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

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TextSeries: Blackwell companions to geography ; 2Publication details: Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.Description: xv, 536 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780631235798 (pbk.)
0631235795 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Economic geography

DDC classification:

330.9 COM 23 007107

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Table of contents

Contents:

Introduction: the art of economic geography / Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard Inventing anglo-American economic geography, 1889-1960 Modeling tradition / Paul S. Plummer Marxian alternative: historical-geographical materialism and the political economy of capitalism / Erik Swyngedouw Feminism and economic geography: gendering work and working gender / Ann M. Oberhauser Institutional approaches in economic geography / Ron Martin Poststructural interventions / J.K. Gibson-Graham Geography of production / Richard A. Walker Places of work / Jamie Peck Industrial districts / Ash Amin Competition in space and between places / Eric Sheppard Urban and regional growth / Peter Sunley Geography and technological change / David L. Rigby Resources / Dean M. Hamink Agriculture / Brian Page Political ecology / Michael Watts Production of nature / Noel Castree Single industry resource towns / Roger Hayter Family, work and consumption: mapping the borderlands of economic geography / Nicky Gregson Concepts of class in contemporary economic geography / David Sadler Labor unions and economic geography / Andrew Herod State and governance / Joe Painter Creating the corporate world: strategy and culture, time and space / Erica Schoenberger Networks of ethnicity / Katharyne Mitchell Economic geography of global trade / Richard Grant Money and finance / Andrew Leyshon Political economy of international labor migration / Helga Leitner Transportation: hooked on speed, eyeing sustainability / Susan Hanson Telecommunications and economic space / Barney Warf International political economy / Michael Webber.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	330.9 COM 007107 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	04/10/2024	007107

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the art of economic geography / Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard
Inventing anglo-American economic geography, 1889-1960
Modeling tradition / Paul S. Plummer
Marxian alternative: historical-geographical materialism and the political economy of capitalism / Erik Swyngedouw
Feminism and economic geography: gendering work and working gender / Ann M. Oberhauser
Institutional approaches in economic geography / Ron Martin
Poststructural interventions / J.K. Gibson-Graham
Geography of production / Richard A. Walker
Places of work / Jamie Peck
Industrial districts / Ash Amin
Competition in space and between places / Eric Sheppard
Urban and regional growth / Peter Sunley
Geography and technological change / David L. Rigby
Resources / Dean M. Hamink
Agriculture / Brian Page
Political ecology / Michael Watts
Production of nature / Noel Castree
Single industry resource towns / Roger Hayter
Family, work and consumption: mapping the borderlands of economic geography / Nicky Gregson
Concepts of class in contemporary economic geography / David Sadler
Labor unions and economic geography / Andrew Herod
State and governance / Joe Painter
Creating the corporate world: strategy and culture, time and space / Erica Schoenberger
Networks of ethnicity / Katharyne Mitchell
Economic geography of global trade / Richard Grant
Money and finance / Andrew Leyshon
Political economy of international labor migration / Helga Leitner
Transportation: hooked on speed, eyeing sustainability / Susan Hanson
Telecommunications and economic space / Barney Warf
International political economy / Michael Webber.

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.

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