A Companion to Economic Geography

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.

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.

Contributors.Figures and Tables.Acknowledgments.1. Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography: Trevor J. Barnesand Eric Sheppard.Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography:.2. Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, 1889-1960:Trevor J. Barnes.3. The Modeling Tradition: Paul S. Plummer.4. The Marxian Alternative: Historical-Geographical Materialismand the Political Economy of Capitalism: Erik Swyngedouw.5. Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and WorkingGender: Ann M. Oberhauser.6. Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography: RonMartin.7. Poststructural interventions: J. K. Gibson-Graham.Part II: Realms of Production:.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.Part III: Resource Worlds:.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.Part IV: Social Worlds:.19. Family, work and consumption: mapping the borderlands ofeconomic geography: Nicky Gregson.20. Concepts of class in contemporary economic geography: DavidSadler.21. Labor Unions and Economic Geography: Andrew Herod.22. State and Governance: Joe Painter.23. Creating the Corporate World: Strategy and Culture, Time andSpace: Erica Schoenberger.24. Networks of Ethnicity: Katharyne Mitchell.Part V: Spaces of Circulation:.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.Index.