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

Andrew Cumbers

Environment and Planning A, 2018, vol. 50, issue 7, 1519-1524

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economic geography; critical social science; political economy; business and management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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