Encounters and Engagements between Economic and Cultural Geography

Barney Warf

ISBN 10: 940072974X / ISBN 13: 9789400729742

Published by Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Apr 2012, 2012

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Neuware -The intellectual renaissance of human geography has included a widespread engagement between its economic and cultural subdisciplines. This volume adopts a variety of conceptual and empirical perspectives on the encounters between economic and cultural geographers. It offers an introduction and 10 chapters by authors in a variety of national contexts to explicate issues such as the cultural turn in economic geography, the cultural construction of economic geographic thought, consumption, gender, everyday life, commodity chain analysis, trust, networks, the creative economy, and tourism. The volume contains empirical analyses utilizing both quantitative and qualitative approaches at spatial scales ranging from the individual to the global economy. In illustrating how human geographers can ill afford to subscribe to the analytically false dichotomy between ¿culture¿ and ¿the economy,¿ the book explicates how cultural and economic geography can be seamlessly integrated , bringing theminto a creative tension to their mutual benefit.¿Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Encounters and Engagements between Economic and Cultural Geography
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Apr 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 940072974X
• ISBN 13: 9789400729742
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 14D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 459 grams

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The intellectual renaissance of human geography has included a widespread engagement between its economic and cultural subdisciplines.  This volume adopts a variety of conceptual and empirical perspectives on the encounters between economic and cultural geographers.  It offers an introduction and 10 chapters by authors in a variety of national contexts to explicate issues such as the cultural turn in economic geography, the cultural construction of economic geographic thought, consumption, gender, everyday life, commodity chain analysis, trust, networks, the creative economy, and tourism.  The volume contains empirical analyses utilizing both quantitative and qualitative approaches at spatial scales ranging from the individual to the global economy.  In illustrating how human geographers can ill afford to subscribe to the analytically false dichotomy between “culture” and “the economy,” the book explicates how cultural and economic geography can be seamlessly integrated , bringing theminto a creative tension to their mutual benefit.​