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PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 193-214Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0309132509343728
Keywords
economic geography; feminism; GIS; pluralism; pragmatism; science studies; trading zones
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Economic geography has become increasingly fragmented into a series of intellectual solitudes that has created isolation, producing monologues rather than conversation, and raising the question of how knowledge production should proceed. Inspired by science studies and feminism, we argue for an engaged pluralist approach to economic geography based on dialogue, translation, and the creation of 'trading zones'. We envision a determinedly anti-monist and anti-reductionist discipline that recognizes and connects a diverse range of circulating local epistemologies: a politics of difference rather than of consensus or popularity. Our model is GIS that underwent significant shifts during the last decade by practicing engaged pluralism, and creating new forms of knowledge. Similar possibilities we suggest exist for economic geography.
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