- Books
- Papers in Refereed Journals
- Contributions to Edited Volumes
- Book Reviews
- Non-refereed Research Papers
- Plenary Presentations and Named Lectures
- Conference and Other Invited Presentations
Books
Sheppard, E., and Barnes, T.J. The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis After Ricardo, Marx and Sraffa. London: Unwin Hyman (1990) xviii + 328 pp.
Barnes, T.J., and Duncan, J.S. (eds.) Writing Worlds: Texts, Discourses and Metaphors in the Interpretation of Landscape. London: Routledge (1992) xiii + 282 pp.
Barnes, T. J. Logics of Dislocation: Models, Metaphors, and Meanings of Economic Space. New York: Guilford Press (1996) xii + 292 pp.
Barnes, T. J., and Gregory, D. (eds.) Reading Human Geography: The Poetics and Politics of Inquiry. London: Edward Arnold (1997), vi + 520 pp. (Includes 9 jointly written editoral essays.)
Barnes, T. J. and Hayter, R. (eds.) Troubles in the Rainforest: British Columbia’s Forest Economy in Transition. Victoria: Western Geographical Press (1997), xi + 303 pp.
Barnes, T. J. and Gertler, M. S. (eds.) The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and Institutions. London: Routledge (1999), xxii + 325 pp.
Sheppard, E. S. and Barnes, T. J. (eds.) A Companion to Economic Geography. (2000), xv + 536 pp. Oxford: Blackwell. Translated into Chinese in 2009, and published by the Commerical Press, Beijing. 682 pp.
Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., Sheppard, E., and Tickell, A. (eds.) Reading Economic Geography (2003), xii + 479 pp. Oxford: Blackwell (Includes six jointly written editorial essays.) Translated into Chinese 2007, and published by The Commercial Press, Beijing.
Tickell, A., Sheppard, E., Peck, J., and Barnes, T. J. (eds.) Politics and Practices in Economic Geography (2007), xvi + 320 pp. London: Sage.
Barnes, T. J., Peck, J. and Thrift, N. (eds.) Environment and Planning, Volume A: Cities and Regions (2012), xliii + 559 pp. London: Sage.
Elden, S., Thrift, N., Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., Batty, M., Longley, P. A., and Bennett, R. J. Environment and Planning, Volume E: Foundations (2012), xv + 539 pp. London: Sage.
Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., and Sheppard, E. Eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography. (2012), xviii + 646 pp. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Includes six jointly written introductory editorial essays: “The long decade: economic geography, unbound,” pp, 1-24; “Trajectories,” pp. 27-32; “Accumulation and value,” 149-156; “Regulation and governance,” 291-297; “Embodiment and identity,” 401-406; “Borders,” 517-523.
Papers in Refereed Journals
1. Barnes, T.J. and Curry, M. “Towards a Contextualist Approach to Geographic Knowledge”, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 8, 467-82 (1983).
2. Barnes, T.J. and Sheppard, “Technical Choice and Reswitching in Space Economies”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 14, 345-62 (1984).
3. Barnes, T.J., “Theories of Agricultural Rent within the Surplus Approach”, International Regional Science Review, 9, 125-40 (1984).
4. Barnes, T.J., “Theories of Interregional Trade and Theories of Economic Value”, Environment and Planning A, 17, 729-46 (1985).
5. Sheppard, E., and Barnes, T. J. “Instabilities in the Geography of Capitalist Production: Individual versus Collective Profit Maximization”, Annals, Association of American Geographers, 76, 493-507 (1986).
6. Barnes, T.J. “Homo Economicus, Physical Metaphors and Universal Models”, The Canadian Geographer, 31, 299-308 (1987).
7. Barnes, T.J. “A New Industrial Geography”, Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 10, 97-105 (1987).
8. Barnes, T.J. “Editorial Introduction to Time, Space and Economics,” Environment and Planning A, 20, 139-40 (1988).
9. Curry, M. and Barnes, T.J. “Time and Narrative in Economic Geography,” Environment and Planning A, 20, 141-49 (1988).
10. Barnes, T.J. “Rationality and Relativism: An Interpretive Review of the Homo Economicus Assumption,” Progress in Human Geography, 12, 473-96 (1988).
11. Barnes, T.J. “Scarcity and Agricultural Land Rent Theory in Light of The Capital Controversy,” Antipode, 20, 207-38 (1988).
12. Barnes, T.J. “Reply to ‘Let’s Keep the Economic in Economic Geography,'” The Canadian Geographer, 32, 348-50 (1988).
13. Barnes, T.J. “Guest Editorial: In the Heat of Debate,” Environment and Planning A, 20, 996-7 (1988).
14. Barnes, T.J. “Rhetoric, Metaphor and Mathematical Modelling,” Environment and Planning A, 21, 1281-4 (1989).
15. Barnes, T.J. “Place, Space and Theories of Economic Value: Contextualism and Essentialism in Economic Geography,” Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 14, 299-316 (1989).
16. Barnes, T.J. “Editorial Introduction to Analytical Political Economy” Environment and Planning A, 21, 991-92, (1990).
17. Barnes, T.J. “Analytical Political Economy: A Geographical Introduction,” Environment and Planning A, 21, 993-1006 (1990).
18. Hayter, R. and T.J. Barnes, “Innis’ Staple Theory, Exports and Recession: British Columbia 1981-86”, Economic Geography, 66, 156-73, (1990).
19. Barnes, T.J. “Conversations and Metaphors in Economic Geography: Richard Rorty and the Gravity Model”, Geografiska Annaler, 73, 11-20 (1991).
20. Barnes, T.J. “Shall I Compare Thee to a Continuous and Strictly Quasi-Concave Utility Function? Or, Homo Economicus, Part Two”, The Canadian Geographer, 35, 400-404 (1991).
21. Barnes, T.J. and Curry, M. “Post-modernism in Economic Geography: Metaphor and the Construction of Alterity”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10, 57-68 (1992). Reprinted in Environment and Planning, ed., S. Elden, Sage: London, pp. 301-316 (2012).
22. Barnes, T.J. and Sheppard, E. “Is there a Place for the Rational Actor? A Geographical Critique of the Rational Choice Paradigm,” Economic Geography, 68, 1-21 (1992). Reprinted in Theory and Methods: Critical Essays in Human Geography (A Reader), ed., C. Philo. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 291-311 (2008).
23. Barnes, T.J. and Hayter, R. “‘The Little Town that Did.’ Flexible Production and Community Response in Chemainus, B.C.,” Regional Studies, 26, 647-63 (1992).
24. Hayter, R. and Barnes, T. J. “Labour Market Segmentation, Flexibility and Recession: A British Columbia Study,” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 10, 333-53 (1992)
25. Barnes, T.J. “Whatever happened to the philsophy of science?” Environment and Planning A, 25, 301-04 (1993).
26. Barnes, T.J. and Hayter, R. “British Columbia’s Private Sector in Recession, 1981-86: Employment Flexibility without Trade Diversification,” BC Studies, 98, 20-42 (Summer, 1993).
27. Barnes, T.J. “A Geographical Appreciation of Harold A. Innis”, The Canadian Geographer, 37, 352-3, (1993)
28. Barnes, T. J. “Knowing Where You Stand: Harold Innis, Staple Theory and Local Models,” The Canadian Geographer, 37, 357-9, (1993)
29. Barnes, T.J. “Confessions of a Book Review Editor”, Environment and Planning A, Anniversary issue, 25, 79-82 (1993).
30. Hayter, R., Grass, E., and Barnes, T. J. “Labour Flexibility: A Tale of Two Mills, the Chemainus and Youbou Sawmills in BC,” Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 85, 25-38 (1994).
31. Barnes, T. J. “Probable Writing: Deconstruction, Derrida and Quantitative Revolution in Human Geography.” Environment and Planning A, 26, 1021-40 (1994)
32. Barnes, T. J. “Functional Metaphors: A reply to Richard Peet and David Reynolds.” Economic Geography, 70, 308-13 (1994).
33. Barnes, T. J. “Five Ways to Leave Your Critic: A Sociological Scientific Experiment in Replying, Environment and Planning A, 26, 1653-58 (1994).
