The work of networks: Embedding firms, transport, and the state in the Russian Arctic oil and gas sector
The “network” has gained widespread acceptance within economic geography as a metaphor for economic interaction. Consistent with a global production network (GPN) approach, extractive industries are deeply embedded in political structures, physical infrastructure, and environmental conditions. We ad...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0308518x15617755 2024-10-13T14:04:33+00:00 The work of networks: Embedding firms, transport, and the state in the Russian Arctic oil and gas sector Stephenson, Scott R Agnew, John A 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x15617755 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0308518X15617755 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0308518X15617755 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space volume 48, issue 3, page 558-576 ISSN 0308-518X 1472-3409 journal-article 2015 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x15617755 2024-09-24T04:10:46Z The “network” has gained widespread acceptance within economic geography as a metaphor for economic interaction. Consistent with a global production network (GPN) approach, extractive industries are deeply embedded in political structures, physical infrastructure, and environmental conditions. We advocate for a GPN framework that emphasizes the co-operation of multiple, differentiated networks at each stage of a production network. Furthermore, the physical geography of sub-national spaces as well as trans-national spaces linking resources with destination markets imposes critical constraints on the structure and operation of oil and natural-gas extraction. We attempt to move beyond notions of a singular network encompassing all aspects of production by contextualizing extractive activities within the geopolitical economy of Arctic Russia. Our aim is twofold: to develop a more carefully articulated conception of networks based on the different economic principles and political regulation at work within different types of networks, and to show how the Russian Arctic oil and gas sector can only be adequately understood with such a nuanced approach. The Arctic case illustrates well the complex entanglement of the state and political actors in networks of firms and specialized transport systems. We first deconstruct the network concept to establish the economic principles, actors, and spaces that comprise the extractive production network, and then examine the extractive hydrocarbon networks active in Arctic Russia through this analytical lens. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic SAGE Publications Arctic Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 48 3 558 576 |
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The “network” has gained widespread acceptance within economic geography as a metaphor for economic interaction. Consistent with a global production network (GPN) approach, extractive industries are deeply embedded in political structures, physical infrastructure, and environmental conditions. We advocate for a GPN framework that emphasizes the co-operation of multiple, differentiated networks at each stage of a production network. Furthermore, the physical geography of sub-national spaces as well as trans-national spaces linking resources with destination markets imposes critical constraints on the structure and operation of oil and natural-gas extraction. We attempt to move beyond notions of a singular network encompassing all aspects of production by contextualizing extractive activities within the geopolitical economy of Arctic Russia. Our aim is twofold: to develop a more carefully articulated conception of networks based on the different economic principles and political regulation at work within different types of networks, and to show how the Russian Arctic oil and gas sector can only be adequately understood with such a nuanced approach. The Arctic case illustrates well the complex entanglement of the state and political actors in networks of firms and specialized transport systems. We first deconstruct the network concept to establish the economic principles, actors, and spaces that comprise the extractive production network, and then examine the extractive hydrocarbon networks active in Arctic Russia through this analytical lens. |
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