Theorizing Economic Geographies of Asia

By Henry S. C. Yeung, G. Lin. Economic Geography, 2003

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Abstract Economic geographies of Asia are highly fascinating, not the least because Asia has increasingly emerged as a significant economic player in all spheres of global competition: production, consumption, and circulation. This dynamic mosaic of economic landscapes in Asia was further complicated during the 1997–1998 economic crisis and thereafter. While some aspects of these economic geographies of Asia have already received research attention, many complex economic geographic processes in Asia have been undertheorized in the literature. This agenda-setting article makes two critical observations. First, the theorization of dynamic economic changes in Asia needs to be more critical of economic geography theories developed elsewhere in the Anglo-American context. The Asian case may significantly challenge existing theories in economic geography. Second, certain geographic processes in Asia require fundamentally new approaches to theorization that may contribute to the development of broader theories in economic geography. The economic dynamism of Asia has provided a useful site for the development of theory and empirical understanding in contemporary economic geography. To support our arguments and observations, we discuss the situatedness and specificity of influential theories of economic geography and offer some constructive suggestions for an intellectual agenda for developing new theories in economic geography.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Geographies of production: growth regimes in spatial perspective 3 - toward a relational view of economic action and policy (2006, background): “References to African contexts or Asian views have, for instance, been relatively rare (eg, Lee, 200 1; Murphy, 2003;Yeung and Lin, 2003).”
China's Landed Urbanization: Neoliberalizing Politics, Land Commodification, and Municipal Finance in the Growth of Metropolises (2014, background): “…has obvious limitations and that a common ground or trading zone needs to be opened up, taking seriously practices of “the others” so that “we are willing to listen to others without denying or suppressing the otherness of the other” (Barnes and Sheppard, 2010, page 194; Yeung and Lin, 2003).”
Knowledges of the creative economy: Towards a relational geography of diffusion and adaptation in Asia (2006, background): “…in Asia, nor does it explain how via the circulation and mutation of creative economy discourses, credibility is accorded to the output of Northern thinkers (cf. Yeung, 2002; Gibson and Klocker 2004), as their ideas move through international circuits of publishing, conferencing and policy debate.”
Handbook of Local and Regional Development (2010, background): “There is value in ‘theorising back’ (Yeung and Lin 2003) from empirical analysis in the Global South at dominant western, Global North perspectives (Nel, Chien, Vázquez-Barquero, Green Leigh and Clark, Dunford, this volume).”
The restructuring of old industrial areas in Europe and Asia (2005, result): “Comparing Asian and European research results on lock-ins will contribute to a badly needed stronger involvement of Asian research in mainstream economic geography (Yeung and Lin, 2003).”
Toward a Dynamic Theory of Global Production Networks (2015, background): “…GPN 2.0—that seeks to break significant new conceptual ground and inform subsequent rounds of empirical research.3 It may also, we hope, represent a theoretical contribution and potential export from the field of economic geography to the wider social sciences (cf. Dicken 2004; Yeung and Lin 2003).”
Regional Development in China: Transitional Institutions, Embedded Globalization, and Hybrid Economies (2007, unknown): “This view is broader than the recent call for theorization among geographers working on China/Asia (Lin and Wei, 2002; Yeung and Lin, 2003).”