34. Barnes, T. J. and Hayter, R. “Economic Restructuring and Local Development on the Margin: Forest Communities in Coastal British Columbia.” The Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 17, 289-310 (1994).
35. Barnes, T. J. “Political Economy I: ‘The Culture, Stupid.'” Progress in Human Geography, 19, 423-31 (1995).
36. Barnes, T. J. “Political Economy II: Compliments of the Year” Progress in Human Geography, 20, 521-28 (1996).
37. Hayter, R. and Barnes, T. J. “The restructuring of British Columbia’s coastal forest sector: flexibility perspectives” BC Studies, 113, 7-34 (1997).
38. Barnes, T. J. 1998 “A history of regression: actors, networks, machines and numbers.” Environment and Planning A, 30, 203-23 (1998).
39. Barnes, T. J. “Political Economy III: Confessions of a Political Economist” Progess in Human Geography, 22, 94-104 (1998).
40. Barnes, T. J. “Envisioning economic geography: Three men and their figures.” Geographishe Zeitschrift, 86, 94-105 (1998).
41. Barnes, T. J., Hayter, R., and Hay, E. “Too young to retire, too bloody old to work.” Forest industry restructuring and community response in Port Alberni, British Columbia.” The Forestry Chronicle, 75, 1-7 (1999).
42. Barnes, T. J., Britton, J.N.H., Coffey, W. J., Edgington, D. W., Gertler, M. S., and Norcliffe, G. “Canadian economic geography at the millennium.” The Canadian Geographer, 44, 4-24 (2000)
43. Barnes, T. J. “On theory, history and anoraks” Antipode, 33, 162-8 (2001).
44. Barnes, T. J. “Lives lived, and lives told: biographies of geography’s quantitative revolution.” Society and Space: Environment and Planning D 19. 409-29 (2001).
45. Barnes, T. J. and Hannah, M. “The place of numbers: histories, geographies and theories of quantification.” Society and Space: Environment and Planning D 19 404-08 (2001).
46. Barnes, T. J. “’In the beginning was economic geography’: A science studies approach to disciplinary history.” Progress in Human Geography 25, 455-78 (2001).
47. Barnes, T. J. “Retheorizing economic geography: From the quantitative revolution to the ‘cultural turn’” Annals, Association of American Geographers, 91, 546-65 (2001). Reprinted in Theory and Methods: Critical Essays in Human Geography (A Reader), ed., C. Philo. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 53-72 (2008).
48. Hayter, R. and Barnes, T. J. “Canada’s resource economy.” The Canadian Geographer, 45, 36-41 (2001)
49. Barnes, T. J, Hayter R, and Hay, E. “Stormy weather: Cyclones, Harold Innis, and Port Alberni, British Columbia” Environment and Planning A, 33, 2127-2148 (2001).
50. Barnes, T. J. “Performing economic geography: two men, two books and a cast of thousands.” Environment and Planning A, 34, 487-512 (2002)
51. Barnes, T. J. “Critical notes on economic geography from an aging radical. Or radical notes on economic geography from a critical age.” ACME:An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies (www.acme-journal.org), 1, 8-14 (2002).
52. Barnes, T. J.“The place of locational analysis: a selective and interpretive history.” Progress in Human Geography, 27, 69-95 (2003).
53. Hayter, R., Barnes, T. J., and Bradshaw, M.J. “Relocating resource peripheries to the core of economic geography’s theorizing: Rationale and agenda” Area, 35, 15-23 (2003)
54. Behrish, T., Hayter, R., and Barnes, T. J. “Resource town restructuring, youth and changing labour market expectations: The case of grade 12 students in Powell River, BC” BC Studies, 103, 75-103 (2003). Selected for inclusion in the 2008 CD “BC Studies 40th anniversary audio articles.” Read by Tanya Behrish.
55. Barnes, T. J. “The 90s show: Culture leaves the farm and hits the street,” Urban Geography, 24, 479-492 (2003).
56. Barnes, T. J. “Vom Bauernhof zum Großstadtdschungel: „Kultur“ in der anglo-amerikanischen Stadtgeographie der 1990er Jahre” (From the farm to the urban jungle: culture in Anglo-American urban geography in the 1990s) Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde, 77, 91-104 (2003). An amended and translated version of “The 90s Show” published in Urban Geography.
57. Barnes, T. J. ““What’s wrong with American regional science? A view from science studies.” Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 26, 3-26 (2003). The paper is followed by three commentaries by William J Coffey, Mario Polese, and Gordon F Mulligan (pp. 27-36)
58. Barnes, T. J. “The rise (and decline) of American regional science: lessons for the new economic geography?” Journal of Economic Geography, 4, 107 – 129 (2004).
59. Barnes, T. J. “’The background of our lives:’ David Harvey’s The Limits to Capital.” Antipode, 36, 408-13 (2004).
60. Barnes, T. J. “A paper related to everything, but more related to local thing.” Annals, Association of American Geographers, 94, 278-83 (2004).
61. Barnes, T. J. “L’évolution des styles: de l’analyse spatiale des années 1960 à la culture du lieu des années 2000 dans la géographie économique anglo-américaine” (Styles of the times: 1960s spatial science versus the millennial ‘cultural turn’ in Anglo-American economic geography). Géographie et Culture, 49, 43-58 (2004).
62. Barnes, T. J. “Placing ideas: Genius Loci, heterotopia, and geography’s quantitative revolution.” Progress in Human Geography, 29, 565-95 (2004).
63. Barnes, T. J. and Hayter, R. “No Greek-letter writing: local models of resource economies” Growth and Change 36 453-70 (2005).
64. Barnes, T. J. “Geographical intelligence: American geographers and Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services 1941-1945.” Journal of Historical Geography, 32, 149-68 (2006).
65. Barnes, T. J. “Situating economic geographical teaching” Journal of Higher Education and Geography, 30, 405-09 (2006).
66. Barnes, T. J. “Saying yes but not yes to progress. Comments on David Livingstone’s 2005 Progress in Human Geography lecture” Progress in Human Geography, 31, 580-584 (2006).
67. Barnes, T. J. and Farish, M. “Between regions: Science, militarism, and American geography from World War to Cold War.” Annals, Association of American Geographers, 96, 807-26 (2006). Reprinted in: Geopolitics (Sage Library of International Relations), volume II, ed., K. Dodd. Sage: London, pp. 95-123 (2009); Regions (A Reader), ed., N. Entrikin. Ashgate: Aldershot, Ch. 1 (2008); Human Geography Volume I, eds., D. Gregory and N. Castree. Sage: London, pp. 79-112 (2012); Geopolitics: An Introductory Reader, eds. J. Dittmer and J. Sharp. Routledge: London, pp. 153-64.
68. Barnes, T. J. “The geographical state: the development of Canadian geography.” Journal of Higher Education and Geography, 31, 161-77 (2007).
69. Barnes, T. J. “American pragmatism: towards a geographical introduction.” Geoforum 39, 1542-1554 (2008).
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70. Barnes, T. J. “Geography’s Underworld: The military-industrial complex, mathematical modelling and the quantitative revolution.” Geoforum, 39, 3-16 (2008).
71. Barnes, T. J. “Life and death.” Progress in Human Geography 32, 650-58 (2008).
72. Barnes, T. J. “Making space for the market: live performances, dead objects, and economic geography.” Compass 3, 1-17 (2008).
73. Barnes, T. J. “Stuck in a mess (again).” Geoforum 39 1807-1811 (2008).
74. Barnes, T. J. “Standards? What standards?” Progress in Human Geography 33, 118-20 (2009).
75. Barnes, T. J. “Not only … but also: critical and quantitative geography.” The Professional Geographer 61, 1542-54 (2009).
76. Barnes, T. J. “Obituaries, war, ‘corporeal remains,’ and life.” Progress in Human Geography 33, 693-701 (2009).
78. Wainwright, J. and Barnes, T. J. “Nature, economy, and the space¬–place distinction.”
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27, 966-986 (2009). Reprinted in P. Merriman, ed., Space: Critical Concepts in Geography, 4 volumes. London: Routledge.
