity: The Local Food Environment and Obesity in Detroit

Timothy F. Ledoux, Igor Vojnovic, June Manning Thomas, Kameshwari Pothukuchi

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 605 - 624

Much of the literature examining associations between local food environments and obesity fail to consider whether or not respondents actually utilise the food stores around them. Drawing on survey data, this study examines the relationships between the neighbourhood food environment, mobility and obesity among residents from the lower eastside neighbourhoods of Detroit, Michigan. Certain dimensions...

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Satisfaction with the Political Domain of Local Government in a Contemporary British City

David C. Broadstock, Alan Collins

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 524 - 539

This paper explores satisfaction with the political domain of local government performance, using survey data from a contemporary British city as the empirical context. It employs a factor‐augmented ordered logit analysis of data emerging from a representative city‐wide series of over 1,000 household interviews. Affective reactions to local economic performance and policy effectiveness are constructed...

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Strongholding the Synagogue to Stronghold the City: Urban‐Religious Configurations in an Israeli Mixed‐City

Moriel Ram, Meirav Aharon Gutman

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 641 - 655

This article explores the geopolitical significance of public religious institutions and the ways in which it has corresponded to changes in their urban environment. Based on a spatial analysis and ethnography of urban synagogues in the northern Israeli mixed city of Acre that were established and constructed by communities of Jewish immigrants from North African countries, we demonstrate how significant...

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Does Agglomeration Affect Exports? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets

Giulio Cainelli, Eleonora Di Maria, Roberto Ganau

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 554 - 570

This paper analyses whether and how agglomeration economies – related variety, specialisation and urbanisation – affect the export performance of Italian local labour markets (LLM). Adopting spatial econometric techniques, and controlling for potential non‐linear effects, we find that related variety has a negligible effect on LLMs’ export intensity, while the effect of specialisation economies is...

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Local Externalities and Firm Internationalisation

Chiara Burlina

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 592 - 604

The aim of the work is to understand how the role of local externalities (agglomeration economies and related variety), as well as firm heterogeneity, have influenced the internationalisation strategies chosen by Italian manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2006. Based on the 10th survey of the corporate bank Unicredit‐Capitalia, I construct an unbalanced panel data of 19,635 firms. As in Cainelli, Ganau...

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Transformation of China's ‘World Factory’: Production Relocation and Export Evolution of the Electronics Firms

Chun Yang, Canfei He

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 571 - 591

Since 2000, particularly in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, China's ‘world factory’ has undergone dramatic transformation in response to the changing business environment at global, national, local and firm levels. A rich body of literature has examined the spatial transformation of manufacturing firms from coastal to inland China, while little attention has been paid to the market...

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Transnational Behaviour of Ukrainian Remitting Migrants

Eva Janská, Karolína Pauknerová, Markéta Koropecká

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 108 > 5 > 656 - 668

In connection with the growing trend of transnationalism in international migration flows, the number of transnational communities has been increasing. The aim of this study is to describe the transnational dynamics and processes using the example of remitting Ukrainian workers in Czechia. The research was conducted with immigrants in Czechia and their families in Ukraine. More than 50 interviews...

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