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Book SynopsisThe term "market" originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea. Despite modern markets seemingly omnipresent nature, their specific geographies have undergone relatively little analysis.
This collection of new essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhabit and explore how the impact of political, social and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space. The essays present new research from the fields of geography, economics, political economy and planning and provide valuable case study material to show how markets are contested, constructed and placed. Rather than separate markets from the surrounding society and state, these essays connect markets to their wider context and showcase how economic geography can combine with other disciplines to throw new light on spaces of exchange.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: exploring marketsJamie Peck, Christian Berndt and Norma Rantisi
Part I Finding Markets2. Thinking socially and spatially about marketsJoy Paton and Damien Cahill3. Where are markets?Jamie Peck4. Geographies of marketization: performation struggles, incomplete commodification and the “problem of labor”Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler 5. Persistent problems in the Polanyian critique of the marketFred Block
Part 2 Constructing Markets6. What are markets for and who makes them? Class, state-building and territorial management in the constitution of marketsErica Schoenberger 7. Geographically contested and variegated marketizationJun Zhang8. Markets as struggle: the circulation and construction of charter school markets in the United StatesDan Cohen9. Of water and knowledge: the formation and scaling of public goods and marketsMark Harvey 10.The social metabolism of Karl Polanyi’s fictitious natureScott Prudham
Part 3 Placing Markets11.From the urbanization of capital to the capitalization of the urbanPhilip Ashton and Brett Christophers 12.Planning the social economy: the spatial politics of community economic development in TorontoKuni Kamizaki and Katharine Rankin13.Toward an ethnography of the national economyHannah Appel14.Platforms, merchants, and market spaceChris Muellerleile15.Conclusion: “market research”Norma Rantisi, Christian Berndt and Jamie Peck
