Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy.

Fuller, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8399-7963 2025. Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy. Journal of Economic Geography Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

The Global Production Networks (GPN) 2.0 approach requires greater conceptualisation of human actors and deliberative (power) relations. This includes the social construction and heterogeneous composition of human actors, the nature of their decision-making, the role of deliberations in strategies and actions, and the relational nature of power. This paper applies the process philosophy perspective of Alfred North Whitehead to develop a more social constructivist GPN 2.0 perspective, focusing on human agency and deliberative (power) relations. A process perspective provides significant focus on the causal mechanisms within the actual occasions of experience constituting reality, which influence and constitute human actors, deliberative relations, and ‘spacetime’.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	1468-2702
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 June 2025
Date of Acceptance:	5 June 2025
Last Modified:	13 Jun 2025 11:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178870

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