Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung
National University Singapore
Author-Meets-Readers: Theory and Explanation in Geography
Published in 2023, Theory and Explanation in Geography is one of the few provocative monographs in recent decades that engages deeply with epistemological debates on theory and method in Geography. This event with the author invites readers and interested participants to examine critically the book’s main tenets and prospects for reflexive theory development as the key to the future of the discipline. After an introduction of the book by the author, the interactive discussion can potentially address wide-ranging issues, such as epistemology, styles and practices of theorizing in different critical approaches and “isms”, relational thought, processual thinking, mid-range explanatory theories, causal mechanism-based approach to theory and explanation, situated knowledges, “theorizing back”, and so on. The discussion will be relevant for colleagues and students in social and cultural geography, feminist and postcolonial geographies, critical geopolitics, environmental studies, urban geography, economic geography, and other topical interests within the geographical discipline and beyond.
All lectures are presented in room 180 of Science Hall every Friday at 3:30 PM. For those unable to attend in person, the meeting can be joined via Livestream https://go.wisc.edu/l880yf except when otherwise indicated. Alumni, friends and the public are always invited to attend.