Gordon Winder - global dis:connect

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- The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, investigates globalisation as a dynamic process shaped by the interplay of integration, disconnection, and disintegration. Our work focuses on understanding how connections emerge, fail, or remain absent, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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- global dis:connect approaches globalisation through the lens of dis:connectivity, focusing on absences, detours and interruptions that shape historical and contemporary global processes. Rather than assuming linear integration, we examine the gaps, delays and disruptions that make globalisation uneven and socially significant.
  
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Gordon Winder

I am an economic and historical geographer and a professor of economic geography and sustainability research at the LMU Munich. I research sustainability issues related to resource-based economies, manufacturing and business networks. I’ve written The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830-1910 (2012) and, with Andreas Dix, edited Trading Environments: Frontiers, Commercial Knowledge and Environmental Transformation, 1750-1990 (2016). Currently, I focus on Europe’s blue economy and the relevance of deglobalisation to historical research.

Gordon joined global dis:connect funded by the LMU.

Conceptualizing Deglobalisation

Scholars are conceptualising deglobalisation as a process as world trade declines, and wars and disruptions challenge trade. Economic geographers propose ‘recoupling’, ‘decoupling’ and even ‘slowbilisation’, but there is a danger that in claiming a new counter-dynamic to globalisation, they will underestimate absences, detours and interruptions as persistent features of globalisations. What are the implications of absences, detours and interruptions for conceptualizing deglobalisation?

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Click HERE to mail Gordon and HERE for a list of his publications.