Barnes / Peck / Sheppard The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4443-6237-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 704 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Geography

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presentsstudents and researchers with a comprehensive overview of thefield, put together by a prestigious editorial team, withcontributions from an international cast of prominentscholars.

* Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview,following the successful and highly regarded Companion toEconomic Geography published by Blackwell a decade earlier,providing a comprehensive assessment of the field

* Takes a prospective as well as retrospective look at the field,reviewing recent developments, recurrent challenges, and emergingagendas

* Incorporates diverse perspectives (in terms of specialty,demography and geography) of up and coming scholars, going beyond afocus on Anglo-American research

* Encourages authors and researchers to engage with andcontextualize their situated perspectives

* Explores areas of overlap, dialogues, and (potential)engagement between economic geography and cognate disciplines

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnes, Trevor J.

Peck, Jamie

Sheppard, Eric

Über Autor(innen)

Trevor J. Barnes has been at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, since 1983, and is currently Professor and Distinguished University Scholar. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Politics and Practice in Economic Geography. Reading Economic Geography, A Companion to Economic Geography, and Logics of Dislocation.
Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including Fast Policy, Constructions of Neoliberal Reason, Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers, and Reading Economic Geography. Eric Sheppard is the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Department of Geography at UCLA. He is the author or editor of eight books, including A World of Difference, Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers, and A Companion to Economic Geography.