C Adam Tickell, Eric Sheppard, Jamic Peck and Trevor Barnes 2007

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CONTENTS

List of figures and tables viii

List of contributors ix

Foreword xi

Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan

Preface xiii

Adam Tickell, Eric Sheppard,Trevor Barnes and Jamie Peck

Acknowledgements xvi

Methods Matter:Transformations in Economic Geography 1

Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard and Adam Tickell

Section 1: Position and Method:

Producing Economic Geographies 25

1 Politics and Practice: Becoming a Geographer 27

Erica Schoenberger

2 Smoke and Mirrors: An Ethnography of the State 38

Alison Mountz

3 Nature Talks Back: Studying the Economic Life of Things 49

Paul Robbins

4 Sexing the Economy,Theorizing Bodies 60

Linda McDowell

5 Putting Play to Work 71

Geraldine Pratt and Caleb Johnston

6 Of Pufferfish and Ethnography: Plumbing New Depths

in Economic Geography 82

Elizabeth C. Dunn

Section 2: Politicizing Method:

Activating Economic Geographies 93

7 Method and Politics:Avoiding Determinism

and Embracing Normativity 95

Andrew Sayer

8 Cultivating Subjects for a Community Economy 106

J.K. Gibson-Graham

9 A Public Language for Analyzing the Corporation 119

Phillip O’Neill

10 The Place of Personal Politics 131

Jane Wills

11 Locating the Thai State 141

Jim Glassman

12 Post-socialism and the Politics of Knowledge Production 151

John Pickles and Adrian Smith

Section 3: Quantity and Quality:

Beyond Dualist Economic Geographies 163

13 Hybrid GIS and Cultural Economic Geography 165

Mei-Po Kwan

14 Evolution in Economic Geography? 176

David L. Rigby

15 Beyond Close Dialogue: Economic Geography as if it Matters 187

Gordon L. Clark

16 Economic Geography, by the Numbers? 199

Paul Plummer

17 Methodologies, Epistemologies,Audiences 210

Amy Glasmeier

Section 4: Boundary Crossings:

Mobilizing Economic Geographies 221

18 Out of Africa: History, Nature, Empire 223

Judith Carney

19 ‘I Offer You This, Commodity’ 234

Vinay K. Gidwani

20 ‘El Otro Lado’ and Transnational Ethnographies 245

Altha J. Cravey

21 Researching Transnational Networks 255

Philip F. Kelly and Kris Olds

22 Reflexivity and Positionality in Feminist Fieldwork Revisited 267

Richa Nagar and Susan Geiger

23 Researching Hybridity through ‘Chinese’ Business Networks 279

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

References 290

Index 310