Reading Economic Geography

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Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2003-10-10
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This reader introduces students to examples of the most important research in the field of economic geography. Brings together the most important research contributions to economic geography. Editorial commentary makes the material accessible for students. The editors are highly respected in their field.

Author Biography

Trevor J. Barnes is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His previous publications include A Companion to Economic Geography (co-edited with Eric Sheppard, Blackwell Publishing, 2001).

Jamie Peck is Professor of Geography and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Work-place (Guilford, 1996) and Workfare States (Guilford, 2001) and co-editor (with Henry Yeung) of Remaking the Global Economy: economic-geographical perspectives (Sage, 2003)

Eric Sheppard is Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Capitalist Space Economy and A World of Difference and the co-editor with Trevor Barnes of A Companion to Economic Geography (Blackwell Publishing, 2001) and with Robert McMaster of Scale and Geographic Inquiry (Blackwell Publishing, 2003).Adam Tickell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol. He is editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and review editor of the Journal of Economic Geography.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments x
Introduction: Reading Economic Geography 1(10)
Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography 11(78)
Introduction: Paradigms Lost
13(6)
1 The Difference a Generation Makes
19(10)
David Harvey
2 Industry and Space: A Sympathetic Critique of Radical Research
29(19)
Andrew Sayer
3 An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development
48(11)
Ash Amin
4 Refiguring the Economic in Economic Geography
59(13)
Nigel J. Thrift and Kris Olds
5 The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse and the Body Economic
72(17)
J.K. Gibson-Graham
Part II: Realms of Production 89(78)
Introduction: Problematizing Production
91(6)
6 Is There a Service Economy? The Changing Capitalist Division of Labor
97(14)
Richard A. Walker
7 Uneven Development: Social Change and Spatial Divisions of Labor
111(14)
Doreen Massey
8 Flexible Production Systems and Regional Development: The Rise of New Industrial Spaces in North America and Western Europe
125(12)
Allen J. Scott
9 Global-Local Tensions: Firms and States in the Global Space-Economy
137(14)
Peter Dicken
10 The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora
151(16)
M.W. Wright
Part III: Resource Worlds 167(82)
Introduction: Producing Nature
169(6)
11 Nature, Economy, and the Cultural Politics of Theory: The "War Against the Seals" in the Bering Sea, 1870-1911
175(14)
Noel Castree
12 Modernity and Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890-1930
189(16)
Erik Swyngedouw
13 Oil as Money: The Devil's Excrement and the Spectacle of Black Gold
205(15)
Michael J. Watts
14 Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in The Gambia
220(15)
Judith Carney
15 Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food
235(14)
Sarah Whatmore and Lorraine Thorne
Part IV: Social Worlds 249(80)
Introduction: Bringing in the Social
251(6)
16 Bringing the Qualitative State back into Economic Geography
257(14)
Phillip M. O'Neill
17 Territories, Flows, and Hierarchies in the Global Economy
271(19)
Michael Storper
18 Contesting Works Closures in Western Europe's Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place or Betraying Class?
290(14)
Ray Hudson and David Sadler
19 Class and Gender Relations in the Local Labor Market and the Local State
304(11)
Ruth Fincher
20 Thinking through Work: Gender, Power, and Space
315(14)
Linda McDowell
Part V: Spaces of Circulation 329(74)
Introduction: From Distance to Connectivity
331(5)
21 The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place, and Information Technology
336(14)
Stephen Graham
22 Rest Practice? Geography, Learning, and the Institutional Limits to Strung Convergence
350(12)
Merie S. Gertler
23 Blood, Thicker than Water: Interpersonal Relations and Taiwanese Investment in Southern China
362(13)
Y. Hsing
24 From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny: Discursive Geographies of Filipina Domestic Workers in Vancouver, BC
375(14)
Geraldine Pratt
25 Discourse and Practice in Human Geography
389(14)
Erica Schoenberger
Consolidated bibliography 403(36)
Index 439

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