Ebook: Reading economic geography

This reader introduces students to examples of the most important research in the field of economic geography.

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• Brings together the most important research contributions to economic geography.
  
• Editorial commentary makes the material accessible for students.
  
• The editors are highly respected in their field.

Content:
Chapter 1 The Difference a Generation Makes (pages 19–28): David Harvey
Chapter 2 Industry and Space: A Sympathetic Critique of Radical Research (pages 29–47): Andrew Sayer
Chapter 3 An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development (pages 48–58): Ash Amin
Chapter 4 Refiguring the Economic in Economic Geography (pages 59–71): Nigel J. Thrift and Kris Olds
Chapter 5 The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse and the Body Economic (pages 72–88): J. K. Gibson?Graham
Chapter 6 Is there a Service Economy? the Changing Capitalist Division of Labor (pages 97–110): Richard A. Walker
Chapter 7 Uneven Development: Social Change and Spatial Divisions of Labor (pages 111–124): Doreen Massey
Chapter 8 Flexible Production Systems and Regional Development: The Rise of New Industrial Spaces in North America and Western Europe (pages 125–136): Allen J. Scott
Chapter 9 Global?Local Tensions: Firms and States in the Global Space?Economy (pages 137–150): Peter Dicken
Chapter 10 The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora (pages 151–166): M. W. Wright
Chapter 11 Nature, Economy, and the Cultural Politics of Theory: The “War Against the Seals” in the Bering Sea, 1870?1911 (pages 175–188): Noel Castree
Chapter 12 Modernity and Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890?1930 (pages 189–204): Erik Swyngedouw
Chapter 13 Oil as Money: The Devil's Excrement and the Spectacle of Black Gold (pages 205–219): Michael J. Watts
Chapter 14 Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in the Gambia (pages 220–234): Judith Carney
Chapter 15 Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food (pages 235–248): Sarah Whatmore and Lorraine Thorne
Chapter 16 Bringing the Qualitative State Back into Economic Geography (pages 257–270): Phillip M. O'Neill
Chapter 17 Territories, Flows, and Hierarchies in the Global Economy (pages 271–289): Michael Storper
Chapter 18 Contesting Works Closures in Western Europe's Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place or Betraying Class? (pages 290–303): Ray Hudson and David Sadler
Chapter 19 Class and Gender Relations in the Local Labor Market and the Local State (pages 304–314): Ruth Fincher
Chapter 20 Thinking Through Work: Gender, Power, and Space (pages 315–328): Linda McDowell
Chapter 21 The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place, and Information Technology (pages 336–349): Stephen Graham
Chapter 22 Best Practice? Geography, Learning, and the Institutional Limits to Strong Convergence (pages 350–361): Meric S. Gertler
Chapter 23 Blood, Thicker than Water: Interpersonal Relations and Taiwanese Investment in Southern China (pages 362–374): Y. Hsing
Chapter 24 From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny: Discursive Geographies of Filipina Domestic Workers in Vancouver, BC (pages 375–388): Geraldine Pratt
Chapter 25 Discourse and Practice in Human Geography (pages 389–402): Erica Schoenberger