*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.*
Call for Panellists for Global Conference on Economic Geography, Worcester (USA), 4-8 June 2025 Panel Session: Debating Exchange and Cross-Fertilization between Economic Geography's Research Communities and Paradigms Session organizers: Han Chu, Kiel University, Germany Robert Hassink, Kiel University, Germany Şükrü Yılmaz, Kiel University, Germany Economic geography is a sub-discipline that is characterized by pluralism (Martin, 2021), both concerning paradigms and perspectives and concerning topic-related research communities, and there has been ample debate about whether this pluralism can be regarded as engaged or fragmented (Barnes & Sheppard, 2010; Martin, 2021; Chu et al., 2024; Van Meeteren, 2023). Concerning paradigms and perspectives, Chu et al. (2024) recently identified the following: evolutionary economic geography (EEG), relational economic geography (REG), institutional economic geography (IEG), geographical political economy (GPE) and alternative economic geographies (AEG). Paradigms and perspectives draw from heterodox economics to have the power to explain phenomena around the spatial distribution of economies in a broad and all-encompassing way. Chu et al. (2024) draw two conclusions on the basis of a bibliometric analysis; first, there is more engaged pluralism between them than expected on the basis of discussions in the literature and, secondly, evolutionary economic geography is by far the most popular paradigm, but, overall, the reference made to paradigms and perspectives is decreasing. Concerning research communities or “major research foci and communities” (Yeung, 2023: 1), which focus more on recent empirical trends in the economy and society at large, the following non-exclusive list can be identified (Barnes and Christophers, 2018; Barnes and Sheppard, 2024; Yeung, 2023): environmental economic geography (Braun et al., 2018; He et al., 2022), the geography of sustainability transitions (Hansen and Coenen, 2015), financial geography (Wójcik, 2022; Gibadullina, 2021), global production networks (Coe and Yeung, 2019), labor geography (Peck, 2018), entrepreneurship (Sternberg, 2022) and the platform economy (Kenney and Zysman, 2020). Some of these communities enjoy increasing popularity and hence grow strongly, stronger than the above-mentioned paradigms and perspectives. Although there have been some examples of attempts to link communities to paradigms, such as with environmental economic geography and EEG (Patchell & Hayter, 2013) and global production networks and EEG (Yeung, 2021), we see scope for exploring and discussing more cross-fertilization and synergies between communities and paradigms, which is the main aim of this panel session. This might not only help better explaining understanding some empirical phenomena researched in the communities, but it might also help to rejuvenate and re-strengthen some paradigms. At a higher abstraction level, such a dynamic debate about communities and paradigms might also contribute to find out what economic geography is and how it can explain geographical differentiation of economic activities and their spatial evolution. If you are interested to be panelist, please write a few lines on how you could contribute to this panel to Han Chu [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> by Friday 10th January 2025. Following acceptance (Monday 13th January 2015), you will be required to submit your attendance to the conference registration page (https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgceg.org%2Findex.php%2Fregister%2F&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653816638%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Oif9kSVRxuEWzHd0cQ%2FTx%2FWjrSDWODc9%2Fk%2BlydALbCw%3D&reserved=0) by the GCEG deadline of 15th January 2025. We also welcome queries or requests for further information. References Barnes, T. J., & Christophers, B. (2018). Economic geography: A critical introduction. John Wiley & Sons. Barnes, T. J., & Sheppard, E. (2010). ‘Nothing includes everything’: towards engaged pluralism in Anglophone economic geography. Progress in Human Geography, 34(2), 193-214. Barnes, T. J., & Sheppard, E. (2024). Economic Geography. In: The International Encyclopedia of Geography. Wiley. Braun B, Oßenbrügge J and Schulz C (2018) Environmental economic geography and environmental inequality: challenges and new research prospects. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie 62(2): 120–134. Chu, H., Hassink, R., & Yılmaz, Ş. (2024). Fragmented or engaged pluralism in economic geography? Progress in Human Geography, 48(3), 247-274. Coe NM and Yeung HWC (2019) Global production networks: mapping recent conceptual developments. Journal of Economic Geography 19(4): 775–801. Gibadullina A (2021) The birth and development of Anglophone financial geography: A historical analysis of geographical studies of money and finance. Geoforum 125, 150–167. Gong H and Hassink R (2020) Context sensitivity and economic-geographic (re)theorising. