TY - JOUR
T1 - Diversity, representation, and the limits of engaged pluralism in (economic) geography
AU - Rosenman, Emily
AU - Loomis, Jessa
AU - Kay, Kelly
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper began as a conversation at the 2016 Summer Institute in Economic Geography (SIEG) and we are indebted to SIEG organizers, faculty, and fellow participants for inspiring us to reflect on the scope and nature of economic geography. We are grateful to Renee Tapp, Amy Horton, and Dan Cockayne for inspiration through our collaborative efforts to imagine a different future for the field. A version of this article was presented at the 2017 Feminist Geography Conference in Chapel Hill, NC, and feedback from this session helped us to clarify our contribution. Three reviewers offered thoughtful and generous feedback that greatly improved this article’s arguments and structure – our thanks to each of them for their time and labor. Thanks are also due to Matt Zebrowski for data visualization assistance and to Elvin Wyly for methodological inspiration. All errors are our own. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Within geography writ large, and economic geography in particular, there has been increasing interest in ‘engaged pluralism’ – defined by its proponents as lively and respectful engagement across theoretical, methodological, and topical lines – to increase diversity and build mutual respect among scholars. Drawing on feminist and postcolonial scholarship, we offer a sympathetic critique of engaged pluralism, grounded in a review of publishing trends in economic geography. Our findings reveal theoretical inertia around particular topics and paradigms, as well as low rates of publishing participation from women. We close with a discussion of engagement, reciprocity, and meaningful contact.
AB - Within geography writ large, and economic geography in particular, there has been increasing interest in ‘engaged pluralism’ – defined by its proponents as lively and respectful engagement across theoretical, methodological, and topical lines – to increase diversity and build mutual respect among scholars. Drawing on feminist and postcolonial scholarship, we offer a sympathetic critique of engaged pluralism, grounded in a review of publishing trends in economic geography. Our findings reveal theoretical inertia around particular topics and paradigms, as well as low rates of publishing participation from women. We close with a discussion of engagement, reciprocity, and meaningful contact.
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U2 - 10.1177/0309132519833453
DO - 10.1177/0309132519833453
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062460347
VL - 44
SP - 510
EP - 533
JO - Progress in Human Geography
JF - Progress in Human Geography
SN - 0309-1325
IS - 3
ER -