First Published in 1985. For more than a decade now a number of debates have been taking place within industrial geography. The period has been one in which issues of the geography of industryâof the spatial form of industrial decline and growthâhave often been at the forefront of wider political debate. The issue of the relationship between theory method politics and policies is common to all the social sciences and the debate which is presented here has relevance beyond industrial geography âin economics in sociology in other branches of human geography. This book is built around a seminar which was held in 1983. It was organized under the auspices of the then SSRC now ESRC as part of the programme of Doreen Masseyâs Fellowship in Industrial Location Research. The aim was explicitly to allow time for a small group of participants to discuss the range of issues around the question of the relationship between policies politics theory and method. Language: English