80. Barnes, T. J. “Taking the pulse of the dead.” Progress in Human Geography 34, 668-677 (2010).
81. Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. J. “Can error statistical theory include everything that matters?” Progress in Human Geography 35, 573-75 (2011).
82. Barnes, T. J. “This is like déjà vu all over again.” The Professional Geographer 63, 332-36 (2011).
83. Barnes, T. J. and Heynen, N. “A classic in human geography: William Bunge’s (1971) Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution” Progress in Human Geography 35, 712-15 (2011).
88. Barnes, T. J. “Folder 5, Box 92” Social and Cultural Geography 14 (7) 784-91 (2013)
89. Barnes, T. J. “What Regional Studies might have been: Cold War social science” Regional Studies 47, 460-64 (2013).
90. Barnes, T. J. “Big Data, little history” Dialogues in Human Geography 3, 297-302 (2013)
91. Peck, J. and Barnes, T. J. “Introduction: Dispatches from the Fifth Summer Institute in Economic Geography” The Professional Geographer 66 (1) 1-3 (2014).
92. Barnes, T. J. “Cordon bleu filling.” Author meets critics symposium: Verena Conley’s Spatial Ecologies. Progress in Human Geography 38 (1) 160-63 (2014).
101. Barnes, T. J. “Afterword: Srategic canonization?” Journal of Historical Geography 47
(2015) (5 ms. pages, in press) .
104. Cai Yunlong, Ye Chao, Barnes Trevor, Bao Jigang,, Jiang Jinhong, Yang Yongchun, Cai Xiaomei, Zhao Xueyan,, Liu Jun,, Yang Youren, Zhang Min, Wei Lihua1, Yao Huasong, Marenfeng, Huang Gengzhi, Yan Bingjin, “Marxist geography and its development in China: Reflections on planning and practice” Geographical Research, 35(8): 1399-1419 (2016). In Chinese.
105. Thatcher, J., Bergmann, L., + 23 co-authors including Barnes, T. “Revisting Critical GIS”, Environment and Planning A 48, 815-24 (2016).
Contributions to Edited Volumes
1. Barnes, T.J., “Neo-Ricardianism”, in The Dictionary of Human Geography, 2nd edn., eds., R. Johnston, D. Gregory, and D. Smith. Basil Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 323-25 (1986).
2. Barnes, T.J., “Structure and Agency in Economic Geography and Theories of Economic Value” in Remaking Human Geography, eds., A. Kobayashi and S. McKenzie. Unwin Hyman: London, pp. 134-48 (1989).
3. Barnes, T.J. and Barnes, J.S. “British Columbia” Encyclopaedia Americana Vol. 4, 567-77, Grolier Inc: Danbury, CT (1989).
4, Barnes, T.J., Hayter, R. and Grass, E. “Corporate Restructuring and Employment Change: MacMillan Bloedel” The Corporate Firm in a Changing World Economy, in, eds., M. de Smidt and E. Wever. London: Routledge, pp. 145-65 (1990).
5. Barnes, T.J., and Duncan, J.S. “Introduction: Writing Worlds,”in Writing Worlds: Texts, Discourses and Metaphors in the Interpertation of Landscape, eds., T.J. Barnes and J.S. Duncan. London: Routledge, pp. 1-17 (1992).
6. Barnes, T.J. “Reading the Texts of Economic Geography” in Writing Worlds: Texts, Discourses and Metaphors in the Interpertation of Landscape, eds., T.J. Barnes and J.S. Duncan. London: Routledge, pp. 118-35 (1992).
7. Barnes, T.J., Edgington, D., Denike, K., McGee, T. “Vancouver, the Province, and the Pacific Rim” in Vancouver and its Region, eds. G. Wynn and T. Oke. Vancouver: U.B.C. Press, pp. 181-200 (1992).
8. Barnes, T. J. Sixteen entries in the Dictionary of Human Geography (3rd edition), eds., R. J. Johnston, D. Gregory and D. M. Smith. “Analytical Marxism, geography and” pp. 15-17; “game theory” pp. 212-13: “hermeneutics” pp. 244-46; “justice, geography and” pp. 300-01; “methodological individualism” pp. 378-79; “neo-Ricardian economics” pp. 416-18: “political economy” pp. 446-47; “public choice theory” pp. 486-87: “quantitative methods” pp. 493-94; “rational choice theory” pp. 488-89; “rent” pp. 525-26; “regional science” pp. 515-17; “rhetoric” p. 536; “satsficing behaviour” p. 543; “social physics” p. 567-68; “staples theory” pp.589-91. Blackwell:Oxford (1993).
9. Barnes, T.J. “External Shocks: Regional Implications of an Open Economy” in Canada and the Global Economy: The Geography of Structural and Economic Change, ed., J. N. H. Britton. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, pp. 48-68 (1996)
10. Barnes, T.J. “Economic Geography” in The Social Science Encyclopedia, 2nd edn., eds., A. and J. Kuper, pp. 217-19. London: Routledge (1996).
11. Barnes, T. J. “Theories of Accumulation and Regulation: Bringing Back Life to Economic Geography”. In Geographies of Economies, eds., R. Lee and J. Wills, pp. 231-48. London: Arnold (1997).
12. Hayter, R. and Barnes, T. J. “Troubles in the Rainforest: British Columbia’s Forest Economy in Transition.” In Trouble in the Rainforest, eds. T. J. Barnes and R. Hayter, pp. 1-11. Victoria: Western Geographical Press (1997).
13. Hayter, R. and Barnes, T. J. “The restructuring of British Columbia’s coastal forest sector: flexibility perspectives.” In Troubles in the Rainforest, eds. T. J. Barnes and R. Hayter, pp. 181-203. Victoria: Western Geographical Press. Republished from BC Studies, number 113, Spring, 1997).
14. Barnes, T.J. and Gertler, M.S. “Regions, regulation and institutions.” In The New Industrial Geography, eds. T. J. Barnes and M. S. Gertler, pp.xv-xx. Routledge: London (1999).
15. Barnes, T. J. “Industrial geography, institutional economics and Innis.” In The New Industrial Geography, eds. T. J. Barnes and M. S. Gertler, pp.1-20. Routledge: London (1999).
16. Barnes, T. J. Thirty-three entries for the Dictionary of Human Geography (4th edition), eds., R. J. Johnston, D. Gregory, G. Pratt, M. Watts. Analytical Marxism, geography of 22-4; deconstruction 155-7; economy 200-02; essentialism 230-1; foundationalism 278-9; game theory 287-8; hermeneutics 334-6; local knowledge 452-3; metaphor 499-501; methodological individualism 501; neo-Ricardian economics 548-50; new institutional economics, 551-2; objectivity 560-1; poetics of geography 588-9; political economy 593-4; pragmatism 632-4; public choice theory 655; quantitative methods 663-4; quantitative revolution 664-67; rational choice theory 672-3;reductionism 679-70; regional science 685-6; relativism 692-4; rent 701-2; rhetoric 715; satisficing 724; science, geography and (including science studies) 727-29; situated knowledge 742-3; social construction 747-8; social physics 760; space-economy 773-74; staples theory 786-8; universalism 869-90 (2000).
17. Barnes, T. J. Inventing Anglo-American economic geography: 1889-1960. In A Companion to Economic Geography, eds., E. S. Sheppard and T. J. Barnes, pp. 11-26. Oxford: Blackwell (2000).
18. Barnes, T. J. and Sheppard, E. S. The art of economic geography. In A Companion to Economic Geography, eds., E. S. Sheppard and T. J. Barnes, pp. 1-8. Oxford: Blackwell (2000)
19. Barnes, T. J. The Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, ed., R. J. B. Jones “Fallacy of composition” (Volume 1, pp. 520-21); “Innis, Harold Adams, 1894-1952” (Volume 2, 768-70). London: Routledge (2001).
20. Harrington, J. W., Barnes, T. J., Glasmeir, A., Hannik, D., and Rigby, D. “Economic geography”. In Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century eds. G. L. Gaile and C. K. Wilmott, pp. 113-32. Oxford: Oxford Univesity Press (2003).
