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A Companion to Economic Geography

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Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year
2003
ISBN
9780631212232, 9780470693445
DOI
10.1002/9780470693445
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3839741 bytes)
Pages
543\543
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00

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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. Content: Chapter 1 Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography (pages 1–8): Trevor J. Barnes and Eric SbeppardChapter 2 Inventing Anglo?American Economic Geography, 1889–1960 (pages 9–26): Trevor J. BarnesChapter 3 The Modeling Tradition (pages 27–40): Paul S. PlummerChapter 4 The Marxian Alternative: Historical?Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism (pages 41–59): Erik SwyngedouwChapter 5 Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and Working Gender (pages 60–76): Ann M. OberbauserChapter 6 Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography (pages 77–94): Ron MartinChapter 7 Poststructural Interventions (pages 95–110): J.K. Gibson?GrahamChapter 8 The Geography of Production (pages 111–132): Richard A. WalkerChapter 9 Places of Work (pages 133–148): Jamie PeckChapter 10 Industrial Districts (pages 149–168): Ash AminChapter 11 Competition in Space and between Places (pages 169–186): Eric SbeppardChapter 12 Urban and Regional Growth (pages 187–201): Peter SunleyChapter 13 Geography and Technological Change (pages 202–223): David L. RigbyChapter 14 Resources (pages 225–241): Dean M. HaninkChapter 15 Agriculture (pages 242–256): Brian PageChapter 16 Political Ecology (pages 257–274): Michael WattsChapter 17 The Production of Nature (pages 275–289): Noel CastreeChapter 18 Single Industry Resource Towns (pages 290–307): Roger HayterChapter 19 Family, Work, and Consumption: Mapping the Borderlands of Economic Geography (pages 309–324): Nicky GregsonChapter 20 Concepts of Class in Contemporary Economic Geography (pages 325–340): David SadlerChapter 21 Labor Unions and Economic Geography (pages 341–358): Andrew HerodChapter 22 State and Governance (pages 359–376): Joe PainterChapter 23 Creating the Corporate World: Strategy and Culture, Time and Space (pages 377–391): Erica ScboenbergerChapter 24 Networks of Ethnicity (pages 392–407): Katharyne MitchellChapter 25 The Economic Geography of Global Trade (pages 409–431): Richard GrantChapter 26 Money and Finance (pages 432–449): Andrew LeysbonChapter 27 The Political Economy of International Labor Migration (pages 450–467): Helga LeitnerChapter 28 Transportation: Hooked on Speed, Eyeing Sustainability (pages 468–483): Susan HansonChapter 29 Telecommunications and Economic Space (pages 484–489): Barney WarfChapter 30 International Political Economy (pages 499–518): Michael Michael Webber

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