{"product_id":"theory-and-explanation-in-geography-isbn-9781119845508","title":"Theory and Explanation in Geography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHEORY AND EXPLANATION IN GEOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—KATHARYNE MITCHELL,\u003c\/b\u003e Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eTheory and Explanation in Geography \u003c\/i\u003eYeung presents us with a rare thing - an argument for geographical theory with forms of causal explanation at its heart. The book is both modest and ambitious. Modest in its insistence on mid-level theory without a call for some new “turn” or advocacy for any particular approach. Ambitious in its insistence that existing theoretical traditions are inadequate or incomplete insofar as they lack causal explanatory power. Geographers will be inspired and\/or infuriated by Yeung’s arguments in this provocative and cogently argued call to theoretical arms for many years to come.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eTim Cresswell\u003c\/b\u003e, Ogilvie Professor of Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—JAMIE PECK,\u003c\/b\u003e Canadian Research Chair and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrounded in a generous reading of a multitude of critical approaches in human geography and their diverse conceptions of theory, \u003ci\u003eTheory and Explanation in Geography\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eTheory and Explanation in Geography\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential read for academics, geographers, and scholars seeking unique perspective on an important facet of the field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgement xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Critical Human Geography Today: A Multitude of Approaches and Concepts? 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMain Argument and Approach 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImportant Caveats: What This Book Is Not About 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey Considerations: Of\/For Theory and Explanation 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Outlines 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Contemporary Geographical Thought: Theory and Explanation 36\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheory in Marxism 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheories in Poststructuralism and Post-Phenomenology\/Posthumanism 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActor-Network Theory 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNon-Representational Theory 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssemblage Theory 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-Phenomenology and Posthumanism 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheories in Feminism and Postcolonialism 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminist Theory 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Theory 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. What Kind of Theory for What Kind of Human Geography? 95\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalytical Geographies: Theory and Explanation in Geography 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Concepts to Theories 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Theory to Explanation in Geography 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMid-Range Theories: Critical Realism, Causal Mechanisms, and Relational Thinking 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Realism -- Critical and\/or Speculative? 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCausal Mechanisms and Relational Thinking in Mid-Range Theories 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Relational Theory 129\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelationality and Relational Thought in Contemporary Human\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeography 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelationality in Marxian and Institutional Geographies 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelational Thought in Poststructuralist, Feminist, and Postcolonial Geographies 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking Things Happen: Towards a Relational Theory 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking Relational Thought: Relationality and Power 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCausal Powers and Relationality in Relational Geometries 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Mechanism and Process in Causal Explanation 173\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheorizing Mechanism in Causal Explanation 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconceptualizing Mechanism, Process, and Context 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCausal Theory and Actors 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProcessual Thought in Geography 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Process to Mechanism: Explanatory Theory\/Theorizing in Geography 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Neoliberalization? 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeoliberalization: What's in a Process and What Can Go Wrong? 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplaining Neoliberalism 'with Chinese Characteristics': How Might the Process-Mechanism Distinction Work? 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Theorizing Globalization: Explanatory Theory, Situated Knowledges, and 'Theorizing Back' 212\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization as Geographical Processes 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Causal Theory of Global Production Networks: Explaining Globalization and Its Socio-Spatial Outcomes 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Situated Knowledges: 'Theorizing Back' and Making Theory Work 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre Situated Knowledges Good Enough? 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheorizing Back: Strategic Coupling and Global Economic Geographies 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking Theory Work: The Trouble with Global Production Networks 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. What Kind of Geography for What Kind of Social Science? 252\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards Analytical Geographies: Mid-Range Geographical Theories for Social Science 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond 'Academic Esotericism': Analytical Geographies for Public Engagement and Policy 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 313\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Wai-chung Yeung\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography and Co-Director of Global Production Networks Centre at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the recipient of multiple research awards, including the 2022 Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution by the Regional Studies Association in the UK, the 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the American Association of Geographers, and the 2017 Murchison Award by the Royal Geographical Society, UK.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—KATHARYNE MITCHELL,\u003c\/b\u003e Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—JAMIE PECK,\u003c\/b\u003e Canadian Research Chair and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia, Canada \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in a generous reading of a multitude of critical approaches in human geography and their diverse conceptions of theory, \u003ci\u003eTheory and Explanation in Geography\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eTheory and Explanation in Geography\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential read for academics, geographers, and scholars seeking unique perspective on an important facet of the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990380691685,"sku":"NP9781119845508","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119845508.jpg?v=1761787594","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/theory-and-explanation-in-geography-isbn-9781119845508","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}