Gateways to Trade: Global Value Chains and Governance in Canadian Cities - Couverture rigide

Brunelle, Dorval; De Fuentes, Claudia; Hall, Peter V.; Montsion, Jean Michel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0774872039 ISBN 13 : 9780774872034

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2026

Synopsis

Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax: How do Canada's gateway city-regions position themselves within global value chains? How does their transportation infrastructure facilitate trade? And why do their strategies raise democratic concerns? Gateways to Trade compares the approaches to trade-enabling transportation investment in these four urban centres to provide a clear-eyed perspective on trade policy.The authors investigate local urban governance relating to global production networks, value chains, and trade. They reach the conclusion that in planning transportation infrastructure for international trade, urban regimes operate as executive democracies, consulting private actors and senior governments but bypassing citizen organizations.Gateways to Trade underscores the important role of local governments, which are often regarded as bystanders in questions of trade. Its key insights into Canadian policies on trade and infrastructure are deeply relevant in a changing global economic environment.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dorval Brunelle is a retired professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He acted as director of the Observatory of the Americas and the Institut d'études internationales de Montréal (UQAM). His publications in English include From World Order to Global Disorder: States, Markets, and Dissent and, with Jackie Smith and others, the second edition of Global Democracy and the World Social Forums. Claudia De Fuentes is a professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University. She is an editorial board member of Innovation and Development and the International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation, and Development, and has guest-edited special issues of Science and Public Policy, Innovation and Development, and the International Business Review. Peter V. Hall is the vice-provost and associate vice-president, academic, and a professor of urban studies at Simon Fraser University. He is co-editor, with Robert McCalla and others, of Integrating Seaports and Trade Corridors and, with Markus Hesse, of Cities, Regions and Flows, and co-author with Pamela Stern of The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in "Ontario's Most Historic Town." He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Transport Geography. Jean Michel Montsion is a professor in the Department of Global and Social Studies, Glendon College, and director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University. He has worked in the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is co-editor, with Ann H. Kim and Elizabeth Buckner, of International Students from Asia in Canadian Universities: Institutional Challenges at the Intersection of Internationalization, Inclusion, and Racialization.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774872039
• ISBN 13: 9780774872034
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible