How does context matter in interviewing elites in economic geography?
本文重新定义访谈中的“背景”为持续塑造过程的主动力量，而非预设条件，基于中国和巴西的田野调查，为经济地理学精英访谈方法提供新视角。
This article advances methodological debates on elite interviewing in economic geography by foregrounding context not as a set of ex ante conditions encountered in the field, but as an active and constitutive force that continuously shapes conduct throughout the interview process. Drawing on the authors’ fieldwork in China and Brazil, we show how context shapes the practices and outcomes of elite interviewing. The article contributes by recasting elite interviews as relational practices that must procedurally adapt to sociopolitical and cultural settings, and it further brings visibility to the recent debates on decentralizing theory-building from Anglo-American countries.