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Publications - Gary Fields

Books

  • Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development and the Innovative Enterprises of G.F. Swift and Dell Computer (Stanford University Press, 2004). Chapter 1 (PDF)
  • Journal of Economic History
  • Regional Studies
  • Administrative Science Quarterly
  • Business History Review
  • Technology and Culture
  • Journal of Economic Geography
  • Economic Geography

Selected Articles/Book Chapters:

  • (2008).  “Landscape and Power:  British Enclosure and Landscape in Palestine.”  Arab World Geographer (forthcoming).
  • (2008) “Ex-Communicated:  Enclosure Landscapes and the Wall in Palestine.” In review at International Journal of Middle East Studies.
  • (2008) “Enclosure:  Palestinian Landscape in a Not-Too-Distant Mirror.” In Final Review at International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
  • (2008)  Imagining Geography:  Property Rights, Land Improvement and State Terror in Palestine.  Terror and Its Representations.  Larry Portis, ed.  Presses Universitaires de la Mediterranee, pp. 233-252.
  • "Innovation, Time and Territory: Space and the Business Organization of Dell Computer." Economic Geography, Vol, 86, no. 2 (2006) 119-146.
  • "Power Not Markets!  Networks, Managerialism and the Innovative Enterprise of Dell Computer."  Industrial and Corporate Change (in review).
  • “Communications, Innovation, and Territory: The Production Network of G.F. Swift and the Creation of a National Marketplace.” Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 29, no. 4 (Fall, 2003), pp. 599-617.
  • “Social Capital and Capital Gains in Silicon Valley” [With Stephen S. Cohen] California Management Review, Vol. 41, no. 2 (1999), pp. 108-129.
  • “City Systems, Urban History and Economic Modernity: Urbanization and the Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Society,” Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol. 13 (1999), pp. 102-128.
  • “The Ascendancy and Calamity of the Centrally-Planned Economy,” International Review of Sociology, Vol. 7, (1997), pp. 243-66.
  • “The Road From Gdansk: How Poland’s Solidarity Found Haven in the Marketplace,” Monthly Review, Vol. 43, no. 3 (1991), pp. 95-121.

Op Ed Opinions:

  • "Power, Propaganda and the Promised Land." San Diego Union Tribune. May 29, 2005.
  • "A 'Freedom Summer' in Palestine." Chicago Tribune. July 25, 2004.
  • "Thirsting to Breathe: Qalqilya and Water are Metaphors of Israeli Occupation." San Diego Union Tribune. August 1, 2004.
  • "Build Bridges, Not Walls," Chicago Tribune, February 22, 2004.
  • "Peace through war: Orwell revisited", San Diego Union Tribune, March 21, 2003
  • "Mapping Peace: Territory, History and Democracy", San Diego Union Tribune, July 16, 2003.