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- Britton, J., G. Legare (2005). Clustering and the digital economy: New media in Toronto. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 28 (2):329-349
- Currid, J. (2007) How art and culture happen in New York City Journal of the American Planning Association 73(4): 454-467
- Clifton, N (2008) The “creative class” in the UK: an initial analysis Geogr.Ann. B 90(1): 63-82
- Drake, G. (2003) This place gives me space: place and creativity in the creative industries. Geoforum34: 511-524
- Gibson, C., Kong, L. (2005) Cultural economy: a critical review. Progress in Human Geography 29: 541-561
- Hutton, T. (2006) Spatiality, built form, and creative industry development in the inner city. Environment and Planning A 38(10): 1819-1841
- Lee, S., R. Florida and Z. Acs (2004) Creativity and entrepreneurship: A regional analysis of new firm formation. Regional Studies 38(8): 879-891
- Leslie, D., N Rantisi (2006) Governing the design economy in Montreal, Canada. Urban Affairs Review 41(3): 309-337
- McGranahan, D., T. Wojan (2007) Recasting the creative class to examine growth processes in rural and urban counties Regional Studies 41(2): 197-216
- Mommaas, H. (2004). Cultural Clusters and the Post-Industrial City: Towards the Remapping of Urban Cultural Policy. Urban Studies 27(2): 507-532.
- Phillips, R. (2004). Artful business: Using the arts for community economic development. Community Development Journal 39(2): 112-122.
- Power, D. and D. Hallencreutz (2002). Profiting from creativity? The music industry in Stockholm, Sweden and Kingston, Jamaica. Environment and Planning A 34: 1833-1854.
- Power, D. and J. Jansson (2004). The emergence of a post-industrial music economy? Music and ICT synergies in Stockholm, Sweden. Geoforum 35: 425-439.
- Rantisi, M., D. Leslie, S. Christopherson. (2006) Placing the creative economy: scale, politics, and the material. Environment and Planning A 38(10): 1789 – 1797
- Schoales, J. (2004) Alpha Clusters: Creative Innovation in local economies. Economic Development Quarterly 20(2): 162-177
- Scott, A. J. (2004) Cultural-products industries and urban economic development - Prospects for growth and market contestation in global context. Urban Affairs Review 39 (4): 461-490
- Scott, A. J. (2006) Creative cities: conceptual issues and policy questions. Journal of Urban Affairs 28(1): 1-17
- Smith, R., J. McCarthy, and M. Petrusevich (2004) Cluster or Whirlwind? The New Media Industry in Vancouver, in Wolfe, D. and Lucas, M. (Eds.), Clusters in a Cold Climate: Innovation Dynamics in a Diverse Economy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 195-221.
- Stolarick, K., R. Florida. (2006) Creativity, connections and innovation: A study of linkages in the Montreal Region. Environment and Planning A 38 (10):1799-1817
- Storper, M. and M. Manville (2006) Behaviour, preference and cities: Urban theory and urban resurgence Urban Studies 43(8): 1247-1274
- Wojan, T., D. Lambert, D. McGranahan (2007) Emoting with their feet: Bohemian attraction to creative milieu. Journal of Economic Geography 7: 711-736

