Necrocapitalist networks: COVID-19 and the ‘dark side’ of economic geography

Lawreniuk, Sabina

Abstract

The economic fallout from COVID-19 has precipitated a crisis in global supply chains. The lockdown of consumers worldwide has triggered a fall in demand that has so far led to the dismissal of up to one-third of Cambodia’s garment sector workforce. Though the pandemic is exceptional, this is a crisis rooted in the exemplary rather than extraordinary hyper-precarity of workers in global industry. Here, I argue that COVID-19 spotlights the elusive ‘dark sides’ of global production in economic geography, revealing the necrocapitalist logics of supply chains.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 4, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jun 15, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020-07
• Deposit Date: Sep 15, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 23, 2020
• Journal: Dialogues in Human Geography
• Print ISSN: 2043-8206
• Electronic ISSN: 2043-8214
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 199-202
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620934927
• Keywords: Geography, Planning and Development
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4778787
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2043820620934927