GGR 221H1S L5101 New Economic Spaces Summer 2013

Instructor: Ben Spigel E-mail: ben.spigel@utoronto.ca Oce hours: Tuesday/ursday 10-12 Sid Smith 5068 or by appointment Class time and location: Tuesday/ursday 2-4 Lash Miller 161 Course Website: Blackboard (portal.utoronto.ca); Tumblr (www.GGR221.tumblr.com)

Class Description & Objectives Economic geography is the study of the interactions between people, their social environment, and the economy. is class provides an overview of major developments in economic geography since 1970. is includes the restructuring of the resource, manufacturing and service sectors in Canada and abroad, as well as the rise of cultural industries and the knowledge-based economy. Crises and changes in the economy are given particular attention, from the crisis of Fordism to the 2008 global nancial crisis. Other topics covered include innovation, regional economic development and clustering, economic geographies of gender, and processes of globalization. By the end of this class, you should be able to use a geographical perspective to interpret and understand economic development and change. Course Information Perquisites: None Exclusion: GGR220Y1 Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3) Communications policy: I will do my best to return any e-mails within 24 hours. For questions about assignments or exams, please check the Tumblr page. Chances are your question has already been answered, but if it havent chances are someone in the class has the same question. Please always use your University of Toronto e-mail address for class related communications. is reduces the chance that your e-mail will be marked as SPAM or otherwise lost. All class e-mail will be sent to your U of T address. You are responsible for maintaining your e-mail account: missing e-mails will not be accepted as an excuse. No assignments will be accepted via e-mail. Late Penalty: Because this is an accelerated summer class, meeting deadlines is critical. Assignments are due at the beginning of class. Late assignments are subject to a 10% per day penalty (weekends counted as one day). Assignments are not accepted 7 days after the due date. Extensions are only granted with appropriate documentation (a U of T student medical certi cate). For tests missed due to illness or other emergencies, please contact me immediately to reschedule the test after providing sucient documentation. Late assignments need to be deposited in the assignment

dropbox outside of the main Geography oce on the 5th oor of Sid Smith. e oce closes promptly at 5, so please plan accordingly. Regrades - Im happy to look over a paper if you feel there was a problem with the grade. In these situations, I will change the grade if there was an error in how the paper was graded. In these situations, please submit the marked paper along with a type-written paragraph explaining exactly what you think is at issue. Grades may be modi ed up or down. Accessibility Services: e University of Toronto is committed to accessibility. If you require accommodations for a disability, or have any accessibility concerns about the course, the classroom or course materials, please contact Accessibility Services as soon as possible at disability.services@utoronto.ca or http://studentlife.utoronto.ca/accessibility. Students may also want to contact Accessibility Services Oce if they have problems arising from chronic issues or injuries sustained during the term that aect their ability to complete exams or other assignments. For more information, see http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca/sta/disclosure.htm. Please feel free to inform me if there are any other ongoing circumstances (e.g. a full time job or parental responsibilities) that may aect your participation in the class. Academic Integrity: It is expected that everything submitted in this class is original work prepared for this class. Plagiarism is not acceptable at this University. e University of Toronto de nes plagiarism as quoting (or paraphrasing) the work of an author (including the work of fellow students) without a proper citation. is includes words and ideas from both academic sources as well as material found on the internet. Details on the Universitys rules about plagiarism can be found in the Arts & Sciences Calendar (www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/rules.htm) and information on how not to plagiarize can be found at http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-sources/how-notto-plagiarize. Turnitin: All students are required to upload their papers to turnitin before submitting them in class. Papers that are not uploaded will not be graded unless the student has discussed this with me before hand. Normally, students will be required to submit their course essays to Turnitin.com for a review of textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing so, students will allow their essays to be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database, where they will be used solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. e terms that apply to the University's use of the Turnitin.com service are described on the Turnitin.com web site" You are welcome to opt-out of using Turnitin for any reason. Students who opt-out of using Turnitin are required to meet with me to discuss alternative arrangements to ensure assignments are the students own original work. Students will need to set up an account at turnitin.com if they have not already. If this is your rst time using turnitin, please see the instruction guide at http://www.teaching.utoronto.ca/Assets/ CTSI+Digital+Assets/PDFs/turnitin-guide-students.pdf. To register for the class, please use the class code 6524040 and the password upscxt

Assignments and Grading Scheme

Assignment Reading Responses Mid-term Exam Essay Assignment Final Exam Weight 20% 20% 30% 30% Due Date July 11th; August 1st July 23rd August 8th TBA

