Adrian Smith’s research while affiliated with University of Sussex and other places

... This can be attributed to the simultaneous, intertwined processes of what is known as urban planning's democratization (Jacobs, 1961;Alfasi, 2004) on the one hand and its neoliberalization on the other (Jessop, 1997;Peck, 2012;Hospers, 2014). Alongside the retreat of the welfare state, incentivizing mechanisms were put to work by planners and policymakers to create self-responsible, entrepreneurial and prudent city dwellers (Stenning et al., 2010). These new urban policies are centred on coproductive urbanism and self-empowering planning practices that are often referred to by scholars as 'soft neoliberalization strategies' (Heeg and Rosol, 2007: 496; see also Kinder, 2016). ...

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LOCAL INITIATIVES IN SHRINKING CITIES: On Normative Framings and Hidden Aspirations in Scholarly Work

... Rioux (2022) therefore suggested that "an understanding of the scales at which different dimensions of labor regimes are articulated is a matter of empirical investigation rather than pre-defined categorization" (122). Baglioni et al. (2022a) identified four (interrelated) themes for further development: "the underlying structures of capital," "colonial legacies and racialization," "social reproduction and household economies," and "ecology and environmental change" (318). Our contribution here is principally centered around the third theme. ...

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Life Stories of Garment Workers in India: Toward a Labor-Centric Labor Regimes Framework

... The labor regimes framework draws on a range of interdisciplinary literature including scholarship on labor process theory, labor geography, global production networks, agrarian political economy, and global labor studies as well as (significantly in our view) feminist literature on social reproduction. A labor regime, according to Baglioni et al. (2022b), "signals the combination of social relations and institutions that bind capital and labor in a form of antagonistic relative stability in particular times and places" (1). As Baglioni et al. (2022b) continued, labor regimes are therefore: historically formed, multi-scalar phenomena resulting from the articulation of struggles over local social relations, and their direct or indirect intersections with the commercial demands of lead firms in global production networks and with the gendered and racialized politics of social reproduction. ...

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Life Stories of Garment Workers in India: Toward a Labor-Centric Labor Regimes Framework

... This research has investigated the linkages between labour unions and environmental justice (Stevis & Felli, 2015) and how this process relates to workplace conflicts beyond institutional settings. Similar ideas are also mobilised in the cross-disciplinary research agenda on labour regimes (Baglioni et al., 2022). This growing environmental labour studies field has, therefore, the potential to examine a critical conjuncture in which militancy intersects with environmental demands through the reorganisation of industrial relations, for example, when sites are successfully reconverted towards 'environmental activities' (Kleinheisterkamp-González, 2023). ...

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Disarticulations in Naples: Cultural political ecology, the green transition, and labour unrest at a Whirlpool factory

... 4). In their edited volume offering Global Perspectives on Social Justice and Neoliberalism, Smith, Stenning, and Willis (2008) agree in their introduction with the concept that neoliberalism serves "as a set of ideas and practices, centred on an increased role for the free market, flexibility in labour markets and a reconfiguration of state welfare activities, has become increasingly predominant across the world, particularly since the mid-1980s" (p. 1). While the chapters included in this book point to the variations in the ways in which neoliberal ideologies structure practices, the overarching sense that privatization offers the best way to organize social relations prevails, with privileging of individuals, entrepreneurship, and empowerment (Smith et al., 2008, p. 3). ...

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Communication, Gender, and Development

... Сначала финансовый кризис 2008, энергетический кризис 2014 и в наибольшей степени кризис пандемии Ковид-2019 привели к возврату государства и его роли в ЦСС в экономику и сферу анализа [11][12][13][14]. До последнего времени изучение ЦСС шло на примере добывающих отраслей, где ведущую роль играли компании развитых стран. ...

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Роль государства в цепочках создания стоимости в угольной отрасли

... Yet increasingly, the concept has been used to refer to the 'export' of EU regulation, standards and norms to trade partners in the areas of human rights (Bartels 2013;Hafner-Burton 2005), labour rights (Marx and Soares 2015;Orbie 2011) and environmental protection (Bertram and Van Coppenolle 2024;Bögner 2024;Morin and Jinnah 2018). The EU's diffusion strategy has generally been characterised as dialogue-based (Oehri 2015; Postnikov and Bastiaens 2014) and its effectiveness scrutinised, especially regarding labour protection (Marx and Soares 2015;Orbie, Van Den Putte, and Martens 2017;Roozendaal 2017;Smith et al. 2020;Tran, Bair, and Werner 2017;Ferrari et al. 2021), with some suggesting a broadening of the EU's external policy toolbox in pursuit of TSD objectives (Yildirim et al. 2021). While grounded in different theoretical traditions, most existing scholarship converges on the view that understanding and explaining sustainability outcomes in the context of EU PTAs require, first and foremost, a focus on European institutions, stakeholders, interests and ideas. ...

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Reversing the Gaze in EU Trade Policy: Communities, Hierarchies and Agency under Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters

... Compliance with these labor standards is often a prerequisite for market access. However, geopolitical tensions between countries can hinder access and free movement hindering labor regulation mechanisms under the above trade agreements to take effect (Campling et al., 2021). ...

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Towards a Systemic Approach for Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: An Integrative Review and Research Agenda

... Alternative public governance mechanisms, such as industrial, trade or competition policy, might directly impact economic upgrading, with indirect implications for social upgrading (Gereffi and Lee, 2016;Morris and Staritz, 2019;Whitfield et al., 2020). Public governance in GVCs can also take the form of social clauses in bilateral or multilateral trade agreements (Barbu et al., 2018;Marslev et al., 2023;Pasquali et al., 2021). Social clauses are incorporated into trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the African Growth and Opportunity Act as means to secure compliance with core labour standards in GVCs. ...

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Drivers, tensions and trade-offs in achieving social and environmental upgrading in global value chains

... The notion of values often came up in accounts of the EU's evolving TSD template. Since their introduction into EU PTAs, TSD chapters have maintained many of the same core elements while progressively expanding in scope and depth over time (Bertram and Van Coppenolle 2024;Harrison et al. 2019; Van den Putte & Orbie 2015). As two officials observed, "the dynamic is more us proposing offensively and partners being, by and large, more on the defensive, [although] we have a few cases where they are also proposing offensive issues" (COM11), and "we have requested more and more from our trade partners in terms of hard [TSD] commitments" (COM5). ...

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Reversing the Gaze in EU Trade Policy: Communities, Hierarchies and Agency under Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters