Politics and Practice in Economic GeographyAdam Tickell, Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck, Trevor J Barnes "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:
Leading contributors examine substantive methodological issues in economic geography and make a distinctive contribution to economic-geographical debate and practice. |
Contents
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Chapter 4 | 60 |
Chapter 5 | 71 |
Chapter 6 | 82 |
Chapter 13 | 165 |
Chapter 14 | 176 |
Chapter 15 | 187 |
Chapter 16 | 199 |
Chapter 17 | 210 |
Section 4 | 221 |
Chapter 18 | 223 |
Chapter 19 | 234 |
Section 2 | 93 |
Chapter 7 | 95 |
Chapter 8 | 106 |
Chapter 9 | 119 |
Chapter 10 | 131 |
Chapter 11 | 141 |
Chapter 12 | 151 |
Section 3 | 163 |
Chapter 20 | 245 |
Chapter 21 | 255 |
Chapter 22 | 267 |
Chapter 23 | 279 |
References | 290 |
Index | 310 |
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Page 5 - Study of individual agents in their causal contexts, interactive interviews, ethnography. Qualitative analysis Actual concrete patterns and contingent relations are unlikely to be 'representative', 'average' or generalizable. Necessary relations discovered will exist wherever their relata are present, eg causal powers of objects are generalizable to other contexts as they are necessary features of these objects Corroboration What are the regularities, common patterns, distinguishing features of a...
Page 11 - A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Page 270 - A celebration of syncretism and hybridity per se if not articulated in conjunction with questions of hegemony and neo-colonial power relations, runs the risk of appearing to sanctify the fait accompli of colonial violence
Page 74 - Silenced. We fear those who speak about us, who do not speak to us and with us. We know what it is like to be silenced. We know that the forces that silence us, because they never want us to speak, differ from the forces that say speak, tell me your story. Only do not speak in a voice of resistance. Only speak from that space in the margin that is a sign of deprivation, a wound, an unfulfilled longing. Only speak your pain.
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Page 118 - The intellectual's role is dialectically, oppositionally to uncover and elucidate the contest I referred to earlier, to challenge and defeat both an imposed silence and the normalized quiet of unseen power wherever and whenever possible.