‘Island life’: Basking in isolation

Abstract

This paper offers a different perspective to Jamie Peck's on economic geography’s ‘island life’. It sees economic geography hiding from the storm created by economics’ foray into geography (so-called new economic geography), on an island of self-referential reasoning behind defences of multi-layered social theorising. It is critical of both economic geographies, with each transfixed by its own theoretical eccentricities and neither saying anything substantial about the key economic processes and monumental problems of deep and continuing recession within the global economy. The paper offers a range of issues that need to be addressed.