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Rescaling the European State - The Making of Territory and the Rise of the Meso (Hardcover)
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Rescaling the European State - The Making of Territory and the Rise of the Meso (Hardcover)
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Social scientists have regularly proclaimed the end of territory
under successive waves of modernization, yet it continually
re-emerges as a key principle of social, economic, and political
organization. Rather than a de-territorialization we are witnessing
a rescaling of social life as functional systems, identities, and
political expression migrate to new levels. This is not new, but is
a recurrent feature of the European state. States have sought to
reassert control over these new spaces, while political and social
movements have sought to politicize them and open them up to
popular influence. The result has been the emergence of the
meso-level or region as set of contested spaces, and increasingly
as a level of government. Social and economic interests are
refracted at these new territorial levels to reshape the policy
agenda and create new social alliances and conflicts. Regions have
emerged as spaces for public policy, with significant divergences
over economic development, welfare policies, public services and
environmental issues. Rescaling poses important normative questions
about self-determination and social solidarity. These cannot
definitively be resolved but are reframed, with new forms of
self-government being possible and social solidarity emerging at
new levels. Competitive regionalism has become a dominant theme but
there is no generalized race to bottom as regions respond to the
challenge in multiple ways. Regions are not going to replace the
nation-state as they remain loosely-bounded and contested spaces
but territory continues to reshape European polities. Drawing on a
rich interdisciplinary literature and on original research, the
volume provides a fresh and engaging analytical approach to the
understanding of territory and power in contemporary Europe.
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