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Global Networks

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  • ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2009: 16/67 (Anthropology); 25/61 (Geography); 22/114 (Sociology)

Edited by Alisdair Rogers
Co-Editors: Robin Cohen and Steven Vertovec

Global Networks publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research on global networks, transnational affairs and practices, and their relation to wider theories of globalization. The journal provides a forum for discussion, debate and the refinement of key ideas in this emerging field. The international team of editors are committed to open and critical dialogue and encourage the reasoned scrutiny of claims about the coming shape of the world. Contributions are drawn mainly from anthropology, geography, international political economy, business studies and sociology, but they also include history, political science, international relations, cultural studies and urban and regional studies.

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Forthcoming special issues

Transnational Care Mobilities: State, Market and Family Dynamics in Asias
Shirlena Huang, Thang Leng Leng and Mika Toyota (Editors)

Most recent special issue June 2011

GREATER CHINA AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS
Khalid Nadvi, Jeffrey Henderson and Shiuh-Shen Chien (Editors)
In the context of the challenges posed by the rise of China and the concomitant externalization of Chinese capital through global production networks, the articles in this issue address: the impact of China on the global football industry and the Vietnamese garment industry; the relationships between state and innovation in nanotechnology; transnational policy learning process at the local level; and the need to engage more critically with informalization in GPNs.

NOW FREE ON EARLYVIEW

Limits to expansion: transnational corporations and territorial embeddedness in the Japanese temporary staffing market
   Neil Coe, Jennifer Johns and Kevin Ward
Institutional legacies in TNCS and their management through training academies: the case of transnational law firms in Italy
   James Faulconbridge, Daniel Muzio and Andrew Cook
Intimate circuits: modernity, mobility and marriage among Post-Soviet labour migrants in Turkey
   Alexia Bloch
When do value chains go global? A theory of the spatialization of global value chains
   Matthew Mahutga
Semi-legal family life: Pakistani couples in the borderlands of Denmark and Sweden
Mikkel Rytter
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