Author Meets Readers: Theory and Explanation in Geography by Henry Yeung

Author Meets Readers: Theory and Explanation in Geography by Henry Yeung

Friday, October 11, 2024 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Sidney Smith Hall (SSH) 2127

An author meets the critics session on his 2024 book, Theory and Explanation in Geography. The format is Henry speaking about the book for 20 minutes, followed by four critics (two faculty and two grad students) speaking for 5-10 minutes each. The critics are Jun Zhang, Katharine Rankin, Shuxi Wu and Kevin Roy. Light refreshments will be provided. 

Graduate Student Session: Focus on Economic Geographers by Henry Yeung

Friday, October 11, 2024 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Sidney Smith Hall (SSH) 5017

This will involve discussing Henry's 2023 article "Troubling economic geography" and two responses to the piece by Shaina Potts and Trevor Barnes. Light refreshments will be provided. 

Reading - ‘Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world’

Reading - (Re)centring the geopolitical

Reading - Troubling economic geography

About the speaker

Professor Henry Yeung received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1995. He is Distinguished Professor (and Professor of Economic Geography since 2005) at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, until 31 December 2024. In January 2025, he will take up the Choh-Ming Li Professorship at the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

As a leading academic expert in global production networks and the global economy, his research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, East Asian firms, and developmental states. He is the first geographer based in Asia to receive both the 2018 American Association of Geographers Distinguished Scholarship Honors (“in recognition of his extraordinary scholarship and leadership in the discipline”) and the UK’s Royal Geographical Society Murchison Award 2017 (for “pioneering publications in the field of globalisation”). In November 2022, he was conferred the 2022 Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field by the Regional Studies Association in London: “acknowledging and celebrating excellence in the field of regional studies”.

His most recent books are Theory and Explanation in Geography (RGS-IBG Book Series, Wiley, September 2023),  Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia (Innovation and Technology in the World Economy Series, Stanford University Press, June 2022; Silver Medal in the Business Theory Category from the 2023 Axiom Business Book Awards and winner of the 2024 ISA Asia-Pacific Distinguished Book Award, sponsored by the International Studies Association), Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy (Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series, Cornell University Press, 2016), and Global Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World (with Neil Coe, Oxford University Press, 2015).