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Reading Economic Geography (Blackwell Readers in Geography) Reading Economic Geography Edited by Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, and Adam Tickell Reading Economic Geography Blackwell Readers in Geography Each volume in the Blackwell Readers in Geography series provides an authorita- tive and comprehensive collection of essential readings from geography’s main fields of study, edited by the discipline’s leading authorities. Designed to complement the Blackwell Companions to Geography series, each volume represents an unparal- leled resource in its own right and will provide the ideal platform for course use. Published The Blackwell City Reader Edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader Edited by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift Reading Economic Geography Edited by Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, and Adam Tickell Reading Economic Geography Edited by Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, and Adam Tickell Editorial material and organization © 2004 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, and Adam Tickell to be identified as the Authors of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2004 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reading economic geography / edited by Trevor J. Barnes . [et al.]. p. cm. – (Blackwell readers in geography) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-631-23553-1 – ISBN 0-631-23554-X 1. Economic geography. I. Barnes, Trevor J. II. Series. HF1025.R275 2003 330.9–dc21 2002155058 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in Sabon 10/12 by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com Dedicated to the memory of Robert G. Peck 1936 –2002 The Editors Trevor J. Barnes is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His previous publications include A Companion to Economic Geography (co-edited with Eric Sheppard, Blackwell, 2001). Jamie Peck is Professor of Geography and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Work-place (1996) and Workfare States (2001) and co-editor with Henry Yeung of Remaking the Global Economy: Economic–Geographical Perspectives (2003). Eric Sheppard is Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Capitalist Space Economy and A World of Difference and the co-editor with Trevor Barnes of A Companion to Economic Geography (Blackwell, 2001) and with Robert McMaster of Scale and Geographic Inquiry (Blackwell, 2003). Adam Tickwell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol. He is editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and review editor of the Journal of Economic Geography. Contents Acknowledgments x Introduction: Reading Economic Geography 1 Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography 11 Introduction: Paradigms Lost 13 1 The Difference a Generation Makes 19 David Harvey 2 Industry and Space: A Sympathetic Critique of Radical Research 29 Andrew Sayer 3 An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development 48 Ash Amin 4 Refiguring the Economic in Economic Geography 59 Nigel J. Thrift and Kris Olds 5 The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse and the Body Economic 72 J. K. Gibson-Graham Part II: Realms of Production 89 Introduction: Problematizing Production 91 6 Is There a Service Economy? The Changing Capitalist Division of Labor 97 Richard A. Walker 7 Uneven Development: Social Change and Spatial Divisions of Labor 111 Doreen Massey 8 Flexible Production Systems and Regional Development: The Rise of New Industrial Spaces in North America and Western Europe 125 Allen J. Scott viii CONTENTS 9 Global–Local Tensions: Firms and States in the Global Space-Economy 137 Peter Dicken 10 The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora 151 M. W. Wright Part III: Resource Worlds 167 Introduction: Producing Nature 169 11 Nature, Economy, and the Cultural Politics of Theory: The “War Against the Seals” in the Bering Sea, 1870–1911 175 Noel Castree 12 Modernity and Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890–1930 189 Erik Swyngedouw 13 Oil as Money: The Devil’s Excrement and the Spectacle of Black Gold 205 Michael J. Watts 14 Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in The Gambia 220 Judith Carney 15 Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food 235 Sarah Whatmore and Lorraine Thorne Part IV: Social Worlds 249 Introduction: Bringing in the Social 251 16 Bringing the Qualitative State back into Economic Geography 257 Phillip M. O’Neill 17 Territories, Flows, and Hierarchies in the Global Economy 271 Michael Storper 18 Contesting Works Closures in Western Europe’s Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place or Betraying Class? 290 Ray Hudson and David Sadler 19 Class and Gender Relations in the Local Labor Market and the Local State 304 Ruth Fincher 20 Thinking through Work: Gender, Power, and Space 315 Linda McDowell Part V: Spaces of Circulation 329 Introduction: From Distance to Connectivity 331 21 The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place, and Information Technology 336 Stephen Graham CONTENTS ix 22 Best Practice? Geography, Learning, and the Institutional Limits to Strong Convergence 350 Meric S. Gertler 23 Blood, Thicker than Water: Interpersonal Relations and Taiwanese Investment in Southern China 362 Y. Hsing 24 From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny: Discursive Geographies of Filipina Domestic Workers in Vancouver, BC 375 Geraldine Pratt 25 Discourse and Practice in Human Geography 389 Erica Schoenberger Consolidated bibliography 403 Index 439 Acknowledgments The editors and publisher wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright material: 1. Harvey, D. 2000. “The difference a generation makes.” In Spaces of Hope, pp. 3–8, 11–18. Edinburgh University Press. Copyright © 2000 David Harvey. Reprinted with permission of Edinburgh University Press. Copyright © Edinburgh University Press. 2. Sayer, A. 1985. “Industry and space: A sympathetic critique.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 3 (1), 3–7, 9–23. Copyright © 1985 Pion Limited. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. 3. Amin, A. 1999. “An institutionalist perspective on regional economic devel- opment.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23, 365–78. Copyright © 1999 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 4. Thrift, N. and K. Olds. 1996. “Refiguring the economic in economic geogra- phy.” Progress in Human Geography, 20, 311–22, 330–38. Copyright © 1996 Arnold. 5. Gibson-Graham, J. K. 1996. “The economy stupid! Industrial policy discourse and the body economic.” In The End of Capitalism (as we knew it), pp. 92–119. Oxford: Blackwell. Copyright © 1996 Julie Graham and Katherine Gibson. Reprinted by permission of the authors. 6. Walker, R. 1985. “Is there a service economy? The changing capitalist division of labor.” Science & Society, 49, 42–83. 7. Massey, D. 1994. “Uneven development: Social change and spatial divisions of labour.” In Space, Place and Gender, ed. D. Massey, pp 86–114. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Copyright © Doreen Massey. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi 8. Scott, A. J. 1988. “Flexible production systems and regional development: The rise of the new industrial spaces North America and Western Europe.” Inter- national Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 12 (2), 171–83. Copyright © Edward Arnold. Reprinted with permission of Blackwell Publishers. 9. Dicken, P. 1994. “Global–local tensions: Firms and states in the global space- economy.” Economic Geography, 70 (1), 101–28. Copyright © 1994 Clark University. 10. Wright, M. W. 1999. “The politics of relocation: Gender, nationality, and value in a Mexican maquiladora.” Environment and Planning A, 31, pp. 1601–17. Copyright © Pion Limited. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. 11. Castree, N. 1997. “Nature, economy and the cultural politics of theory: The ‘war against the seals’ in the Bering Sea, 1870–1911.” Geoforum, 28 (1), 1–15, 17–20. Copyright © 1997 Elsevier Science. Reprinted with permission of Elsevier Science. 12. Swyngedouw, E. 1999. “Modernity and hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, and the production of the Spanish waterscape, 1890–1930.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 89 (3), 443–54, 456–65. Copyright © 1999 Association of American Geographers. Reprinted with permission of Blackwell Publishers. 13. Watts, M. 1994. “Oil as money: The Devil’s excrement and the spectacle of black gold.” In Money Power and Space, eds. S. Corbridge, R. Martin and N. Thrift, pp. 406–22, 430–35, 438–45. Oxford: Blackwell. Copyright © 1994 Blackwell Publishing. 14. Carney, J. 1993. “Converting the wetlands, engendering the environment: The intersection of gender with
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