The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

656 Pages·2012·6.185 MB·English

by  Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion
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Edited by
Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard
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The Wiley-Blackwell companion to economic geography / edited by Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck,
and Eric Sheppard.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4443-3680-1 (cloth)
1. Economic geography. I. Barnes, Trevor J. II. Peck, Jamie. III. Sheppard, Eric S. IV. Wiley-
Blackwell (Firm)
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Dedicated to the life, work, and memory of Julie Graham (1945– 2010)
Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xviii
The Long Decade: Economic Geography, Unbound 1
Eric Sheppard, Trevor J. Barnes, and Jamie Peck
Section I Trajectories 25
Editors’ Introduction: Trajectories 27
Eric Sheppard, Trevor J. Barnes, and Jamie Peck
1 Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for “Other Worlds” 33
J.K. Gibson-Graham
2 Geography in Economy: Refl ections on a Field 47
Richard Walker
3 Release the Hounds! The Marvelous Case of Political Economy 61
Geoff Mann
4 The Industrial Corporation and Capitalism’s Time–Space Fix 74
Phillip O’Neill
5 Theory, Practice, and Crisis: Changing Economic Geographies
of Money and Finance 91
Sarah Hall
6 The “Matter of Nature” in Economic Geography 104
Karen Bakker
7 East Asian Capitalisms and Economic Geographies 118
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
viii CONTENTS
8 Contesting Power/Knowledge in Economic Geography:
Learning from Latin America and the Caribbean 132
Marion Werner
Section II Spatialities 147
(a) Accumulation and Value 147
Editors’ Introduction: Accumulation and Value 149
Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck, and Trevor J. Barnes
9 The Geographies of Production 157
Neil M. Coe and Martin Hess
10 The Global Economy 170
Jim Glassman
11 Evolutionary Economic Geographies 183
Jürgen Essletzbichler
12 Geographies of Marketization 199
Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler
13 Economies of Bodily Commodifi cation 213
Bronwyn Parry
14 Lives of Things 226
Ian Cook and Tara Woodyer
15 Crisis in Space: Ruminations on the Unevenness of
Financialization and its Geographical Implications 242
Ewald Engelen
16 The Insurmountable Diversity of Economies 258
Adrian Smith
17 Waste/Value 275
Vinay Gidwani
(b) Regulation and Governance 289
Editors’ Introduction: Regulation and Governance 291
Jamie Peck, Trevor J. Barnes, and Eric Sheppard
18 The Virtual Economy 298
Matthew Zook
19 Economic Geographies of Global Governance: Rules,
Rationalities, and “Relational Comparisons” 313
Katharine N. Rankin
20 The Geographies of Alter-globalization 330
Joel Wainwright
CONTENTS ix
21 Reinventing the State: Neoliberalism, State Transformation, and
Economic Governance 344
Danny MacKinnon
22 New Subjects 358
Wendy Larner
23 Renaturing the Economy 372
Morgan Robertson
24 Bringing Politics Back In: Reading the Firm-Territory
Nexus Politically 385
Jinn-yuh Hsu
(c) Embodiment and Identity 399
Editors’ Introduction: Embodiment and Identity 401
Trevor J. Barnes, Eric Sheppard, and Jamie Peck
25 Economic Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Explorations
in Continuity and Change 407
Beverley Mullings
26 Gender, Difference, and Contestation: Economic Geography
through the Lens of Transnational Migration 420
Rachel Silvey
27 Labor, Movement: Migration, Mobility, and Geographies
of Work 431
Philip F. Kelly
28 Making Consumers and Consumption 444
Juliana Mansvelt
29 The Rise of a New Knowledge/Creative Economy: Prospects and
Challenges for Economic Development, Class Inequality, and Work 458
Deborah Leslie and Norma M. Rantisi
30 The Corporation as Disciplinary Institution 472
Joshua Barkan
31 Social Movements and the Geographies of Economic Activities
in South Korea 486
Bae-Gyoon Park
32 Subalternities that Matter in Times of Crisis 501
Sharad Chari
Section III Borders 515
Editors’ Introduction: Borders 517
Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard
x CONTENTS
33 The Genuine and the Counterfeit: Qualitative Methods
in Economic Geography and Anthropology 524
Elizabeth Dunn and Erica Schoenberger
34 The Cultural Turn and the Conjunctural Economy: Economic
Geography, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies 537
John Pickles
35 Worlds Apart? Economic Geography and Questions of
“Development” 552
Susan M. Roberts
36 Putting Politics into Economic Geography 567
John Agnew
37 Inheritance or Exchange? Pluralism and the Relationships
between Economic Geography and Economics 581
Peter Sunley
38 Sociological Institutionalism and the Socially Constructed
Economy 594
Matt Vidal and Jamie Peck
39 Political Ecology/Economy 612
James McCarthy
Index 626
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 A diverse economy 35
4.1 BHP Billiton ’s global operations 81
4.2 BHP Billiton ’s diversifi ed portfolio performance 82
11.1 Co-evolution at multiple levels of analysis 188
15.1 Number of mentions of“subprime mortgages ” in press reports on the
Financial Times web site, 2006 –2010 244
15.2 Number of mentions of“subprime mortgages ” in press reports on the
Financial Times web site, January to December 2007 244
15.3 Spatial representation of inter -fi nancial centre capital fl ows 252
16.1 A diverse economy 261
16.2 Economy as iceberg 264
16.3 Multiple economies of post -Soviet Moscow 267
18.1 Still shot from the video, The Catalogue, by Chris Oakley 307
31.1 Free Economic Zones 494
31.2 Location of Hyundai Motor Assembly Plants 495
35.1 Cover of US Army Corps of Engineers’ Report on Iraq Reconstruction 555
35.2 Excerpt from MCC Press Release. Vanuatu: Building a Road for Greater
Possibilities 561
Tables
4.1 The largest US corporations 1960 to 2010 75
4.2 The world ’s largest world corporations (2010) 76
4.3 BHP Billiton ’s largest ten shareholders (August 2010) 86
16.1 Principles of economic diversity 260
21.1 Size of state sector (percent of GDP) 345
21.2 Regional inequalities: Variance of the log of regional GDP per capita 350