measuring/defining the creative economy

- Bryan, J., J. Ryan, S. Hill, M. Munday, and A. Roberts. (2000) Assessing the role of the arts and cultural industries in a local economy. Environment and Planning A 32 (8): 1391–1408.
- Chapple, K., A. Markusen, G. Schrock, D. Yamamoto, P. Yu (2004) Rejoinder: High-Tech Rankings, Specialization, and Relationship to Growth Economic Development Quarterly 18 (1): 44-49
- Evans, G. (2005) Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture’s Contribution to Regeneration. Urban Studies 42 (5/6): 1–25
- Gertler, M., R. Florida, G. Gates, T. Vinodrai (2002) Competing on Creativity: Placing Ontario’s Cities in North American Context. A report prepared for the Ontario Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation and the Institute for Competitivenes and Prosperity, November 2002.
- Johnson, L. (2006) Valuing the arts: theorising and realising cultural capital in an Australian city. Geographical Research 44(3): 296-309
- Markusen, A., D. King (2003) The artistic dividend: the hidden contributions of the arts to the regional economy. Project on Regional and Industrial Economics, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, July, http://www.hhh.umn.edu/img/assets/6158/
- Markusen, A., (2004) Targeting occupations in regional and community economic development' Journal of the American Planning Association 70: 253-268
- Markusen A., A. Johnson (2006) Artists' centers: evolution and impact on careers, neighborhoods and economies. Project on Regional and Industrial Economics, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, February, http://www.hhh.umn.edu/projects/prie
- Markusen, A. (2006) Urban development and the politics of a creative class: Evidence from a study of artists. Environment and Planning A 38 (10): 1921-1940
- Markusen, A., G. H. Wassall, D. DeNatale, R. Cohen (2008) Defining the creative economy: Industry and occupational approaches. Economic Development Quarterly 22(1): 24-45
- Markusen, A., G. Schrock. (2006) The artistic dividend: Urban artistic specialization and economic development implications. Urban Studies 43 (10): 1661–1686
- Rausch, S., C. Negrey (2004) Does the creative engine run? A consideration of the effect of creative class on economic strength and growth. Journal of Urban Affairs 28(5): 473-489
- Sands G., L. Reese (2008) Cultivating the creative class: And what to do about Nanaimo Economic Development Quarterly 22(1): 8-23
- Vinodrai, T. (2006) Reproducing Toronto’s design ecology: Career paths, intermediaries, and local labour markets Economic Geography 82(3): 237-263

challenging creative city theory

- Barnes, K., G. Waitt, N Gill and C Gibson (2006) Community and nostalgia in Urban Revitalisation: a critique of urban village and creative class strategies as remedies for social ‘problems’ Australian Geographer 37(3): 335-354
- Christophers, B. (2007) Enframing creativity: power, geographical knowledges and the media economy. Trans Inst Br Geogr 32: 235-247
- Donegan, M., N. Lowe (2008) Inequality in the creative city: Is there still a place for “old-fashioned” institutions. Economic Development Quarterly 22(1): 46-62
- Foster, J. (2005) Restoration of the Don Valley Brick Works: Whose Restoration? Whose Space? Journal of Urban Design 10(3): 331–351
- Kipfer, S., R. Kiel (2002) Toronto.Inc? Planning the Competitive City in the New Toronto Antipode March. 227-64.
- McCann, E. (2007) Inequality and Politics in the creative city-region: Questions of livability and state strategy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31(1): 188-196
- Miles, M. (2005) Interruptions: Testing the rhetoric of culturally led urban development. Urban Studies 42 (5/6): 889-911
- Miles, S. (2005) Creativity, Culture and Urban Development: Toronto Examined. DISP 162(3): 70-87
- Miles, S., R. Paddison (2005) Introduction: The rise and rise of culture-led urban regeneration. Urban Studies 42(5/6): 833-839
- Peck, J. (2005) Struggles with the creative class. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29: 740-770
- Reese, L., G. Sands (2008) Creative class and economic prosperity: Old nostrums, better packaging? Economic Development Quarterly 22(1): 3-7
- Rosati, C. (2007) MTV: 360 degrees of the industrial production of culture. Trans Inst Br Geogr 32: 556-575
- Scott, A.J. (2007) Capitalism and urbanization in a new key? The cognitive-cultural dimension. Social Forces 85(4): 1465-1482

