Relational and dialectical spaces of knowing: Knowledge, practice, and work in economic geography

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1098-1117

  Vallance, Paul ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79958802318     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a43186     Document Type: Article

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