21. Barnes, T. J. “Never mind the economy. Here’s culture.” In The Handbook to Cultural Geography, eds., K. Anderson, M. Domosh, S. Pile, and N. J. Thrift, pp. 89-97. London: Sage. Introductory essay to the four-chapter section “The Culture of the Economy” that I edited (pp. 89-165) (2003).
22. Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., Sheppard, E., and Tickell, A. “Reading economic geography,” pp. 1-9; “Paradigms lost,” 13-18; “Problematising production,” pp. 91-96; “Producing nature,” 169-74; “Bringing in the social,” pp. 251-56; “From distance to connectivity,” pp. 331-35. In Reading Economic Geography, eds, Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., Sheppard, E., and Tickell, A. Blackwell: Oxford (2004).
23. Barnes, T. J. “Culture: Economy.” In Spaces of Geographical Thought, eds., P. Cloke and R. Johnston, pp. 61-80 (London: Sage) (2005).
24. Barnes, T. J. “Central places.” In Patterned Ground, eds, S. Harrison, S. Pile, and N. J. Thrift, pp. 179-81 (London: Reaktion books) (2004).
25. Barnes, T. J. “Economic Geography” in The Social Science Encyclopedia, Volume 1, 3rd edn., eds., A. and J. Kuper, pp. 217-19 (New York: Routledge) (2004).
26. Barnes, T. J. “Borderline communities: Canadian single industry towns, resources, and Harold Innis.” For B/ordering SpaceRegions, edited by H. Van Houtum, O. Kramsch, and W. Zierhofer, pp. 109-22 (Aldershot: Ashgate) (2005).
27. Barnes, T. J. “Logical positivism,” “Quantitative revolution,” in Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, ed., B. Warf, pp. 288-89; 394-6 (London: Sage) (2006).
28. Barnes, T. J. “The 90s show: Culture leaves the farm and hits the street,” in Urban Geography in America, 1950-2000. Paradigms and Personalities, eds., B. J. L. Berry and J. D. Wheeler, pp. 311-26 (New York: London) (2005). Reprinted from Urban Geography, 24, 479-492 (2003).
30. Barnes, T. J. “Lost in translation. Wirtschaftsgeographie als “trading zone.” In Denkanstöße zu einer anderen Geographie der Ökonomie, edited by C. Berndt and J. Glückler, pp. 23-44 (transcript Verlag: Bielefeld) (2006)
31. Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., Sheppard, E., and Tickell, A. “Methods matter: transformations in economic geography.” In Politics and Practices in Economic Geography, edited by A. Tickell, E. Sheppard, J. Peck, and T. Barnes, pp. 1-24. (Sage: London) (2007).
32. Aylett, A, Barnes T. J. 2009. Language and Research. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 6, pp. 153-158. Oxford: Elsevier.
33. Barnes T. J. 2009. Economic Geography. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 3, pp. 315-327. Oxford: Elsevier.
34. Barnes T. J. 2009. Quantitative Revolution. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 9, pp. 33-38. Oxford: Elsevier.
35. Barnes, T. J. 2009. Forty entries for The Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition, editors, D. Gregory, R. Johnston, G. Pratt, M. Watts, S. Whatmore. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2009. “Commercial geography” pp. 98-99; “Counterfactuals” p. 119; “Critical rationalism” pp.124-5 ; “Economic geography” pp.178-81; “Empiricism” pp.190-91; “Exceptionalism” pp.226-7; “Explanation” pp. 229-30; “Falsification” pp.238-9; “Functionalism” pp.265-6; “Genius Loci” p. 272; “Hermeneutics” pp.328-9; “Hypothesis” p. 362; “Industrial geography” pp. 376-8; “Law” p. 415; “Local knowledge” pp. 422-23; “Location theory” pp.426-8; “Locational analysis” pp. 428-9; “Logical empiricism” pp. 429-30; “Logical positivism” pp.430-31; “Metaphor” p. 456; “Methodological individualism” p. 457; “Neoclassical economics” pp. 495-6; “Neo-Ricardian economics” p. 498; “New economic geography” pp. 499-500; “Normative theory” pp. 505-6; “Paradigm” pp. 518-19; “Positivism” pp.557-59; “Pragmatism” pp. 577-79; “Quantitative revolution” pp. 611-12; “Rational choice theory” pp. 620-21; “Reductionism” pp. 626-7; “Regional science” pp. 638-9; “Rent” pp. 644-5; “Situated knowledge” pp. 683-5; “Social construction” pp. 690-91; “Social physics” p. 696; “Staples theory” pp. 721-22; “Teleology” pp. 742-3; “Universalism” p. 782; “Utilitarianism” pp. 794-5.
36. Barnes, T. J. and Walenta, J. “Economic geography.” Encyclopaedia of Geography, ed., B. Warf Volume 2, pp. 848-53 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, ) http://www.sage-ereference.com/geography/Article_n326.html (2010).
37. Barnes, T. “The quantitative revolution and economic geography.” The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography, editors, A. Leyshon, R. Lee, L. McDowell, and P. Sunley. London: Sage, pp. 39-52 (2011).
38. Barnes, T. J. “Spatial analysis.” The Sage Handbook of Geographical Knowledge edited by John Agnew and David Livingstone, London: Sage, pp. 380-391 (2011).
39. Barnes, T. J., Hutton, T., Ley, D., and Moos, M. “Vancouver.” Canadian Urban Regions: Trajectories of Growth and Change, eds., Bourne, L., Hutton, T., Shearmur, R., and Simmons, J. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 291-327 (2011).
40. Barnes, T. J. “From region to space” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography, eds., J. A. Agnew and J. S. Duncan, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 146-60 (2011)
44. Peck, J., Barnes, T. J., Thrift, N. J. “The travels of Environment and Planning A,” Envrionment and Planning A, Volume A: Cities and Regions, eds., T. J. Barnes, J. Peck, and N. Thrift, pp. xxv-xliii. London: Sage (2012).
45. Elden, S., Thrift, N., Barnes, T. J., Peck, J., Batty, M., Longley, P. A., and Bennett, R. J. “Introduction: Foundations,” Environment and Planning, Volume E: Foundations, eds., S. Elden, N. Thrift, T. J. Barnes, J. Peck, M. Batty, P. A. Longley, R. J. Bennett, pp. vii-xv. London: Sage (2012).
46. Barnes, T. J. Gunnar Olsson and me. G O: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson, eds., C. Abrahamson and M. Gren. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 245-58 (2012).
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47. Sheppard, E. S, Barnes, T. J. and Peck, J. “The long decade: economic geography, unbound” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography, eds., T. J. Barnes, J. Peck, and E Sehppard, pp. 1-24. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell (2012).
55. Hutton, T. and Barnes, T. J. “Vancouver and the economy of culture and innovation” for Growing Urban Economies, eds., David Wolfe and Meric Gertler, Toronto: University of Toronto Press (27 ms. Pages) (forthcoming).
Book Reviews
Review of Geographie Economique et Sociale 16. Geographie des Èchanges Internationaux (in French) by A. Garcia in Environment and Planning A, 16, 1527-1528 (1984).
Review of The Future of Geography by R.J. Johnston (ed.) in the Annals, Association of American Geographers, 77, 126-29 (1987).
Review of Advanced Industrial Development by D. Hicks in the Annals of Regional Science, 21, 130-132 (1987).
Review of The Social Production of Urban Space by M. Gottdiener in the Journal of Urban Affairs, 9, 393-96 (1987).
Review of British Columbia: Its People and Resources, ed., C. Forward, in B.C. Studies, 79, 94-96 (1988).
Review of Winter Cities, ed. G. Gappert, and The New Urban America, by C. Abbot, in Environment and Planning A, 21, pp. 134-6 (1989).
Review of Metropolis by A.J. Scott in Environment and Planning A, 21, pp. 1132-3 (1989).
Barnes, T.J., Beauregard, R.A., Dear, M.J. and Thrift, N.J., “Society and Spatial History: Books in 1988,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 7, 481-90 (1989).
Review of America’s New Market Geography: Nation, Region and Metropolis, eds. G. Sternlieb and J.W. Hughes, in Annals, Association of American Geographers, 80, 477-79 (1990).
