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What is a ‘person’ like you doing in a ‘place’ like that? Reflections on the business school migration from economic geography

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The decline of economic geography in British geography departments and schools is a cause for concern, given its historic importance as a seedbed for critical and alternative thinking. While there are attractions and opportunities for economic geographers such as myself in working in management departments and business schools, particularly those that have a critical social science culture, it is vital that geography itself, as a discipline, retains a commitment to heterodox economic enquiry and understanding. At a time of multiplying global political, economic and ecological crises, the disappearance of economic geography from the mainstream teaching curriculum and research agenda would be a regrettable loss for the broader academic project.

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  • Andrew Cumbers, 2018. "What is a ‘person’ like you doing in a ‘place’ like that? Reflections on the business school migration from economic geography," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 50(7), pages 1519-1524, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:50:y:2018:i:7:p:1519-1524
    DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18782704
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    1. Nicholas A Phelps & Miguel Atienza & Martin Arias, 2018. "An invitation to the dark side of economic geography," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 50(1), pages 236-244, February.
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