Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy

lt;p>Felipe Irarrazaval is a postdoctoral researcher and adjunct professor at the Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and at the Center for the Study of Conflicts and Social Cohesion (COES). He received a Ph.D. in Human Geography from The University of Manchester. His research examines resource governance, particularly extractive industries in Latin America, through the lens of global production networks, political geography, and urban studies. He has undertaken research in Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and has published his research in journals like Economic Geography, Political Geography, Annals of AAG, Capitalism Nature and Socialism, and EURE.

Martín Arias-Loyola has a PhD in Economic Geography and Planning Studies at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He is Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Economía, Universidad Católica del Norte; Associate Researcher at IDEAR (Regional Institute for Applied Economics) and at ORDHUM (Regional Observatory for Human Development); and Postdoctoral Researcher/Visiting Academic at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. His research interests are variegated and include the study of power asymmetries; the dark side of economic and political geography; (neo)extractivism; extractive industries; neoliberalism; grassroot movements and political resistance; the political role of academia; and cooperative modes of production in informal settlements, to promote self-sufficiency, camaraderie, and economic/political autonomy.

1. Introduction: Resource peripheries in the global economy.- 2. Commodity Chains and Extractive Peripheries: Coal and Development.- 3. Disarticulations in Resource Peripheries: Bolivia's Oil and Gas Supply Industry.- 4. From resource peripheries to emerging markets: Reconfiguring positionalities in global production networks.- 5. Scale as a lens to understand resource economies in the global periphery.- 6. Reproducing the resource periphery: Resource regionalism in the European Union.- 7. From the 'pampas' to China: scale and space in the South American soybean complex.- 8. Space, scale and the global oil assemblage: commodity frontiers in resource peripheries.- 9. Scalar implications of circular economy initiatives in resource peripheries, the case of the salmon industry in Chile.- 10. No worker´s land. The decline of labour embeddedness in resource peripheries.