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Markus Grillitsch

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Path tracing in the study of agency and structures : Methodological considerations

Författare

  • Markku Sotarauta
  • Markus Grillitsch

Summary, in English

Despite the rapidly expanding literature on agency in regional development, the methodological approaches available to study it have not followed theoretical development and empirical studies. This article aims to shed light on methodological issues related to the study of path dependence, path creation and agency. The article’s main purpose is to construct a methodology - path tracing - that would allow studying path development by scrutinising how structures constrain actors and how actors work to shape the very same structures in which they are embedded. Path tracing draws on critical realism, process tracing and structured narrative analysis.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
  • CIRCLE

Publiceringsår

2023

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Progress in Human Geography

Volym

47

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Human Geography

Nyckelord

  • agency
  • methodology
  • narrative
  • path development
  • process
  • structure

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Regional Growth against all odds

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0309-1325