Title: Geographies of economies /
Authors: Lee, Roger, 1945-; Wills, Jane.
Publisher: Arnold,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Economic geography.; Regional economic disparities.; Industrial location.
Abstract: The contributors explore the wide-ranging and complex changes in the economic geographies of the contemporary world, and the diverse responses to these changes within their own particular discipline. They offer concise overviews of current debates.
Contents: Introduction: cultural turns and the (re)construction of economic geografy / Philip Crang -- The dialectic of culture and economy / Andrew Sayer -- Economic/non-economic / Doreen Massey -- The cultural production of economic forms / Meric S. Gertler -- Economies of power and space / John Allen -- Nature as artifice, nature as artefact: development and modernity in the late twentieth century / Michael J. Watts and James McCarthy -- Re-placing class in geographies: possibilities for a new class politics / J.K. Gibson-Grahm -- Local politics, anti-essentialism and economic geography / Joe Painter -- Rethinking restructuring: embodiment, agency and identity in organizational change / Sysan Halford and Mike Savage -- A tale of two cities? Embedded organizations and embodied workers in the city of London / Linda M. McDowell --