Chapters

This chapter elaborates an economic and social policy responses to build on the skills and ideas of marginalised groups.

Offers a counter to the common denigration of local economic politics 'in the face of globalization'.

This chapter in the Companion to Economic Geography overviews three poststructural strategies: deconstruction; discourse analysis and genealogy; and performativity. It then uses examples to show how these strategies have been picked up in the work of economic geographers, and it concludes by focusing how economic geographers have used these strategies in research projects that have an explicit agenda to help shape positive change in the world. Overall, the chapter aims to give a sense of the powers and potentials of poststructural interventions.