Economic Geography

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.
* Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview, following the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by Blackwell a decade earlier, providing a comprehensive assessment of the field
* Takes a prospective as well as retrospective look at the field, reviewing recent developments, recurrent challenges, and emerging agendas
* Incorporates diverse perspectives (in terms of specialty, demography and geography) of up and coming scholars, going beyond a focus on Anglo-American research
* Encourages authors and researchers to engage with and contextualize their situated perspectives
* Explores areas of overlap, dialogues, and (potential) engagement between economic geography and cognate disciplines

List of contents

List of Illustrations xi
 
Notes on Contributors xii
 
Acknowledgements xviii
 
The Long Decade: Economic Geography, Unbound 1
Eric Sheppard, Trevor J. Barnes, and Jamie Peck
 
Section I Trajectories 25
 
Editors' Introduction: Trajectories 27
Eric Sheppard, Trevor J. Barnes, and Jamie Peck
 
1 Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for "Other Worlds" 33
J.K. Gibson-Graham
 
2 Geography in Economy: Reflections on a Field 47
Richard Walker
 
3 Release the Hounds! The Marvelous Case of Political Economy 61
Geoff Mann
 
4 The Industrial Corporation and Capitalism's Time-Space Fix 74
Phillip O'Neill
 
5 Theory, Practice, and Crisis: Changing Economic Geographies of Money and Finance 91
Sarah Hall
 
6 The "Matter of Nature" in Economic Geography 104
Karen Bakker
 
7 East Asian Capitalisms and Economic Geographies 118
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
 
8 Contesting Power/Knowledge in Economic Geography: Learning from Latin America and the Caribbean 132
Marion Werner
 
Section II Spatialities 147
 
(a) Accumulation and Value 147
 
Editors' Introduction: Accumulation and Value 149
Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck, and Trevor J. Barnes
 
9 The Geographies of Production 157
Neil M. Coe and Martin Hess
 
10 The Global Economy 170
Jim Glassman
 
11 Evolutionary Economic Geographies 183
Jürgen Essletzbichler
 
12 Geographies of Marketization 199
Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler
 
13 Economies of Bodily Commodification 213
Bronwyn Parry
 
14 Lives of Things 226
Ian Cook and Tara Woodyer
 
15 Crisis in Space: Ruminations on the Unevenness of Financialization and its Geographical Implications 242
Ewald Engelen
 
16 The Insurmountable Diversity of Economies 258
Adrian Smith
 
17 Waste/Value 275
Vinay Gidwani
 
(b) Regulation and Governance 289
 
Editors' Introduction: Regulation and Governance 291
Jamie Peck, Trevor J. Barnes, and Eric Sheppard
 
18 The Virtual Economy 298
Matthew Zook
 
19 Economic Geographies of Global Governance: Rules, Rationalities, and "Relational Comparisons" 313
Katharine N. Rankin
 
20 The Geographies of Alter-globalization 330
Joel Wainwright
 
21 Reinventing the State: Neoliberalism, State Transformation, and Economic Governance 344
Danny MacKinnon
 
22 New Subjects 358
Wendy Larner
 
23 Renaturing the Economy 372
Morgan Robertson
 
24 Bringing Politics Back In: Reading the Firm-Territory Nexus Politically 385
Jinn-yuh Hsu
 
(c) Embodiment and Identity 399
 
Editors' Introduction: Embodiment and Identity 401
Trevor J. Barnes, Eric Sheppard, and Jamie Peck
 
25 Economic Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Explorations in Continuity and Change 407
Beverley Mullings
 
26 Gender, Difference, and Contestation: Economic Geography through the Lens of Transnational Migration 420
Rachel Silvey
 
27 Labor, Movement: Migration, Mobility, and Geographies of Work 431
Philip F. Kelly
 
28 Making Consumers and Consumption 444
Juliana Mansvelt
 
29 The Rise of a New Knowledge/Creative Economy: Prospects and Challenges for Economic Development, Class Inequality, and Work 458
Deborah Leslie and Norma M. Rantisi
 
30 The Corporation as Disciplinary Institution 472
Joshua Barkan
 
31 Social Movements and the Geographies of Economic Activities in South Korea 486
Bae-Gyoon Park
 
32 Subalternities that Matter in Times of Crisis 501
Sharad Chari
 
Section III Borders 515
 
Editors' Introduction: Borders 517
Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, and Eri

About the author

Trevor J. Barnes has been at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, since 1983, and is currently Professor and Distinguished University Scholar.  He is the author or editor of nine books, including Politics and Practice in Economic Geography. Reading Economic Geography, A Companion to Economic Geography, and Logics of Dislocation. 
Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia.  He is the author or editor of eleven books, including Fast Policy, Constructions of Neoliberal Reason, Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers, and Reading Economic Geography. 
Eric Sheppard is the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Department of Geography at UCLA. He is the author or editor of eight books, including A World of Difference, Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers, and A Companion to Economic Geography.

Summary

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.

Report

This vital, innovative, and provocative collection is a stunning achievement, challenging conventional views and extending the boundaries of 'the economic' in exciting ways. It will surely become required reading for all geographers, and not just those of us who call ourselves economic geographers.
Linda McDowell, University of Oxford

Product details

• Authors: TJ Barnes
• Assisted by: Trevor J Barnes (Editor), Trevor J. Barnes (Editor), Trevor J. (University of British Columbia Barnes (Editor), Jamie Peck (Editor), Eric Sheppard (Editor), Eric (University of Minnesota Sheppard (Editor)
• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2016
• EAN: 9781119250647
• ISBN: 978-1-119-25064-7
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 245 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography; Blackwell Companions to Geography; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO; Blackwell Companion
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business