Book Reviews
The Book Review series aims to chart recent publications of predominantly Economic Geographers but also, where relevant, of those in cognate disciplines. The series, which is currently being re-launched by the new editors, is formed of two parallel sets of reviews:
- Thematic Reviews . One set of thematic reviews mirror the group's Annual Symposium whilst others are established as appropriate (feel free to contact the editors to propose a set of books for a themed review).
- General Reviews . These are ad hoc reviews, commissioned by the EGRG or offered by authors for publication on the website.
Reviews should normally be around 1000 words in length and will be made available as html files via this section of the website.
Current Thematic Reviews
'Global commodity chains, global value chains and global production networks: governance and development'
The following books are currently under review and reports will appear in June 2007:
Christophers M (2004) Logistics and supply chain management: creating value-adding networks. Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall.
Dicken P (2007) Global Shift (5th Edition). London: Sage.
Hughes, A., and Reimer, S., (eds.)(2004) Geographies of Commodity Chains . London: Routledge.
'Teaching Economic Geography: new texts'
A number of important new texts have emerged in the past year and more are set to be published this year. We will shortly be commissioning reviews of the following texts:
Coe, N., Kelly, P., and Yeung, H., (eds.)(2007) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
Cumbers, A., and Mackinnon, D., (2007) An Introduction to Economic Geography. London: Pearson.
Fingleton, B., (ed.)(2007) New Directions in Economic Geography. Elgar.
Hudson, R., (2005) Economic Geographies: Circuits, Flows and Spaces. London: Sage.
Tickell, A., Sheppard, E., Peck, J., and Barnes, T., (eds.)(2007) Politics and Practice in Economic Geography. London: Sage.
Wood, A., and Roberts, S., (2007) Economic Geography: Places, Networks and Flows. Routledge: London.
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- have books of interest to readers,
- want to review a particular book,
- or would like to respond to a review published on the site, either as author or reader,
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Please note
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The contents of book reviews remain the responsibility of their author and no implication should be drawn that the views expressed are necessarily shared by the committee or membership of the Economic Geography Research Group.
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2007 Reviews
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Geographies of Commodity Chains
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edited by Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer. |
reviewed by Jennifer Johns . |
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Economic Geography, Past, Present and Future
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edited by Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Helen Lawton Smith |
reviewed by James R Faulconbridge and Adrian Smith . |
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Building Knowledge Regions in North America
,
by Leonel Corona, Jérôme Doutriaux and Sarfraz A. Mian |
reviewed by Peter Karl Kresl . |
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The Global Cities Reader
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edited by Neil Brenner and Roger Keil |
reviewed by John Harrison . |
2006 Reviews
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Universities, Innovation and the Economy
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by Helen Lawton-Smith |
reviewed by Tim Vorley . |
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Geographies of Globalization
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by Warwick E Murray |
reviewed by Tim Vorley . |
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Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories
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edited by Philip Cooke and Andrea Piccaluga |
reviewed by Frank Rennie . |
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Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Changing Patterns of Work, Care and Public Policy in Europe and North America
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edited by Diane Perrons, Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Kath Ray and Kevin Ward |
reviewed by Julie MacLeavy . |
2005 Reviews
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Alliance Capitalism and Corporate Management
, (PDF 22KB),
edited by John Dunning and Gavin Boyd |
reviewed by Andrew Jones . |
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The Emancipatory City? Paradoxes and Possibilities
, (PDF 125KB),
edited by L.Lees |
reviewed by Julie MacLeavy . |
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Agriculture in the New Global Economy
, (PDF 19KB),
by William Coleman, Wyn Grant and Tim Josling |
reviewed by Allan Butler . |
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Regionalisation of globalised innovation. Locations for advanced industrial development and disparities in participation
, (PDF 55KB),
edited by U. Hilpert. |
reviewed by Stijn Oosterlynck . |
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Entrepreneurship and regional economic development. A spatial perspective 2004
, (PDF 30KB),
edited by H.L.F. De Groot, P. Nijkamp, and R.R. Stough. |
reviewed by Aleid Brouwer . |
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The new competition for Inward Investment
, (PDF 25KB),
by Phelps, N. and Raines, P. |
reviewed by Donald Houston . |
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Cars, carriers of regionalism
, (PDF 22KB),
edited by Jorge Carillo, Yanick Lung and Rob van Tulder |
reviewed by Tom Donnelly . |
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Narrative and discursive approaches in entrepreneurship
, (PDF 14KB),
edited by D. Hjorth and C. Steyaert. |
reviewed by Fergus Lyon . |
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Postcolonialism meets economics
, (PDF 21KB),
edited by E.O.Zein-Elabdin and S.Charusheela. |
reviewed by Jane Pollard . |