art and the city

- Bain, A. (2003). Constructing contemporary artistic identities in Toronto neighbourhoods. The Canadian Geographer 47 (3): 303-317
- Bain, A. (2004). Female artistic identity in place: the studio. Social & Cultural Geography 5 (2):171-193
- Bain, A.  (2005). Constructing an artistic identity. Work, Employment & Society 19(1): 25-46.
- Bain, A. (2006). Resisting the creation of forgotten places: Artistic production in Toronto neighbourhoods. The Canadian Geographer 50 (4): 417-431
- Cameron, S., J. Coaffee (2005) Art, Gentrification and Regeneration – From Artist as Pioneer to Public Arts European Journal of Housing Policy 5 (1): 39-58
- Greffe, X. (2004). Artistic Jobs in the Digital Age. Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 34(1): 79-94.
- Hall, T. (2007) Artful Cities. Geography Compass 1(6): 1376-1392
- Jackson, M. (2004). Investing in Creativity: A study of the support structure for U.S. artists. Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 34(1): 43-57.
- Ley, David (2003) Artists, aestheticisation and the field of gentrification. Urban Studies 40(12): 2527–2544
- Lloyd, R. (2002) Neo-Bohemia: Art and neighbourhood redevelopment in Chicago. Journal of Urban Affairs 24(5): 517-532
- Sharp, J., V. Pollock, R. Paddison (2005) Just art for a just city: Public art and social inclusion in urban regeneration. Urban Studies 42(5/6): 1001-1023

regeneration and gentrification

- Bridge, G. (2007) A global gentrifier class? Environment and planning A 39(1): 32-46
- Butler, T. (2007) For gentrification? Environment and planning A 39(1): 162-181
- Butler, T., L. Lees (2006) Super-gentrification in Barnsbury, London: globalization and gentrifying global elites at the neighbourhood level. Trans Inst Br Geogr 31: 467-487
- Davidson, M. (2007) Gentrification as global habitat: a process of class formation or corporate creation? Trans Inst Br Geogr 32: 490-506
- Hackworth, J., J. Rekers (2005) Ethnic packaging and gentrification: The case of four neighbourhoods in Toronto. Urban Affairs Review 41(2): 211-236
- Hamnett, C., D. Whitelegg (2006) Loft conversion and gentrification in London: from industrial to postindustrial land use. Environment and Planning A 39(1): 106-124
- Lees, L. (2003). The Ambivalence of Diversity and the Politics of Urban Renaissance: The Case of Youth in Downtown Portland, Maine. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27(3): 613-634.
- Macleod, G. (2002). From Urban Entrepreneurialism to a “Revanchist City”? On the Spatial Injustices of Glasgow’s Renaissance. Antipode 34: 602-624.
- Slater, T. (2004) Municipally managed gentrification in South Parkdale, Toronto. The Canadian Geographer 48 (3): 303-325
- Slater, T. (2004) North American gentrification? Revanchist and emancipatory perspectives explored. Environment and Planning A 36: 1191-1213
- Slater, T. (2006) The eviction of critical perspectives from gentrification research. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(4): 737-757
- Slater, T. (2008) ‘A literal necessity to be re-placed’: A rejoinder to the gentrification debate. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32(1): 212-223
- Smith, N. (2002) New globalism, new urbanism: Gentrification as global urban strategy Antipode 34(3): 427-450
- Uitermark, J., J. W. Duyvendak, R. Kleinhans (2007) Gentrification as a governmental strategy: social control and social cohesion Hoogvliet, Rotterdam. Environment and Planning A 39: 125-141
- Whitzman, C., T. Slater (2006) Village ghetto land: Myth, social conditions and housing policy in Parkdale, Toronto, 1879-2000. Urban Affairs Review 41(5): 673-696

