A place to start

Bibliographic Data

ID4138604
AuthorsJ Peck (0000-0002-1425-9705, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume56
Issue5
Pages1569-1576
Publication date2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x231198008
PMID39238931
OpenAlexW4386988820
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited23

How do economic geographers determine where to begin their research projects, where to locate and delimit their case studies, where and how to "cut in" to problems? In the absence of self-evident or pregiven answers to these questions, the problem-cum-choice of where and how to start is inescapably tangled up with issues of preliminary conceptualization and indeed theorization, since cases are not so much found as made, being in various ways coproduced with different "theory-method packages." There is (and can be) no singular or universal answer to these questions. Instead, this brief intervention outlines one rationale for getting "started," founded as such rationales should be with reference a particular approach or mode of theorization. The approach here centers on the problematic of recombinant development, on the role of extended case-study designs, and on the still sparsely realized potential of conjunctural modes of analysis

Conceptualization · Economics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Management science · Sociology · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Engineering · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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