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

Rosenman, Emily; Loomis, Jessa M.; Kay, Kelly

doi:10.1177/0309132519833453

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“…The debate has focused on whether to accept the full range of available methodological approaches, or whether to exclude approaches deemed insufficiently geographical in content or overly rigid in their methodological prescriptions. The recent flaring of the dispute (Rosenman et al 2019;Yeung 2019) underscores the persistence of tensions around methodological differences and highlights the absence of a robust set of criteria for adjudicating among approaches. A second, somewhat one-sided debate is concerned with the policy relevance of research and the extent to which the policy domain can or should influence academic research (Peck, 1999;Martin 2001).…”

Section: Introduction: Methodology Theory and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The politicization of research methods, illustrated in the case of plant closures

Weller

2020

Zeitschrift Für Wirtschaftsgeographie

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This paper contributes to building better methods in economic geography by examining the coevolution of theory, methodology, and should read methodology, and the practice of research methods with the policy context. The paper suggests that debates about how economic geography defines its theoretical and methodological boundaries have not been sufficiently cognizant of the effects of policy engagement. It posits that the politicized contemporary context is aligning research practices to policy constituencies, reshaping research questions, altering the criteria of research validity, increasing the division between qualitative and quantitative approaches, and solidifying divisions between different sub-branches of the discipline. This process is illustrated by way of a genealogy of studies of plant closures. The conclusion links these changes to questions about the future of the discipline.

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Section: Introduction: Methodology Theory and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The politicization of research methods, illustrated in the case of plant closures

Weller

2020

Zeitschrift Für Wirtschaftsgeographie

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“…Engaged pluralism can be read as an attempt to cultivate economic geography’s intimate publics organized around a perceived shared affective orientation toward and alongside the subdiscipline (Berlant, 2011). Yet, as Rosenman et al (2019) show, this ‘feeling rule’ about economic geography does not necessarily reflect the actual realities of writing and publishing in economic geography, which continues to privilege a relatively narrow set of mostly white men scholars and topics (see also Cockayne et al, 2018). This particular appeal to pluralism, as a suggested (and, perhaps, rather singular) way of feeling and knowing about economic geography may not measure up to the object that it attempts to describe, or its set of associations that include institutional circumstances and researchers’ relationships to them.…”

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Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

Ruez

Cockayne

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Scholars across the social sciences and humanities have increasingly questioned the meaning and purpose of critique. Contributing to those conversations, some geographers have advocated for affirmative or reparative practices such as reading for difference or experimentation that seek to provoke more joyful, hopeful, or enchanting affects, as alternatives to what they perceive as a prevailing forms of ‘negative’ critique. In response, others have re-emphasized the centrality of negativity and revalued negative affects in the context of regimes of racialization, heteronormativity, and coloniality. Rather than taking sides in a debate thus framed, this article develops an ambivalent position that foregrounds multiple senses of difference that exist within affirmative and reparative projects. Drawing on feminist and queer geographic work, the explicitly political and difference-oriented writing of Sedgwick and Deleuze, and queer and postcolonial affect scholars, we argue for critique characterized by an ambivalent and pluralistic attitude toward feeling. Joining those arguing for a pluralization of the moods and modes of critical work, our readings suggest the necessity of a pluralism that refuses any escape from the ‘negativity’ of the social field in favor of an affectively ambivalent engagement with the inherent politics of critique in a plural and uneven world.

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“…Writing this paper as part of Geography Compass' economic geography section, we thereby want to contribute to the long standing and continuing struggle of feminist scholars to expand the focus of economic geography (most recently cf. e.g., MacLeavy, Roberts, & Strauss, 2016; Pugh, 2018; Rosenman, Loomis, & Kay, 2020). As this study demonstrates once more, matters of care lie at the core of economic geography as a discipline.…”

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Geographies of care work: The commodification of care, digital care futures and alternative caring visions

Schwiter

Steiner

2020

Geography Compass

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This article explores the growing interest in care within geography. Focusing on care as waged work, we trace current transformations through commodification and digitalisation. We discuss how the private household is turning into a precarious and feminised workplace for a growing number of workers, and we show how this development is promoted by the rise of labour agencies that facilitate the transnational recruitment of care workers. The literature on global care chains illustrates how the recruitment of migrant workers fills care deficits in destination countries while opening up care gaps in sending countries. We review this literature from economic geography and beyond and reflect on the continuing feminisation and devaluation of care labour. Based on these critical insights, we examine how processes of digitalisation contribute to reshaping care work. We discuss the ambivalent effects of digital technologies on care and argue that there is an urgent need to intensify our engagement with the processes and effects of digital transformations. In our conclusions, we call for strengthening the budding debate on alternative visions of caring within geography and point to avenues for future engagement.

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

Cited by 50 publications

References 107 publications

The politicization of research methods, illustrated in the case of plant closures

The politicization of research methods, illustrated in the case of plant closures

Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

Geographies of care work: The commodification of care, digital care futures and alternative caring visions

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