Place
Unicom building
Room: 7.1020
Mary-Somerville-Straße 7
28359 Bremen
Time
10.15 - 11.45 am
Organiser
Teilprojekt A01: SFB 1342, Universität Bremen
Contact Person

Social networks have become a popular method to advance relational thinking in human geography. In recognizing the challenge of how to reconcile the tension between ‘structure and meaning’ (Pachucki and Breiger, 2010), we elaborate on the concepts of connectivity, contextuality, and reflexivity to overcome the dualism between universalist network science on the one hand and idiosyncratic network stories on the other. Based on a detailed meta-analysis of over 300 network studies in human geography between 1990 and 2018, we argue for and elaborate on combined methodological approaches to unleash the full potential of relational geography.