Download or read book Commodity Chains and World Cities written by Ben Derudder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks - the world city network framework and the global commodity chain framework. Transnational spatial relations have become a key analytical lens through which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization Brings together contributions of key researchers from different backgrounds and different parts of the world Offers a set of original approaches to the study of the networked geography of globalization