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In this seminar we will review some of the recent development in Economic Geography, especially issues related to the intersection of culture and economy, gender and race, as well as culture and nature. Our geographical focus is East Asia and Southeast Asia in the globalization discourse and debates, we will also include a few innovative works on the Europe and the US. Readings include critical commentaries and grounded ethnographies done by geographers, historians, anthropologists and sociologists. We will follow their critical approach of de-naturalizing theory production, and examine the ideal of reflexive social inquiry and its methodological challenges and possibilities. The goal of this exercise is to see whether and how reflexive economic geographies and rapidly transforming East Asia would bring new inspirations to the study of space, society, and nature.