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Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits

University of Durham, Department of Geography and International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham DH1 3LE, UK

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.

Key Words: economic geographies • circuits • flows • spaces • capitalism • political economy • cultural economy

Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 28, No. 4, 447-471 (2004)
DOI: 10.1191/0309132504ph497oa


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