Toward a relational economic geography

Rethinking relational economic geography

Recent theoretical and empirical work in economic geography has experienced what might be termed a ‘relational turn’ that focuses primarily on the ways in which sociospatial relations of economic actors are intertwined with processes of economic change at various geographical scales. This phenomenon begs the questions of whether the ‘relational turn’ is simply an explicit reworking of what migh...

Towards a Relational Economic Geography: Old Wine in New Bottles?

Recent theoretical and empirical advances in economic geography have contributed to the emergence of what might be termed a “relational turn” that focuses primarily on the ways in which socio-spatial relations of actors are intertwined with processes of economic changes at various geographical scales – global, local, or glocal. This mapping of actororiented “relational geometries” fundamentally...

Economic geography

TSpace Research Repository tspace.library.utoronto.ca Resources in Economic Geography: From Substantive Concepts Towards a Relational Perspective

Resources are crucial for the technological and economic development of firms in spatial perspective. In this paper, we contrast two ways of conceptualizing resources and argue that a conventional, substantive understanding implies a number of shortcomings which can be overcome through the application of a relational conception of resources. In examining four types of resources, i.e. material r...

Resources in economic geography: from substantive concepts towards a relational perspective

Resources are crucial for the technological and economic development of firms in spatial perspective. In this paper we contrast two ways of conceptualizing resources, and argue that a conventional, substantive understanding implies a number of shortcomings which can be overcome through the application of a relational conception of resources. In examining four types of resourcesömaterial resourc...