ABSTRACT
This chapter explores where economic geography might go were economic geographers to explicitly confront the nature and effects of their academic work. It provides examples of the terrain that economic geographers occupy in New Zealand and Auckland, New Zealand's largest metropolitan area. D. Harvey a wide range of 'sites' of economic geography practice are identifiable - sites of important calculative activities relating to the nature, direction and extent of investment. Harvey's vision of a broader understanding of the multiple work of economic geography, however, needs to be taken further, by situating the practitioners and practices of economic geographic knowledge in relation to societal processes. This is a strategic step in re-conceptualising economic geography. Economic geography is interpreted as a community of academics, students, practitioners and other supportive actors who are doing two main things: representing the world through models, analysis, narratives and other approaches and presenting these representations in a wide variety of ways in different contexts.