Assignment Descriptions
Reading Response Reading responses are an opportunity for you to apply what you learn through the readings and in class with a current topic or issue. Each reading response will feature an essay or piece of journalism that tackles contemporary issues or topics along with a question that asks you to draw on your understanding of the course readings and lecture material. Each reading response will be between 1-2 pages (250-500 words). Both the readings and the reading response question will be posted on Blackboard 1 week before they are due and will focus on that weeks lecture topic. Geographies of Commodities e objective of this assignment is to choose a manufactured consumer product in your household and write a commodity chain analysis of the product, paying particular attention to the production and consumption sites in its chain. e aim of this assignment is not simply to describe the commodity chain. Rather, the goal is to trace the product and analyze the processes and institutions involved in the production and consumption of the good from the perspective of economic geography. Include a discussion of the relationship between sites, explain why the commodity chain is organized the way that it is. What are the implications of this organization? Why is it important to examine this commodity chain? Your assignment should be about eight pages double spaced. Include a bibliography including a list of articles and websites consulted (and the date accessed for websites). Any style of referencing is ne, but consistency in style is essential. Your paper should include a minimum of 2 academic sources. You can attach copies of advertisements, logos, photographs, or maps if you wish. ese are not included in the page limit. Try to cite academic articles that provide a general understanding of commodity chains, commodity circuits or commodity networks. You may also nd articles on the particular commodity or industry you have chosen, or alternatively you may be able to draw parallels with articles discussing other commodity chains or related sectors. You may also be able to identify issue oriented papers that have some link to your commodity such as articles on stop sweatshop campaigns or fair trade and relate some of the key arguments to your case study.

To compile your portrait of the production and consumption of this commodity, you can consider the following sources: newspaper or magazine articles; corporate websites; corporate codes of conduct (usually found on a companys website); union and other labouroriented websites (such as UNITE HERE, Ethical Trade Initiative, National Labor Committee); and product advertisements. Remember: be conscientious and critical in amassing and presenting the sources that formulate your argument.

Readings
Textbook: Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction 2nd edition by Coe, Kelly and Yeung (Coe et al.) Blackwell Publishing 2013. ISBN: 978-0-470-94338-0. e book is also on short-term loan at the library. It is expected that you will have read the required material before coming to the lecture. Outside Readings: Assigned readings not in the textbook can be found on the blackboard site. Date July 2 July 4 July 9 July 11 July 16 Introduction Fordism, Post-Fordism, and Other-isms e Changing Role of the State and the Corporation Uneven Development in a Global & Regional World Commodity Chains Topic Readings Coe et al., Chapters 1 & 2 Knox et al. Chapter 7; Daniels et al., 2005 Chapter 14 Coe et. al. Chapter 4 & 10 Coe et. al. Chapters 3 & 6 Coe et. al. Chapters 8; Dicken 2007 Chapter 3; Leslie and Reimer, 1999 Coe et al. Chapter 5; Barnes 2011 (Staples eory; Brownsey, 2007 No Reading Review Coe et. al. Chapter 4; Aoyama et al., 2011 Chapter 5.3; Gertler 1995 Coe et. al. Chapter 9; Giuliani 2007

July 18

Environmental Economic Geographies

July 23 July 25

Mid-Term Test Institutions, Culture & e New Economy

July 30

Geographies of Innovation

Date August 1

Topic Clusters and Agglomeration Economies

Readings Coe et. al. Chapter 12; Henry and Pinch, 2000 Scott and Storper, 2003; Florida, 2002 Dore, 2008; French et al., 2009

August 6 August 8

Regional Economic Development & Growth Geographies of Crisis

Coursepack Readings Knox, Agnew and McCarthy (2008) "e Geography of the World Economy." Chapter 7 Spatial Reorganization of the Core Economiespp.192-200. Hodder Education Press. Daniels (2005) Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century Chapter 14 e Global Production System: From Fordism to Post-Fordism pp.314-336. Prentice Hall. Gertler (1995) Being there: Proximity, Organization, and Culture in the Development and Adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies. Economic Geography 71(1) pp. 1-26 Dicken (2007). "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy" Chapter 5 Webs of Enterprise: e Geography of Transnational Production Networks pp. 138-172 e Guilford Press. Leslie and Reimer (1999) Spatializing Commodity Chains. Progress in Human Geography 23(3) pp. 401-420 Brownsey (2007) e New Oil Order: e Post Staples Paradigm and the Canadian Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. Canadian Political Science Review 1(1) p. 91-106 Aoyama, Murphy and Hanson, (2011). Institutions Chapter 5.3 Key Concepts in Economic Geography pp. 167-173 Sage Press. Giulani (2007) e selective nature of knowledge networks in clusters: evidence from the wine industry. Journal of Economic Geography 7(1) pp. 139-168. Scott and Storper (2003) Regions, Globalization, Development. Regional Studies 36(6-7) pp. 549-578 Florida (2001) e Economic Geography of Talent. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92(4) 743-755 Dore, Ronald (2008) Financialization of the Global Economy. Industrial and Corporate Change 17(6): 10971112. French, Leyshon and rift (2009) A Very Geographical Crisis: e Making and Breaking of the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2 pp. 287-302