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'Whither regional studies?' (Paperback)
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'Whither regional studies?' (Paperback)
Series: Regions and Cities
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Regional studies are at a vibrant conjuncture. 'Regions' continue
to provide a conceptual and analytical focus for often overlapping
concerns with economic, social, political, cultural and ecological
change. In the context of increased interest in inter- and
multi-disciplinary approaches, 'regions' remain an arena in which
synthesis across disciplines - economics, geography, planning,
politics and sociology - can take place. Yet recent work has raised
fundamental questions about how we think about and research
'regions' and regional change, 'development', governance and
regulation. First, emergent conceptual ideas have introduced new
thinking about space, place and scale that interprets 'regions' as
'unbounded', relational spaces. This work has disturbed notions of
'regions' as bounded territories and questioned hierarchical
systems of scale through more complex, multi-scalar approaches.
Second, research methodology has grown in sophistication and
sensitivity but remains somewhat polarised between the binaries of
positivist, often quantitative, and more theoretically diverse,
typically qualitative, approaches. Last, regional governance,
policy and politics are wrestling with the conceptual,
methodological and political complexities of new modes and
geographies of governance and emergent multi-agent and multi-level
institutional architectures. This book brings together important
voices in regional studies to contribute to and reflect upon these
current issues and debates. While we are at an early stage in
beginning to think through what such conceptual, theoretical,
methodological, governance, policy and political innovations and
developments mean for regional studies, the magnitude and resonance
of such issues underpin the vitality of research on the region.
This book was published as a special issue of Regional Studies.
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