Politics and Practice in Economic Geography

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'Fortunately, 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' - Professor Meric S. Gertler, University of Toronto, Canada 'The 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 In the last fifteen years economic geography has experienced a number of fundamental theoretical and methodological shifts. Politics and Practice in Economic Geography explains and interrogates these fundamental issues of research practice in the discipline. Concerned with examining the methodological challenges associated with that 'cultural turn', the text explains and discusses: - qualitative and ethnographic methodologies; - the role and significance of quantitative and numerical methods; - the methodological implications of both post-structural and feminist theories; - the use of case-study approaches; - the methodological relation between the economic geography other disciplines like neoclassical economics, economic sociology, and economic anthropology. Leading contributors examine substantive methodological issues in economic geography and make a distinctive contribution to economic-geographical debate and practice. This will be an essential primer for all students of economic geography, as well as human geography more generally.
Copyright:
2007

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781446234341
Related ISBNs:
9781848607576, 9781412907859, 9781412907866
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
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Copyrighted By:
Eric Sheppard, Adam Tickell, Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie A. Peck
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
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