Reading Economic Geography

Copyright © 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Reading Economic Geography

Editor(s): Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, Adam Tickell

Published Online: 14 JAN 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631235538

Online ISBN: 9780470755716

DOI: 10.1002/9780470755716

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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.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xii)

    1. Introduction: Reading Economic Geography (pages 1–10)

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

  3. Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography

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      Introduction: Paradigms Lost (pages 11–18)

    2. Chapter 1

      The Difference a Generation Makes (pages 19–28)

      David Harvey

    3. Chapter 2

      Industry and Space: A Sympathetic Critique of Radical Research (pages 29–47)

      Andrew Sayer

    4. Chapter 3

      An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development (pages 48–58)

      Ash Amin

    5. Chapter 4

      Refiguring the Economic in Economic Geography (pages 59–71)

      Nigel J. Thrift and Kris Olds

    6. Chapter 5

      The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse and the Body Economic (pages 72–88)

      J. K. Gibson-Graham

  4. Part II: Realms of Production

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      Introduction: Problematizing Production (pages 89–98)

    2. Chapter 6

      Is there a Service Economy? the Changing Capitalist Division of Labor (pages 97–110)

      Richard A. Walker

    3. Chapter 7

      Uneven Development: Social Change and Spatial Divisions of Labor (pages 111–124)

      Doreen Massey

    4. Chapter 8

      Flexible Production Systems and Regional Development: The Rise of New Industrial Spaces in North America and Western Europe (pages 125–136)

      Allen J. Scott

    5. Chapter 9

      Global-Local Tensions: Firms and States in the Global Space-Economy (pages 137–150)

      Peter Dicken

    6. Chapter 10

      The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora (pages 151–166)

      M. W. Wright

  5. Part III: Resource Worlds

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      Introduction: Producing Nature (pages 167–174)

    2. Chapter 11

      Nature, Economy, and the Cultural Politics of Theory: The “War Against the Seals” in the Bering Sea, 1870-1911 (pages 175–188)

      Noel Castree

    3. Chapter 12

      Modernity and Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890-1930 (pages 189–204)

      Erik Swyngedouw

    4. Chapter 13

      Oil as Money: The Devil's Excrement and the Spectacle of Black Gold (pages 205–219)

      Michael J. Watts

    5. Chapter 14

      Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in the Gambia (pages 220–234)

      Judith Carney

    6. Chapter 15

      Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food (pages 235–248)

      Sarah Whatmore and Lorraine Thorne

  6. Part IV: Social Worlds

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      Introduction: Bringing in the Social (pages 249–256)

    2. Chapter 16

      Bringing the Qualitative State Back into Economic Geography (pages 257–270)

      Phillip M. O'Neill

    3. Chapter 17

      Territories, Flows, and Hierarchies in the Global Economy (pages 271–289)

      Michael Storper

    4. Chapter 18

      Contesting Works Closures in Western Europe's Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place or Betraying Class? (pages 290–303)

      Ray Hudson and David Sadler

    5. Chapter 19

      Class and Gender Relations in the Local Labor Market and the Local State (pages 304–314)

      Ruth Fincher

    6. Chapter 20

      Thinking Through Work: Gender, Power, and Space (pages 315–328)

      Linda McDowell

  7. Part V: Spaces of Circulation

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      Introduction: From Distance to Connectivity (pages 329–335)

    2. Chapter 21

      The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place, and Information Technology (pages 336–349)

      Stephen Graham

    3. Chapter 22

      Best Practice? Geography, Learning, and the Institutional Limits to Strong Convergence (pages 350–361)

      Meric S. Gertler

    4. Chapter 23

      Blood, Thicker than Water: Interpersonal Relations and Taiwanese Investment in Southern China (pages 362–374)

      Y. Hsing

    5. Chapter 24

      From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny: Discursive Geographies of Filipina Domestic Workers in Vancouver, BC (pages 375–388)

      Geraldine Pratt

    6. Chapter 25

      Discourse and Practice in Human Geography (pages 389–402)

      Erica Schoenberger

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      Consolidated Bibliography (pages 403–438)

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      Index (pages 439–479)

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