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With apologies for cross posting: CFP for an AAG07 session on: New Economic Geographies - Theoretical and Methodological Issues 'New economic geographies' are part of a wide ranging theoretical shift in geography and across the social sciences. Forged from the multiple 'cultural turns' within the social sciences over the last twenty years, new ways of envisioning capitalism, economy, money and finance have emerged with an emphasis on the constructedness of such concepts, as well as the more than representational character of economic bodies, materials and relations. As part of 'thinking space relationally' (Geografiska Annaler, 2004), for example, geographers now examine the constitution of actors and practices as space, rather than in space. For instance, we now have ways of thinking about the economy, politics, culture and society as stretched-out and networked, but always in relation to each other (Massey, 2005). And yet, this series of theoretical developments far outpaced any related methodological innovation. That is, ontological developments in human geography (natures of being) have gathered a pace far in excess of epistemological and methodological concerns (ways of knowing). Our concern in this session is, first, the translation of relational concerns into and across economic geography, and, second, the everyday 'doing' of economic geography through the generation of categories and concepts, the nature and diversity of empirical research, and the collection and analysis of data. This session invites papers which deal with one or more of the following themes: * The future of core concepts within economic geography (space, place, time, region, scale) after the relational turn. * Developments in methodology, such as new ways of locating relationality, as well as reflective/reflexive approaches and multi-method frameworks for grappling with thinking economic space relationally. * Empirical applications of relational approaches to the economic and the recursive links between theory and empirics more broadly. * Beyond relational space - alternative conceptions of economic space/spatiality and the manifold theoretical and methodological repercussions of these. Abstracts to Adrian Smith ([log in to unmask]) by 31st October