Winner of the 2009 Regional Studies Association Best Book
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Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking
about the emerging character of the global economy. In fields as
diverse as business management, industrial relations, economic
geography, sociology, and planning, the regional scale has emerged
as an organizing concept for interpretations of economic
change.
This book is both a critique of the "new regionalism" and a
return to the "regional question," including all of its concerns
with equity and uneven development. It will challenge researchers
and students to consider the region as a central scale of action in
the global economy, and at the core of the book are case studies of
two industries that rely on skilled, innovative, and flexible
workers - the optics and imaging industry and the film and
television industry. Combined with this is a discussion of the
regions that constitute their production centers. The authors'
intensive research on photonics and entertainment media firms, both
large and small, leads them to question some basic assumptions
behind the new regionalism and to develop an alternative framework
for understanding regional economic development policy. Finally,
there is a re-examination of what the regional question means for
the concept of the learning region.
This book draws on the rich contemporary literature on the
region but also addresses theoretical questions that preceded "the
new regionalism." It will contribute to teaching and research in a
range of social science disciplines and this new paperback edition
will also make the book more accessible to students and researchers
in those disciplines, those individuals who will influence the
re-structuring economies of the 21st century.
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