Barnes, T.J., Beauregard, R., Dear, M.J., Thrift, N.J. “Time and Space, Text and Context: Books in 1989,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 8, 485-94, (1990).
Review of Back to the Future: Modernity, Postmodernity and Locality by Philip Cook in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 9, 250-51 (1991).
Review of The Behavioural Environment: Essays in Reflection, Application and Re-evaluation, eds. F.W. Boal and D.L. Livingstone, in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 9, 489-90 (1991).
Review of The Canadian City, ed., K. Gerecke, in Environment and Planning A, 23, 1692-3 (1991).
Review of From Exploitation to Altruism by I. Steedman, and Wrestling with Time in Economic Theory by M.Currie, and I. Steedman, in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10, 738-9 (1992).
Review of The New Era of Global Competition, eds. D. Drache and M. Gertler, in The Canadian Geographer, 37, 190-1 (1993)
Review of History and Theory After the Fall by F. Weinstein, in Annals, Association of American Geographers, 83, 553-6 (1993)
Review of Postmodern Contentions: Epochs, Politics, Space, eds. J. P. Jones III, W. Natter, and T. R. Schatzki, in Economic Geography, 70, 188-91 (1994)
Review of Continuities and Discontinuities: The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada by Andrew Johnson, Stephen McBride, and Patrick J. Smith in The Canadian Geographer, 39, 94-96 (1995).
Booknote: World Debt Tables: External Finance for Developing Countries by the World Bank, in Environment and Planning A, 27, 513 (1995)
Review of The Rise of the Gunbelt: The Military Remapping of Industrial America by A. Markusen, P. Hall, S. Campbell, and S. Dietrick, in Environment and Planning A, 27, 1678-79 (1995)
Review of place/ culture/ representation, eds. J. Duncan and D. Ley, in Antipode, 27, 305-8 (1995)
Booknote: The urban environment by the British Council, in Environment Planning A, 28, 379 (1996).
Booknote: World Debt Tables: External Finance for Developing Countries (1994-95), by the World Bank, in Environment and Planning A, 28, 2097 (1996)
Booknote: Social Indicators of Development 1995, by the World Bank, in Environment and Planning A, 29, 569-70 (1997)
Review of Development, Geography, and Economic Theory by Paul Krugman in The Canadian Geographer 41, 110-11 (1997)
Review of The End of Capitalism (as we knew it). A Feminist Critique of Political Economy by J. K. Gibson-Graham, in Society and Space: Environment and Planning D, 15, 247-48 (1997)
Booknote: World Development Report, 1994, by the World Bank, in Environment and Planning A
Booknote: World Development Report, 1995, by the World Bank, in Environment and Planning A
Review of The Golden Age Illusion: Rethinking Postwar Capitalism by Michael J. Webber and David L. Rigby, in The Canadian Geographer, 42, 104-5 (1998)
Review of Spatial Formations by Nigel J. Thrift, in Progress in Human Geography, 28, 324-5 (1998)
Review of The Cultural Crisis of the Firm by Erica Schoenberger, in Economic Geography, 74, 306-7 (1998).
Review of Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local edited by Kevin Cox, in Annals, Association of American Geographers, 88, 331-33 (1998).
Booknote: World Bank Atlas 1997, and Global Development Finance 1997, volumes 1 and 2 by the World Bank, in Environment and Planning A, 30, 1140 (1998).
Review of Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity edited by Georges Benko and Ulf Strohmayer, in Ecumene (1999)
Review of Achieving our country: Leftist thought in twentieth century America by Richard Rorty, in Antipode, 31, 117-20 (1999).
Review of Justice, nature & the geography of difference by David Harvey, in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 17, 247-9 (1999).
Capital Culture: a review essay. Trevor Barnes, Graham Horner, Andrew Murphy, Xiaomin Pang, Richard Powell, Geoff Rempel, Katherine Richardson, Alex Vasudevan, and Jamie Winders. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 18, 275-8 (2000).
Review of Becoming a Geographer by Peter Gould, in Economic Geography, 77, 82-4 (2001).
Review of The Politics of Large Numbers by Alain Descrosière in Environment and Planning A 32, 2081-2 (2000).
Review of Postmodern Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science by Marcus Doel, in The Scottish Geographical Journal 116, 163-66 (2001).
Review of Placing Autobiography in Geography edited by Pam Moss in The Canadian Geographer 46, 369-70 (2002).
Review of Geographical Voices edited by P. Gould and F. Pitts in The Canadian Geographer 47, 509-10 (2003).
Review of The History of Regional Science and the Regional Science Association Internation: The Beginnings and Early History by Walter Isard in the Journal of Economic Geography 4, 222-23 (2004).
Review of Rules of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity by Timothy Mitchell in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22, 315-16 (2004).
Review of A Century of British Geography edited by Ron Johnston and Michael Williams in The Journal of Historical Geography 30, 589-90 (2004).
Review of Building Community in an Instant Town: A Social Geography of Mackenzie and Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia by Greg Halseth and Lana Sullivan in BC Studies, 144, 128-9 (2004).
Review of The Blackwell Reader in Cultural Economy edited by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift in Economic Geography 81, 113-14 (2005).
Review of Remaking the Global Economy edited by Jamie Peck and Henry Wai-cheung Yeung in Annals, Association of American Geographers 95, 705-07 (2005).
Review of Economic Geographies by Ray Hudson in Growth and Change 38, 338-40 (2007).
Review of Economic Geography: Past, Present and Future edited by Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Helen Lawton Smith in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97, 804-6 (2007).
Review of Geographies of the New Economy edited by P. Daniels, A. Leyshon, J. Beaverstock, and M. Bradshaw in Growth and Change 39, 369-70 (2008).
Review of Invested Interests: Capital, Culture and the World Bank by Bret Benjamin in City 13, 156-8 (2009).
Review of Geographies of Globalization by Andrew Herod in Growth and Change 41, 136-8 (2010)
Review of Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction by Thomas O. Beebee in Comparative Literature Studies 48, 252-4 (2011).
Review of Geographers Biogeographical Studies, 28, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charlie Withers in The Journal of Historical Geography 36, 492-3 (2010).
Review of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter in Economic Geography 86, 461-3 (2010).
Review of The Contours of America’s Cold War by Matthew Farish in The Canadian Geographer 58 (1) e3-e4 (2014).
Review of Why Canadian Forestry and Mining Towns are Organized Differently: The Role of Staples in Shaping Community, Class, and Consciousness by Louise Dignard in The Canadian Geographer 58 (3) e45-e46 (2014).
Review of Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis edited by Bent Flyvberg, Todd Landmann, and Sandford Schram in Progess in Human Geography 38, 174-75.
Review of The View from Above: The Science of Social Space by Jeanne Haffner, in Isis 101 (1), 197-8 (2014)..
Review of Making Human Geography by Kevin Cox in The AAG Review of Books 3 (1), 1-3 (2015).
Review of Globalization in Practice eds, N. Thrift, A. Tickell, and S. Woolgar with W. Rupp in Cultural Geographies (2 ms. Pages).
Review of Covert Capital by Andrew Friedman in The AAG Review of Books (5 ms. pages)
Non-refereed publications
“Central Place Theory after Sraffa” in the Union of Socialist Geographers Newsletter, pp. 40-43, Vol. 5:1 (1979).
The Geography of Production in Minnesota, with James Fitzsimmons, a report of the Minnesota Business Partnership (1981).
Hayter, R., Barnes, T. J., and Grass, E. “Single industry towns and local development: Three coastal British Columbian forest product communities.” Lakehead University, Centre for Northern Studies Research Report # 34, Thunderbay Ontario (19 pages including tables) (1993).
Hayter, R. and Barnes, T. J. 1995 “The restructuring of forest communities: flexibility perspectives” in Canadian Forest Products Industry Focus Report, pp. 34-46. Social Investment Organization Industry Report, Toronto, Ontario.
Glasmeier, R. Leichenko, K. Fuelhart, J. Bodenman, J. Langer, C. Pavlik, T. Barnes 1998 Global and local challenges to theory, practice and teaching in economic geography. Final report of the 1997 NSF workshop on the future of economic geography (28 pp.).
