Essential readings to be used in the essay and referenced:Bring case studies such as Silicon Valley compared to Boston and other spaces, maybe some developing from Global South.Essay should be critical to this assumption.Yes culture maters, but ??£ *Saxenian, A., 1994. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley andRoute 128, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; London, 226pp. ??£ Jones, A.M. 1998. (Re)producing Gender Cultures: Theorizing Gender in InvestmentBanking Recruitment. Geoforum 29(4): 451-474. ??£ *McDowell, L.M., 1997. Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City Routledge, London. ??£ McDowell, L.M. and Court, G. 1994. Missing subjects: gender, power and sexuality inmerchant banking Economic Geography 70: 229-51. ??£ Helleiner, E., 1994. From Bretton Woods to global finance, in Stubbs, R. and Underhill, G.(eds.), Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, Macmillan, London. ??£ *Leyshon, A., 1996. Dissolving difference? Money, disembedding and the creation of global financial space , in Daniels, P. and Lever, W. (eds.), The Global Economy inTransition, Longman, London, pp. 62-80. ??£ *Leyshon, A and Thrift, N.J., 1997. Money / Space: Geographies of MonetaryTransformation, Routledge, London (chapters 2 and 8). ??£ *Martin, R.L., 1994. Stateless monies, global financial integration and national economicautonomy the end of geography?, in Corbridge, S., Thrift, N.J. and Martin, R.L. (eds.)Money, Power and Space, Blackwell, London *Benner, C., 2003. Learning communities in a learning region: the soft infrastructure ofcross-firm learning communities in Silicon Valley. Environment and Planning A 35 (10),pp. 1809 1830. (case study of Silicon Valley Webgrrls) ??£ *James, A. 2008. Gendered geographies of high tech regional economies. GeographyCompass 2 (2008). Available at:http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/pdf/compass2008.pdf (good review of gender andhigh tech)??£ *MacKinnon D., Cumbers A., Chapman K. 2002. Learning, innovation and regionaldevelopment: a critical appraisal of recent debates. Progress in Human Geography 26(3):293-31117??£ Maskell P. and Malmberg A. 1999. The competitiveness of firms and regions: ubiquitification and the importance of localized learning. European Urban and RegionalStudies 6(1): 9-25. ??£ Scott, A.J. 1988. Flexible production systems and regional development: the rise of newindustrial spaces in North America and western Europe. International Journal of Urbanand Regional Research 12(2): 171 186. [Reprinted in Barnes, T.J., Peck, J., Sheppard, E.and Tickell, A. (eds.) (2004) Reading Economic Geography. Oxford: Blackwell: pp. 125-136]. ??£ Storper, M., 1993. Regional Worlds of Production: Learning and Innovation in theTechnology Districts of France, Italy and the USA, Regional Studies 27: 433-55.
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