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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on February 4, 2008
Journal of Economic Geography 2008 8(2):262-264; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbn001
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The role of textbooks in human geography has been hotly debated in recent years. In particular, authors such as Johnston (2006, 2007) and Hubbard and Kitchen (2007) have pointed to the disciplinary politics at work in this increasingly vibrant sector of the academic publishing market, emphasising the ways in which textbooks are key ways of mobilizing support for particular intellectual and methodological approaches amongst students and other newcomers to the discipline. Within economic geography in recent years, significant attention has been paid to the strengths and weaknesses of different intellectual and methodological approaches and these debates have been reflected in the publication of a number of new textbooks aimed at both under and post graduates. For instance, in the early . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Sarah Hall

School of Geography
University of Nottingham


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