Instructor: Dr. Truong Thi Kim Chuyen

Email: worldeconomicgeography@gmail.com

Weblog: www.socialscience09.wordpress.com

World Economic GeographyPaul Knox (2008),The geography of the world

economy, Routledge; 5th editionNeil M.Coe, Phillip F Kelly, Henry W.C. Yeung (2007),

Economic Geography, Blackwell PublishingReadings: Fellmann – Getis - Getis (1998). Human

Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities. Brown & Benchmark.

Course OutlineThe geography of the

world economyEconomic Geography

Conceptual foundations

01/ Conceptual foundations Page 1-25

Dynamics of economic space

02/ The changing world economy04/ Patterns of Development and Change05/ Services going global

03/ Commodity chainsPage 87-11504’/ Technology and agglomeration

Actors in economic space

10/ International and supranational institutionalized integration

06/ The state Page 187-21907/ The transnational corporationPage 223-25108/ Labour power Page 254-281

09/ Consumption

09/ Consumption 09/ Consumption – who controls spaces of sales and

consumption?Aims:

To recognize the position and importance of the consumption process within the capitalist systemTo appreciate the changing geographies of consumption and in particular, retailingTo understand how consumption spaces are actively designed and usedTo reflect on the ways in which consumption, place and identity are interrelated

OUTLINEOUTLINE

Introduction The consumption process The changing geographies of retailing The changing spaces of consumption Consumption, place and identity Summary