A companion to economic geography / edited by Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sheppard, Eric S.

Barnes, Trevor J.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Blackwell companions to geography ; 2.

Blackwell companions to geography ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic geography.

Physical Description:

xv, 536 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Summary:

The Companion explains the competing approaches to the study of economic geography; introduces the geographic study of economic processes; and provides geographic perspectives on economic change, examining relations between humans and the environment; the construction of place; and the space of flows between places via commodity trade, capital flows, migration, and transportation. The volume concludes with a chapter on scale, addressing globalization and localization.

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography / Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard

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

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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

063121223X

OCLC:

44633063