Rebalancing Research on World Cities: Mauritius as a Gateway to Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Sören Scholvin

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksValue Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa
UntertitelChallenges of Integration into the Global Economy
Herausgeber/-innenSören Scholvin, Anthony Black, Javier Revilla Diez, Ivan Turok
Herausgeber (Verlag)Springer Nature
Seiten205-220
Seitenumfang16
Auflage1.
ISBN (elektronisch)978-3-030-06206-4
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-06205-7
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 10 Mai 2019

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NameAdvances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
ISSN (Print)2198-7262
ISSN (elektronisch)2198-7270

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This chapter seeks to rebalance research on world cities, which suffers from a bias towards the Global North in theory building. For this purpose, the author advances the concept of ‘gateway cities’. In contrast to the world city approach, the gateway one addresses the global and regional interlinking of cities along five dimensions: transport and logistics, industrial processing, corporate control, service provision and knowledge generation. It allows us to incorporate what can be learnt from cases in the Global South into our understanding of cities in economic processes—or, more narrowly, global value chains. The author applies the gateway concept to Mauritius, showing that the island state serves as a gateway to sub-Saharan Africa in the oil and gas sector, in particular for logistics, corporate control and service provision.

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Rebalancing Research on World Cities: Mauritius as a Gateway to Sub-Saharan Africa. / Scholvin, Sören.
Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of Integration into the Global Economy. Hrsg. / Sören Scholvin; Anthony Black; Javier Revilla Diez; Ivan Turok. 1. Aufl. Springer Nature, 2019. S. 205-220 (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development).

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandBeitrag in Buch/SammelwerkForschungPeer-Review

Scholvin, S 2019, Rebalancing Research on World Cities: Mauritius as a Gateway to Sub-Saharan Africa. in S Scholvin, A Black, JR Diez & I Turok (Hrsg.), Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of Integration into the Global Economy. 1. Aufl., Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, Springer Nature, S. 205-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06206-4_13
Scholvin, S. (2019). Rebalancing Research on World Cities: Mauritius as a Gateway to Sub-Saharan Africa. In S. Scholvin, A. Black, J. R. Diez, & I. Turok (Hrsg.), Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of Integration into the Global Economy (1. Aufl., S. 205-220). (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06206-4_13
Scholvin S. Rebalancing Research on World Cities: Mauritius as a Gateway to Sub-Saharan Africa. in Scholvin S, Black A, Diez JR, Turok I, Hrsg., Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of Integration into the Global Economy. 1. Aufl. Springer Nature. 2019. S. 205-220. (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-06206-4_13
Scholvin, Sören. / Rebalancing Research on World Cities : Mauritius as a Gateway to Sub-Saharan Africa. Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of Integration into the Global Economy. Hrsg. / Sören Scholvin ; Anthony Black ; Javier Revilla Diez ; Ivan Turok. 1. Aufl. Springer Nature, 2019. S. 205-220 (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development).
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