Poststructural Interventions

Abstract

Poststructuralism is a theoretical approach to knowledge and society that embraces the ultimate undecidability of meaning, the constitutive power of discourse, and the political effectivity of theory and research. Beginning in the 1960s as a movement within French philosophy, poststructural theory soon migrated into the English-speaking world where it has had a transformative impact within philosophy as well as literary and cultural studies. More recently, poststructuralism has gained ground within human geography and the other social sciences. The goals of this chapter are to offer a brief overview of the key insights and concerns of this relatively new theoretical tradition and to chart its nascent development within economic geography, giving a sense of its powers and potentials.

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