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TY - JOUR
T1 - Agency, structure, institutions, discourse (ASID) in urban and regional development
AU - Moulaert, Frank
AU - Jessop, Bob
AU - Mehmood, Abid
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - This paper presents the relations among agency (A), structure (S), institutions (I), and discourse (D) and their analytical relevance for socio-economic development. It argues that an adequate account of these relations must recognize their inherent spatio-temporality and, hence, their space–time dynamics. This is not an optional extra but a definite descriptive and explanatory requirement. Moreover, while structure is recognized as a product of path-dependent institutionalization and path-shaping (collective) agency, agency is seen in turn as discursively and materially reproduced and transformed. This approach treats structure in terms of a differential spatio-temporal configuration of constraints and opportunities, reference to which informs the empirical analysis of strategic agency within the overall agency, structure, institutions, discourse (ASID) heuristic. The paper concludes with an eightfold typology of particular combinations of ASID features to guide analyses of socio-economic development in all its (dis-)junctural complexity.
AB - This paper presents the relations among agency (A), structure (S), institutions (I), and discourse (D) and their analytical relevance for socio-economic development. It argues that an adequate account of these relations must recognize their inherent spatio-temporality and, hence, their space–time dynamics. This is not an optional extra but a definite descriptive and explanatory requirement. Moreover, while structure is recognized as a product of path-dependent institutionalization and path-shaping (collective) agency, agency is seen in turn as discursively and materially reproduced and transformed. This approach treats structure in terms of a differential spatio-temporal configuration of constraints and opportunities, reference to which informs the empirical analysis of strategic agency within the overall agency, structure, institutions, discourse (ASID) heuristic. The paper concludes with an eightfold typology of particular combinations of ASID features to guide analyses of socio-economic development in all its (dis-)junctural complexity.
KW - Urban and regional development analysis
KW - structure
KW - agency
KW - institutions
KW - discourse
KW - strategic-relational approach
KW - identity
KW - Spatiality
KW - conjuncture
KW - ontology
KW - critical realism
U2 - 10.1080/12265934.2016.1182054
DO - 10.1080/12265934.2016.1182054
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
SP - 167
EP - 187
JO - International Journal of Urban Sciences
JF - International Journal of Urban Sciences
SN - 1226-5934
IS - 2
ER -