Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits

By Ray Hudson. 2004

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The last decade or so has been one of ongoing, at times heated, debate in economic geography as to how best to conceptualize and theorize economies and their geographies. Reflecting on these debates, I identify six axioms that are central to conceptualizing economic geographies. I then go on to consider issues of culture and the economy and the relationships between them. The paper explores the links between political-economic and cultural-economic approaches, suggesting that they are most productively seen as complementary both/and approaches rather than as competitive either/or ones.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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‘Shareholder value’ versus the regions: the closure of the Vaux Brewery in Sunderland (2006, background): “Geographical political economy integrates economic, social, political and cultural concerns and sees capitalist economies as “contested via a complex mix of social relations, of understandings, representations, and interpretations, and practices” (Hudson 2004): 3; Leyshon and Thrift 1997).”
Cultural political economy: On making the cultural turn without falling into soft economic sociology (2008, background): “In the late 1980s Belgium’s traditional welcome to multinational capital turned to fear about losing economic self-determination.”
The Urban Creative-Food Economy: Producing Food for the Urban Elite or Social Inclusion Opportunity? (2006, background): “Sometimes these criticisms stem from a deeper concern within the broader human geography literature at the retreat within the discipline from a more explicitly political economy approach to a more postmodern cultural-orientation approach (Hudson, 2004; Lovering, 1999).”
Understanding and representing 'place' in health research: a relational approach. (2007, background): “187), echoing these views Hudson (2004, p. 462) describes these nodes/networks as a ‘complex circuitry with a multiplicity of linkages and feedback loops’. Murdoch (1998, p. 357) discusses how far Actor Network Theory (as elaborated by Latour, 1996) ‘‘gives rise to a new kind of geographyyor geograp”
Mapping Global Value Chains (2014, background): “The VS share was first introduced by Hummels et al. (2001) and can be calculated on the basis of national input-output tables.”
Take an issue: cultural economy and finance (2007, background): “As Ray Hudson (2004) has argued in relation to the broader cultural/political economy debates within geography and beyond, what is at issue ‘is precisely what is defined as and taken to be the economy’.”
Building Trust in Economic Space (2006, methodology): “Hudson (2004) recently noted that an important objective of contemporary research in economic geography should be to understand how the flows, circuits, and practices that constitute the global economy are constructed and situated in distinct times and places.”
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks (2020, background): “…leading scholars of regional studies (e.g., Amin & Thrift, 1994; Asheim, 1996; Cooke & Morgan, 1998; Morgan, 1997; Saxenian, 1994; Scott, 1998; cf. Hudson, 1999; 2004; Lovering, 1999), localized conventions and institutions could facilitate collective learning and innovation and therefore serve…”
Relational Economic Geography: A Partial Understanding or a New Paradigm? (2008, background): “Many economic geographers are clearly unhappy with this ontology and have argued that relationalism should recognize relations between structure and agency (Dicken, Kelly, Olds, and Yeung 2001; Yeung 2000, 2005a; Shepherd 2002; Hudson 2004; Ettlinger 2003; Castree 2002).”
Global production networks: realizing the potential (2008, background): “national states retain a critical role within them’ ( Hudson 2004: 453.”
Cyclical Clusters in Global Circuits: Overlapping Spaces in Furniture Trade Fairs (2008, background): “Often the opposite of what human agents may be seeking to realise” (Urry 2000b, 4, quoted in Hudson 2004, 5).”
Institutional change in economic geography (2014, background): “Their activities are assumed to be generally purposeful, although they may have unintended consequences (e.g. Hudson, 2004).”
Theorizing practice in economic geography: Foundations, challenges, and possibilities (2011, unknown): “In doing so, governmental practices create and maintain disciplinary or prescribed spaces for capitalism’s further extension into the everyday lives of people (Raco, 2003; Hudson, 2004; Huxley, 2008).”
Cultural economy: a critical review (2005, background): “Nor have we sought to suggest that 'the economic' in cultural economy can be completely accounted for within a poststructuralist or nonrepresentational framework (see Hudson, 2004).”
Cultural political economy meets global production networks: a productive meeting? (2008, background): “…objects need to maintain a degree of stability of meaning in order that they can perform as commodities and so enable markets to be (re)produced (Hudson, 2004), the de-coupling of signs and symbols from any specific referent product has been further extended with the growing emphasis on the…”
Geographies of production: growth regimes in spatial perspective 3 - toward a relational view of economic action and policy (2006, background): “This should not be viewed as another turn, because it does not try to isolate those aspects of human life which are inseparable (see also Hudson, 2004).”