A Companion To Economic Geography Eric Sheppard Trevor J Barnes by Eric Sheppard, Trevor J. Barnes 9780470693445, 9780631212232, 0470693444, 063121223X instant download after payment.
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 Sbeppard
Chapter 2 Inventing Anglo?American Economic Geography, 1889–1960 (pages 9–26): Trevor J. Barnes
Chapter 3 The Modeling Tradition (pages 27–40): Paul S. Plummer
Chapter 4 The Marxian Alternative: Historical?Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism (pages 41–59): Erik Swyngedouw
Chapter 5 Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and Working Gender (pages 60–76): Ann M. Oberbauser
Chapter 6 Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography (pages 77–94): Ron Martin
Chapter 7 Poststructural Interventions (pages 95–110): J.K. Gibson?Graham
Chapter 8 The Geography of Production (pages 111–132): Richard A. Walker
Chapter 9 Places of Work (pages 133–148): Jamie Peck
Chapter 10 Industrial Districts (pages 149–168): Ash Amin
Chapter 11 Competition in Space and between Places (pages 169–186): Eric Sbeppard
Chapter 12 Urban and Regional Growth (pages 187–201): Peter Sunley
Chapter 13 Geography and Technological Change (pages 202–223): David L. Rigby
Chapter 14 Resources (pages 225–241): Dean M. Hanink
Chapter 15 Agriculture (pages 242–256): Brian Page
Chapter 16 Political Ecology (pages 257–274): Michael Watts
Chapter 17 The Production of Nature (pages 275–289): Noel Castree
Chapter 18 Single Industry Resource Towns (pages 290–307): Roger Hayter
Chapter 19 Family, Work, and Consumption: Mapping the Borderlands of Economic Geography (pages 309–324): Nicky Gregson
Chapter 20 Concepts of Class in Contemporary Economic Geography (pages 325–340): David Sadler
Chapter 21 Labor Unions and Economic Geography (pages 341–358): Andrew Herod
Chapter 22 State and Governance (pages 359–376): Joe Painter
Chapter 23 Creating the Corporate World: Strategy and Culture, Time and Space (pages 377–391): Erica Scboenberger
Chapter 24 Networks of Ethnicity (pages 392–407): Katharyne Mitchell
Chapter 25 The Economic Geography of Global Trade (pages 409–431): Richard Grant
Chapter 26 Money and Finance (pages 432–449): Andrew Leysbon
Chapter 27 The Political Economy of International Labor Migration (pages 450–467): Helga Leitner
Chapter 28 Transportation: Hooked on Speed, Eyeing Sustainability (pages 468–483): Susan Hanson
Chapter 29 Telecommunications and Economic Space (pages 484–489): Barney Warf
Chapter 30 International Political Economy (pages 499–518): Michael Michael Webber
