Robert Hassink
roberthassink.bsky.social
Robert Hassink
@roberthassink.bsky.social

professor of economic geography at Kiel University @kieluni, Germany & visiting professor at @CURDSNewcastle, UK https://www.wigeo.uni-kiel.de/en/People/robert-hassink

Economics 40%
Political science 29%

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📢 New call for papers
Firm strategies and regional development in times of changing geopolitics and geoeconomics
Editors: Chun (Charlotte) Yang, @roberthassink.bsky.social, Linus Kalvelage, Petr Pavlínek
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Submission of abstracts: 1st November 2025
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new open access paper out in Geography Compass with Jue Peng on Understanding Social Structural Change: Change Agency, Mediated Dualism and Fragmented Habitus compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Understanding Social Structural Change: Change Agency, Mediated Dualism and Fragmented Habitus
Agency plays a crucial role in social and economic change, especially in regional transition processes. Interpreting the influence of context on agency reflects the spatial ontology of economic geogr...
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Check out our special session 1 on Twin Transition in Regional Economies: A Co-Evolutionary and Interpath Perspective #DigGeoConf25, Co-organized with @hanchu0322.bsky.social and Sina Hardaker. Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2025
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Digital Geographies Conference
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🎉 We are thrilled to share some fantastic news!

A huge congratulations to Han Chu 楚晗 (Kiel University) for receiving the 2025 AAG Best Paper (Runner-up) Award in Geography & Entrepreneurship! 🏆👏

We are incredibly proud to have Han Chu as part of our research group! 🌟

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One year after the arson attack on Teslas #Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, debates about local resistance and embeddedness of the #megaproject continue. Our research explores these complex dynamics and unpacks their symbolic value.
🔍 Discover our open access article: academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
Symbolic value and embeddedness of an industrial megaproject: Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg
Abstract. Large-scale industrial settlements, such as the establishment of multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiaries, are megaprojects that face addition
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with her paper: Firms-Clusters-Networks Reorganizations in the Digital Platform Era: Evidences from Three Furniture Clusters in China www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Firms-Clusters-Networks Reorganizations in the Digital Platform Era: Evidences from Three Furniture Clusters in China
PDF | The ever-evolving digital platforms have revolutionized production, consumption, and lifestyles, restructuring the organization of economic... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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I am very, very happy, thrilled and proud that Han Chu (Kiel University) received the 2025 AAG Best Paper (Runner-up) Award in Geography & Entrepreneurship www.aag.org/award-grant/...
AAG Best Paper, Student Paper Awards in Geography & Entrepreneurship - AAG
AAG - AAG Best Paper, Student Paper Awards in Geography & Entrepreneurship - Research Grants -
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🔊Special Session at the @regstud.bsky.social #RSA25 in Porto, Portugal, May 6-9, 2025:

New Perspectives on Evolutionary Economic Geography (SS39)!

Submissions that approach empirical data in novel and theoretically profound ways preferred.

❗️🗓️ (DEC19 - 2moro) www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa25/

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📢📢Join us to discuss the challenge and agency in digital work!
GCEG2025 - CFP: Working in the digital age: Exploring precarity, agency, and spatiality.
Submission Deadline: Jan 10, 2025
For more info: aag.secure-platform.com/gceg2025/sol...
#Digitallabor #Digitalcreator
American Association of Geographers - Session
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#Discontent is born of #decline.
#Europe’s angriest regions aren’t its poorest, but those stuck in #development traps—stagnating while others surge ahead.
Europscepticism thrives in economic neglect, as much as culture wars.
The remedy? #Innovation, #education, and #reform.
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SS61: 'Territorial Innovation Models in the Platform Economy Era' Han Chu and @roberthassink.bsky.social would like your papers. For more info: bit.ly/sspto25 Abstract deadline: ⏰19 Dec @regstud.bsky.social #RSA25 (42)

it builds, among others, on our recently published paper in Progress in Human Geography (open access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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