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Economics and Human Geography (2009)
Book Chapter
Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2009). Economics and Human Geography. In R. Kitchin, & N. Thrift (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (332-337). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00279-0

© 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. At first glance, economics and human geography seem to have much in common. However, the relationship between the two disciplines has been dynamic and contested over recent years as epistemologies and ontolog... Read More about Economics and Human Geography.

Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939) (2009)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (in press). Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939). Social History, 34(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/03071020903257018

This article explores the social and governmental geographies of colonial Delhi, India. It seeks contrasts and comparisons between two periods in the city's history. The first period is delimited by the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 and the transfer of the capita... Read More about Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939).

Organisational geographies of power: Introduction to special issue (2009)
Journal Article
Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2009). Organisational geographies of power: Introduction to special issue. Geoforum, 40(5), 785-789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.09.003

This paper introduces the special issue 'organisational geographies of power' by examining the theoretical and empirical context for debates. It does this, firstly, with reference to existing theoretical work on what power is and does as well as work... Read More about Organisational geographies of power: Introduction to special issue.

'City of London, City of Learning'? Placing business education within the geographies of finance (2009)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2009). 'City of London, City of Learning'? Placing business education within the geographies of finance. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(5), 597-617. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp026

The role of highly skilled financiers in shaping the spatialities of financial systems has been widely studied by social scientists. However, comparatively less attention has been paid to the growing use of business education to (re)produce 'highly s... Read More about 'City of London, City of Learning'? Placing business education within the geographies of finance.

An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing (2009)
Journal Article
Carbonneau, P. E., Dugdale, S. J., & Clough, S. (2011). An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing. River Research and Applications, 26(5), 650-658. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.1263

In recent years, remotely sensed image datasets with ground resolutions below 10 cm have seen widening applications in fluvial sciences with the development of methods for image based measurements of bathymetry, grain sizes and habitat types. However... Read More about An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing.

Exploring cultural economies of internationalization: the role of 'iconic individuals' and 'brand leaders' in the globalization of headhunting (2009)
Journal Article
Hall, S., Beaverstock, J. V., Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hewitson, A. (2009). Exploring cultural economies of internationalization: the role of 'iconic individuals' and 'brand leaders' in the globalization of headhunting. Global Networks, 9(3), 399-419. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2009.00260.x

Understanding the internationalization of professional services like advertising, architecture, accounting, consulting and legal services continues to attract considerable attention in academic and policy circles. Research in geography and management... Read More about Exploring cultural economies of internationalization: the role of 'iconic individuals' and 'brand leaders' in the globalization of headhunting.

The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets (2009)
Journal Article
Faulconbridge, J. R., Beaverstock, J. V., Hall, S., & Hewitson, A. (2009). The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets. Geoforum, 40(5), 800-808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.02.001

Recent years have been characterised by the increasing encroachment into policy and academic debates of discourses describing knowledge and weightless economies and an associated 'war for talent'. In this paper we argue that these current discourses... Read More about The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets.

Ecologies of business education and the geographies of knowledge (2009)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2009). Ecologies of business education and the geographies of knowledge. Progress in Human Geography, 33(5), 599-618. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132509103154

The identification in political and corporate circles of business education as a means of (re)producing highly skilled economic elites has been reflected by growing academic interest in the sector. However, this research predominately studies busines... Read More about Ecologies of business education and the geographies of knowledge.

Women, enclosure and estate improvement in eighteenth-century Northamptonshire (2009)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B. (2009). Women, enclosure and estate improvement in eighteenth-century Northamptonshire. Rural History, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793309990021

This paper examines the role of elite women in estate management, enclosure and landscape improvement in eighteenth-century England, a topic which has to date received little in the way of sustained academic consideration. The paper focuses on four w... Read More about Women, enclosure and estate improvement in eighteenth-century Northamptonshire.

Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India (2009)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2009). Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00338.x

Whilst greatly valuing recent critiques of the vertical imaginary and reified ontology of scale theory, and of the unfettered flows of network theory, this paper argues against a human geography without scale. Rather, four propositions from the theor... Read More about Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India.