Reading Economic Geography or Transnational Urbanism

Reading Economic Geography

Author: Trevor J Barnes

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

• 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.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Reading Economic Geography	1
Pt. I	Worlds of Economic Geography	11
	Introduction: Paradigms Lost	13
1	The Difference a Generation Makes	19
2	Industry and Space: A Sympathetic Critique of Radical Research	29
3	An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development	48
4	Refiguring the Economic in Economic Geography	59
5	The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse and the Body Economic	72
Pt. II	Realms of Production	89
	Introduction: Problematizing Production	91
6	Is There a Service Economy? The Changing Capitalist Division of Labor	97
7	Uneven Development: Social Change and Spatial Divisions of Labor	111
8	Flexible Production Systems and Regional Development: The Rise of New Industrial Spaces in North America and Western Europe	125
9	Global-Local Tensions: Firms and States in the Global Space-Economy	137
10	The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora	151
Pt. III	Resource Worlds	167
	Introduction: Producing Nature	169
11	Nature, Economy, and the Cultural Politics of Theory: The "War Against the Seals" in the Bering Sea, 1870-1911	175
12	Modernity and Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890-1930	189
13	Oil as Money: The Devil's Excrement and the Spectacle of Black Gold	205
14	Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in The Gambia	220
15	Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food	235
Pt. IV	Social Worlds	249
	Introduction: Bringing in the Social	251
16	Bringing the Qualitative State back into Economic Geography	257
17	Territories, Flows, and Hierarchies in the Global Economy	271
18	Contesting Works Closures in Western Europe's Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place or Betraying Class?	290
19	Class and Gender Relations in the Local Labor Market and the Local State	304
20	Thinking through Work: Gender, Power, and Space	315
Pt. V	Spaces of Circulation	329
	Introduction: From Distance to Connectivity	331
21	The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place, and Information Technology	336
22	Best Practice? Geography, Learning, and the Institutional Limits to Strong Convergence	350
23	Blood, Thicker than Water: Interpersonal Relations and Taiwanese Investment in Southern China	362
24	From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny: Discursive Geographies of Filipina Domestic Workers in Vancouver, BC	375
25	Discourse and Practice in Human Geography	389
	Consolidated bibliography	403
	Index	439

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Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization

Author: Michael Peter Smith

Transnational Urbanism is a profound work of theoretical synthesis by internationally renowned urban theorist Michael Peter Smith. Moving deftly across disciplines and discursive terrains, Smith forges original and stimulating connections between urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies. With original and extraordinary insight, he addresses the central question of how and why immigrants, refugees, political activists, and institutions locate and maintain social relations in light of transnational urbanism.

• Brings a concrete, historically informed discussion of globalization and transnationalism applied to urban studies.

• Offers a blueprint for reconstructing urban theory itself .

• Forges stimulating connections between the field of urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies .