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SAGE PUBLISHING Politics And Practice In Economic Geography 2007 Edition Softbound by Tickell
"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 GroupIn 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 methodologiesthe role and significance of quantitative and numerical methodsthe methodological implications of both post-structural and feminist theoriesthe use of case-study approachesthe 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. PART ONE: POSITION AND METHOD: PRODUCING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIESChapter 1: Politics and Practice: Becoming a Geographer - Erica SchoenbergerChapter 2: Smoke and Mirrors: An Ethnography of the State - Alison MountzChapter 3: Nature Talks Back: Studying the Economic Life of Things - Paul RobbinsChapter 4: Sexing the Economy, Theorizing Bodies - Linda McDowellChapter 5: Putting Play to Work - Geraldine Pratt and Caleb JohnstonChapter 6: Of Pufferfish and Ethnography: Plumbing New Depths in Economic Geography - Elizabeth C. DunnPART TWO: POLITICIZING METHOD: ACTIVATING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIESChapter 7: Method and Politics: Avoiding Determinism and Embracing Normativity - Andrew SayerChapter 8: Cultivating Subjects for a Community Economy - J.K. Gibson-GrahamChapter 9: A Public Language for Analyzing the Corporation - Philip O'NeillChapter 10: The Place of Personal Politics - Jane WillsChapter 11: Locating the Thai State - Jim GlassmanChapter 12: Post-socialism and the Politics of Knowledge Production - John Pickles and Adrian SmithPART THREE: QUANTITY AND QUALITYBeyond Dualist Economic GeographiesChapter 13: Hybrid GIS and Cultural Economic Geography - Mei-Po KwanChapter 14: Evolution in Economic Geography? - David L. RigbyChapter 15: Beyond Close Dialogue: Economic Geography as if it Matters - Gordon L. ClarkChapter 16: Economic Geography, by the Numbers? - Paul PlummerChapter 17: Methodologies, Epistemologies, Audiences - Amy GlasmeierPART FOUR:BOUNDARY CROSSINGSMobilizing Economic Geographies Chapter 18: Out of Africa: History, Nature, Empire - Judith CarneyChapter 19: 'I Offer You This, Commodity' - Vinay K. GidwaniChapter 20: 'El Otro Lado' and Transnational Ethnographies - Altha J. CraveyChapter 21: Researching Transnational Networks - Philip F. Kelly and Kris OldsChapter 22: Reflexivity and Positionality in Feminist Fieldwork Revisited - Richa Nagar and Susan GeigerChapter 23: Researching Hybridity through 'Chinese' Business Networks - Henry Wai-chung Yeung