The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography
Blackwell Companions to Geography
1. Edition March 2012
664 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
This Companion presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the state of the field, from a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars. It addresses the growing diversity of the field, its increasingly international make-up, and the major areas of debate, including economic questions about what societies produce and consume; political questions about how governance shapes production and consumption; and social and cultural questions about how identities shape economic processes.
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 contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the Companion: Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard
Section I: Trajectories
Section II: Spatialities
(a) Accumulation and value
(b) Regulation and governance
(c) Embodiment and identity
Section 3: Borders
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 nine books, including Constructions of Neoliberal Reason, Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers, and Reading Economic Geography.
Eric Sheppard is Regents Professor of Geography and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, at the University of Minnesota. 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.
