Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers.Over forty contributors draw upon contemporary theory and experience to explore the cultural and social constitution of economic geographies, processes of globalisation and new forms of political regulation and practice. Although focusing upon 'new' economic geography, the book also illustrates the many connections with previous scholarship as scholars seek to reconstruct the traditions of political economy to understand the contemporary world.Highlighting and illustrating contemporary developments, the book opens up discussion about the implications of the complex geographies involved. In pointing to new directions of research and debate, this major statement in state of the art economic geography demonstrates the central relevance of economic geography not only in understanding the trajectories of change but in proposing alternatives.
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PrologueIntroduction(Re)constituting economic geographiesThe dialect of culture and economy: the economization of culture and the culturization of economyThe invention of regional cultureThe cultural production of economic formsEconomies of power and spaceNature as artifice, nature as artefact: development, environment and modernity in the late twentieth centuryA tale of two cities? Embedded organisations and embodies workers in the city of LondonRe-thinking restructuring: embodiment, agency and identity in organisational changeEconomicnon-economicRe-placing class in economic geographies: possibilities for a new class politicsLocal politics, anti-essentialism and economic geographyTrue stories? Global nightmares, global dreams and writing globalisationGlobalisation, socioeconomics, territorialityUnpacking the globalLocal foodglobal food: globalisation and local restructuringExcluding the other: the production of scale and scaled politicsGlobalisation and geographies of workers' struggle in the late twentieth centuryGlobalisation of R & D in the electronics industry: the recent experience of JapanFalling out of the world economy? Theorizing 'Africa' in world tradeNotes on a spatialized labour politics: scale and the political geography of dual unionism in the US east coast longshore industryTheories of accumulation and regulation: bringing life back into economical geographyRegional economies as relational assetsDivergence, instability and exlusion: regional dynamics in Great BritainThe post-Keynesian state and the space economyBringing the qualitative state into economic geographyThe end of mass production and of the mass collective worker? Experimenting with production, employment and their geographiesThe role of supply chain management strategies in the 'Europeanisation' of the automobile production systemBreaking the old and constructing the new? geographies of uneven development in central and Eastern EuropeCalifornia rages: regional capitalism and the politics of renewalInformal cities? Women's work and the informal activities on the margins of the European unionConclusion.
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...an excellent collection...with value packed chapters..the wait has been well worth it... The authors are to be congratulated on producing what is probably the best economic geography book of the last decade.Environment and Planning AThis is a really great book... a joy to review... 'Geography of Economies' is a substantial statement in economic geography.Economic Geography Research Group of the IBGan excellent collection....The wait ha been well worth it, as I am sure a wide audience will agree. My students have been very impressed with it, commenting that it is a ""who's who of geographers we've heard of!""....value-packed chapters....this is an excellent book which deserves to be widely read. It is invaluable for teaching purposes and will provide research students, older hands, and interEnvironment and Planning
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ISBN
9781138162266
Publisert
2017-02-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
280 mm
Bredde
210 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
424