A Companion to Economic Geography
Published on 20. October 2000
Book
Hardback
552 pages
978-0-631-21223-2 (ISBN)
Description
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. The authors provide the reader with an understanding of the tradition of geographic research in all the relevant topics of economic geography whilst focusing on the developments of the last twenty years. All the entries provide critical assessments of the state of the field and highlight the contribution of each approach to an understanding of economic geography. The Companion is ideally suited to undergraduates and first year graduates and will provide them with a comprehensive review of economic geography in a clear and accessible format.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 172 mm
Weight
2090 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-21223-2 (9780631212232)
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Content
Contributors. Figures and Tables. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography: Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard. Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography: 2. Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, 1889-1960: Trevor J. Barnes. 3. The Modeling Tradition: Paul S. Plummer. 4. The Marxian Alternative: Historical-Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism: Erik Swyngedouw. 5. Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and Working Gender: Ann M. Oberhauser. 6. Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography: Ron Martin. 7. Poststructural interventions: J. K. Gibson-Graham. Part II: Realms of Production: 8. The Geography of Production: Richard A. Walker. 9. Places of work: Jamie Peck. 10. Industrial Districts: Ash Amin. 11. Competition in Space and between Places: Eric Sheppard. 12. Urban and Regional Growth: Peter Sunley. 13. Geography and Technological Change: David L. Rigby. Part III: Resource Worlds: 14. Resources: Dean M. Hanink. 15. Agriculture: Brian Page. 16. Political Ecology: Michael Watts. 17. The Production of Nature: Noel Castree. 18. Single Industry Resource Towns: Roger Hayter. Part IV: Social Worlds: 19. Family, work and consumption: mapping the borderlands of economic geography: Nicky Gregson. 20. Concepts of class in contemporary economic geography: David Sadler. 21. Labor Unions and Economic Geography: Andrew Herod. 22. State and Governance: Joe Painter. 23. Creating the Corporate World: Strategy and Culture, Time and Space: Erica Schoenberger. 24. Networks of Ethnicity: Katharyne Mitchell. Part V: Spaces of Circulation: 25. The Economic Geography of Global Trade: Richard Grant. 26. Money and Finance: Andrew Leyshon. 27. The Political Economy of International Labor Migration: Helga Leitner. 28. Transportation: Hooked on Speed, Eyeing Sustainability: Susan Hanson. 29. Telecommunications and Economic Space: Barney Warf. 30. International Political Economy: Michael Webber. Index.