The 'New' Regional Geography and Problems of Narrative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Sayer (0000-0001-5564-5154, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 253-276 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d070253 |
| OpenAlex | W2039021623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 94 |
| References cited | 47 |
The growth of interest in a 'new' or reconstructed regional geography is discussed and some of the methodological issues which it raises are examined. The movement originated in radical geography and involves an 'empirical turn' towards works of geohistorical synthesis. Scales of interest range from the global down to the microsociological, with locality studies being prominent. The methodological issues include the problem of the role of theory where explanations tend to be contextual in character, and the need for integrating ethnographic and political economic accounts. Although there are echoes of the old idiographic-nomothetic polarity in the controversy over the 'empirical turn', this traditional way of interpreting the debate is shown to have been undermined by realist philosophy. Yet problems remain in a different form, most importantly, concerning narrative. Two key aspects of narrative are discussed: first, the general problem of the construction of texts and their understanding, especially where they involve the kind of ambitious attempts at geohistorical synthesis which the new regional geography implies; second, there is the more specific problem of the advantages and disadvantages of narrative as opposed to analysis. The paper concludes with some speculations on the kinds of text required by a new, critical regional geography
Critical geography · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Historical geography · Human geography · Linguistics · Locality · Narrative · Nomothetic · Nomothetic and idiographic · Political science · Politics · Regional geography · Social science · Sociology · Strategic geography · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Philosophy · Rural development and sustainability · Urban Planning and Governance
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Critical Realism in Geography
Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions
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European strategic antinomy
The Politics of Polyphony
Geography and History
On the future of regional geography
Postmodernism, urban ethnography, and the new social space of ethnic identity
Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography
Adventures with Marx
Context sensitivity and economic-geographic (re)theorising
An Institutionalist Approach to Local Restructuring
Place, Politics and ‘Scale Dependence’
The restructuring of social imaginations in rural geography
Talking about rurality
Lay discourses of the rural
The regional consequences of economic restructuring
Family farms in the Scottish borders
What's new and What's Regional in the ‘New Regional Geography’
The Region as Cloister
Coping mechanisms and their unintended consequences
Geography by Rail®
Image, practice and the hidden impacts of geographic information systems
Place and region
Geography redux? The history and theory of geography
Regions as social constructs
Region and place
Urban geography
Globalizing Parisian thought-waves
The initiative
For a new regional geography 2
From medical to health geography
The place of food
The agrarian question in Africa
Realistic spatial abstraction? Marxist observations of a claim within critical realist geography
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The postmodern invasion
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Concepts of Space, Understanding in Human Geography, and Spatial Analysis
A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS
Business Organisations, Local Dependence and the Politics of Urban Renewal in Britain
Where Is the Value Added in the Cluster Approach? Hermeneutic Theorising, Economic Geography and Clusters as a Multiperspectival Approach
Foregrounding the region
Regional counter-institutionalisation
Commentaries
Deconstructing Context
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Mapping regions, framing projects
Structure and Agency
From Pillar to Post? In search of the post-productivist countryside in Australia
Working nation , economic change and the regions
Geography, Globalization, and the Problematic of Area Studies
Pro scale
New geographies of story and storytelling
Elusive Societies
Regional narratives, hidden maps, and storied places
Phase space
Multiple Voices
Locality and social representation
A world in a grain of sand
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Defining and Explaining Tropical Deforestation
Circuits of tourism
The Challenge of Post-Modern Scholarship Within Geography
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In what sense a region? Place hybridity, symbolic shape, and institutional formation in (post-) modern Scotland
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Cartographic Anxiety and the Search for Regionality
Behind the Locality Debate
Following the plot of Bengt Pohjanen's Meänmaa
Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and beyond
The development of the labour process in capitalist societies
Writing Culture
The Japanese Automobile Industry
T. S. Kuhn and Social Science
Method in Social Science
The Difference that Space Makes
The Interpretation of Cultures
The end of organized capitalism
Distinction
Social formation and symbolic landscape
Spatial Divisions of Labour
Literary Theory
Social Relations and Spatial Structures
Time, Space and Regionalisation
The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences
The Possibility of Naturalism
Explanation in economic geography
The new regional geography in English and French-speaking countries
Ideology, science and human geography
Dangers of the Empirical Turn
Microcircuits of Capital
The changing urban and regional system in the United Kingdom
Human Territoriality
Place, Practice and Structure
Western Sunrise
The United States in the World Economy
The Highest Form Of The Geographer's Art∗
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
Anthropology as Cultural Critique
Localities, class and gender
Rites of Passage
Arguments within regional geography
Human Agency and Human Geography
The production of regions in England's Industrial Revolution
Postmodernism and the Politics of Social Theory
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Industrial Restructuring, Local Politics and the Reproduction of Labour Power
On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time
Reconsidering Social Theory
Taking Los Angeles Apart
The US Semiconductor Industry
New developments in manufacturing
| Unique citing works | 94 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,54 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 92 |