Prof. Henry Yeung's new book is entitled Theory and Explanation in Geography. In this colloquium, Dr. Yeung will present an overview of his work and provide an opportunity to discuss it. Dr. Yeung works in the field of economic geography, focusing on global production networks, East Asian development, and the political economy of globalization. His research critically examines how economic activities are organized across borders, emphasizing the roles of firms, states, and institutions in shaping global economic systems. He has published extensively on topics related to transnational corporations, regional economies, and global trade.   Dr. Yeung holds the title of Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography of the National University of Singapore (NUS). In 2025, Dr. Yeung will become the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management at the The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Published by Wiley in its RGS-IBG Book Series in September 2023, Theory and Explanation in Geography is one of the few provocative monographs in recent decades that engages deeply with epistemological debates on theory and method in Geography. This in-person event with the author invites readers and interested participants to examine critically the book’s main tenets and prospects for reflexive theory development as the key to the future of the discipline. The session provides an opportunity for the author to respond to comments and for the audience to engage in further discussions. After a brief introduction of the book by the author, the interactive discussion can potentially address wide-ranging issues, such as epistemology, styles and practices of theorizing in different critical approaches and “isms”, relational thought, processual thinking, mid-range explanatory theories, causal mechanism-based approach to theory and explanation, situated knowledges, “theorizing back”, and so on. The discussion will be relevant for colleagues and students in social and cultural geography, feminist and postcolonial geographies, critical geopolitics, environmental studies, urban geography, economic geography, and other topical interests within the geographical discipline and beyond.