ABSTRACT

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.

part 1|129 pages

(Re)Constituting Economic Geographies

chapter 2|10 pages

Economic/Non-Economic

chapter 5|12 pages

Economies of Power and Space

chapter 6|16 pages

Nature as Artifice, Nature as Artefact

Development, Environment and Modernity in the Late Twentieth Century

chapter 7|11 pages

Re-Placing Class in Economic Geographies

Possibilities for a New Class Politics

chapter 9|10 pages

Rethinking Restructuring

Embodiment, Agency and Identity in Organizational Change

part 2|98 pages

(Re)Thinking Globalization

chapter 12|9 pages

Unpacking the Global

chapter 13|10 pages

Excluding the Other

The Production of Scale and Scaled Politics

chapter 15|11 pages

Notes on a Spatialized Labour Politics

Scale and the Political Geography of Dual Unionism in the US Longshore Industry

chapter 16|12 pages

Local Food/Global Food

Globalization and Local Restructuring

chapter 17|10 pages

Globalization of R&D in the Electronics Industry

The Recent Experience of Japan

part 3|127 pages

New Geographies of Uneven Development

chapter III|17 pages

Theories of Accumulation and Regulation

Bringing Life Back into Economic Geography Introduction to Section Three

chapter 20|19 pages

Divergence, Instability and Exclusion

Regional Dynamics in Great Britain

chapter 27|11 pages

California Rages

Regional Capitalism and the Politics of Renewal