Barnes, T. J. 1999 “Economic geography or economic geographies?” in the Final Report of the 1997 NSF Workshop on the Future of Economic Geography, pp. 28-31. The Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation, The Pennsylvania State University.
The Humboldt lecture: Location, location, location: From the old locational school to Paul Krugman’s “new economic geography.” University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands http://www.kun.nl/socgeo/n/colloquium/index.html
Plenary presentations and named lectures
“Sraffan value theory and urban modelling” – Opening plenary session of the European Congress of the Regional Science Association, St John’s College, Cambridge, England, August, 1989.
“Envisioning economic geography: memories, models and maps” — Plenary presentation at the Economic Geography Specialty Group, “The state of economic geography”. Annual meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March, 1998.
“Performing economic geography: actors, props, scripts, ensembles and scenes” – Closing plenary presentation at the Global Conference of Economic Geography, Singapore, December 5-9, 2000.
“Location, location, location: From the old locational school to Paul Krugman’s ‘new economic geography’” – The Humboldt Lecture, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. April 2001.
“Retheorizing economic geography: from the logics of location to the logics of dislocation” – Plenary address, the NETHUR workshop, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, April 24th, 2001.
“Community and economy: From Fordism to Post-Fordism in post-war BC” – Opening plenary presentation, UBC, UBC/North Island Community Learning and Innovation Project Workshop, October 24th-25th, 2002.
“What’s wrong with regional science?” – Opening plenary, Canadian Regional Science Association, Victoria, BC, May 30th, 2003
“Placing ideas: Genius loci, heterotopia, and geography’s quantitative revolution” –The Progress in Human Geography annual lecture, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 15-19, 2004.
“Regional warfare: the idea of the region in American geographical thought, the OSS, and the Cold War.” Opening plenary presentation, Inaugural Conference of Nordic Geographers, Lund, Sweden, May 11-13, 2005.
“Geography’s Underworld: The military-industrial complex, modelling and the quantitative revolution” – Inaugural plenary presentation, Geoforum Lecture, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2007.
“Fred Lukermann’s Brown Day” – Brown Day lecture, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, MN, April 23rd, 2010.
“Notes from the underground: why the history of economic geography matters: the case of central place theory” – The Roepke lecture in Economic Geography, annual meeting Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April 12-16, 2011.
“Newton mangled on a Bissett home-made electrical computer: the Cold War, social physics, and macrogeography in mid-twentieth century America” – The Ellen Churchill Semple Lecture, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April, 27, 2012.
“Monster in a box: unpacking histories of economic geography” – The Jena Lecture in Human Geography, Freidrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, June 24th, 2013. The lecture was one part of the Jena Lecture Series in Human Geography which included the plenary lecture and two seminar presentations.
“Geography’s Pied Beauty” – Opening plenary lecture, Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers, Oulu, Finland, October 29-30, 2014.
Conference and other invited presentations
“Regional Trade Theory” – presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April, 1980, Louisville, Kentucky.
“Personality and Place” – presented with Michael Curry at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April, 1981, Los Angeles, California.
“Reswitching and Technical Choice in Space” – presented with Eric Sheppard at the conference, Structural Economic Planning in Space and Time, July, 1981, Umea, Sweden.
“Marx’s Rent Theory After Sraffa” – presented at the 28th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, November, 1981, Montreal, Quebec.
“Towards a Sraffan Theory of Rent” – presented at the Annual Conference of the Institute of British Geographers, January, 1982, Southampton, England.
“Theoretical Economic Geography and a Theory of Culture” – presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April, 1982, San Antonio, Texas.
“A Sraffan Theory of Regional Trade” – presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April, 1983, Denver, Colorado.
“A Profit Maximising Location Principle in Spatial Equilibrium” – presented with Eric Sheppard at the 30th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, November, 1983, Chicago, Illinois.
“Economic Rationality and Economic Geography” – presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April, 1984, Washington, D.C.
“Theories of Structure and Agency and Theories of Economic Value in Economic Geography” – presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, May, 1984, Nanaimo, B.C.
“Towards a Sraffan Theory of the Urban Economy” – presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, May 27-31, 1985, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.
“Time and Narrative in Economic Geography” – presented with Michael Curry at the 82nd Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, May 1986, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Homo Economicus and Economic Geography: Criticisms, Counter-Criticisms and More Criticisms” – presented at the 33rd annual meetings of the Regional Science Association, Columbus, Ohio, November, 1986.
“Theoretical Landscapes as Text” – presented at the 83rd annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April, 1987, Portland, Oregon.
“Metaphor, Post-modernism, and economic geography” – presented with M. Curry at the 84th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 1988, Phoenix, Arizona.
“Restructuring and Recession in British Columbia” – presented with R. Hayter at the annual conference of Canadian Association of Geographers, May, 1988, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
“Rationality and Relativism: An Interpretive Review of the Homo Economicus Assumption” — invited Department of Geography colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, and Syracuse University, NY, November, 1988.
“Restructuring in a Resource Economy: A British Columbia Case Study” – presented at the 35th annual meeting of the Regional Science Association, Toronto, Ontario, November, 1988.
“Analytical Political Economy: A Geographical Introduction” – presented at the 85th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, Maryland, March, 1989.
“Reading the Texts of Economic Geography,” – invited Departmental Seminars at Royal Holloway and New Bedford College, University College, London, Loughborough University, Sheffield University, and Bristol University, academic year 1989-90.
“Recession and Labour Markets: Employment Change in the Manufacturing, Wholesale and Producer Service Sectors of British Columbia 1981-1986” – presented with R. Hayter at The Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, May, 1990, Edmonton, Alberta; at the annual meetings of the Institute of British Geographers, Sheffield, England, January, 1991.
“Mucking with metaphor: A Rortyan view” – presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, Florida, April, 1991.
“The geography of rational choice and collective action” – presented with E. Sheppard at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, Florida, April, 1991.
“Labour market segmentation, flexibility, and recession in British Columbia” – presented with R. Hayter at the annual meetings of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1991.
“Recession and labour markets in British Columbia” – presented with R. Hayter at the Pacific Regional Science Conference, Cairns, Australia, July, 1991.
“‘The little town that did.’ Flexible production and community response in Chemainus, BC” – Department of Geography colloquium, UBC, Vancouver, January, 1992; presented with R. Hayter at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, CA, April, 1992
“Lukerman on location” – invited paper presented at a symposium to honour the retirement of Professor Fred Lukermann, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May, 1992
“Employment flexibility without trade diversification” – presented with R. Hayter at the annual meeting of the Association of Canadian Geographers, Vancouver, BC, May, 1992.
“Single industry towns and local economic development: Three coastal BC Forest Product Communities” – presented with R. Hayter at the annual meeting of the Pacific Regional Science Conference. Whistler, BC, July, 1993
“Remapping social theory: Law and the geographical imagination” — invited paper presented with N. Blomley in the Law and Society Seminar Series, Green College, UBC, March, 1994
“Righting a narrative, writing a counternarrative” — presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, March, 1994
“Harold Innis: Local Hero” — paper presented at the conference Regions, institutions, and technology: Reorganizing economic geography in Canada and the Anglo-American world, Toronto, September, 1994
“Richard Rorty and the Social Construction of Truth” –invited presentation at Regent College, Vancouver, January, 1995
“The restructuring of forest communities: Flexibility approaches” — presented with R. Hayter at the conference Trouble in the Rainforest, Vancouver, February, 1995
“Righting a narrative, writing a counternarrative: the quantitative revolution revisited” — invited presentation at the University of Washington, Seattle, May, 1995.
“A history of regression: actors, networks, numbers and machines” — invited guest of the IBG/RGS at the annual conference of the Institute of British Geographers, Glasgow, Scotland, January, 1996; invited University Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, May, 1996; invited presentation, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, October, 1997.
“Richard Rorty and the Social Construction of Truth” — UBC, February, 1996
“Subject and identity in Vancouver’s segmented labour market” presented with Geraldine Pratt at the annual meeting Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, April, 1996
“A new regional political economy” – invited roundtable discussion, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, May 1996
“Logics of dislocation” — invited presentation and roundtable discussion, University of Bristol, Bristol, June, 1996
“The ninety percent solution” — IICCG conference, UBC, Vancouver, BC, August 1997.
