1. 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

2. Production ► Primary ► Secondary ► Tertiary ► Quaternary Transportation and andcommunications

3. Production ► Primary ► Secondary ► Tertiary ► Quaternary Transportation and andcommunications

4. 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

5. 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

6. What approach would you take, as an economic geographer, to explain this?