Voices from the North
Subtitle: New Trends in Nordic Human Geography
Contributors: Jan Ohman (Editor); Kirsten Simonsen (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780754634256
Subjects: Sociology; Social Science; Economic conditions; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social conditions; Anthropology - Cultural; Northern Europe, Scandinavia; Human Geography; Scandinavia
First sentence: Since the early 1970s, it has become increasingly recognised that the geographical location of economic activity cannot be properly understood in isolation from its wider socio-economic and technological context, and thus that we cannot understand spatial economic change without linking it to the overall processes of transformation of capitalist production systems, institutions and markets (Massey 1979, Maskell 1986).