Market/Place

Christian Berndt is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Zurich. Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He is Managing Editor of Environment and Planning A and the author or editor of more than a dozen books. Norma M. Rantisi is Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University, Montreal.

• 1. Introduction: exploring marketsJamie Peck, Christian Berndt and Norma RantisiPart I Finding Markets2. Thinking socially and spatially about marketsJoy Paton and Damien Cahill3. Where are markets?Jamie Peck4. Geographies of marketization: performation struggles, incomplete commodification and the “problem of labor”Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler 5. Persistent problems in the Polanyian critique of the marketFred BlockPart 2 Constructing Markets6. What are markets for and who makes them? Class, state-building and territorial management in the constitution of marketsErica Schoenberger 7. Geographically contested and variegated marketizationJun Zhang8. Markets as struggle: the circulation and construction of charter school markets in the United StatesDan Cohen9. Of water and knowledge: the formation and scaling of public goods and marketsMark Harvey 10.The social metabolism of Karl Polanyi’s fictitious natureScott PrudhamPart 3 Placing Markets11.From the urbanization of capital to the capitalization of the urbanPhilip Ashton and Brett Christophers 12.Planning the social economy: the spatial politics of community economic development in TorontoKuni Kamizaki and Katharine Rankin13.Toward an ethnography of the national economyHannah Appel14.Platforms, merchants, and market spaceChris Muellerleile15.Conclusion: “market research”Norma Rantisi, Christian Berndt and Jamie Peck