Bok, Rachel  <br/><br/>
‘By our metaphors you shall know us’: The ‘fix’ of geographical political economy/ 

 -  Sage,  2019. 
 - Vol 43, issue  6, 2019 : (1087-1108 p.). 
<br/><br/> This paper traces the transformative travels of the metaphor of the ‘fix’ across the unbounded terrain of geographical political economy. It argues for taking the fix seriously as a root metaphor of the field, a signifier of its history and theory-cultures. Critically excavating the entwined genealogies of the metaphor and the field, it illuminates several historically successive and thematic moments of ‘fix thinking’, including: the spatial fix (1980s); institutional and spatio-temporal fixes of regulationist-theoretical approaches (1990s); and the scalar fix of state rescaling theory (2000s). It reviews these stages and their broader intellectual and political implications for critical geographical scholarship. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>capitalism, <br/>economic geography,<br/> fix, <br/>geographical political economy, <br/>geography, <br/>metaphor, <br/>spatial fix