Reading Economic Geography

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.

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.

Acknowledgments

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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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