Discussant for the session “Critical geographies of the Pacific North West” — IICCG conference, UBC, Vancouver, BC, August 1997.
“Envisioning economic geography: Three men and their figures” — presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, St. John’s, Newfoundland, August, 1997.
“Economic Geography or economic geographies” — invited presentation at the NSF workshop on The Future of Economic Geography, Washington DC, September, 1997.
“Logics of dislocation” — invited presentation and roundtable discussion, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL, November, 1997
“Reading human geography’s post” — invited presentation and discussion, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, November, 1997
“Harold Innis: Theorist on the Margin” — invited presentation, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, November, 1997
“Three men and their figures” — “Space and Time at the End of the Millennium,” Athens, GA, April, 1999.
“The global and the local” — invited presentation at the NSF/Ford Foundation workshop on The global and local, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 1999.
“Retheorizing economic geography: from the logics of location to the logics of dislocation” – invited presentation at the Department of Geography, UCL, London, UK, November, 1999; invited presentation at the Department of Economics, UC Riverside, CA, January, 2000.
“Marginal life, marginal theory: Port Alberni, staples theory and Innis” – invited presentation at “Mapping the political economy of contemporary Canada,” Canada House, London, UK, November, 1999.
“Geography by numbers: Portrait of a revolution” – paper at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, April 4-8, 2000
“Economic geography and globalization: Déja vu all over again” – panel presentation at a session on “Globalization,” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, April 4-8, 2000
“Noah and the woodworm” – discussant’s comments on “The three revolutions in geography” by E. Taaffe and H. Gauthier, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, April 4-8, 2000
“Remarks from a chronicler” – invited comments at the 50th anniversary of William Garrison’s appointment at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 15-16, 2000
“Performing economic geography: actors, props, scripts, ensembles and scenes” —
invited presentation Department of Geography colloquium, UBC, January 17, 2001; invited seminar School of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, May 9th, 2001
“Location, location, location: From the old locational school to Paul Krugman’s “new economic geography”- the Humboldt lecture, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, April 4th, 2001
“The background book of my academic life” in David Harvey’s The Limits to Capital: Two decades later – Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-23, 2002.
“Editors meet the public: The Companion to Economic Geography” – Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-23, 2002.
“’Born in an auspices time’: Regional science and the American Empire” – paper presentation Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-23, 2002; invited presentation to the Second International Symposium on Knowledge and Space, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2nd-5th, 2002; invited presentation, School of Geography, Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland, April 30th, 2003.
“Empires of science” – panel discussion Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-23, 2002.
“Actor-Network Theory: Appraisal and Critiques” – discussant,Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-23, 2002.
“The place of locational analysis: a selective and interpretive history” – invited presentation, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 4th, 2002.
“The 90s show: culture leaves the farm and hits the street” – paper presentation, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 5-9, 2003
“A paper related to everything but more related to local things” – paper presentation, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 5-9, 2003
“Relocating Resource Peripheries to the Core of Economic Geography’s Theorizing” – paper presentation with R. Hayter and M. Bradshaw, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 5-9, 2003
“Resource Town Restructuring, Youth and Changing Labour Market Expectations: The Case of Grade 12 students in Powell River, BC” – invited presentation, Centre for Canadian Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland, April 29th, 2003
“Harold Innis: Local Hero” – invited presentation, School of Geography, Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland, May 1, 2003.
“The place of the quantitative revolution in human geography” – brown bag lunch talk, Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland, May 6th, 2003
“Teaching economic geography” and “Retheorising theory in economic geography” – two invited panel discussions, Summer Institute for Economic Geography, Madison, WI, July 8th, 2003
“Science envy in the social sciences” – panel discussion, Science Envy Workshop, UBC, October 16th, 2003, with Dennis Danielson, Sandra Harding and Paul McAuley
“90% science and half social: the twisted history of the social sciences and science envy” – invited presentation as one of four lead speakers in the Science Envy Workshop, UBC, October 18th, 2003
”The rise and fall of American regional science” – invited presentation at the Department of Geography, University of Durham, Durham, England, November 12th, 2003
“Between the rock of economy and the hard place of culture: toward a hybrid economic geography” – invited presentation to the Durham Undegraduate Geographical Society, University of Durham, Durham, England, November 14th, 2003; invited presentation to the Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, March 29th, 2004; invited presentation at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, October, 19th, 2004.
“Placing ideas: Genius loci, heterotopia, and geography’s quantitative revolution” – invited graduate seminar Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, March 30th, 2004.
“What is economic geography?” – Panel discussion and presentation, Summer Institute of Economic Geography, Department of Geography, Bristol Univesity, Bristol, July 12th, 2004.
“The monster in a box” – Plenary presentation, Summer Institute of Economic Geography, Department of Geography, Bristol Univesity, Bristol, July 13th, 2004.
“Regional warfare: the idea of the region in American geographical thought, the OSS, and the Cold War” – invited Department of Geography seminar, National University of Singapore, Singapore, November 5th, 2004; invited Department of Geography Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, January 21st 2005; invited School of Geography seminar, Nottingham University, March 15th, 2005; invited School of Geography and Environmental Sciences seminar, Birmingham University, March 16th, 2005
“Culture:Economy” – invited lecture, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham University, March 17th, 2005.
“Teaching economic geography” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-10, 2005.
“Resource geography after the cultural turn” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.
Discussant’s comments on the session “Epistemic spaces” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.
“Lost in translation: toward economic geography as boundary object” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.
“American pragmatism and American geography” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.
“The place of location theory” – invited presentation to the Nordic Seminar in Economic Geography, Lund, Sweden, May 11, 2005.
“Say yes but not yes to progress: Comments on David Livingstone’s 2005 Progress in Human Geography lecture” — annual meeting of the Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, August 31-September 2, 2005.
“Model geographies: the US military-industrial-academic complex takes over the world, 1940-1960” — annual meeting of the Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, August 30-September 1, 2005; invited presentation Department of Geography seminar, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 15, 2006; invited presentation Department of Geography colloquium, UBC, March 1, 2006; invited presentation History and Philosophy of Science/Science and Technology Studies seminar, UBC, July 14th, 2006; invited presentation, Department of Geography, University of Buffalo, September 29th, 2006; annual conference of the Society of Social Studies of Science (“4-S”), November 2-5, Vancouver, BC.
“Vancouver as an innovation centre” – invited presentation with Tom Hutton, 8th annual meeting of the Innovation Systems Research Network, Toronto, ON, May 4-5. 2006.
“The space-place distinction after Derrida” – paper presented with Joel Wainwright at: the annual meeting of the Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, August 30-September 1, 2006; and the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2007.
“Border crossings, translations, and trading zones: making good on the promise of a pluralist economic geography” – paper presented with Eric Sheppard at the annual meeting of the Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, August 30-September 1, 2006.
“The state of geography: the development of Canadian geography” – invited presentation, Department of Geography, University of Buffalo, September 29th, 2006.
“Cold War geographies” – invited presentation, Department of Geography, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, March 14th, 2007.
“Critical quantitative geographies: Beyond the critical/analytical binarism” – panel discussion annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2007
“Global economic practices” – panel discussion, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2007
“Talent and creativity” – International Systems Reseach Network (ISRN) annual conference, Vancouver, BC, May 2-5, 2007
“The importance of “trailing ands”: Economic geography as engaged pluralism” with Eric Sheppard – Second Global Conference in Economic Geography, Beijing, China, June 25-28, 2007
“Neo-liberalization and its limits: Comparative reflections from three first world forest peripheries” with Roger Hayter – Second Global Conference in Economic Geography, Beijing, China, June 25-28, 2007
“Reflexivity economic geographies and China studies: a dialogue” – Second Global Conference in Economic Geography, Beijing, China, June 25-28, 2007
“Making space for markets: live performances, dead objects, and economic geography” invited presentation to the Institut für Humangeographie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet,
Frankfurt-Main, Germany, October 25th, 2007
“Situating the new economy in Vancouver’s inner city” with Tom Hutton — International Systems Reseach Network (ISRN) annual conference, Montreal, QC, April 30- May 3, 2008
Discussant for the session “Political Economy of the Urban Scale” (papers by Neil Bradford, Roger Picton, and David Wolfe) – Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Political Science), Vancouver, BC, June 2nd-6th, 2008.
