Politics and Practice in Economic GeographyAdam Tickell, Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck, Trevor J Barnes SAGE, 17 de jul. de 2007 - 336 páginas "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. |
Conteúdo
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Section 1 | 25 |
Chapter 1 | 27 |
Chapter 2 | 38 |
Chapter 3 | 49 |
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 |
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Página 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.
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