{"id":1912,"date":"2022-10-12T18:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tradenetwork\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2022-10-12T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:52:49","slug":"call-for-papers-workshop-on-the-spatial-politics-of-trade-at-the-university-of-warwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tradenetwork\/2022\/call-for-papers-workshop-on-the-spatial-politics-of-trade-at-the-university-of-warwick\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers: Workshop on “The Spatial Politics of Trade” at the University of Warwick, April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jean Monnet Network on Transatlantic Trade Politics is pleased to invite paper proposals for our workshop on\u00a0The Spatial Politics of Trade: Constructing Transnational Spaces and Communities through EU and UK Trade Agreements<\/strong>, which will be held at the University of Warwick on\u00a0April 20-21, 2023. Please read on for the call for papers.<\/p>\n

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The Spatial Politics of Trade: Constructing Transnational Spaces and Communities through EU and UK Trade Agreements
\n<\/strong>Academic Workshop, University of Warwick, April 20-21, 2023 <\/em><\/p>\n

Trade has always created spaces. For centuries, it has facilitated movement across borders, formed bridges between political entities, and drawn boundaries between others. Trade is at the heart of spatial imaginaries with large political and economic significance, including the idea of a \u2018transatlantic community\u2019 (Gabaccia, 2004). Yet while (political) economists have addressed some spatial questions, related for instance to the uneven distributive impacts of trade policy (e.g. Autor et al., 2013), there is still little systematic discussion of the role that space plays in trade politics.<\/p>\n

In analysing European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) trade policy, the creation of spaces through trade deserves renewed attention for two reasons: First, disruptions of established trading patterns through events such as Brexit, COVID-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, or concerns about strategic dependence on China has led to new discussions about the broader geopolitical implications of trade (Meunier and Nicola\u00efdis, 2019). Second, the broadening of the international trade agenda and the increasing relevance of regulatory issues to trade negotiations has brought up questions of identity and community (Dingwerth & Weinhardt, 2019; Eagleton-Pierce, 2019). Trade deals are more and more contested today, triggering discussions on who we are and what we value.<\/p>\n

Against this background, this academic workshop proposes to study trade policy in the EU and UK through the lens of \u2018space\u2019 and spatial politics. We understand space as more than geography. It also brings in aspects of identity and community. We are interested in understanding how spatial and social imaginaries are used to build communities and to draw boundaries (Said, 1994; Taylor, 2004). Following Brenner (2004, pp. 10-11) we argue that geographical scales are not static or fixed; they are best understood as \u2018socially produced, and therefore malleable, dimensions of particular social processes\u2019. In his work on urban governance, Brenner (2004) studies the hierarchization<\/em> of spaces<\/em> in relation to one another. Rosamond (2012) explores EU economic space<\/em> and how \u2018economic patriotism\u2019 appeals to a community, by imagining and constructing it discursively. Adler-Nissen et al. (2017) and Siles-Br\u00fcgge (2019) discuss how narratives on Brexit<\/em> shape national identities and competing spatial imaginaries of the global economy.<\/p>\n

Building on these contributions, this workshop seeks to explore how EU and UK trade policy, including public discourses and contestation about trade, contributes to the construction of transnational spaces, communities, and identities. The focus is on the effects of EU and UK trade policy and agreements with third parties, both in the Global North and the Global South. The papers in this workshop will address questions such as:<\/p>\n