John Bryson, Peter Daniels, Nick Henry and Jane Pollard all lecture in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, at the University of Birmingham
1: IntroductionPart I: Knowledge, Space and Economy2: Power/economic
knowledge: symbolic and spatial formations; 3: Materialities, spatialities,
globalities; 4: Knowledge, innovation and location; 5: The state and
contradictions of the knowledge-driven economy; 6: Just in time?: the
prevalence of representational time and space to marketing discourses of
consumer buyer behaviourPart II: Knowledge at Work in Space and Place7:
Creating and sustaining competitiveness: local knowledge and economic
geography; 8: The industrial agglomeration (of Motor Sport Valley): a
knowledge, space, economy approach; 9: Worlds in motion?: 'Worlds of
Production', evolutionary economic change nd contemporary retail banking;
10: Spreading the message: management consultants and the shaping of
economic geographies of time and space; 11: The free and the unfree:
'Emerging Markets', the Heritage Foundation and the 'Index of Economic
Freedom; 12: Visions of space, place, time and life - useful knowledge, the
human form and the new geneticsPart III: Becoming in the (K)now: Spaces of
Identity13: Space, knowledge and cosumption; 14: Virtual culture:
knowledge, identity and choice; 15: Category management and circuits of
knowledge in the UK food business; 16: Being told and answering back:
knowledge, power and the new world of work
