{"product_id":"politics-and-practice-in-economic-geography-9781412907866","title":"Politics and Practice in Economic Geography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eEconomic Geography Research Group\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the last fifteen years economic geography has experienced a number of fundamental theoretical and methodological shifts. \u003cstrong\u003ePolitics and Practice in Economic Geography\u003c\/strong\u003e explains and interrogates these fundamental issues of research practice in the discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerned with examining the methodological challenges associated with that 'cultural turn', the text explains and discusses:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e    \u003cli\u003equalitative and ethnographic methodologies\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003ethe role and significance of quantita\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 Group\u003cbr\u003eFortunately, to the benefit of students young and old, the reflexive ruminations contained between these covers are fresh, penetrating, honest, personal and, at times, poignant. They are sure to stimulate a long-overdue reawakening of interest in methodological choice and its consequences in economic geography. In doing so, the contributors to this volume have performed an incredibly valuable service on behalf of economic geographers everywhere. -- Meric S. Gertler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: POSITION AND METHOD: PRODUCING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES Chapter 1: Politics and Practice: Becoming a Geographer - Erica Schoenberger Chapter 2: Smoke and Mirrors: An Ethnography of the State - Alison Mountz Chapter 3: Nature Talks Back: Studying the Economic Life of Things - Paul Robbins Chapter 4: Sexing the Economy, Theorizing Bodies - Linda McDowell Chapter 5: Putting Play to Work - Geraldine Pratt and Caleb Johnston Chapter 6: Of Pufferfish and Ethnography: Plumbing New Depths in Economic Geography - Elizabeth C. Dunn PART TWO: POLITICIZING METHOD: ACTIVATING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES Chapter 7: Method and Politics: Avoiding Determinism and Embracing Normativity - Andrew Sayer Chapter 8: Cultivating Subjects for a Community Economy - J.K. Gibson-Graham Chapter 9: A Public Language for Analyzing the Corporation - Philip O’Neill Chapter 10: The Place of Personal Politics - Jane Wills Chapter 11: Locating the Thai State - Jim Glassman Chapter 12: Post-socialism and the Politics of Knowledge Production - John Pickles and Adrian Smith PART THREE: QUANTITY AND QUALITY    Beyond Dualist Economic Geographies Chapter 13: Hybrid GIS and Cultural Economic Geography - Mei-Po Kwan Chapter 14: Evolution in Economic Geography? - David L. Rigby Chapter 15: Beyond Close Dialogue: Economic Geography as if it Matters - Gordon L. Clark Chapter 16: Economic Geography, by the Numbers? - Paul Plummer Chapter 17: Methodologies, Epistemologies, Audiences - Amy Glasmeier PART FOUR:BOUNDARY CROSSINGS    Mobilizing Economic Geographies  Chapter 18: Out of Africa: History, Nature, Empire - Judith Carney Chapter 19: ‘I Offer You This, Commodity’ - Vinay K. Gidwani Chapter 20: ‘El Otro Lado’ and Transnational Ethnographies - Altha J. Cravey Chapter 21: Researching Transnational Networks - Philip F. Kelly and Kris Olds Chapter 22: Reflexivity and Positionality in Feminist Fieldwork Revisited - Richa Nagar and Susan Geiger Chapter 23: Researching Hybridity through ‘Chinese’ Business Networks - Henry Wai-chung Yeung\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090879246679,"sku":"9781412907866","price":57.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781412907866.jpg?v=1762273688","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-and-practice-in-economic-geography-9781412907866","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}