A Companion to Economic Geography

by Sheppard, Eric S.; Barnes, Trevor J.

• ISBN13: 9780631212232
• ISBN10: 063121223X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

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