- Abernathy, F., A. Volpe, D. Weil (2006). The future of the apparel and textile industries: prospects and choices for public and private actors. Environment and Planning A 38 (12):  2207-2232
- Bair J. (2006) Regional trade and production blocs in a global industry: towards a comparative framework for research. Environment and Planning A 38(12): 2233 – 2252
- Bair, J., G. Gereffi (2003). Upgrading, uneven development in the North American apparel industry. Global Networks 3 (2): 143-169
- Begg B., J. Pickles , A. Smith (2003) Cutting it: European integration, trade regimes, and the reconfiguration of East - Central European apparel production Environment and Planning A 35(12): 2191–2207
- Courault, B and Doeringer P (2007) From hierarchical districts to collaborative networks: the transformation of the French (1982) apparel industry. Socio-Economic Review 1-22
- Doeringer, P., S. Crean (2006). Can fast fashion save the US apparel industry? Socio-Economic Review 4 (3): 353-377
- Dunford, M. (2006) Industrial districts, magic circles, and the restructuring of the Italian textiles and clothing chain. Economic Geography 82(1): 27-59
- Evans, Y., A. Smith (2006). Surviving at the margins? Deindustrialization, the creative
industries, and upgrading in London's garment sector. Environment and Planning A 38 (12): 2253-2269
- Gereffi, G. (1999). International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain. Journal of International Economics 48: 37–70
- Gereffi, G., O. Memedovic (2003). The global apparel value chain: What prospects for upgrading by developing countries? UNIDO sectoral study series. Available online: http://www.unido.org/file-storage/download/?file_id=11900
- Hale A, (2000) What hope for ‘ethical’ trade in the globalised garment industry? Antipode 32(4): 349-356
- Hassler, M. (2003) The global clothing production system: commodity chains and business networks Global Networks 3(4): 513-531
- Hassler, M (2006) The Indonesian consumer market for clothing: institutions, firms and organizational behaviours The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27(2): 150-162
- Heron, T., B. Richardson (2008) Path dependency and the politics of liberalization in the textiles and clothing industry. New Political Economy 13(1): 2-18
- Kalantaridis, C., S. Slava, I. Vassilev (2008) Globalisation and industrial change in the clothing industry of Transcarpathia, Western Ukraine: a microlevel view. Environment and Planning A 40: 235-253
- Kessler, J. (2004). Free trade and garment work: the impact of NAFTA on service and manufacturing jobs in the Los Angeles apparel industry. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28 (2): 308-328
- Lane, C., J. Probert (2006) Domestic capabilities and global production networks in the clothing industry: a comparison of German and UK firms Socio-economic review 4(1): 35-67
- Larner, W., M. Molloy, A. Goodrum. (2007). Globalization, cultural economy, and not-so-global cities: The New Zealand designer fashion industry. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25: 381-400
- Lewis N, W. Larner, R. Le Heron (2008) The New Zealand designer fashion industry: making industries and co-constituting political projects. Trans Inst Br Geogr 33 (1): 42-59
- Neidik B., G. Gereffi (2006). Explaining Turkey’s emergence and sustained competitiveness as a full-package supplier of apparel. Environment and Planning A 38(12): 2285 – 2303
- Palpaceur, F., P. Gibbon, L.Thompson. (2005) New challenges for developing country suppliers in global clothing chains: A comparative European perspective World Development 33(3):409-430.
- Pickles, J. (2006). Trade liberalization, industrial upgrading , and regionalization in the global clothing industry. Environment and Planning A 38 (12): 2201-2206.
- Pickles, J., A. Smith, M. Bucěk, P. Roukova, R. Begg (2006). Upgrading, changing competitive pressures, and diverse practices in the East and Central European apparel industry. Environment and Planning A 38(12): 2305 – 2324
- Rees, K., J. Hathcote (2004). The U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry in the Age of Globalization. Global Economy Journal 4 (1) Article 4. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/gej/vol4/iss1/4
- Reimer, S. (2007) Geographies of Production I. Progress in Human Geography 31(2): 245-255
- Rogerson, C. (2006) Developing the fashion industry in Africa: The case of Johannesburg Urban Forum 17(3): 215-240
- Sammarra, A., F. Belussi (2006) Evolution and relocation in fashion-led Italian districts: evidence from two case studies. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 18: 543-563
- Scott, A.J. (2006) The changing global geography of low-technology, labor-intensive industry: clothing, footwear, and furniture. World Development 34(9): 1517-1536
- Seyoum, B. (2007). Trade liberalization and patterns of strategic adjustment in the US textiles and clothing industry. International Business Review 16 (1): 109-135
- Tewari, M. (2006). Adjustment in India's textile and apparel industry: reworking historical legacies in a post-MFA world. Environment and Planning A 38 (12): 2325-2344
- Tewari, M. (2006). Is price and cost competitiveness enough for apparel firms to gain market share in the world after quotas? A review. Global Economy Journal 6 (4) Article 5.
- Thomsen, L (2007) Accessing global value chains, The role of business-state relations in the private clothing industry in Vietnam. Journal of Economic Geography 7: 753-776
- Tokatli, N (2007) Asymmetrical power relations and upgrading among suppliers of global clothing brands- Hugo Boss in Turkey Journal of Economic Geography 7: 67-92
- Tokatli, N (2007) Networks, firms and upgrading within the blue-jean industry: evidence from Turkey. Global Networks 7(1): 51-68
- Tokatli, N. Wrigley, N. Kizilgun, O. (2008) Shifting global supply networks and fast fashion: made in Turkey for Marks & Spencer,  Global Networks 8(3): 261-280
- Weller, S. (2006) The embeddedness of global production networks: the impact of crisis in Fiji’s garmnet export sector. Environment and Planning A 38: 1249-1267
- Weller, S. (2007).Fashion as viscous knowledge: Fashion’s role in shaping trans-national garment production. Journal of Economic Geography 7: 39–66

