Politics and Method: Contrasting Studies in Industrial Geography

by Doreen Massey, Richard Meegan

Overview

First Published in 1985. For more than a decade now a number of debates have been taking place within industrial geography. The period has been one in which issues of the geography of industry—of the spatial form of industrial decline and growth—have often been at the forefront of wider political debate. The issue of the relationship between theory, method, politics and policies is common to all the social sciences, and the debate which is presented here has relevance beyond industrial geography —in economics, in sociology, in other branches of human geography. This book is built around a seminar which was held in 1983. It was organized under the auspices of the then SSRC, now ESRC, as part of the programme of Doreen Massey’s Fellowship in Industrial Location Research. The aim was explicitly to allow time for a small group of participants to discuss the range of issues around the question of the relationship between policies, politics, theory and method.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135835743
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/21/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	497 KB

About the Author

Doreen Massey is Professor of Geography, The Open University, Milton Keynes. Richard Meegan is a Research Member, CES Ltd, London.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors, 1. Introduction: the debate, 2. Editorial introduction Recession and restructuring in the North-West region, 1974–82: the implications of recent events, 3. Editorial introduction An approach to the analysis of redundancies in the UK (post-1976): some methodological problems and policy implications, 4. Editorial introduction Ideology and methods in industrial location research, 5. Editorial introduction Profits and job loss, 6. Editorial introduction A modern industry in a declining region: links between method, theory and policy, 7. Postscript: doing research, Bibliography, Index

Editorial Reviews

"Extremely interesting reading... Each of the chapters are clearly written and are most helpfully introduced by the editors... Overall, it is hard to fault this volume... An excellent volume and well-worth purchasing." Economic Geography

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