Sustaining Economic Geography? Business/Management Schools and the UK’s Great Economic Geography Diaspora

James, Alan; Bradshaw, Michael; Coe, Neil M.; Faulconbridge, James

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“…From a political standpoint, we have argued that the aspirational nature of engaged pluralism might sidestep concrete efforts to bring structural, institutional change to economic geography. As concerns are raised across geography about theoretical narrowness (Pulido, 2002; Werner et al, 2017), the limits to scholarly dialogue (Hawthorne and Heitz, 2018; Rose-Redwood et al, 2018), and the future of economic geography specifically (James et al, 2018), working towards a more equitable terrain for knowledge production has the potential to be a shared project across scholarly constituencies. In the spirit of working toward this normative vision of a more inclusive and equitable (economic) geography, we focus our concluding remarks around scholarly engagement and structural change.…”

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Diversity, representation, and the limits of engaged pluralism in (economic) geography

Rosenman

Loomis

Kay

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Within geography writ large, and economic geography in particular, there has been increasing interest in ‘engaged pluralism’ – defined by its proponents as lively and respectful engagement across theoretical, methodological, and topical lines – to increase diversity and build mutual respect among scholars. Drawing on feminist and postcolonial scholarship, we offer a sympathetic critique of engaged pluralism, grounded in a review of publishing trends in economic geography. Our findings reveal theoretical inertia around particular topics and paradigms, as well as low rates of publishing participation from women. We close with a discussion of engagement, reciprocity, and meaningful contact.

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Diversity, representation, and the limits of engaged pluralism in (economic) geography

Rosenman

Loomis

Kay

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In this way, I believe such studies, many in the field of economic and political geography, can achieve more effective analytical purchase in human geography and engage better with the wider community of social science. This epistemological (re)examination is perhaps timely in light of recent heated exchanges in Environment and Planning A (2018: 1496–1545; also Gibson, 2019) in response to James et al’s (2018) concern about economic geographers in the UK drifting into business schools and Martin’s (2018) critique of the subdiscipline’s ‘emasculation’. In these exchanges, one might detect a sense of déjà vu in economic geography’s ‘identity crisis’ first prompted almost two decades ago by Amin and Thrift’s (2000) epistemological intervention (see responses in Martin and Sunley, 2001; Yeung, 2001).…”

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“…While this alleged recent crisis is rather multidimensional in nature – linking to career advancement preferences, disciplinary boundary policing and national context (UK higher education), one can fathom something in economic geography’s core intellectual project being ‘lost’. To James et al (2018: 1363), it is about ‘a core focus on explaining systematic patterns of uneven development’. To them, this loss is ‘not just in the UK’ and the project, if revitalized successfully, ‘now must be an increasingly global project that necessarily engages with the global South’.…”

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“…Second, geographical work during the past two decades has undertheorized the role of mechanism in causal explanation and its relationship with context. This neglect is partly responsible for the above semantic and conceptual slippage and, as noted in James et al (2018) and Martin (2018), the possible weakening of the wider analytical strength of economic geography. It might be useful to point out that the earlier and much more intense theorization of causality and mechanisms in critical realism during the 1980s and the early 1990s can offer some useful lessons for advancing the explanatory goals of geographical analysis.…”

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Rethinking mechanism and process in the geographical analysis of uneven development

Yeung

2019

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Speaking directly to economic and political geographers working on uneven development, this article critically examines the deployment of two key concepts, mechanism and process, as analytical tools for causal explanation in geographical analysis during the past two decades. Drawing upon critical realism to develop a theory of mechanism, this article clarifies the conceptual distinction between mechanism and process. Whereas process is conceived as a contingent change in the sequential series of entities and their relations, mechanism serves as a necessary relation to connect an initial causal condition with its particular socio-spatial outcomes in context. This analytical distinction between a contingent process of change and a necessary mechanism for an outcome requires a careful specification of the concrete outcomes to be explained and the working of various mechanisms. Illustrating my case through existing studies of neoliberalization and, briefly, path dependence, I argue that there is a tendency in the literature to conflate mechanism and process in different meso-level theories of socio-spatial change. This conflation, in turn, distorts the causal links in core concepts and reduces their explanatory efficacy in accounting for uneven development. Rethinking mechanism and process can therefore help revitalize systematic explanations of uneven development as one of geography's core intellectual projects and contributions to the social sciences; it can also allow geographers to engage more productively with the rapidly growing mechanistic thought in analytical sociology, political science and the philosophy of social science during the past two decades.

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“…Taken to an extreme, and often with a level of self‐regard, it can result in the emergence of “schools” in which ideas or key roles are ascribed to particular departments and traced prospectively through their diasporic shadow as in the example of the “Lampeter School” of cultural geography (Philo, ). On occasion in health and medical geography, as in economic geography (James et al., ), this reputational flowering has taken place outside the parent geography discipline.…”

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Presenting health and medical geography: People, places, and change

Moon

Sabel

2019

Geographical Journal

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Assessments of the development of geography as a discipline, and studies of sub‐disciplinary development within geography, have generally focused on the subject matter under study. Consideration has concentrated on topics, theories, methods, and paradigm shifts identified by analyses of published literature. There has been rather less interest in the spatialisation of the practice and performance of the discipline by people and institutions (though there have been exceptions) and equally little attention to the evidence provided by geographical conferences. We address these lacunae in current knowledge through a quantitative study of changing disciplinary endeavour in health geography as evidenced by participation in the International Medical Geography Symposia. For 35 years this biennial meeting has been the flagship conference for health and medical geographers. We have obtained, reviewed, and coded the proceedings of all 17 symposia, analysing the submitted papers by location of symposia, lead authorship, affiliation, and country of authorship. We investigate the globalisation of the sub‐discipline and changes in key institutional involvement. Novel network analysis methods are used to identify changing linkages between research centres. What emerges is a complex sub‐discipline driven by the changing neoliberal context of higher education and marked by both continuities and discontinuities in its practitioner networks.

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Sustaining Economic Geography? Business/Management Schools and the UK’s Great Economic Geography Diaspora

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Diversity, representation, and the limits of engaged pluralism in (economic) geography

Diversity, representation, and the limits of engaged pluralism in (economic) geography

Rethinking mechanism and process in the geographical analysis of uneven development

Presenting health and medical geography: People, places, and change

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