Abstract
Doing institutions. A dialectic reading of institutions and social practices and its relevance for development geography
Highlights
The institutional debate in development geographyIt goes without saying that laws, rules, social norms, values and shared cognitive systems are fundamental aspects of human behavior
Institutional theory that concentrates on these issues plays only a shadowy existence in the conceptual discussions in human geography
Of all geographical sub-disciplines, the study of institutions is probably most firmly established in economic geography
Summary
It goes without saying that laws, rules, social norms, values and shared cognitive systems are fundamental aspects of human behavior. Numerous human geographers have continuously carried out research on and about institutions in recent decades Their empirical studies have rarely focused on institutions as such, but implicitly pointed to the importance of analyzing institutions in order to understand the social world. Compared to Sen, North broadened the understanding of institutions by incorporating informal rules, such as norms, habits, attitudes and beliefs into his conceptualization, which provided some common ground for works in development geography (Harriss et al 1995; Leach et al 1999; Büttner 2001; Coy 2001; Müller-Böker 2001; Thomi 2001; Krüger 2003; De Haan and Zoomers 2005; Fünfgeld 2007; Noe 2007d; Etzold et al 2009). The article ends with suggestions for future emphasis in institutional research in development geography
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