بازار/مکان: کاوش در فضاهای تبادل (تحولات اقتصادی)

The term "market" originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea. Despite modern markets seemingly omnipresent nature, their specific geographies have undergone relatively little analysis. This collection of new essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhabit and explore how the impact of political, social and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space. The essays present new research from the fields of geography, economics, political economy and planning and provide valuable case study material to show how markets are contested, constructed and placed. Rather than separate markets from the surrounding society and state, these essays connect markets to their wider context and showcase how economic geography can combine with other disciplines to throw new light on spaces of exchange. Markets are seemingly omnipresent features of our economic landscape, and yet they do not exhibit a singular, essential or universal form. What are we to make of the fact that markets are never self-contained and selfregulating, but instead are tangled up and co-produced with all manner of governmental, social, and political processes? Furthermore, how are we to explain the persistent and often unruly “geographies” of markets, the causes and consequences of which remain elusive? From a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, this collection of original essays probes the question of how to think about markets spatially, and how to make sense of the geographies of marketization. In the process, Market/Place opens new frontiers for the emergent field of critical market studies, problematizing the “geography of markets” as an issue not only for self-identifying economic geographers, but as a demanding, interdisciplinary question.

The term "market" originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea. Despite modern markets seemingly omnipresent nature, their specific geographies have undergone relatively little analysis.

This collection of new essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhabit and explore how the impact of political, social and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space. The essays present new research from the fields of geography, economics, political economy and planning and provide valuable case study material to show how markets are contested, constructed and placed. Rather than separate markets from the surrounding society and state, these essays connect markets to their wider context and showcase how economic geography can combine with other disciplines to throw new light on spaces of exchange.

This collection of new essays from leading economic geographers addresses the contested place of markets in a physical setting and explore how the impact of political, social and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space.