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Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- Adventures of Capitalism; Chapter 2 -- The Rise of Soft Capitalism; Chapter 3 -- The Place of Complexity; Chapter 4 -- Virtual Capitalism: The Globalization of Reflexive Business Knowledge; Chapter 5 -- Cultures on the Brink: Re-engineering the Soul of Capitalism on a Global Scale; Chapter 6 -- It's the Romance, Not the Finance, that Makes the Business Worth Pursuing: Disclosing a New Market Culture; Chapter 7 -- Cultures in the New Economy; Chapter 8 -- The Automatic Production of space

Seeking to reinvigorate the political Left, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift advocate an experimental ""world-making"" politics that is able to adapt to changing circumstances, shifting categories, and emergent problems

1. A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design / Angela McRobbie -- 2. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace / Sean O'Riain -- 3. Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice / Katie Vann and Geoffrey C. Bowker -- 4. The Economy of Qualities / Michel Callon, Cecile Meadel and Vololona Rabeharisoa -- 5. Inside the Economy of Appearances / Anna Tsing -- 6. Physics and Finance: S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic for Science Studies / Donald MacKenzie -- 7. Traders' Engagement with Markets: A Postsocial Relationship / Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger -- 8. Varieties of Protectors / Frederico Varese -- 9. The Agony of Mammon / Lewis H. Lapham -- 10. Governing by Numbers: Why Calculative Practices Matter / Peter Miller -- 11. African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown / P. Stoller -- 12. Retailers, Knowledges and Changing Commodity Networks: The Case of the Cut Flower Trade / A. Hughes -- 13. Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective / Jonathan Murdoch and Mara Miele -- 14. Making Love in Supermarkets / Daniel Miller -- 15. Window Shopping at Home: Classifieds, Catalogues and New Consumer Skills / Alison J. Clarke -- 16. What's in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction / Haidy Geismar -- 17. It's Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England / Philip Crang -- 18. Feeling Management: From Private to Commercial Uses / Arlie Hochschild -- 19. Negotiating the Bar: Sex, Money and the Uneasy Politics of Third Space / Lisa Law -- 20. A Joint's a Joint / S. Denton and R. Morris -- 21. Marking Time with Nike: The Illusion of the Durable / Celia Lury.

Provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography. Includes entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in different parts of the world