Limits to globalization : disruptive geographies of capitalist development / Eric Sheppard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheppard, Eric S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic geography.

Capitalism.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xx, 212 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

1 Geography, Economy, Development 1

1.1 Economic Geography: A Brief Genealogy 1

1.2 Exogenous Geographies: The View from Economics 3

1.2.1 Sachs and Physical Geography 4

1.2.2 Krugman and Morphogenesis 5

1.2.3 Shared Presuppositions 7

1.3 The View from Geography 9

1.3.1 Nature-Economy Relations 9

1.3.2 Spatialities 10

1.4 Development in Question 20

1.4.1 Economics' Developmentalism 20

1.4.2 Geographers' Critiques 25

1.5 Conclusion 28

2 Spatialities of Commodity Production 29

2.1 Separating Paradigms: Theory-language or Socio-spatial Ontology? 30

2.1.1 The Question of Theory-language 30

2.1.2 Beyond the Mainstream Ontology 31

2.2 The Spacetimes of Commodity Production 36

2.2.1 Producing Commodities: Time, Space, and the Relational Economy 38

2.2.2 Producing Space: Accessibility as Commodity 39

2.2.3 Spatialities of Value 43

2.3 Conclusion 45

3 The Uneven Geographies of Globalizing Capitalism 47

3.1 Geographies of Production 47

3.1.1 Territory: Spatial Divisions of Labour 48

3.1.2 Place: 'New' Industrial Districts 50

3.1.3 Connectivity and Positionality: Global Pipelines and Production Networks 52

3.2 Uneven Geographies of Consumption 53

3.2.1 The Cultural Politics of Consumption 56

3.3 The Politics of Production 58

3.3.1 Geographies of Labour 58

3.3.2 Labour Geographies 60

3.3.3 Geographies of Governance and Regulation 62

3.4 Conclusion 66

4 Capitalist Dynamics: Continuity, or Crisis? 68

4.1 Atemporal Capitalist Dynamics 68

4.1.1 Dynamic (Spatial) Equilibrium 68

4.1.2 Theorizing Capitalist Cycles 72

4.2 Theorizing Capitalist Crisis 73

4.3 What about Spatiality? 77

4.4 Conclusion 80

5 Globalizing Capitalism's Spatio-temporalities 81

5.1 Evolutionary Economic Geography 82

5.1.1 Generalized Darwinism and Evolutionary Economic Geography 83

5.1.2 EEG's Socio-spatial Ontology 85

5.2 The Emergent Dynamics of Globalizing Capitalism 86

5.2.1 Time-Space Compression: Is Place the Key? 86

5.2.2 Relational Dynamics: Making the Case for Connectivity 88

5.2.3 Incorporating the Politics of Production 90

5.3 Provincializing our Understanding of Globalizing Capitalism 92

5.4 Conclusion 95

6 The Free Trade Doctrine-A Critique 97

6.1 The Entanglements of Commodity Trade 99

6.2 Mainstream Trade Theory 101

6.2.1 Adding 'Geography' 104

6.2.2 The Socio-spatial Ontology of Mainstream Trade Theory 105

6.3 The Free Trade Doctrine in Light of Globalizing Capitalism 107

6.3.1 Britain as Free Trade Nation 107

6.3.2 After Bretton Woods: The False Promise of Free Trade 112

6.4 Conclusion 115

7 Geographies of Unequal Global Exchange 117

7.1 Alternative Trade Theories: Stillborn Heterodoxies 118

7.1.1 Marxist Theories of Unequal Exchange 118

7.1.2 Post-Keynesian Theories 121

7.1.3 Assessment 123

7.2 Toward a Geographical Theory of Global Trade 123

7.2.1 Entanglements of Space 124

7.2.2 Entanglements with the More-than-economic 126

7.3 Conclusion 129

8 Capitalism's Raggedy Edges: People, Earth, Finance 131

8.1 People 132

8.1.1 More-than-capitalist Society: Nurturing or Challenging Capitalism? 132

8.1.2 Commodifying More-than-capitalist Practices 135

8.1.3 The Triple Movement: More-than-capitalist Contestations 140

8.2 Earth 143

8.2.1 Enrolling the More-than-human World into Capitalism 143

8.2.2 How Earth Exceeds Globalizing Capitalism 147

8.3 Finance 149

8.3.1 The Necessity of Finance 150

8.3.2 How finance Exceeds Globalizing Capitalism 152

8.3.3 Fictitious Finance and Globalizing Capitalism 154

8.4 Conclusion 155

9 Conclusion 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-199) and index.

ISBN:

0199681163

9780199681167

OCLC:

920862656