SEMINAR IN
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (GEOG 8620)
Dr. Andrew Herod Spring
2003
Department of Geography
Main Office: 542 2856
This course is designed to provide a broad overview of
a number of contemporary conceptual issues and debates in the field of economic
geography. There are four
requirements for the class: i) attendance, completion of the reading
assignments, and participation in class discussions; ii) provision of a
research paper outline (approx 2 pages) due in class on February 5; iii)
preparation of a research paper of between 20 and 30 pages, typed, double
spaced; iv) presentation of student research topics to the rest of the class.
Research Paper: This may be a more
conceptual/ theoretical piece or it may be a more empirical, though
nevertheless conceptually situated, piece. With regard to your research, I view the field of economic
geography in fairly broad terms.
If you are in doubt about whether your topic fits into the definition of
"economic geography," please see me.
Student presentation of research: Each
student will be expected to present her/ his research paper to the rest of the
class. You will each have about 20
minutes to make your presentation and answer questions which may be generated
by the class. Presentations will
take place in the last two class meetings of the semester.
Week 1:
Introduction to the Class (1/15)
Week 2: The
ideology of economics: Neo-classical versus Marxist approaches to understanding
economic behavior (1/22)
Wolff, R.D. and
Resnick, S.A (1987) Economics:
Marxian vs. Neoclassical. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Week 3:
Different approaches to practising economic geography (1/29)
Plummer, P. (2000): "The modelling tradition." In Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. (eds.) A Companion to Economic Geography. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 27-40.
Swyngedouw, E. (2000): "The Marxian alternative: Historical-geographical materialism and the political economy of capitalism." In Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. (eds.) A Companion to Economic Geography. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 41-59.
Oberhauser, A. (2000): "Feminism and economic geography: Gendering work and working gender." In Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. (eds.) A Companion to Economic Geography. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 60-76.
Martin, R. (2000): "Institutional approaches in economic geography." In Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. (eds.) A Companion to Economic Geography. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 77-94.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. (2000): "Poststructural interventions." In Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. (eds.) A Companion to Economic Geography. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 95-110.
Week 4:
Methodological debates in economic geography: politics and method (2/5)
Massey, D and
Meegan, R (1985) Politics and Method. New York: Methuen.
Sayer, R. A.
(1982). "Explanation in economic geography." Progress in Human Geography 6: 68-88.
Week 5: A
Framework for understanding the political economy and geography of capitalism
- part one (2/12)
Massey, D.
(1995) Spatial Divisions of Labor:
Social Structures and the Geography of Production.
Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Week 6: A
Framework for understanding the political economy and geography of capitalism
- part two (2/19)
Walker, R. (1981)
"A theory of suburbanization: Capitalism and the construction of urban space in
the United States." In Dear, M.
and Scott, A. (eds) Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society. London:
Methuen, pp. 383-429.
Harvey, D. (1983)
"The urban process under capitalism: A framework for analysis." In Lake, R. (ed), Readings in Urban
Analysis. New Brunswick NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers
University, pp. 197-227.
Harvey, D.
(1976) "Labor, capital, and class
struggle around the built environment in advanced capitalist societies." Politics
and Society 6.3: 265-295.
Harvey, D. (1985)
"The geopolitics of capitalism."
In Gregory, D. and Urry, J. (eds), Social Relations and Spatial
Structures. New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 128-163.
Florida, R. and
Feldman, M. (1988) "Housing in US Fordism." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 12, 187-210.
Week 7: Capital
accumulation, uneven development, and regional growth (2/26)
Schoenberger, E. (1989) "New models of regional
change". In Peet, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.), New Models in Geography (Vol 1).
London: Unwin & Hyman,
pp.115-141.
Smith, N.
(1986) "On the necessity of uneven
development." International
Journal of Urban and Regional Development 10: 87-104.
Smith, N.
(1989) "Uneven development and
location theory: Towards a synthesis."
In Peet, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.), New Models in Geography (Vol 1).
London: Unwin Hyman, pp. 142-163.
Soja, E. (1985)
"Regions in context: Spatiality, periodicity, and the historical geography of
the regional question." Environment
and Planning D 3: 175-190.
Martin, R. (1989).
"The reorganization of regional theory: alternative perspectives on the
changing capitalist space economy" Geoforum 20: 187-201.
Plummer, P.,
Sheppard, E., and Haining, R. (1998)
"Modeling spatial competition: Marxian versus neoclassical
approaches." Annals of the
Association of American Geographers
84: 575-94.
Week 8:
Discourses of Globalization (3/5)
J.K. Gibson-Graham
(1996) "Querying globalization"
(pp.120-147). In The End of
Capitalism (As We Knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell
Swyngedouw, E.
(1997) "Neither global nor local:
'Glocalization' and the politics of scale." In Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the
Local, ed. K. Cox, pp. 137-166. Guilford: New York and London.
Leyshon, A.
(1997) "True stories? global
dreams, global nightmares, and writing globalization." In Lee, R. and Wills, J. (eds.) Geographies
of Economies, pp.133-146. London: Arnold.
Dicken, P., Peck,
J., and Tickell, A. (1997)
"Unpacking the global." In Lee, R. and Wills, J. (eds.) Geographies
of Economies, pp.158-166. London: Arnold.
Mair, A.
(1997) "Strategic localization:
The myth of the postnational enterprise."
In Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local, ed. K. Cox, pp. 64-88. Guilford: New York and London.
î Tuathail, G,
Herod, A., and Roberts, S. (1998) "Negotiating unruly problematics." In An Unruly World? Globalization,
Governance and Geography, Herod, A.,
î Tuathail, G, and Roberts, S. (editors), pp. 1-24. Routledge: London
Week 9: Full
steam ahead, or not so fast? (3/12)
Ohmae, K.
