Writing regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard
form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the
quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and
more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the
end of the twentieth century. From then on writing regions as they
were experienced phenomenologically, or arguing culturally,
historically, and politically with regions, was deemed to be
old-fashioned. Yet the region is, and always will be, a central
geographical concept, and thinking about regions can tell us a lot
about the history of the discipline called geography. Despite
taking up an identifiable place within the geographical imagination
in scholarship and beyond, region remains a relatively forgotten,
under-used, and in part under-theorised term. Reanimating Regions
marks the continued reinvigoration of a set of disciplinary debates
surrounding regions, the regional, and regional geography. Across
18 chapters from international, interdisciplinary scholars, this
book writes and performs region as a temporary permanence,
something held stable, not fixed and absolute, at different points
in time, for different purposes. There is, as this expansive volume
outlines, no single reading of a region. Reanimating Regions
collectively rebalances the region within geography and
geographical thought. In renewing the geography of regions as not
only a site of investigation but also as an analytical framework
through which to write the world, what emerges is a powerful
reworking of the geographic imagination. Read against one another,
the chapters weave together timely commentaries on region and
regions across the globe, with a particular emphasis upon the
regional as played out in the United Kingdom, and regional worlds
both within and beyond Europe, offering chapters from Africa and
South America. Addressing both the political and the cultural, this
volume responds to the need for a consolidated and considered
reflection on region, the regional, and regional geography,
speaking directly to broader intellectual concerns with
performance, aesthetics, identity, mobilities, the environment, and
the body.
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