Globalizing economic geography in globalising higher education

Abstract

This editorial sits appropriately between the JGHE Symposium: Teaching Economic Geography and the JGHE Symposium: Geography's Place in Higher Education. We begin with a proposition that relates directly to geographical pedagogy and to promises and prospects for the subject; depending on one's research, the conferences we attend, the sessions we participate in, who comes into the room, and who is able to have a say makes worlds of difference to how we come to reflect on and practice a field. Our awareness of the works and work of economic geography is, to echo both Nigel Thrift and Doreen Massey, very much influenced by our a-where-ness. We come to this editorial from a sympathetic reading of the Teaching Economic Geography symposium, our research interests in the changing landscape of higher education and our experiences at the 2006 IGU Regional Conference in Brisbane. ....