Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Rethinking Semiconductor Global Production Networks: From Geopolitics to Environmental Sustainability
November 28, 2024, University of Lausanne
Based on his lead-authored chapter on semiconductors in Global Value Chain Development Report 2023 (WTO/ADB, October 2023) and Josh Lepawsky’s (2024) important work in iScience on the environmental risks of chipmaking, this lecture offers some key empirical observations on the highly contested and politicized nature of semiconductor global production networks since the US-China trade war and the Covid-19 pandemic. This lecture ends with a discussion of some relevant future research agendas on technology, environmental resilience, and politics for the interdisciplinary studies of global production networks and global value chains.
