Economic Conditions, Exports & Imports, Regional, Human Geography, Economics, Earth Sciences, Geography 

This reader introduces examples of the most important research in the field of economic geography. [from publisher's advertisement]. 

The 1990s saw an explosion in research in the area of economic geography. "A Companion to Economic Geography" surveys this field and this volume is designed both to complement it, providing the historical context for the discussions in it. It can also be used as a stand-alone text. 

Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Trevor J Barnes
ISBN: 0631235531 9780631235538 063123554X 9780631235545
OCLC Number: 51178108
Description: xii, 479 pages ; 26 cm.
Contents: pt. 1: Worlds of economic geography. Introduction: Paradigms lost. The difference a generation makes / David Harvey --
Industry and space: a sympathetic critique of radical research / Andrew Sayer --
An institutionalist perspective on regional economic development / Ash Amin --
Refiguring the economic in economic geography / Nigel J. Thrift and Kris Olds --
The economy, stupid! Industrial policy discourse and the body economic / J.K. Gibson-Graham --
pt. 2: Realms of production. Introduction: Problematizing production. Is there a service economy? The changing capitalist division of labor / Richard A. Walker --
Uneven development: social change and spatial divisions of labor / Doreen Massey --
Flexible productions systems and regional development: the rise of new industrial spaces in North America and Western Europe / Allen J. Scott --
Global-local tensions: firms and states in the global space-economy / Peter Dicken --
The politics of relocation: gender, nationality, and value in a Mexican Maquiladora / M.W. Wright --
pt. 3: Resource worlds. Introduction: Producing nature. Nature, economy, and the cultural politics of theory: the "war against the seals" in the Bering Sea, 1870-1911 / Noel Castree --
Modernity and hybridity: nature, regeneracionismo, and the production of the Spanish waterscape, 1890-1930 / Erik Swyngedouw --
Oil as money: the devil's excrement and the spectacle of black gold / Michael J. Watts --
Converting the wetlands, engendering the environment: the intersection of gender with agrarian change in The Gambia / Judith Carney --
Nourishing networks: alternative geographies of food / Sarah Whatmore and Lorraine Thorne --
pt. 4: Social worlds. Introduction: Bringing in the social. Bringing the qualitative state back into economic geography / Phillip M. O'Neill --
Territories, flows, and hierarchies in the global economy / Michael Storper --
Contesting works closures in Western Europe's old industrial regions: defending place or betraying class? / Ray Hudson and David Sadler --
Class and gender relations in the local labor market and the local state / Ruth Fincher --
Thinking through work: gender, power, and space / Linda McDowell --
pt. 5: Spaces of circulation. Introduction: From distance to connectivity. The end of geography or the explosion of place? Conceptualizing space, place, and information technology / Stephen Graham --
Best practice? Geography, learning, and the institutional limits to strong convergence / Meric S. Gertler --
Blood, thicker than water: interpersonal relations and Taiwanese investment in Southern China / Y. Hsing --
From registered nurse to registered nanny: discursive geographies of Filipina domestic workers in Vancouver, BC / Geraldine Pratt --
Discourse and practice in human geography / Erica Schoenberger.
Series Title: Blackwell readers in geography.
Responsibility: edited by Trevor J. Barnes [and others].