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The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration
Abstract
Fruitful new avenues of theorization and research have been opened by recent writings on the production of geographical scale. However, this outpouring of research on scale production and on rescaling processes has been accompanied by a notable analytical blunting of the concept of geographical scale as it has been blended unreflexively into other core geographical concepts such as place, locality, territory and space. This essay explores this methodological danger: first, through a critical reading of Sallie Marston's (2000) recent article in this journal on ‘The social construction of scale’; second, through a critical examination of the influential notion of a politics ‘of ‘ scale. A concluding section suggests that our theoretical grasp of geographical scale could be significantly advanced if scaling processes are distinguished more precisely from other major dimensions of sociospatial structuration under capitalism. Eleven methodological hypotheses for confronting this task are then proposed.
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- Authors
- Brenner, N.
- Venue
- Progress in Human Geography
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2001-12
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 591-614
- ISSN
- 0309-1325 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-0288
- OpenAlex
- W2099076760
- Cited by
- 1,263
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 212.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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