THEORY AND EXPLANATION IN GEOGRAPHY “With this book Henry Yeung puts
Geography back into the driver’s seat of new theory development.
Foregrounding mid-range theories and mechanism-based explanations, he
offers a pragmatic approach that has the capacity to shape the wider
social sciences for years to come. The timing of this intervention is
pitch-perfect, as scholars search for ways to understand and intervene
in an increasingly distrustful and polarized world.”
—KATHARYNE MITCHELL, Distinguished Professor, University of
California, Santa Cruz, USA “Critical human geography possesses a
distinctive theory culture—pluralist, creative, distributed,
restless, contested—prone to “turning,” wary of orthodoxies and
fixed positions. In this original and provocative contribution, the
leading economic geographer Henry Yeung steps out beyond his home turf
to engage styles and practices of theorizing across this diverse
field, carving out a new remit and rubric for middle-range
theorizing.”
—JAMIE PECK, Canadian Research Chair and Distinguished University
Scholar, University of British Columbia, Canada Grounded in a generous
reading of a multitude of critical approaches in human geography and
their diverse conceptions of theory, _Theory and Explanation in
Geography_ draws upon cutting-edge debates on the mechanism-based
approach to theory and explanation in analytical sociology, political
science, and the philosophy of social sciences to inform current and
future geographical thinking on theory. This consolidated conceptual
work represents an extension and much further development of the
author’s well-cited works on relational geography, critical realism
and causal explanation, process-based methodology, globalization and
the theory of global production networks, and “theorizing back”
and situated knowledges that were published in leading journals in
Geography. The work has several chapters that identify new directions
for Geography’s current and future engagement with the wider social
sciences and relevant research agendas in geographical thought. Its
main chapters provide the necessary conceptual toolkits for mobilizing
such an expanding research program in the 2020s and beyond. Compared
to typical texts on geographical thought, this book is less
retrospective and historical and more prospective in nature. Detailing
why and how mid-range explanatory theories can be better developed
through causal mechanisms and relational thinking that have been
revitalized in the social sciences, _Theory and Explanation in
Geography_ is an essential read for academics, geographers, and
scholars seeking unique perspective on an important facet of the
field.
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ISBN
9781119845522
Publisert
2023
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Wiley Professional, Reference & Trade
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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