• Home

  About FASS

  • Home page
  • Read the Dean's Welcome
  • Contact Us
|

• Departments

  Departments

  • Find departments, websites and department heads.
  • Go to Department list
|

• People

  Faculty Office

  • Contact Deans, admin, research support, finance and IT staff via the Faculty Office

  Find all Academic and Support Staff

  • Academic and support staff in departments
  • General Contact information
|

• Study Here

  Undergraduate Study

  • Introduction to undergraduate study
  • Studying for a degree

  Postgraduate Study

  • Introduction to Postgraduate Study
  • Go to the Graduate School Website for information about funding, research training, view student profiles etc.
|

• Research

  Our Research

  • Introduction to Research
  • Research Excellence
  • Research Centres

  Publications

  • Download publications from Lancaster's Publications Repository.
  • Recent Books

  See also

  • Business and Enterprise
  • Knowledge Transfer
|

• Business & Enterprise

  Business and Enterprise

  • Introduction to Business and Enterprise
  • Business Engagement
  • Enterprising Students
  • Partners
  • Creative Industries
  • Other Links
  • FAQ

  See also

  • Research
  • Knowledge Transfer
|

• News & Events

  FASS Events

  • All Forthcoming Events
  • Events Archive

  FASS News

  • Keep up-to-date with our News
  • View News Archive
|

• FASS Intranet

  FASS Intranet

  • LU Staff only. Policies/guidelines, funding, research support, committees etc.
  • Go to FASS Intranet

Events

• Events Forthcoming
• Events Archive

News

• News
• News Archive

Subscribe to News and Events

• Subscribe to FASS events
• Subscribe to FASS news

Third Cultural Political Economy Annual Workshop 2006-7

Date: 21 June 2007 Time: 09:15am

Third Cultural Political Economy Annual Workshop 2006-7

Organized by the IAS Cultural Political Economy Cluster

Cultural Political Economy of Competitiveness: Knowledge Brands, Discourses and Materialities

21st June 2007

Meeting Room 1, Institute for Advanced Studies,

Lancaster University

Programme:

9:15-9:30 Welcome

A. Introduction to Cultural Political Economy of Competitiveness (Chair: Ngai-Ling Sum)

9:30-9:45 "What is Cultural Political Economy?" by Bob Jessop

9:45-10:45 "The Discursive Constitution of Regional Knowledge Economies: A

Case Study of the European Lisbon Agenda" by Chris Collinge (Centre

for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham)

10:45-11:00 Discussion

11:00-11:15 Tea and coffee

B. Competitiveness and National-Urban Imaginaries (Chair: Bob Jessop)

11:15-11:40 "Second Best is not Enough: Competitiveness Discourse,

Hegemonic Vision and State Project in Switzerland in the1990's"

by Raphael Ramuz (Institut d'études politiques et internationales

Université de Lausanne)

11:40-12:05 "The Different Faces of a Hegemonic Discourse: Recontextualizing

Competitiveness in Rome" by Nana Rodaki (Politics and

International Relations, Lancaster University)

12:05-12:30 'Exploring Competitiveness Failures: a CPE Reading of Local

Governance Transformations' by Santiago Leyva Botero (Management School, LancasterUniversity)

12:30-1:00 Discussions

1:00-2:00 Lunch

C. Competitiveness and Developmentalities in Asia (Chair: Raphael Ramuz)

2:00-3:00 "A Cultural Political Economy of Competitiveness: Knowledge Brands

and the (Re-)Making of Developmentalities in the Pearl River Delta" by

Ngai-Ling Sum (Politics and International Relations, Lancaster

University)

3:00-3:15 Discussion

3:00-3:15 Tea and coffee

D. Beyond Competitiveness? (Chair: Chris Collinge)

3:15-4:15 "Moving Beyond Competitiveness?" by Gillian Bristow, Cardiff School

of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University

4:15-4:30 Discussion

(Tea and coffee)

E. Overall Discussions (Chair: Bob Jessop)

4:45-5:30 Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Competitiveness

Contact:

Who can attend:

Further information

Organising departments and research centres: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Save this page: Del.icio.us Digg It Reddit Facebook Stumble It!