Guest Editorial: Researching the geographies of policy mobility: confronting the methodological challenges

Cochrane, Allan and Ward, Kevin (2012). Guest Editorial: Researching the geographies of policy mobility: confronting the methodological challenges. Environment and Planning A, 44(1) pp. 5–12.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1068/a44176

Abstract

Thinking in terms of policy mobilities is a profoundly geographical enterprise. It requires careful attention to the multiple and overlapping spaces of policy making, some of which are considered in the papers that follow and have also been the focus of an increasingly rich vein of research However, the implications of taking such an approach for the ways in which geography is understood are also profound, since they make it necessary to rethink or revisit how to conceptualize some of the taken-for-granted tools and heuristics that are often mobilized in geographical thinking including scale, territory, place, locality, and even the global. It is on some of the ways in which this needs to be done and the ways in which policy mobilities might be researched that this paper is focused.

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• 1472-3409
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• Allan Cochrane and Kevin Ward, 2012. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Environment and Planning A 44(1) p 5-12, 2012 10.1068/a44176
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• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Geography
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• Allan Cochrane