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Agenda ► Questions? ► GetFast ► Review Outline Field Trips Hostage-taking in North Ossetia 2 fundamental continua in academic geography ► Defining economic geography ► Subfields of economic geography (Economic sectors) ► Approaches to economic geography
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Production ► Primary ► Secondary ► Tertiary ► Quaternary Transportation and andcommunications
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Production ► Primary ► Secondary ► Tertiary ► Quaternary Transportation and andcommunications
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Macro-theoretical Approaches to Economic Geography ► Positivism Empirical ► Quantitative ► Qualitative ► idiographic (not!) Theory, hypothesis testing, nomothetic ► Structuralism Forces of production Relations of production Modes of production
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Approaches (contd.) ► Structuralism (contd.) Infrastructure (relations of production) Superstructure The empirical may not detect underlying causal structures! ► Humanism (humanistic geography) Human agency not structures Objectivity (not) Generalize (not) Post-humanism/post structuralism/post- colonialism/post-modernism
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What approach would you take, as an economic geographer, to explain this?
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