fashion design, retail and brands

- Crewe, L. (2008) Ugly beautiful: counting the cost of the global fashion industry Geography 93(1): 25-33
- Crewe L, Collins, P. (2006) Commodifying children: fashion, space, and the production of the profitable child Environment and Planning A 38(1) 7 – 24
- Entwhistle, J. (2006) The cultural economy of fashion buying. Current Sociology 54(5): 704–724
- Entwistle, J and Rocamora (2006) The field of fashion materialized- A study of London fashion week. Sociology 40(4): 735-751
- Entwistle, J and Wissinger, E (2006) Keeping up appearances: aesthetic labour in the fashion modelling industries of London and New York The Sociological Review 54(4): 774-794
- Leslie, D. (2002) Gender, retail employment and the clothing commodity chain Gender, Place and Culture 9(1): 61-76
- McRobbie, A (1997) Bridging the Gap: Feminism, fashion and consumption
Feminist Review 55: 73-89
- McRobbie, A. (2002) Fashion culture: Creative work, female individualization Feminist Review 71: 52-62
- Moeran, B (2006) More than just a fashion magazine. Current Sociology 54(5): 725-744
- Palpacuer F. (2006). The global sourcing patterns of French clothing retailers" Environment and Planning A 38(12): 2271 – 2283
- Power, D and Hauge, A (2008) No man’s brand—Brands, institutions and fashion Growth and Change 39(1): 123-143
- Skov, L. (2002) Hong Kong fashion designers as cultural intermediaries: out of global garment production. Cultural Studies 16(4): 553-569
- Skov, L. (2005) The return of the fur coat: A commodity chain perspective. Current Sociology 53(1): 9–32
- Skov, L. (2006) The role of trade fairs in the global fashion business. Current Sociology  54(5): 764–783
- Tokatli, N (2008) Global sourcing, insights from the global clothing industry—the case of Zara, a fast fashion retailer Journal of Economic Geography 8: 21-38
- Weller, S (2008) Beyond ‘global production networks’, Australian Fashion Week’s trans-sectoral strategies. Growth and Change 39(1): 104-122A

garment workers and production

- Ash, J (2002). Production as participation. Feminist Review 71: 90-93
- Bair, J., G. Gereffi (2001). Local clusters in global chains: The causes and consequences of export dynamism in Torreon's blue jeans industry. World Development 29 (11): 1885-1903
- Bair, J., E. Peters (2006) Global commodity chains and endogenous growth: export dynamism and development in Mexico and Honduras. World Development 34(2): 203-221
- Collins, J. (2007) The rise of a global garment industry and the reimagination of worker solidarity. Critique of Anthropology 27(4): 395-409
- Delaney, A. (2004) Global trade and home work: closing the divide. Gender and Development 12(2): 22-28
- Gannage, C. (1999). The health and safety concerns of immigrant women workers in the Toronto sportswear industry. International Journal of Health Services 29 (2): 409–429
- Hale A, J. Willis (2007) Women working worldwide: transnational networks, corporate social responsibility and action research. Global Networks 4: 453-476.
- Hassler, M. (2005) Homeworking in rural Bali: The organization of production and labor relations Professional Geographer 57(4): 530-538
- Rantisi, N. (2002) The local innovation system as a source of ‘variety: Openness and adaptability in New York City’s Garment District. Regional Studies 36(6): 587-602
- Rantisi, N. (2002). The competitive foundations of localized learning and innovation: The case of women’s garment production in New York City. Economic Geography 78 (4): 441-462
- Rantisi, N. (2004). The Ascendance of New York Fashion. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28 (1): 86-106
- Weller, S (2007) Regulating clothing outwork- A skeptic’s view. Journal of Industrial Relations 49(1): 67-86

