Table of Contents
Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Geography
Editors’ Introduction: The Long Decade: Economic Geography, Unbound
Geography and Economics: Estranged Cousins?
Unruly Discipline: The Reach and Grasp of Economic Geography
More than Variegation: The Projects of Economic Geography
Situated Economic Geographies: Organizing The Wiley-Blackwell Companion
Open-ended Economic Geographies
Editors’ Introduction: Trajectories
Chapter 1 Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for “Other Worlds”
Introduction: Diverse Economies as a Performative Ontological Project
Becoming Different Academic Subjects
New Academic Practices and Performances
Chapter 2 Geography in Economy: Reflections on a Field
The Central Place of Neoclassicism in Post-war Models
Development, Corporations, and Spatial Divisions of Labor
The Coming of Capital and Spatial Dynamics
Industrial Districts and Urban Economies
Innovation, Creativity, and Culture
A New World of Political Geography
Financial Crisis and the Geography of Money
Chapter 3 Release the Hounds! The Marvelous Case of Political Economy
Political Economy and Economic Geography
Political Economy on the Street and the Sidewalk
Political Economy Off the Beaten Path
Chapter 4 The Industrial Corporation and Capitalism’s Time–Space Fix
A Political Economy of the Corporation
Spatial Fixes and Spatiotemporal Fixes: Harvey and his Structured Coherences
Chapter 5 Theory, Practice, and Crisis: Changing Economic Geographies of Money and Finance
Changing Geographies of Money and Finance
Post-crisis Performances of Money and Finance
Chapter 6 The “Matter of Nature” in Economic Geography
Evolving Perspectives on Environmental Issues within Economic Geography
Conclusions: A “New Materialism” in Economic Geography?
Chapter 7 East Asian Capitalisms and Economic Geographies
Changing Dynamics of Capitalist Economic Geographies in East Asia: How Flows and Networks Matter
Remaking Global Economic Geographies: Theorizing Back
Eurocentric Geographies of Industrial Restructuring
Economic Geographies from Latin America and the Caribbean: Reworking Power/Knowledge
Conclusion: Contesting Power/Knowledge in Economic Geography
(a) Accumulation and Value: Editors’ Introduction: Accumulation and Value
Chapter 9 The Geographies of Production
Production as Instituted Process: National Variety
The Dynamic Network/Territory Interface
Post-World War II Global Capitalism
Chapter 11 Evolutionary Economic Geographies
Basic Principles of Evolutionary Economics: Variety, Selection, Retention
Evolutionary Economic Geographies
Chapter 12 Geographies of Marketization
Introduction: Markets and Marketization
Studying Markets: Places and Prices, Networks and Structures
The Discursive Borderlands of Global Capitalism: B/ordering the Market
Chapter 13 Economies of Bodily Commodification
Affirmative Critique / Enchanted Activism
Chapter 16 The Insurmountable Diversity of Economies
Central Tenets of Diverse Economies
Widening the Theoretical Terrain of Diverse Economies
“Waste” as Marker of Distance/Difference
Waste as Society’s External Margin
Waste as Society’s Internal Margin
(b) Regulation and Governance: Editors’ Introduction: Regulation and Governance
Chapter 18 The Virtual Economy
Linking the Virtual and the Material
The Power of Code in Virtual and Material Places
Speeding Up with the Virtual Economy
Complicating Measures of Distance
Labor Processes in the Virtual Economy
Global Governance and Critical Reflexivity
Chapter 20 The Geographies of Alter-globalization
Introduction: The Geographies of Alter-globalization
Chapter 21 Reinventing the State: Neoliberalism, State Transformation, and Economic Governance
Theorizing States and Governance
Processes of State Restructuring
Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and the State
Emerging Research Issues and Challenges
Chapter 23 Renaturing the Economy
The Carbon Economy: Way Down, Way Up
Chapter 24 Bringing Politics Back In: Reading the Firm-Territory Nexus Politically
The Rise of the Dynamic Theory of Firm
Reading Firm Theories Geographically
Firms under Community Governance: Regulating Firms
Back to basics? Politics within the Firm-Territory Nexus in a Capitalist Economy
(c) Embodiment and Identity: Editors’ Introduction: Embodiment and Identity
Chapter 25 Economic Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Explorations in Continuity and Change
Imperial Projects, Economic Geography, and Questions of Race
Racism, Race Relations, and Economic Geography’s Epistemological Revolutions
Marxist, Feminist, and Critical Race Challenges
Feminist and Critical Race Incursions in Economic Geography
Relational Geographies, Network Approaches, and New Possibilities for Race and Ethnicity
Global Care Chains: Indonesian Migrant Women Workers
Bodies and Households: Feminist Interventions
Migrants Organizing: Local Protests and Transnational Imaginaries
Chapter 27 Labor, Movement: Migration, Mobility, and Geographies of Work
Temporary Migrant Labor: Accumulation by Disenfranchisement
Immigrant Labor Markets: Racialization and Employment
Gendered Geographies of Everyday Labor Mobility
Chapter 28 Making Consumers and Consumption
Thinking through the “Work” of Consumption Geographies: Sights, Sites, and Citation
Cites: The Performance and Practice of Consumption
Sites: Consumption as Multiply Situated and Constituted
The Consumer and the Labor of Consumption
Consumption Geographies – Still at the Border?
Transition to a Knowledge-based Economy
Implications of the New Economy for Economic Development Policy
The Creative Class Thesis as Practice: Why it’s so Seductive and Why it’s so Dangerous
Chapter 30 The Corporation as Disciplinary Institution
Corporations as Disciplinary Institutions
Chapter 31 Social Movements and the Geographies of Economic Activities in South Korea
Introduction: Social Movements and Economic Geographies
Democratization Movements and Regulatory Changes of the Korean Developmental State
Neoliberal Reforms, Social Movements, and Spatially Selective Liberalization
Labor Movements and Greenfield Locations of the Korean Auto Industry
Chapter 32 Subalternities that Matter in Times of Crisis
Crisis, Subalternity, and Forgotten Places
What’s in a Word? A Postcolonial Detour
Subaltern Solidarities in the Face of Crisis
Editors’ Introduction: Borders
Introduction: The Genuine and the Counterfeit
Epistemologies, Methods, and the Object of Study
The Production and Circulation of Scholarly Value
The Cultural Turn and the Diversity of Geo-economies
Overdetermination and the Cultures of Economies
Chapter 35 Worlds Apart? Economic Geography and Questions of “Development”
Worlds Apart? Economic Geography and Questions of “Development”
Force and Concrete: Destruction and Construction
The Millennium Challenge Corporation
Chapter 36 Putting Politics into Economic Geography
Naturalization and Depoliticization
Putting Politics into Economic Geography
Introduction: Engaged Pluralism?
Geographical Economics: A New Trading Space?
Conclusions: Conversations and Critical Pluralism
Chapter 38 Sociological Institutionalism and the Socially Constructed Economy
Geography, Sociology, and the Mark of the Market
Sociology in the Shadow of Economics
Social Constructions: Making History, Just Not as They Please
Sociological Institutionalism: Beyond the Weberian Concession
Capitalism, Variegated: Uneven Development and Institutional Political Economy
Conclusion: Socially Constructed Economies
Chapter 39 Political Ecology/Economy
Political Ecology as Economic Geography
Foundational Themes in Political Ecology
Political Economic Structures and Spatial Interdependence
Dialectical Understandings of Environmental “Problems”
Anti-Determinism and the Potential of Politics
Conclusions: Political Ecology and Alternatives to Capitalism