RESEARCH ON POLICY MOBILITY FROM A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS
GUO Jie1,2,3, DU Zhi-wei1,2,3, ZHANG Hong-ou1,2,3, WANG Kun1,2,3
1. Guangzhou Institute of Geography Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China; 2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and GIS Application, Guangdong 510070, China; 3. Guangdong Public Laboratory of Geospatial Information Technology and Application, Guangzhou 510070, China
Abstract：In the context of increasing globalization, policy mobility has become an important and cuttingedge topic in international human geography, attracting extensive attention from scholars of political economy, post-colonialism and post-structuralism, and generating a wealth of theoretical and empirical research. Based on the critique of the "normative-rational" perspective of political science, geographers have adopted the "relational-constructive" and "topological This paper explores the issues of policy mobility and variation, the uneven geography of policy mobility, and the topological network of policy circulation from a "relational-constructive" and "topological-assemblage" perspective. This paper compares the three shifts in research perspectives on policy mobility and summarizes the core issues, research methods and limitations of different perspectives. It is argued that the study of policy mobility provides both theoretical and methodological implications for rethinking local policy making, innovation diffusion and uneven geographical development in China. Future research should be strengthened in the following areas:(i) The relational, interplace, and cross-scale constructive processes of policy making and knowledge innovation, (ii) the relationship between the diffusion mechanism of policy innovation and geographically uneven development, and (iii) the relationship between territorial governance and policy making in China and the construction of a global policy community.
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GUO Jie, DU Zhi-wei, ZHANG Hong-ou, WANG Kun. RESEARCH ON POLICY MOBILITY FROM A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2024, 39(1): 1-7.
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