Freeports: What are they? What do we know? And what will we know?

Adam, Stuart; Phillips, David

doi:10.1920/re.ifs.2023.0252

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“…When it was first introduced in the early 1990s, cyberfeminism propelled the idea that cyberworlds and the Internet are ostensibly male-dominated technological contexts (Tuzcu, 2016). Earlier, during the 1980s, feminists had already interpreted technoscience as a domain primarily associated with masculinity (Wajcman, 2010), created by and for men (Adam, 1997). Indeed, it was argued that online experiences mainly mirrored societal gendered inequalities produced offline (Duffy & Pruchniewska, 2017;Martinez Dy et al, 2018).…”

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Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach

Kiani

Tavakoli

Mura

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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Informed by a cyberfeminist standpoint, this paper explores the role of cyberworlds and virtual tourism in providing less constrained and more liberating traveling experiences for women. More specifically, through interviews with a group of Iranian women traveling in a virtual world known as vTime, this work discusses whether and how virtual tourist experiences allow women to overcome their travel-related constraints and pave the way to forms of self-determination and emancipation. In contrast, several feminists hold utopian and dystopian views regarding the benefits of the Internet and technology for women’s empowerment, and the findings of our study point to a rather complex and less encouraging scenario. Virtual tourism in cyberspace allows Iranian women to overcome constraints affecting their traveling experiences. Nevertheless, it is far from a liberating experience as women’s self-expression and activities are restricted and limited by patriarchy-driven concerns about surveillance, legal consequences, harassment, social stigma, and western dominance.

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Section: Cyberfeminismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach

Kiani

Tavakoli

Mura

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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The politics of freeports – a place-based analysis of regional economic regeneration in the United Kingdom

Cotton,

Tyfield,

Gray

et al. 2023

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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Freeports are special economic zones, providing tax and customs benefits aimed at reducing economic friction and encouraging regional development. This place-based policy analysis of UK freeports draws upon qualitative interviews and deliberative workshops with leading industry, government, and civil society stakeholders in the two largest Freeport regions – Teesside and Liverpool. We find first, that purported tax, customs, and planning benefits are deemed less economically important than the agglomeration of innovation industries within a defined geographic boundary. Second, that stronger action on environmental and economic (in)justice is needed – Freeports could be a just transition mechanism if they can avoid capture by a ‘closed shop’ of industry players. Third, Freeports could facilitate cross-sectoral low-carbon economic regeneration, though they are subject to cycles of expectation, hype, and disappointment. We conclude that national policymakers must acknowledge the competing geographic and governance scales emerging within Freeport-hosting communities, as distributive environmental injustices between different locations remain broadly unaddressed. Finally, though cognisant of changes in political leadership on the horizon, we conclude that Freeports will increase the geographic spread of environmental injustice if this model of low-tax and low-regulation economics becomes a political norm within UK regional economic redevelopment strategy.

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Freeports: What are they? What do we know? And what will we know?

Abstract: Freeports: what are they, what do we know, and what will we know?

Cited by 2 publications

References 57 publications

Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach

Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach

The politics of freeports – a place-based analysis of regional economic regeneration in the United Kingdom

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