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- Title
De‐Centering in Practice: Governance through Co‐ordination in Spanish Economic Geography.
- Authors
Sánchez‐Hernández, José Luis
- Abstract
This commentary draws on the Spanish case to shed light on the three dimensions of de‐centering in economic geography: epistemological, geographical, and idiomatic. Although the geography of contributors to the most influential Companions and Handbooks of economic geography shows hints of a timid de‐centering from the UK and the USA to other English‐speaking or English‐fluent countries in America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe, Spain still remains outside this language‐led process. However, reasons other than language must be taken into account for a proper understanding of this situation. Indeed, a small but engaged network of economic geographers has settled in Spain since the late 1980s. These scholars have developed a research agenda in close dialogue with some of the main concerns of Anglo‐American economic geography. Such a development has followed a path of its own, contingent to the Spanish academic environment and to some specific traits of that network: a sustained reliance on coordinated research projects with several universities involved (the how); a shared definition of the core research topics (the what); and a process of internationalisation that does not equate to getting our papers published in English‐speaking outlets (the where). Since 1990, economic geography in Spain has developed a research agenda in close dialogue with some of the main concerns of Anglo‐American economic geography. Such a development has followed a path of its own, contingent to the Spanish academic environment and to some specific traits of the network of economic geographers involved: a sustained reliance on co‐ordinated research projects with several universities involved (the how); a shared definition of the core research topics (the what); and a process of internationalization that does not equate to getting our papers published in English‐speaking outlets (the where).
- Subjects
SPAIN; ECONOMIC geography; ENGLISH-speaking countries; GEOGRAPHERS; GEOGRAPHY
- Publication
Geographical Journal, 2021, Vol 187, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
0016-7398
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/geoj.12374