Handbook of Labour Geography: An introduction

Andrew Herod

A chapter in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 1-49 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This introduction first provides a brief overview of the development of Anglophonic Labour Geography. It then examines three issues for labour geographers to contemplate as we consider the field's development. These are: (1) the historical geography of the production of knowledge about workers’ spatial lives (that is to say, how Labour Geography has developed differently in diverse places and what this means for matters of academic power); (2) questions of how worker agency has been conceived within Labour Geography and how new approaches to research, such as non-representational theory and assemblage theory, may have significant implications for how Labour Geography is practised as a field of intellectual enquiry; and (3) how labour geographers’ own positionality within increasingly neoliberalised academic institutions is shaping their research and teaching practices.

Keywords: Agency; Geography of knowledge; Politics of translation; Labouring geographers; Causality; Critical realism; Non-representational theory; Assemblage theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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