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Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences - Call for Papers - Special Issue on ‘The Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Globalization’

Guest Editors

Asha Prasuna, Professor, K J Somaiya Institute of management Studies, Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai, India
Nishikant Mishra, Professor, University of Hull, UK
Gunjan Saxena, Professor, University of Hull, UK

Scope and aims

Globalization has evolved historically by bringing varied benefits to the participating economies around the world as postulated by some of the trade theories. Technological progress and human innovations have led to the fast integration among the developed and developing world through trade, capital, and technological channels. Globalization is a broad concept that includes social, financial, technological, economic, political, ecological, and sociological aspects that occur when interdependences, cross-border trade and capital flows increase. There has been continuous research on the benefits and risks of globalization that have helped countries to adapt their policies.

In the recent past, the debate on globalization has led to the emergence of two schools of thought - one in favor and the other opposing the process.  Initially, developed nations benefited from globalization, but later, local industry and workers’ interests were impacted adversely, which led to refocusing on protectionism. On the other hand, while some of the developing countries gained in the short run, they then experienced increased job losses, inequality, poverty, and political unrest. Periodic financial crises and weakening of institutions and regulations were some of the unintended outcomes of globalization.

Drivers that once led to the strengthening of globalization have now started to become obstacles in terms of disruptions in supply chains, people movement, migration, travel, education, skill development, etc. Pandemic-related disruptions have created the new governance and business delivery mechanisms that are adopted not by virtue of choice but because of necessity. Global inequalities in terms of income, consumption and external debt have increased. Empirical research has shown mixed results regarding the benefits of globalization. Of late, many countries have started adopting inward-oriented policies to protect local economic interests. Debates have been underway to rethink and re-theorize the globalization process in terms of re-globalization, de-globalization, global-to-local, etc. The current process of globalization has also led to tendencies in advanced countries to question the basic assumptions. The Covid-19 pandemic further necessitated the need for a more integrated approach with policy freedom based on the local needs.

In this complex context LSRS invites quality research papers on spatial and temporal aspects of globalization for this special issue.

Topics

The special issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics:

  • Income distribution, regional disparities, and poverty risk
  • Consumption and investment behavior post-pandemic relaxations 
  • Logistics and global supply chain disruptions
  • Spatial analysis of labor migration, job market, labor productivity
  • Urbanization and its dynamics
  • Spatial dimensions of fiscal interventions
  • Monetary policy - inflation risk and liquidity management
  • Exchange rate volatility and its impact on global trade, capital flows and payments
  • Ethical and corporate governance issues
  • Spatial and temporal models of digitalization and Information Communication Technology (ICT)

Timeline and Guideline

Corresponding guest editor

Asha Prasuna (ashasivakumar@somaiya.edu (this opens in a new tab)); Profile: https://simsr.somaiya.edu/en/view-member/170179 (this opens in a new tab)

Nishikant Mishra (nishikant.mishra@hull.ac.in (this opens in a new tab))

Gunjan Saxena (G.Saxena@hull.ac.uk (this opens in a new tab))

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