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Relocating resource peripheries to the core of economic geography＇s theorizing：rationale and agenda Area (2003) 35.1, 15–23Blackwell Publishing LtdRelocating resource peripheries to the core of economic geography’s theorizing: rationale and agendaRoger Hayter,* Trevor J Barnes** and Michael J Bradshaw??*Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 Email: hayter@sfu.ca**Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z2 Email: tbarnes@geog.ubc.ca ??Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH Email: mjb41@le.ac.ukRevised manuscript received 26 October 2002Theorizing in economic geography has focused on core regions, industrial and non-industrial,old and new. Indeed, contemplation of the idea of globalization has reinforced this quest. Thispaper disputes this blinkered thinking that peripheralizes resource peripheries, and seeks tore-position and emphasize resource peripheries within economic geography’s theoreticalagenda, specifically that associated with the new ‘institutional’ approach. A truly ‘global’economic geography cannot afford to ignore resource peripheries. In particular, we argue thatcharacterizing resource peripheries, and making them distinct from cores, is the intersectionof four sets of institutional values or dimensions which we summarize in terms of industrialism(economic dimension), environmentalism (environmental dimension), aboriginalism (culturaldimension) and imperialism (geopolitical dimension). This admittedly preliminary frameworkunderlies our hypothesis that resource peripheries around the world have become deeplycontested spaces, much more so than those found in cores.Key words:theorizing, economic geography, cores, peripheries, contested spacedegree and then sold elsewhere. On the face of it,Introductionthis economic geography is straightforward. ImmobileThe news media provides c