commodity chain studies

- Atkins P, (2007) Laboratories, laws and the career of a commodity Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25: 967-989
- Bair, J. (2005) Global capitalism and commodity chains: Looking back going forward, Competition and change 9(2): 153-180
- Benson P, E. Fisher (2007) Broccoli and desire Antipode 39(5): 800-820
- Cook, I., P. Crang, M. Thorpe (1998) Biographies and geographies: consumer understandings of the origins of foods British Food Journal 100(3) 162 - 167
- Cook, I., Harrison, M. (2003) Cross over food: re-materializing postcolonial geographies Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 28(3): 296-317
- Cook, I., Harrison, M. (2007) Follow the thing: “West Indian Hot Pepper Sauce” Space And Culture 10(1): 40-63
- Cook, I.; Evans, J.; Griffiths, H.; Morris, R.; Wrathmell, S. (2007)  “It’s more than just what it is”: Defetishizing commodities, expanding fields, mobolising change. Geoforum 38(6): 1113-1126
- Fine B, (2004) Debating production-consumption linkages in food studies Sociologia Ruralis 44(3): 332-342
- Goodman, D. (2002) Rethinking food production-consumption: Integrative Perspectives Sociologia Ruralis 42(4): 271–277
- Goss, J. (2006) Geographies of consumption: the work of consumption. Progress in Human Geography 30(2): 237-249
- Gouveia, L., Juska, A. (2002) Taming nature, taming workers: Constructing the separation between meat consumption and meat production in the U.S. Sociologia Ruralis 42(4): 370–390
- Hale, A., M. Opondo (2005) Humanising the cut fllower chain: confronting the realities of flower production for workers in Kenya Anitpode37(2):301-323
- Hendrickson, M., Heffernan, W. (2002) Opening Spaces through relocalization: Locating potential resistance in the weaknesses of the global food system Sociologia Ruralis 42(4): 347–369
- Hughes, A. (2006) Learning to Trade Ethically, Knowledgeable Capitalism, Retailers and Contested Commodity Chains Geoforum, 37(6): 1008-1020
- Leslie D, S. Reimer (1999) Spatializing commodity chains Progress in human geography 23(3): 401-420
- Leslie, D. S. Reimer (2003)lFashioning furniture: restructuring the furniture commodity chain Area 35.4, 427–437
- Leslie D, S. Reimer (2003) Gender, modern design, and home consumption Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21(3) 293 – 316
- Leslie D, S. Reimer (2006) Situating design in the Canadian household furniture industry. The Canadian Geographer 50 (3): 319–341
- Lockie,S. (2002) 'The Invisible Mouth': Mobilizing 'the consumer' in food production-consumption networks Sociologia Ruralis 42(4): 278–294
- Redclift, M. (2002) Chewing gum in the United States and Mexico: The everyday and the iconic. Sociologia Ruralis 42(4): 391-403
- Reimer S, D. Leslie (2008) Design, national imaginaries, and the home furnishings commodity chain Growth and Change 39(1): 144-171
- Talbot, J. (2002) Tropical commodity chains, forward integration strategies and international inequality: Coffee, tea and cacao.Review of International Political Economy 9(4) 701-734

