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100 _aStrauss, Kendra
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245 _aProcess, mechanism and the project of economic geography
260 _bSage
_c2019
300 _aVol 9, Issue 3, 2019:(256-261 p.)
520 _aThis response engages Yeung’s arguments about the value of critical realism (CR) in economic geography (EG), and how they can be further strengthened by better theorizing mechanism and process in relation to mid-level concepts like neoliberalization and path dependence. While there is much to value in the attention Yeung pays to how economic geographers conceptualize and study relational socio-spatial change, I argue that the lack of attention to how mid-level concepts relate to macro-level structures hampers the goal of more robust theorizing. Moreover, the association of CR with the reassertion of a disciplinary ‘core’ suggests a normative project that ignores or marginalizes diverse critical approaches in EG, which are framed as a sign of weaknesses rather than disciplinary strength.
650 _acritical realism
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650 _alabour geography
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650 _afeminist geography
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650 _aepistemology
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650 _aeconomic geography
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_dSage Publications Ltd., 2019
_tDialogues in human geography.
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_x2043-8214
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619875329
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