On economic geography's “movers” to business and management schools: A response from outside “the project”

Cockayne, Daniel; Horton, Amy; Kay, Kelly; Loomis, Jessa M.; Rosenman, Emily

doi:10.1177/0308518x18796506

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“…To our minds, a field that is practicing engaged pluralism would exhibit both diversity and evenness of keyword representation. There is certainly a breadth of keywords but not an evenness of topics across the two histograms, and the skew at the tops of Figures 1 and 2 tends toward keywords that indicate quantitative and macro-scale studies (see Cockayne et al, 2018). In a centerless field, or one practicing engaged pluralism, we might expect to see similar representation for keywords that tend to be used by distinct groups of economic geographers, but reflecting a larger range of economic processes (e.g.…”

Section: Publishing Trends In Economic Geographymentioning

confidence: 98%

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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Section: Publishing Trends In Economic Geographymentioning

confidence: 98%

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

Rosenman

Loomis

Kay

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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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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“…I would contend that Yeung is troubled by the drift from cause (i.e. how to understand cause and effect) towards "difference" in geographical research on economies and is stating how he wishes to see the subdiscipline of '"proper noun" economic geography' develop (Cockayne et al, 2018(Cockayne et al, : 1511. 1 It would be unfair to suggest he is alone in staking a claim, but important to recognise the extent to which the article might be signalling a struggle over not just concepts but a broader geographical approach or project in view of the fact that the figureheads are for particular kinds of theory (critical realism in this instance) are increasingly located outside of geography departments, whether in business and management schools, the allied social sciences or within the realms of university management (James et al, 2018).…”

Section: Mechanism Process and The Wider Context Of Economic Geographymentioning

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Mechanism, process and the wider context of economic geography

MacLeavy¹

2019

Dialogues in Human Geography

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This commentary responds to Henry Wai-chung Yeung’s call to develop clearer causal explanations in geography through mechanism-based thinking. His suggested use of a critical realist framework to ground geographical research on economies is, on one level, appealing and may help to counteract taken-for-granted assumptions about socio-spatial conditions and the significance of economic structures for everyday lived experiences. However, the general lack of applied critical realist research means the distinction between ‘mechanism’ and ‘process’ is often difficult to define in analyses of specific empirical events or geographical episodes. Not only is there a need for methodological development but, I suggest, also for greater recognition of critical realism as a reflective practice. We need to consider the means by which scholars distinguish between contingent and necessary relations, identify structures and counterfactuals and infer how mechanisms work out in particular places. The critical realist goal of advancing transformative change through the provision of causal explanation relies upon inferences made on the basis of researcher experience. Hence, we need to recognise that research is always a political practice and be careful not to discount knowledge borne from other analytical approaches.

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On economic geography's “movers” to business and management schools: A response from outside “the project”

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

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

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

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

Mechanism, process and the wider context of economic geography

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