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Reopke Lecture in Economic Geography: Notes from the Underground: Why the History of Economic Geography Matters: The Case of Central Place Theory
Trevor J. Barnes, Pages 1-26
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Commentary on Trevor Barnes's 2011 Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography
Allen J. Scott, Pages 27-32
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A Rejoinder: Remembrance of Things Past
Trevor J. Barnes, Pages 33-36
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Territorial Agglomeration and Industrial Symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a Secondary Processing Complex
Nicky Gregson, Mike Crang, Farid Uddin Ahamed, Nasreen Akter, Raihana Ferdous, Sadat Foisal, Ray Hudson, Pages 37-58
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The Regional Supply of Venture Capital: Can Syndication Overcome Bottlenecks?
Michael Fritsch, Dirk Schilder, Pages 59-76
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My Networking Is Not Working! Conceptualizing the Latent and Dysfunctional Dimensions of the Network Paradigm
Tim Vorley, Oli Mould, Richard Courtney, Pages 77-96
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ABSTRACTS
Reopke Lecture in Economic Geography: Notes from the Underground: Why the History of Economic Geography Matters: The Case of Central Place Theory
by Trevor J. Barnes
Abstract:
The discipline of Anglo-American economic geography seems to care little about its history. Its practitioners tend toward the “just do it” school of scholarship, in which a concern with the present moment in economic geography subordinates all else. In contrast, I argue that it is vital to know economic geography's history. Historical knowledge of our discipline enables us to realize that we are frequently “slaves of some defunct” economic geographer; that we cannot escape our geography and history, which seep into the very pores of the ideas that we profess; and that the full connotations of economic geographic ideas are sometimes purposively hidden, secret even, revealed only later by investigative historical scholarship. My antidote: “notes from the underground,” which means a history of economic geography that delves below the reported surface. This history is often subversive, contradicting conventional depictions; it is antirationalist, querying universal (timeless) foundations; it seeks out deliberately hidden and buried economic geographic practices, relying on sources literally found underground—personal papers and correspondence stored in one subterranean archive or another. To exemplify the importance of notes from the underground, I present an extended case study—the 20th-century development of central place theory, associated with two economic geographers: the German, Walter Christaller (1893–1969), and the American, Edward L. Ullman (1912–76).
Key words: history of economic geography;central place theory;Edward Ullman;Walter Christaller
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Commentary on Trevor Barnes’s 2011 Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography
by Allen J. Scott
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A Rejoinder: Remembrance of Things Past
by Trevor J. Barnes
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Territorial Agglomeration and Industrial Symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a Secondary Processing Complex,
by Nicky Gregson, Mike Crang, Farid Uddin Ahamed, Nasreen Akter, Raihana Ferdous, Sadat Foisal, Ray Hudson
Abstract: This article both joins with recent arguments in economic geography that have made connections between work on industrial symbiosis and agglomerative tendencies and recasts this work. Drawing on the case of Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, it shows that symbiosis is intricately bound up in the global circulation of wastes and their recovery through secondary processing. It draws attention to the importance of key places as conduits in the transformation of materials and secondary processing; emphasizes their importance as sites of symbiotic activity; and shows how such places exemplify economies of recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing, but in conditions of minimal environmental regulation. It therefore shows that contemporary symbiosis is not necessarily clean and green and may be very messy; that it can be generative of agglomerations, not just dependent upon prior agglomerations; that such agglomerations may be cross sectoral, not just interplant; and that symbiosis needs to be thought of not just through geographic proximity, but through the spatialities of globalization.
Key words:waste;industrial symbiosis;agglomerative tendencies;sustainable economic development;Bangladesh
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The Regional Supply of Venture Capital: Can Syndication Overcome Bottlenecks?
by Michael Fritsch, Dirk Schilder
Abstract:In our study, we investigated whether the supply of venture capital (VC) is driven by spatial proximity between a VC company and the portfolio firm. Our analysis was based on information about VC investments in Germany between 2004 and 2009. We found that possible problems caused by the geographic distance to a portfolio firm seem to be overcome by the syndication of investments with one of the VC firms located close to the investment. The results suggest, however, that a short geographic distance between an investor and the investment has an increasing effect on the probability of syndication as well as on the number of firms that join the syndicate. Hence, local VC suppliers may assume the role of an anchor, connecting the regional economy to more distant parts of the industry.
Key words:venture capital;syndication;geographic proximity;startup financing;equity gap
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My Networking Is Not Working! Conceptualizing the Latent and Dysfunctional Dimensions of the Network Paradigm
by Tim Vorley, Oli Mould, Richard Courtney
Abstract:Networks have become a major analytical concept in economic geography and have served to extend both empirical and theoretical research agendas. However, much of the literature on networks is characterized as associative, considering them only as cumulative constructs through the constant enrollment of additional actors. Through the lens of social capital and a discussion of the limitations of the networking paradigm in economic geography, this article aims to move beyond this associative nature and introduce variance in network practices in the form of nonworking and not working. By presenting a hypothetical example of a project-based network, we introduce the concepts of nonworking and not working as latency and disassociation as dimensions of network practices. In doing so, we present a more nuanced approach to the networking paradigm in relational economic geography, one that moves beyond a purely associative understanding to incorporate nonworking and not working.
Key words:social networks;social capital;networking not working;dysfunction;latency;network
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