Announcement and call for proposals
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new book series in economic
geography. The book series, Routledge Studies in Economic Geography, aims
to provide a highly visible publishing platform for research in economic
geography, broadly defined. The book series will be edited by Professor
David Angel, (Clark University), with support from an international
advisory board of leading economic geographers. Authors are invited to
contact David Angel directly for guidelines on submitting proposals for
this new book series ([log in to unmask]). While we will consider edited
collections, the primary emphasis of the book series is single authored and
co-authored manuscripts.
The intent of the new book series is to provide a broadly based platform
for innovative scholarship of the highest quality in economic geography.
Rather than emphasizing any particular sub-field of economic geography, we
seek to publish work across the breadth of the field and from a variety of
theoretical and methodological perspectives. In launching the book series,
we seek to support and promote a move toward a broader, more integrated
economic geography. Engagements with political ecology, resource geography,
feminist studies, post-structural analysis and cultural theory, in
particular, have argued for a broadening of the concept of the economic.
Economic geography now reaches into domains of culture, gender, governance,
and nature-society relations that heretofore typically have been treated
more or less as separate domains of enquiry. Arguably, some of the most
exciting work within economic geography today lies at these interfaces of
economic change, whether this is in terms of cultural construction of
economies, or the relationship between industrial development, resources
and the environment. A longstanding focus on the geography of manufacturing
has given way to wider analysis, ranging from food production, land use
change and commodity chains to money flows, retailing, and mining systems.
Contemporary processes of global economic change are also stimulating new
research agendas in economic geography. Exciting new research is emerging
around the scalar dynamics and relational geographies of global economic
change, including work on such topics as global organizations and global
development policies, deregulation of markets and investment regimes and
attendant consequences for sustainable livelihoods around the world, and
the local and regional development dynamics accompanying intensified flows
of capital, technology and information on a global scale. One consequence
of these processes of economic change is that the predominant focus of
economic geography on OECD economies is now giving way to a more ‘global’
economic geography in which existing boundaries with ‘development
geography’ and ‘area studies’ are giving way. Indeed, it makes little sense
to talk of an economic geography absent analysis of developing economies
and economies in transition. By the same token, research into the economic
geographies of these regions is becoming a source for further theoretical
innovation within the field.
Among the topics of interest are shifts in the governance of economic
processes, concepts of the ‘new’ economy, innovation and technology change,
the relationship between urbanization and economic change, economy-
environment linkages, and broad questions of home, work and livelihood
within the global economy. These topics are listed for illustrative
purposes only – we emphasize again our interest in innovative scholarship
across the breadth of economic geography
Contact Information for the editor:
David Angel
Graduate School of Geography
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester MA 01610, USA
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Fax: 508-793-8881
Advisory Board:
Bjorn Asheim, University of Oslo and University of Lund
Trevor Barnes, University of British Columbia
Tony Bebbington, University of Colorado
Gavin Bridge, University of Oklahoma
Susan Christopherson, Cornell University
Gordon Clark, University of Oxford
Meric Gertler, University of Toronto
Amy Glasmeier, Pennsylvania State University
Susan Hanson, Clark University
Vicky Lawson, University of Washington
Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham
Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin
Richard Peet, Clark University
Erica Schoenberger, Johns Hopkins University
Allen Scott, UCLA
Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota
Adam Tickell, University of Bristol
Henry Yeung, National University of Singapore
Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
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