2004 Reviews
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Alternative Economic Spaces
, (PDF 20KB),
edited by A. Leyshon, R. Lee and C.C. Williams. |
reviewed by Kevin Thomas . |
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Reading Economic Geography
, (PDF 24KB),
edited by T. J. Barnes, J. Peck, E. Sheppard, and A. Tickell. |
reviewed by Vassilis Monastiriotis . |
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Local Enterprises in the Global Economy Issues of Governance and Upgrading
, (PDF 24KB),
edited by Hubert Schmitz, and Edward Elgar. |
reviewed by Diane Perrons . |
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Service Worlds: People, organisations and technologies
, (PDF 26KB),
by John R. Bryson, Peter W. Daniels and Barney Warf. |
reviewed by Peter Wood . |
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De-Coca-Colonization: Making the globe from the inside out
, (PDF 23KB),
by Steven Flusty. |
reviewed by Henry Wai-chung Yeung . |
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Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives
, (PDF 14KB),
edited by J Peck and H Yeung. |
reviewed by David Gibbs . |
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Bridging the Global Digital Divide
, (PDF 17KB),
by Jeffrey James. |
reviewed by Andrew Murphy . |
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The Consumer Society and the Postmodern City
, (PDF 7KB),
by David B. Clarke. |
reviewed by Laura Neher . |
2003 Reviews
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Enterprising Oxford: the growth of the Oxfordshire high technology economy
, (PDF 23KB),
by Lawton Smith, H., Glasson, J., Simmie, J., Chadwick, A. & Clark, G. |
reviewed by Paul Benneworth . |
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Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century
, (PDF 21KB),
by Peter Dicken. |
reviewed by Jacob Jordaan . |
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Hybrid Geographies. Natures, Cultures and Spaces
, (PDF 11KB),
by Sarah Whatmore. |
reviewed by Johanne Allinson . |
2002 Reviews
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Technology, Globalisation and Poverty
, (PDF 15KB),
by Jeffrey James. |
reviewed by Corinne Nativel. |
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Public Investment and Regional Economic Development
, (PDF 15KB),
edited by Daniel Felsenstein, Ronald McQuaid, Philip McCann and Daniel Shefer. |
reviewed by Helen Lawton Smith . |
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Entrepreneurship and the Internationalization of Asian Firms
, (PDF 12KB),
by Henry Wai-chung Yeung. |
reviewed by Andrew Jones . |
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The Record of Global Economic Development
, (PDF 13KB),
by Eric Jones. |
reviewed by Moritz Lennert . |
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Refashioning the Rag Trade: Internationalising Australia's Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Industries
, (PDF 16KB),
by M. Webber and S. Weller. |
reviewed by David Gibbs . |
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Human Ecology: Basic concepts for sustainable development
, (PDF 6KB),
by Gerald G. Marten. |
reviewed by Frank W. Rennie. |
2001 Reviews
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A United Kingdom? Economic, Social and Political Geographies
, (PDF 11KB),
by John Mohan. |
reviewed by Danny MacKinnon . |
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Conflict and cooperation in participatory natural resource management
, (PDF 11KB),
Roger Jeffery and Bhaskar Vira (Eds.). |
reviewed by Frank Rennie . |
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Dissident geographies: An introduction to radical ideas and practice
, (PDF 13KB),
by Alison Blunt and Jane Wills (2000). |
reviewed by Mick Charlton . |
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The associative economy: insights beyond the welfare state and into post-capitalism
, (PDF 14KB),
by F. Archibugi (2000). |
reviewed by Colin C Williams . |
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Statistical methods for geography
, (PDF 11KB),
by P.A.Rogerson (2001). |
reviewed by Kevin Mole . |
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Knowledge, space, economy
, (PDF 16KB),
edited by Bryson, J. R., Daniels, P. W., Henry, N. and Pollard, J. (2000). |
reviewed by Paul Benneworth . |
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A companion to economic geography
, (PDF 26KB),
edited by Eric Sheppard and Trevor Barnes (2000). |
reviewed by Anthony Vigor . |
2000 Reviews
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Landscapes of globalisation: Human geographies of economic change in the Philippines
, (PDF 9KB),
by Philip F. Kelly (2000). |
reviewed by Ton van Naerssen . |
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Multimedia and regional economic restructuring
, (PDF 18KB),
by Hans-Joachim Braczyk, Gerhard Fuchs and Hans-Georg Wolf (1999). |
reviewed by David Gibbs . |
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Reconstructing the regional economy: Industrial transformation and regional development in Slovakia
, (PDF 15KB),
by Adrian Smith (1998). |
reviewed by Adam Swain . |
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Global economy, global justice
, (PDF 7KB),
by G.F. DeMartino (1999). |
reviewed by Andrew Dawson . |
1999 Reviews
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Informal employment in the advanced economies: Implications for work and welfare,
by Colin C Williams and Jan Windebank (1998). |
reviewed by Kevin Ward . |
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Globalising food: Agrarian questions and global restructuring
, (PDF 19KB),
edited by David Goodman and Michael J. Watts, (1999). |
reviewed by Alex Hughes . |
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Geographies of economies,
Roger Lee and Jane Wills (eds) (1997). |
reviewed by Martin Jones . |
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The regional world:Territorial development in a global economy
, (PDF 17KB),
by Michael Storper (1997). |
reviewed by Andy Pike . |
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Making a living in Europe
, (PDF 15KB),
by Alan Townsend (1997). |
reviewed by Irene Hardill . |