Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction

✍ Scribed by Trevor J. Barnes, Brett Christophers

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Series: Critical Introductions to Geography
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume in the celebrated Critical Introductions to Geography series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography. The authors provide an original definition of the discipline, and they make a strong case for its vital importance in understanding the dynamic interconnections, movements, and emerging trends shaping our globalized world.

Economic Geography addresses the key theories and methods that form the basis of the discipline, and describes its “communities of practice” and relations to related fields including economics and sociology. Numerous illustrative examples explore how economic geographers examine the world and how and why the discipline takes the forms it does, demonstrating the critical value of economic geography to making sense of globalization, uneven development, money and finance, urbanization, environmental change, and industrial and technological transformation.

Engaging and thought-provoking, Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction is the ideal resource for students studying across a range of subject areas, as well as the general reader with an interest in world affairs and economics. 

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Why Economic Geography Is Good For You
1.1 Introduction
1.2 “May You Live in Interesting Times”: Economic Geography’s World
1.3 Being Critical: In What Sense a “Critical” Introduction to Economic Geography?
1.4 Outline of the Book
1.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Part I Thinking Critically about Economic Geography
Chapter 2 What Is Economic Geography?
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Defining Economic Geography
2.3 The “Economic” World
2.4 Geographies of the Economic
2.5 Principal Contemporary Narratives of Economic Geography
2.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3 Inventing Economic Geography: Histories of a Discipline
3.1 Introduction
3.2 In the Beginning: Commercial Geography
3.3 Economic Regionalism
3.4 Spatial Science
3.5 Radical Economic Geography
3.6 Poststructuralism and the End of Capitalism (As We Knew It)
3.7 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4 Economic Geography and its Border Country
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Institutions, Disciplines, Borders, and Trading Zones
4.3 Mapping Economic Geography’s Border Country
4.4 Border Life: Three Case Studies
4.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5 Theory and Theories in Economic Geography
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Meanings and Roles of Theory in Economic Geography
5.3 For (Critical) Theory
5.4 Theories in Economic Geography
5.5 Economic Geographic Theory
5.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 Method and Methodology in Economic Geography
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Method and Methodology
6.3 A History of Methods and Methodology in Economic Geography
6.4 Contemporary Methods in Economic Geography
6.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 7 Unboxing Economic Geography
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Hidden Life of a Discipline
7.3 Keeping Economic Geography Standing
7.4 Things Fall Apart
7.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II Doing Critical Economic Geography
Chapter 8 Globalization and Uneven Development
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Economic Globalization: The Basics
8.3 Framing Globalization
8.4 Geographies of Actually Existing Globalization
8.5 Theorizing Globalization as Uneven Geographical Development
8.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9 Money and Finance
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Beginning of Geography
9.3 Place Matters
9.4 Spatial Relations of Finance
9.5 Geographies of Power
9.6 The Seductions of Finance
9.7 Geographies of Money and Finance after the Crisis
9.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 10 Cities and Urbanization
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Cities and Economies through History
10.3 The Economy of the City
10.4 The Economy of Cities
10.5 Urban Transformation as Economy
10.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 11 Nature and the Environment
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The Use of Nature
11.3 The Production of Nature
11.4 The Value of Nature
11.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 12 Industrial and Technological Change
12.1 Introduction
12.2 A History of Industrial Change
12.3 The Hi-Tech Economy
12.4 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 13 Conclusion
13.1 The Scope of Economic Geography
13.2 The Hope of Economic Geography
Notes
Index
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