Encounters and Engagements between Economic and Cultural Geography

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Fusing Economic and Cultural Geography

   • Barney Warf

   Pages 1-17

3. A Short Cultural History of Anglo-American Economic Geography: Bodies, Books, Machines, and Places

   • Trevor J. Barnes

   Pages 19-37

4. The Cultural Turn in Geography: A New Link in the Commodity Chain

   • Elaine Hartwick

   Pages 39-46

5. Consumption Geographies: Turns or Intersections?

   • Juliana Mansvelt

   Pages 47-64

6. Gender, Commodity Chains and Everyday Life

   • Deborah Leslie

   Pages 65-78

7. Economic Rationality, Ethnic Identity, and the Geographies of Consumption

   • Lucia Lo, Lu Wang

   Pages 79-101

8. Trust and Distrust: Culture Finding Its Way into Economics or the Other Way Round?

   • Geir Inge Orderud

   Pages 103-122

9. Building the Beloved Community Through Techno Music Production in Detroit

   • Deborah Che

   Pages 123-141

10. Exploring the Role of Networks in the Creative Economy of North East England: Economic and Cultural Dynamics

    • Roberta Comunian

    Pages 143-157

11. The Relevance of Scale Economies in Economic and Social Relationships in the New Economic Geography

    • Luca Spinesi

    Pages 159-166

12. Consuming the Spectacle: Tourism and Communication Technologies in Santiago de Compostela

    • Carlos Ferrás Sexto, Yolanda García Vázquez

    Pages 167-178

13. Back Matter

    Pages 179-180

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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.​

• Commodity chains
• Consumption geographies
• Cultural geography
• Economic rationality
• Ethnic identity
• Geographic thought
• Human geography

• , Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

  Barney Warf

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