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'Nothing includes everything': towards engaged pluralism in Anglophone economic geography

¹ Department of Geography, 1984 West Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada
² Department of Geography, 414 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Avenue South, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tbarnes{at}geog.ubc.ca.

	Abstract

Economic geography has become increasingly fragmented into a series of intellectual solitudes that has created isolation, producing monologues rather than conversation, and raising the question of how knowledge production should proceed. Inspired by science studies and feminism, we argue for an engaged pluralist approach to economic geography based on dialogue, translation, and the creation of ‘trading zones’. We envision a determinedly anti-monist and anti-reductionist discipline that recognizes and connects a diverse range of circulating local epistemologies: a politics of difference rather than of consensus or popularity. Our model is GIS that underwent significant shifts during the last decade by practicing engaged pluralism, and creating new forms of knowledge. Similar possibilities we suggest exist for economic geography.

First published on September 28, 2009
Progress in Human Geography 2009, doi:10.1177/0309132509343728


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