“The historic Eric Sheppard” – invited presentation Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Coffee Hour, Minneapolis, MN, September 12th, 2008.
“Performing the spaces of markets” – invited workshop presentation for “Performing Markets” organized by Christian Berndt, Peter Linder, and Marc Rothberg, Schloss Hirschberg, Bavaria, Germany, October 16-18th, 2008.
“The new game in town: performing the video game industry in Vancouver’s inner city” with Tyler Pearce – invited presentation to Nexon, Vancouver, November 21st, 2008.
“The new media and the new Vancouver: case studies of the video game and the film and TV industries” with Neil Coe and Tom Hutton – invited presentation for the Media Cluster workshop organized by Robert Picard, Stockholm, Sweden, February 18th-20th, 2009.
“Two men of war and their big idea: Walter Christaller, Edward Ullman and central place theory” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 20th-26th, 2009; invited presentation to the 7th Interdisciplinary Syposium on Knowledge and Space, “Knowledge and Power,” Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, Germany, June 17th-20th, 2009; invited presentation to Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Faculty Associates Forum Series, UBC, Vancouver, October 28th, 2009.
“Playing for money: video game production and design in Vancouver” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 20th-26th, 2009.
“The square routes of markets” – community forum, “The public square and the economy” organized by the Vancouver Public Space Network, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House, Vancouver, April 8th, 2009.
“Vancouver as media cluster: the cases of video games and film/TV” with Neil Coe –the Media Cluster workshop organized by Robert Picard, London, UK, October 23-24, 2009.
“Vancouver: Innovation, creativity and governance” with Tom Hutton, Adam Holbrook, and Richard Smith – ISRN Intergration Planning Workshop, Toronto, ON, November 5th-6th November, 2009.
“Making fun and games: the new economy, inner city space, and Vancouver” with Tom Hutton –
invited Interdisciplinary Seminar, Green College, UBC, January 13, 2010; invited presentation to the Pacific Northwest Economic Conference, Vancouver, January 30, 2010.
“Jim Duncan’s UBC” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 13-18th, 2010.
“Newton on a Bissett home-made, electrical computer: mangling, social physics, and macrogeography in mid-twentieth century America” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 13-18th, 2010; Science and Society seminar, Green College, UBC, January 12th, 2012 (invited); Department of Geography, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, May 9th, 2012 (invited); at the conference “Dark Matters: Contents and Discontents of Cold War Science,” Barcelona, Spain, May 31-June 2, 2013 (invited).
“The first Fred seminar” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 13-18th, 2010.
“A tale of three cities: innovation, creativity and governance in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver” with Tom Hutton, Dianne-Garbriel Tremblay, and David Wolfe – ISRN 12th annual conference, Toronto, ON, May 5-7, 2010.
“Screen based industries in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal” with Neil Coe, Charles Davis, and Dianne-Garbriel Tremblay – ISRN 12th annual conference, Toronto, ON, May 5-7, 2010.
“Playing games in Vancouver: A profile of the $1.5b video game industry” with Tom Hutton – invited paper, the WD Seminar Cross Canada Video Conference, Ministry of Western Economic Diversity, Vancouver, BC, June 11th 2010.
“The imprecise wanderings of a precise idea: the travels of spatial analysis” with Christian Abrahamson – invited presentation, 10th Interdisciplinary symposium on knowledge and space, Spatial mobility of knowledge, Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, Germany, September 15-18, 2010 (invited).
“Vancouver’s new economy” with Tom Hutton – invited presentation, Department of Geography, UBC, colloquium on “Departmental research on urban geography,” Vancouver, BC, September 21st, 2010
“German geographers during the Nazi period” — annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April 12-16, 2011.
“Religion and the economy” – roundtable discussion, Regent’s College, UBC, with Alan Waterman, Margaret Schabas, Murkesh Eswaran, and Bill Reimer, July 8, 2011 (invited).
“He speaks loudly and keeps going: Comments on Philip Mirowski’s Science.Mart ” – annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4-S), Cleveland, OH, November 2-5, 2011.
“Ellen Semple and me” – after dinner talk, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April, 27, 2012 (invited).
“Desk killer:” Walter Christaller, central place theory, and the Nazi’s “Generalplan Ost” – Department of Geography, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, May 8th, 2012 (invited).
“Doing fieldwork” – speech at the book launch of Fieldwork for human geography by Richard Phillips and Jennifer Johns, RGS-IBG annual meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 3rd, 2012 (invited).
“No comedy, only tragedy: The Haushofers, father and son, and the spaces of Nazi geopolitics” – with Christian Abrahamson in a special session, Continental European geographers and World War II, co-organized by Trevor Barnes and Dan Clayton, RGS-IBG annual meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 4th, 2012; plus Department of Geography, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, September 28th, 2013; Queen Mary University of London, 11th March, 2014; University College London, 17th March, 2014; University of Nottingham, 20th March, 2014 (all invited)
“Monster in a box” – Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, December 5th, 2012 (invited).
“Spaces of innovation, restructuring and knowledge transfer in the metropolis: a comparison of Seattle and Vancouver” — with Tom Hutton in a special session, “Knowledge transfer within the creative economy,” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13th, 2013.
“Histories of radical geography: an introduction” – for a special session on “Histories of radical geography,” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13th, 2013.
“Big data, little history” – for a special session on “Big Data,” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13th, 2013.
“Cordon bleu filling” – author meets critics, a review of Verena Conley’s Spatial Ecologies, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13th, 2013.
“Methods matter” — seminar presentation as part of the Jena Lecture Series in Human Geography, Freidrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, June 25th, 2013 (invited)
Commentator on six graduate student presentations, Institute of Geography, Freidrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, June 25th, 2013.
“Creative industries” — seminar presentation as part of the Jena Lecture Series in Human Geography, Freidrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, June 26th, 2013 (invited)
“The Cold War, Social Science and Geography” – “Cold War geographies” organized by Richard Phillips, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, 10th March, 2014 (invited)
“The Future of Economic Geography” – School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, March 15th, 2014 (invited)
“Geohistoriographies” – School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, March 18th, 2014 (invited)
“American geography and the Second World War” – in the session “Militarization and geography I,” annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 8-12, 2014.
“Author meets criticis: Joel Wainwright’s Geopiracy” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 8-12, 2014.
“Gwendolyn Warren, Bill Bunge, and the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 8-12, 2014.
Various contributions to the workshop “Critical GIS Revisited,” University of Washington Labs, Friday Harbor, WA, October, 18-19, 2014.
“Where I became me,” Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers, Oulu, Finland, October 29-30, 2014 (invited)
“Tom Burrows’ context” Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, January 29, 2015
“Chair’s remarks,” in the session “Business strategies” at the conference “Press start: culture, industry and innovation in Japanese gaming,” UBC, Vancouver, February 27-28, 2015.
“War by numbers: another quantitative revolution” – annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, April 19-25, 2015.
“Tangled complicities and moral struggles: the Haushofers and the spaces of Nazi geopolitics” with Christian Abrahamson — annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, April 19-25, 2015.
“Industrial urbanism and spatial ecology in the making of the new inner city: a comparison of Seattle and Vancouver” with Tom Hutton — annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, April 19-25, 2015.
“The Lab and Geography,” at the conference, The Lab for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis (1965-1991) and its legacy, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, April 30th – May 1st, 2015 (invited).
“A morality tale of two location theorists in Hitler’s Germany: Walter Christaller and August Lösch,” 5th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space, Leibnitz Institut für Regionalentwicklung Strukturplanung, Erkner, Berlin, Germany, May 6th, 2015 (invited)
“A marginal man and his central contributions: the creative geographies of William (“Wild Bill”) Bunge,” at the conference Creativity in arts and sciences: collective spaces from a spatial perspective, interdisciplinary conference, Erkner, Berlin, Germany, May 7-8, 2015 (invited).