Geographies of Practice Transfer

Judith Wiemann works as a research fellow at the Institute of Geography at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. During her doctorate she worked in an interdisciplinary DFG financed research project on the internationalization of production-related training of German multinational enterprises at the Department of Economic and Social Geography at the University of Cologne, where she also received her PhD in 2021 (at the time of the publication it should be through).Judith Wiemann holds a Diploma degree in Regional Sciences of Latin America of the University of Cologne and a Master degree in Spanish-German translation of the University of Cordoba (ISTRAD).Her major research interests lie in the internationalization of knowledge and skills, spatial evolution of industries, regional economic development, foreign direct investments, regional economic linkages between Global South and North.

• Chapter 1. Introducing relevance, research questions, and structure of this study.- Chapter 2. Defining the research desiderates: Economic geography, practice theories, and practice.- Chapter 3. Discussing the methodological approach.- Chapter 4. Developing a practice theoretical approach to practice transfer across distance and between territories.- Chapter 5. Comparing transfer resistances of three skill formation practices to the Chinese, Indian, and Mexican research region.- Chapter 6. Threading everything together: conclusion.