consumption

- Arnould E, (2007) Should Consumer Citizens Escape the Market? The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 611: 96-111
- Belk R, (2007) Why Not Share Rather Than Own? The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scienc. 611: 126-140
- Blay-Palmer A (2005) Growing innovation policy: the case of organic agriculture in Ontario, Canada Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 23(4) 557 – 581
- Blay-Palmer A, B. Donald (2006) A tale of three tomatoes: The new food economy in Toronto, Canada  Economic Geography 82(4): 383
- Bryant, R., M. Goodman (2004) Consuming narratives: the political ecology of ‘alternative’ consumption. Trans Inst Br Geogr 29: 344-366
- Chatterjee I, (2007) Packaging of identity and identifiable packages: A study of women-commodity negotiation through product packaging Gender, Place and Culture 14(3): 293-316
- Clarke N, C. Barnett, P. Cloke, A. Malpass (2007) Globalising the consumer: Doing politics in an ethical register Political Geography 26: 231-249
- Crewe, L (2000) Geographies of retailing and consumption. Progress in Human Geography 24(2): 275–290
- Crewe, L. (2001) The besieged body: geographies of retailing and consumption Progress in Human Geography 25(4): 629–640
- Crewe, L., J. Beaverstock (1998) Fashioning the City: Cultures of Consumption in Contemporary Urban Spaces Geoforum 29(3) 287-308
- De Vreese C. H, (2007) Digital Renaissance: Young Consumer and Citizen? The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 611: 207-216
- Donald B, Blay-Palmer A. (2006) The urban creative-food economy: producing food for the urban elite or social inclusion opportunity? Environment and Planning A 38(10) 1901 – 1920
- DuPuis M, D. Goodman (2005) Should we go ‘‘home’’ to eat?: Toward a reflexive politics of localism Journal of Rural Studies 21 359–371
- Gregson N, Metcalfe A, Crewe L (2007) Identity, mobility, and the throwaway society Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(4) 682 – 700
- Guthman, J. (2002) Commodified meanings, meaningful commodities: Re-thinking production-Consumption links through the organic system of provision Sociologia Ruralis 42(4): 295–311
- Guthman, J. (2007) The Polanyian way? Voluntary food labels as neoliberal governance Antipode 39(3): 456-478
- Hughes, A. (2001) Multi-stakeholder approaches to ethical trade: towards a reorganisation of UK retailers' global supply chains Journal of Economic Geography 1(4) 421-437
- Hughes, A. (2005) Corporate strategy and the management of ethical trade: the case of the UK food and clothing retailers Environment and Planning A 37(7): 1145 – 1163
- Hughes, A. (2006) Geographies of exchange and circulation: transnational trade and governance Progress in Human Geography 30(5): 635-643
- Hughes, A., M. Buttles, N. Wrigley (2007) Organisational geographies of corporate responsibility: a UK-US comparison of retailers’ ethical trading initiatives. Journal of Economic Geography 7: 491-513
- Littler J, (2005) Beyond the boycott: Anti-consumerism, cultural change and the limits of reflexivity Cultural Studies 19(2): 227-252
- Mansvelt, J (2008) Geographies of consumption: citizenship, space and practice Progress in Human Geography 32(1): 105-117
- Micheletti M, D Stolle (2007) Mobilizing Consumers to take responsibility for Global Social Justice The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 611:157-175
- Miele, M., Murdoch, J. (2002) The Practical Aesthetics of Traditional Cuisines: Slow Food in Tuscany Sociologia Ruralis 42(4): 312–328
- Nelson M, M Rademacher, H Paek (2007) Downshifting Consumer = Upshifting Citizen? An Examination of a Local Freecycle Community The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 611: 141-156
- Raynolds, L. (2002) Producer/consumer links in fair trade coffee networks. Sociologia Ruralis 42(4): 404–424
- Schudson M, (2007) Citizens, Consumers, and the Good Society The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 611 236-249
- Thompson C. J, (2007) A Carnivalesque Approach to the Politics of Consumption (or) Grotesque Realism and the Analytics of the Excretory Economy The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 611: 112-125
- Seyfang G, (2005) Shopping for sustainability: Can sustainable consumption promote ecological citizenship? Environmental Politics 14(2): 290-306
- Trentmann F, (2007) Before “fair trade”: empire, free trade, and the moral economies of food in the modern world Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(6) 1079 – 1102
- Wilkinson, J. (2002) The Final Foods Industry and the Changing Face of the Global Agro-Food System Sociologia Ruralis 42(4): 329–346

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