(1990) The Borderless World:
Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy, pp.82-100, 137-145, 172-192.
New York: HarperBusiness.
Ohmae, K.
(1995) The End of the Nation
State: The Rise of Regional Economies,
pp. 1-5, 79-100. New York: Free
Press.
Bryan, L. and
Farrell, D. (1996) Market
Unbound: Unleashing Global Capitalism,
pp. 1-35; 152-195; 220-235. New
York: John Wiley.
Hirst, P. and
Thompson, G. (1996) "Introduction:
Globalization - A necessary myth?" (pp. 1-17); "Globalization and the history
of the international economy" (pp. 18-50.
In Hirst, P. and Thompson, G. Globalization in Question.
Cambridge: Polity Press.
Greider, W.
(1997) One World Ready or Not:
The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism,
pp. 39-53, 122-145, 333-359. New
York: Simon and Schuster.
Vogel, S.
(1996) Freer Markets, More
Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries, pp.1-5, 9-24.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Week 10:
Economic Restructuring and the politics of Deindustrialization (3/26)
J.K. Gibson-Graham
(1996) "Strategies" (pp.1-23);
"Capitalism and anti-essentialism: An encounter in contradiction" (pp.24-45);
"The economy, stupid! Industrial policy discourse and the body politic"
(pp.92-119). In The End of
Capitalism (As We Knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Hudson, R. and
Sadler, D. (1986) "Contesting works closures in Western Europe's old industrial
regions: Defending place or betraying class?" In Scott, A and Storper, M. (eds) Production, Work,
Territory: The Geographical Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism. Boston:
Allen and Unwin, pp. 172-193.
Herod, A. (1991)
"Local political practice in response to a manufacturing plant closure: How
geography complicates class analysis."
Antipode 23.4: 385-402.
Martin, R.,
Sunley, P., and Wills, J. (1994) "Unions and the politics of
deindustrialization: Some comments on how geography complicates class analysis." Antipode 26.1: 59-76.
Herod, A. (1994)
"Further reflections on organized labor and deindustrialization in the United
States." Antipode 26.1: 77-95.
Kurtz, H.
(2002) "The politics of
environmental justice as the politics of scale: St. james Parish, Louisiana,
and the Shintech siting controversy."
In Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright (editors): Geographies of Power: Placing
Scale. Basil Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 249-273.
Week 11:
Fordism and the Transition to post-Fordism? (4/2)
Storper, M. and Scott,
A.J. 1986. "The geographical
foundations and social regulation of flexible production complexes." In The Power of Geography: How
Territory Shapes Social Life, eds. J.
Wolch and M. Dear, pp. 21-40.
Boston: Unwin Hyman.
Schoenberger, E.
(1988) "From Fordism to flexible accumulation: Technology, competitive
strategies, and international location." Environment and Planning D 6: 245-262.
Gertler, M. (1992)
"Flexibility revisited: Districts, nation-states, and the forces of
production." Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers
17.3: 259-278.
Hudson, R.
(1989) "Labour-market changes and
new forms of work in old industrial regions: Maybe flexibility for some but not
flexible accumulation." Environment
and Planning D 7: 5-30.
McDowell, L. (1991)
"Life without father and Ford: The new gender order of post-Fordism." Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers 16.4: 400-419.
Herod, A
(2000) "Implications of
Just-in-Time production for union strategy: Lessons from the 1998 General Motors-United
Auto Workers dispute." Annals
of the Association of American Geographers 90.3: 521-547.
Week 12: Class
and gender (4/9)
Herod, A.
(1998) "The spatiality of labor
unionism: A review essay." In
Andrew Herod (ed.) Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on
Labor Unionism, pp. 1-36. University of Minnesota Press:
Minneapolis and London.
Herod, A. (2001)
"Introduction: Labor and landscapes" and "Toward a labor geography." In Herod,
A. Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism, pp. 1-49.
Guilford Press: New York.
Wills, J.
(1998) "Space, place, and
tradition in working-class organization."
In Herod, A. (ed) Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives
on Labor Unionism, pp. 129-158. University of Minnesota Press:
Minneapolis and London.
McDowell, L.
(1983) "Towards an understanding
of the gender division of urban space."
Environment and Planning D
1, 59-72.
Gregson, N.
(2000) "Family, work, and
consumption: Mapping the borderlands of economic geography." In Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. (eds.) A
Companion to Economic Geography. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 311-324.
Wright, M.
(2001) 2001 "Global firms,
masculine heroes and the reproduction of Ciudad Ju‡rez." Social Text 93-114.
Week 13:
Political Economy of the State (4/16)
Jessop, B.
(1990) "Recent theories of the
capitalist state." In Jessop, B., State
Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in its Place.
University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, pp. 24-47.
Jessop, B.
(1990) "Accumulation strategies,
state forms and hegemonic projects."
In Jessop, B., State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in its
Place. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, pp.
196-219.
Jessop, B.
(1993) "Towards a Schumpeterian
workfare state? Preliminary remarks on post-Fordist political economy." Studies in Political Economy 40: 7-39.
Martin, R and
Sunley, P (1997) "The post-Keynesian state and the space economy" in Lee, R and
Wills, J (eds.) Geographies of Economies. Arnold, London, pp.
278-90.
Painter, J. (2000) "State and governance." In Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. (eds.) A Companion to Economic Geography. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 359-376.
Week 14:
Student Presentations (4/23)
Week 15:
Student Presentations (4/30)