Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Fusing Economic and Cultural Geography / Barney Warf -- A Short Cultural History of Anglo- American Economic Geography: Bodies, Books, Machines, and Places / Trevor J. Barnes -- The Cultural Turn in Geography: A New Link in the Commodity Chain / Elaine Hartwick -- Consumption Geographies: Turns or Intersections? / Juliana Mansvelt -- Gender, Commodity Chains and Everyday Life / Deborah Leslie -- Economic Rationality, Ethnic Identity, and the Geographies of Consumption / Lucia Lo and Lu Wang -- Trust and Distrust : Culture Finding Its Way into Economics or the Other Way Round? / Geir Inge Orderud -- Building the Beloved Community Through Techno Music Production in Detroit / Deborah Che -- Exploring the Role of Networks in the Creative Economy of North East England: Economic and Cultural Dynamics / Roberta Comunian -- The Relevance of Scale Economies in Economic and Social Relationships in the New Economic Geography / Luca Spinesi -- Consuming the Spectacle: Tourism and Communication Technologies in Santiago de Compostela / Carlos Ferrás Sexto and Yolanda García Vázquez