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 13(3): 475-490. Hansen T and Coenen (2015) The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field. Environmental innovation and societal transitions 17: 92–109. He C, He S, Mu E and Peng J (2022) Environmental economic geography: Recent advances and innovative development. Geography and Sustainability 3(2): 152–163. Kenney M and Zysman J (2020) The platform economy: restructuring the space of capitalist accumulation. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 13(1): 55–76. Martin, R. (2021). Putting the case for a pluralistic economic geography. Journal of Economic Geography, 21(1), 1-28. Patchell, J., & Hayter, R. (2013). Environmental and evolutionary economic geography: time for EEG2? Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 95(2), 111-130. Peck, J. (2018). Pluralizing labour geography. In: Clark, G.L., Feldman, M.P., Gertler, M.S. & Wójcik, D. (Eds.) The new Oxford handbook of economic geography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 465–484. Sternberg, R. (2022). Entrepreneurship and geography—some thoughts about a complex relationship. The Annals of Regional Science, 69(3), 559-584. Van Meeteren, M. (2023). Geografisch denken als curriculaire grammatica. In: T Béneker, G van Campenhout & R van der Vaart (eds.), Aardrijkskunde in Transitie? Vakinhoudelijke perspectieven op de examenprogramma’s aardrijkskunde. Utrecht: KNAG, 76-81. Wójcik D (2022) Financial geography III: Research strategies, designs, methods and data. Progress in Human Geography 46(1): 245–254. Yeung, H. W. C. (2021). Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks. Regional Studies, 55(6), 989-1010. Yeung HWC (2023) Troubling economic geography: New directions in the post‐pandemic world. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 48(4): 672–680. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Hassink Professor of Economic Geography Dept. of Geography, Kiel University Ludewig-Meyn-Str. 8 24118 Kiel, Germany tel. 0049-431-880-2951 fax 0049-431-880-5290 e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wigeo.uni-kiel.de%2Fen%2FPeople%2Frobert-hassink&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653816638%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=h69wt0HMzHGhK04pE%2FkgbK%2FfonoUPN7So%2BApIrGUj7E%3D&reserved=0 Visiting Professor in the School of Geography, Politics & Sociology (Centre for Urban & Regional Development Studies (CURDS)), Newcastle University, UK https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncl.ac.uk%2Fcurds%2Fpeople%2Fvisiting.htm&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653972922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FqiJIdcOBLcnULB5aYR3jnIZtx1lnJdqlHq9FVVotHw%3D&reserved=0 Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Economic Geography (Elsevier) https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fjournal%2Fprogress-in-economic-geography&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653972922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dlBsUXXxTt3WRsAged3FptWIFlSUyh0aodGxlOVOHgE%3D&reserved=0 Editorial Board Member of Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (Oxford University Press) https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fcjres&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653972922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MIROuYKcPyCm5BWRIDyafav4MJCdDVVaYIYM5zPU4UE%3D&reserved=0 ResearchGate Profile: Robert Hassink https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fprofile%2FRobert_Hassink&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653972922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EDLoxFe%2BF4lsLkJzJaIy82%2FvOBeEpTgXqS7rjCL%2BHhU%3D&reserved=0 Google Scholar Profile: Robert Hassink https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.de%2Fcitations%3Fuser%3DFtyhWG0AAAAJ%26hl%3Dde%26oi%3Dao&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653972922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SjjrsSywEvClYK82JPMoXHPDYVV5bXlYsBWBRW8N%2Beg%3D&reserved=0 Publons Profile: Robert Hassink https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublons.com%2Fauthor%2F1231174%2Frobert-hassink%23profile&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653972922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Dp2H%2FeT6yqjFD1UDeSMdZowaMsCEVsF8TB8nXx65ZHc%3D&reserved=0 Twitter Account @RobertHassink https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FRobertHassink&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653972922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WrWz7ni5TFb5PRlWSq5zZcq5BZT%2BzdPe9WbH4MOIJQ0%3D&reserved=0 LinkedIn Account https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Frobert-hassink-8b68371%2F&data=05%7C02%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C268f2c7c42b24778ff0f08dd0a0a58c1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638677763653972922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7pGy94NYoNhjdEqMEiQTQk4YbCYtPc0C4d3TD%2FUv%2Fiw%3D&reserved=0 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
