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Encore for the enclave: the changing nature of the industry enclave with illustrations from the mining industry in Chile

Phelps, NA; Atienza, M; Arias, M; (2014) Encore for the enclave: the changing nature of the industry enclave with illustrations from the mining industry in Chile. Economic Geography , 91 (2) pp. 119-146. 10.1111/ecge.12086. Green open access

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Abstract

Conceptual innovation with respect to the enclave concept has been virtually absent compared with that on industry agglomerations. This is despite the fact that some varieties of agglomeration distinguished in the literature appear to come close to what previously were regarded as industrial enclaves and despite frequent allusions to the enclave nature of economic spaces produced by contemporary processes of globalization. Bringing the literature on agglomeration and enclaves into dialogue, we revisit the concept of the enclave - a concept that has been largely neglected since it enjoyed a popularity in connection with the study of particular (notably extractive) industries and particular (notably dependencia) theories of national economic development during the 1960s and 1970s. Much has changed since this time which suggests that the concept of the enclave ought to be ripe for re-evaluation. In this paper we take an initial step in this direction identifying analytical dimensions to the enclave and illustrating different manifestations of enclaves in the mining industry, drawing on the case of Chile. We conclude by advocating the renewed study of industry enclaves within contemporary economic geographical analysis.

Type: Article
Title: Encore for the enclave: the changing nature of the industry enclave with illustrations from the mining industry in Chile
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/ecge.12086
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecge.12086
Language: English
Additional information: © 2015 The Authors. Economic Geography published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Clark University. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1456180
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