The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. Roger Lee is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He is an economic geographer interested in the connections and contradictions between the presumed hard logics of economy and their socio-cultural practice and in the possibilities for progressive change that might ensue from the latter. Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. Professor Peter Sunley is Professor of Economic Geography within Geography and Environment at the University of Southampton.

Introduction - Andrew Leyshon et al PART ONE: LOCATION MODELS AND QUANTITATIVE ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Locating Location Models - J rgen Essletzbichler The Quantitative Revolution and Economic Geography - Trevor Barnes The 'New Economic Geography': Credible Models of the Economic Landscape? - Ron Martin PART TWO: POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF SPACE I Making Sense of Globalization Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Geographies - Richard Peet, Ipsita Chatterjee and Elaine Hartwick Unpacking Globalization: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy - Neil M. Coe The Consequences of Economic Globalization - Peter Sunley PART THREE: POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF SPACE II The Local in the Global - Martin Jones Critical Sociospatial Theory and the Geographies of Uneven Spatial Development - Neil Brenner Space, Place and Labour - Philip Kelly PART FOUR: POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF SPACE III The Geographies of Capitalism - Susan Christopherson Capitalism and Social Justice - Paul Routledge Globalisation and the City - Jonathan V. Beaverstock, James R. Faulconbridge and Michael Hoyler Towards a Critical Economic Geography of Workfare - Michael Samers PART FIVE: POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF NATURE The Economy of Nature: From Political Ecology to the Social Construction of Nature - Gavin Bridge The Antonymies of Sustainable Development: Sustaining What, How, and for Whom - David Demeritt Towards Visceral Entanglements: Knowing and Growing the Economic Geographies of Food - Michael K. Goodman PART SIX: UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT: GEOGRAPHIES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DECLINE Geographies of Economic Decline - Ray Hudson Geographies of Economic Growth I: Industrial and Technology Regions - Nick Henry and Stuart Dawley Geographies of Economic Growth II: Money and Finance - Michael Pryke PART SEVEN: GEOGRAPHIES OF CONSUMPTION AND ECONOMIC SPECTACLE Geographies of Retailing and Consumption: The Shopping List Compendium - Louise Crewe An Economic Geography of the Cultural Industries - Andy C Pratt Doing Gender, Performing Work - Linda Mcdowell PART EIGHT: RETHINKING THE ECONOMIC Feminist Economic Geographies - Louise Johnson Ordinary Economic Geographies: Can Economic Geographies Be Non-Economic? - Roger Lee Towards a Non-Economic, Economic Geography? From Black Boxes to the Cultural Circuit of Capital in Economic Geographies of Firms and Managers - Andrew Leyshon

One of the best economic georgraphy texts in recent years, covering both the history of the discipline and outlining areas for future research... The quality of the chapters remains high throughout and many can and should remain as future reference for research and/or teaching. -- Pedro Marques A high-quality collection of individual scholarship, characterized by a critical, persuasive and thought-provoking engagement with economic geographies... This explicit and critical engagement with political and social relations in economic geography gives the handbook its particular flavour and sets it apart from others in the field. -- Lars Coenen This timely volume comprehensuvely summerises the various approaches to research that have come to constitute contemporary economic geography. Expert assessments provide a lively sense of the research frontier making this essential reading for all who seek to understand and appreciate the field. -- Eric Sheppard A powerful, persuasive, imaginative, and relevant synthesis of a sub-discipline. Part historical reconstruction, part survey of the varied domains of economic geography (from location and uneven development to economies of nature and spectacle), this book bristles with the ideas that have shaped thinking - and practice - on the geographies of economic organisation. It is a must read not only for geographers but also other people, disciplines and practices interested in the spatial dynamics of the modern economy. -- Ash Amin