Reading Economic Geography

Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, Adam Tickell

John Wiley & Sons, Oct 10, 2003 - Science - 496 pages

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.

Contents

• Paradigms Lost: 13
• A Sympathetic Critique of Radical Research: 29
• An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development: 48
• The Economy Stupid Industrial Policy Discourse and: 72
• Problematizing Production: 91
• Social Change and Spatial Divisions of Labor: 111
• The Rise: 125
• Firms and States in the Global SpaceEconomy: 137
• Gender Nationality and Value in: 151
• Producing Nature: 169
• The War: 175
• Nature Regeneracionismo and: 189
• The Devils Excrement and the Spectacle of Black: 205
• Alternative Geographies of Food: 235
• Bringing in the Social: 251
• Bringing the Qualitative State back into Economic Geography: 257
• Territories Flows and Hierarchies in the Global Economy: 271
• Contesting Works Closures in Western Europes Old Industrial: 290
• Class and Gender Relations in the Local Labor Market and: 304
• Gender Power and Space: 315
• From Distance to Connectivity: 331
• Best Practice? Geography Learning and the Institutional Limits: 350
• Discursive Geographies: 375
• Discourse and Practice in Human Geography: 389
• Consolidated bibliography: 403
• Index: 439

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Reading Economic Geography; Wiley Blackwell Readers in Geography
• Editors: Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, Adam Tickell
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003
• ISBN: 063123554X, 9780631235545
• Length: 496 pages
• Subjects: Science / Earth Sciences / Geography