Retheorizing Economic Geography: From the Quantitative Revolution to the “Cultural Turn”

Barnes, Trevor J.

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“…The simple characterization of business (or SMEs 1 ) as a unitary actor is, problematic [27], and, indeed, culturally informed economic geographers [28], for instance, would examine the varied motivations of small businesses as embedded in broader social, economic, and biophysical contexts. In the language of sustainability (or sociotechnical) transitions, both actors and sustainable technologies are not exogenous to 'landscape' level trajectories [cf.…”

Section: Deconstructing Smes' Capacity To Innovate On Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing and accelerating transformative entrepreneurship: exploring the potential for small business innovation on urban sustainability transitions

Burch

Andrachuk

Carey

et al. 2016

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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The alluring yet nebulous concept of transformative change is increasingly gaining traction in conversations about pathways to more sustainable futures. As such, new conceptual tools are needed to illuminate variety of actors, interests, and capacities at play in potentially radical experiments. This paper draws upon multi-level governance theory, sustainability transitions scholarship, and sustainability entrepreneurship literature, to interrogate the transformative potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We (1) identify characteristics of SMEs that might make them relatively more able to produce radical innovations, (2) explore dimensions of the broader socio-political context that influence the likelihood of this potential to be translated into action in urban spaces, and (3) discuss implications of these dynamics for transformative sustainability governance

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Section: Deconstructing Smes' Capacity To Innovate On Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing and accelerating transformative entrepreneurship: exploring the potential for small business innovation on urban sustainability transitions

Burch

Andrachuk

Carey

et al. 2016

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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“…We have now been well told by historians of economic geography that dominant theories have always emerged from particular historical and geographic contexts (see Barnes 1996;Scott 2000). From locational models to spatial divisions of labor and from flexible specialization to local embeddedness, leading theories of economic geography have their peculiar histories and geographies.…”

Section: Geographies Of Economic Geography: the Situatedness Of Theoriesmentioning

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“…From locational models to spatial divisions of labor and from flexible specialization to local embeddedness, leading theories of economic geography have their peculiar histories and geographies. Their histories are very much outcomes of the conscious efforts of individual economic geographers in the context of creative tensions among different "paradigms" (see Barnes and Curry 1983;Sidaway 1997;Thrift and Walling 2000;Barnes 2001b). In this and the next sections, we attempt to answer two related questions to explore further the situatedness of dominant theories in economic geography.…”

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confidence: 99%

Theorizing Economic Geographies of Asia

Yeung¹,

Lin²

2017

Economy

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Economic geographies of Asia are highly fascinating, not the least because Asia has increasingly emerged as a significant economic player in all spheres of global competition: production, consumption, and circulation. This dynamic mosaic of economic landscapes in Asia was further complicated during the 1997-1998 economic crisis and thereafter. While some aspects of these economic geographies of Asia have already received research attention, many complex economic geographic processes in Asia have been undertheorized in the literature. This agenda-setting article makes two critical observations. First, the theorization of dynamic economic changes in Asia needs to be more critical of economic geography theories developed elsewhere in the Anglo-American context. The Asian case may significantly challenge existing theories in economic geography. Second, certain geographic processes in Asia require fundamentally new approaches to theorization that may contribute to the development of broader theories in economic geography. The economic dynamism of Asia has provided a useful site for the development of theory and empirical understanding in contemporary economic geography. To support our arguments and observations, we discuss the situatedness and specificity of influential theories of economic geography and offer some constructive suggestions for an intellectual agenda for developing new theories in economic geography.

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“…An emphasis on quantifiable indicators to measure the effectiveness of western‐led development strategies emerged in the 1960s and, following criticisms from a Marxist ‘cultural turn’ (Harvey, , ; Barnes, ), became reinvigorated with the rise of neoliberalism in the 1980s and 1990s (Murray & Overton, ). Hermes and Lensink (), in their critique of a World Bank report on aid assessment (Dollar & Pritchett, ), argued that the debate on aid had shifted, whereby ‘effectiveness’ was dependent on ‘good governance’, or that ‘effectiveness’ of a recipient policy regime was a facilitator of economic growth.…”

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Charity Rankings: Delivering Development or Dehumanising Aid?

Cochrane

Thornton

2015

J of Intl Development

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Individuals want to know which organisations to donate to, and a variety of organisations have developed ranking systems to guide them. This paper explores charity ranking, with a particular focus on the increasing role of impact and 'cost-effectiveness'. Ranking systems are composed of a selection of metrics, which may miss important components and, as a result, create a set of unintended outcomes. We argue that an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and impact in ranking promotes simple, technocratic activities, negatively affects human rights-based interventions and de-prioritises inventions that work in remote, complex settings. The topic of charity ranking and its influence on private donors is limited in the literature, and this paper seeks to make a contribution to this important debate.

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Retheorizing Economic Geography: From the Quantitative Revolution to the “Cultural Turn”

Cited by 23 publications

References 1 publication

Governing and accelerating transformative entrepreneurship: exploring the potential for small business innovation on urban sustainability transitions

Governing and accelerating transformative entrepreneurship: exploring the potential for small business innovation on urban sustainability transitions

Theorizing Economic Geographies of Asia

Charity Rankings: Delivering Development or Dehumanising Aid?

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