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This is the first sustained discussion of methodological issues in economic geography in the last twenty years. It comprises an extended discussion of qualitative and ethnographic methods; an assessment of quantitative and numerical methods; an examination of post-structuralist and feminist methodologies; an overview of case-study approaches; and an inquiry into the relation between economic geography and other disciplines. With short, accessible, and engaging chapters, this is a critical assessment of qualitative and quantitative methods in economic geography.
Locating the Thai State
Locating the Thai State
The nationalist modifiers that habitually prefix the word ‘state’ — in my case, ‘Thai’ — impart a considerable geographic specificity. The Thai state seems to be delimited to the space of Thailand. Yet, without rejecting the salience of the various political projects called ‘nationalist’, I have come in the course of my research to doubt that there is any such singular, geographically bounded Thai state. I reflect on this process of questioning in three interconnected ways here, each speaking to the politics and practice of research. First, I identify distinct ways in which ‘the Thai state’ can be unbundled as an object of analysis and the associated methodological issues that have come up. Second, I note how even ...
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