文档介绍：Journal: ANNA H Disk used ED: Ramesh Pgn by: chris
Article: 09302011 Pages:22 Despatch Date: 28/3/2003
Practicing New Economic Geographies:
A Methodological Examination
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Practicing new economic geographies necessarily entails a critical re-evaluation of research methodologies because
of its different substantive research foci. In this article, I examine some methodological implications of the recent
refiguring of the ‘‘economic’’ in economic geography. Some key features of new economic geographies include
understanding the social embeddedness of economic action, mapping shifting identities of social actors, and
exploring the role of material and discursive contexts in shaping economic argue that practitioners of new
economic geographies can no longer rely exclusively on established ‘‘scientific’’ methodology for empirical research
and data analysis. Instead, I argue for a process-based methodological framework through which we employ
complementary methodological practices (., tracing works and in situ research) and triangulation, not
only to explore the microfoundations of economic action, but also to generate, in a reflexive manner, theoretical
insights from the multiscalar dimensions of economic action. Keywords: works, new economic geographies,
Q1 process-based methodological framework, reflexivity, research practices, triangulation.
ince the late 1980s and the early 1990s, theoretical Despite this recent interest created by the promise of
and empirical advances in economic geography new economic geographies, however, we seem to have
S have increasingly reshaped the nature of the missed a crucial point—the methodological issue. The
subdiscipline and connected it to wider discourses within practicalities of what it means to ‘‘do’’ new economic
the social sciences. In particular, the concept of ‘‘econom- geographies are still unclear and