Knowledge Places in Late Occidental Capitalism. Hull’s Sinking Olkc

OLKC possesses three unevenly developed tributaries. The most dominant are intraorganizational and inter-organizational. We contribute to the urban-regional political economy of OLKC. Regional knowledge places are multilayered interconnected locations of possibility. Understanding their evolution and future requires analytic resources which draw from critical realism, comparative historicized sociology, organization design, affordance theory, elective affinities and actor network perspectives. The regional place around Hull has been analyzed within the macro-meso elimination contests of occidental capitalism. The initial affordances and elective affinities boomed in the long nineteenth century but began to unfold during the twentieth century. The sinking metaphor is applied and connected to the contrasting case of the Netherlands. The paper applies counter and superfactual analytic strategies. Professor Peter Clark, ([email protected]) School of Business Management, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London.