A Companion to Economic Geography

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-12-01
Publisher(s): John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary

"A Companion to Economic Geography" presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field. Places economic geography in the wider context of geography. Contributions from leading international scholars in the field. Presents a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible overview of all the major themes in the field. Explores key debates, controversies and questions using a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points. Charts the important work that has been done in recent years and looks forward to new developments in the global economy.

Table of Contents

Contributors x
Figures and Tables
xiv
Acknowledgments xvi
Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography
1(8)
Trevor J. Barnes
Eric Sheppard
PART I WORLDS OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 9(102)
Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, 1889--1960
11(16)
Trevor J. Barnes
The Modeling Tradition
27(14)
Paul S. Plummer
The Marxian Alternative: Historical--Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism
41(19)
Erik Swyngedouw
Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and Working Gender
60(17)
Ann M. Oberhauser
Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography
77(18)
Ron Martin
Poststructural Interventions
95(16)
J.K. Gibson-Graham
PART II REALMS OF PRODUCTION 111(114)
The Geography of Production
113(20)
Richard A. Walker
Places of Work
133(16)
Jamie Peck
Industrial Districts
149(20)
Ash Amin
Competition in Space and between Places
169(18)
Eric Sheppard
Urban and Regional Growth
187(15)
Peter Sunley
Geography and Technological Change
202(23)
David L. Rigby
PART III RESOURCE WORLDS 225(84)
Resources
227(15)
Dean M. Hanink
Agriculture
242(15)
Brian Page
Political Ecology
257(18)
Michael Watts
The Production of Nature
275(15)
Noel Castree
Single Industry Resource Towns
290(19)
Roger Hayter
PART IV SOCIAL WORLDS 309(100)
Family, Work and Consumption: Mapping the Borderlands of Economic Geography
311(14)
Nicky Gregson
Concepts of Class in Contemporary Economic Geography
325(16)
David Sadler
Labor Unions and Economic Geography
341(18)
Andrew Herod
State and Governance
359(18)
Joe Painter
Creating the Corporate World: Strategy and Culture, Time and Space
377(15)
Erica Schoenberger
Networks of Ethnicity
392(17)
Katharyne Mitchell
PART V SPACES OF CIRCULATION 409(110)
The Economic Geography of Global Trade
411(21)
Richard Grant
Money and Finance
432(18)
Andrew Leyshon
The Political Economy of International Labor Migration
450(18)
Helga Leitner
Transportation: Hooked on Speed, Eyeing Sustainability
468(16)
Susan Hanson
Telecommunications and Economic Space
484(15)
Barney Warf
International Political Economy
499(20)
Michael Webber
Index 519

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