IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envira/v56y2024i5p1569-1576.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A place to start?

Author

Listed:
  • Jamie Peck

Abstract

How do economic geographers determine where to begin their research projects, where to locate and delimit their case studies, where and how to “cut in†to problems? In the absence of self-evident or pregiven answers to these questions, the problem-cum-choice of where and how to start is inescapably tangled up with issues of preliminary conceptualization and indeed theorization, since cases are not so much found as made, being in various ways coproduced with different “theory-method packages.†There is (and can be) no singular or universal answer to these questions. Instead, this brief intervention outlines one rationale for getting “started,†founded as such rationales should be with reference a particular approach or mode of theorization. The approach here centers on the problematic of recombinant development, on the role of extended case-study designs, and on the still sparsely realized potential of conjunctural modes of analysis.

Suggested Citation

  • Jamie Peck, 2024. "A place to start?," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 56(5), pages 1569-1576, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:56:y:2024:i:5:p:1569-1576
    DOI: 10.1177/0308518X231198008
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X231198008
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0308518X231198008?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:56:y:2024:i:5:p:1569-1576. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.