Adam Tickell & Eric Sheppard 
Politics and Practice in Economic Geography [EPUB ebook] 

‚The biggest strength of the book is its pedagogic design, which will appeal to new entrants in the field but also leaves space for methodological debates… It is well suited for use on general courses but it also involves far more than an introduction and is full of theoretical insights for a more theoretically advanced audience.‘



– Economic Geography Research Group

In the last fifteen years economic geography has experienced a number of fundamental theoretical and methodological shifts. Politics and Practice in Economic Geography explains and interrogates these fundamental issues of research practice in the discipline.

Concerned with examining the methodological challenges associated with that ′cultural turn′, the text explains and discusses:

• qualitative and ethnographic methodologies


• the role and significance of quantitative and numerical methods


• the methodological implications of both post-structural and feminist theories


• the use of case-study approaches


• the methodological relation between the economic geography and neoclassical economics, economic sociology, and economic anthropology.

Leading contributors examine substantive methodological issues in economic geography and make a distinctive contribution to economic-geographical debate and practice.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: POSITION AND METHOD: PRODUCING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES

Chapter 1: Politics and Practice: Becoming a Geographer – Erica Schoenberger

Chapter 2: Smoke and Mirrors: An Ethnography of the State – Alison Mountz

Chapter 3: Nature Talks Back: Studying the Economic Life of Things – Paul Robbins

Chapter 4: Sexing the Economy, Theorizing Bodies – Linda Mc Dowell

Chapter 5: Putting Play to Work – Geraldine Pratt and Caleb Johnston

Chapter 6: Of Pufferfish and Ethnography: Plumbing New Depths in Economic Geography – Elizabeth C. Dunn

PART TWO: POLITICIZING METHOD: ACTIVATING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES

Chapter 7: Method and Politics: Avoiding Determinism and Embracing Normativity – Andrew Sayer

Chapter 8: Cultivating Subjects for a Community Economy – J.K. Gibson-Graham

Chapter 9: A Public Language for Analyzing the Corporation – Philip O’Neill

Chapter 10: The Place of Personal Politics – Jane Wills

Chapter 11: Locating the Thai State – Jim Glassman

Chapter 12: Post-socialism and the Politics of Knowledge Production – John Pickles and Adrian Smith

PART THREE: QUANTITY AND QUALITY

Beyond Dualist Economic Geographies

Chapter 13: Hybrid GIS and Cultural Economic Geography – Mei-Po Kwan

Chapter 14: Evolution in Economic Geography? – David L. Rigby

Chapter 15: Beyond Close Dialogue: Economic Geography as if it Matters – Gordon L. Clark

Chapter 16: Economic Geography, by the Numbers? – Paul Plummer

Chapter 17: Methodologies, Epistemologies, Audiences – Amy Glasmeier

PART FOUR:BOUNDARY CROSSINGS

Mobilizing Economic Geographies

Chapter 18: Out of Africa: History, Nature, Empire – Judith Carney

Chapter 19: ‘I Offer You This, Commodity’ – Vinay K. Gidwani

Chapter 20: ‘El Otro Lado’ and Transnational Ethnographies – Altha J. Cravey

Chapter 21: Researching Transnational Networks – Philip F. Kelly and Kris Olds

Chapter 22: Reflexivity and Positionality in Feminist Fieldwork Revisited – Richa Nagar and Susan Geiger

Chapter 23: Researching Hybridity through ‘Chinese’ Business Networks – Henry Wai-chung Yeung

Über den Autor

Trevor Barnes is a professor and University Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia where he has been since 1983. He is the author or editor of 13 books, the most recent with Brett Christophers, Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction (2018). His research interests are in economic geography and in the history and methodology of geography. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.