Handbook on the geographies of regions and territories / edited by Anssi Paasi (Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland), John Harrison (Department of Geography, Loughborough University), and Martin Jones (Centre for City Region Dynamics, Staffordshire University, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paasi, Anssi, editor.

Harrison, John, 1952- editor.

Jones, Martin, 1949- editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism.

Human geography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Incorporated, 2018.

Summary:

This major international Handbook offers the most up-to-date and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as place, scale, networks and regionalism. This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together renowned specialists who have extensively theorized these spatial concepts and contributed to rich empirical research in disciplines such as geography, sociology, political science and international relations. It offers fresh, cutting-edge, and contextual insights on the significance of regions and territories in today's dynamic world. This is a timely and vital resource for both students and researchers of human geography and regional studies. Political geographers and international relations scholars will also benefit from reading the Handbook as it offers a comprehensive yet accessible examination of the geography of regions and territories.

Contents:

Contents: 1. New consolidated regional geographies / Anssi Paasi, John Harrison and Martin Jones

Part I: History, theory and key concepts

2. Evolution of the regional concept / John Agnew

3. Territory and territoriality / David Storey

4. Geography of experience: place and region / J Nicholas Entrikin

5. Scale and territory, and the difference capitalism makes / Kevin Cox

6. New regionalism / Gillian Bristow

7. Relational thinking and the region / Allan Cochrane

8. The TPSN schema: moving beyond territories and regions / Bob Jessop

Part II: Region, territory and economy

9. Economic regionalization / Andrew Jones

10. Regional innovation and growth theory: behavioural and institutional approaches / Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson

11. Learning regions - a strategy for economic development in less developed regions? / Björn T Asheim

12. Divisions of labour, technology and the transformation of work: worker to robot or self-employment and the gig economy? / John R Bryson

13. The geography of knowledge creation: technological relatedness and regional smart specialization strategies / Dieter F Kogler and Adam Whittle

14. Creative regions: from creative place-making to creative human capital / Roberta Comunian and Lauren England

15. Sustainable regions / David Gibbs

Part III: Region, politics and identity

16. Territory and governance / John Loughlin

17. Territorial rights and justice / Cara Nine

18. Regional governance and democracy / Sarah Ayres

19. Political regionalism: devolution, metropolitanisation and the right to decide / Igor Calzada

20. Regions and cultural representation / Rhys Jones

21. Regional identities: quested and questioned / Kees Terlouw

22. Military-to-wildlife geographies: bureaucracies of cleanup and conservation in Vieques / Irus Braverman

Part IV: Urbanization and new forms of spatiality

23. City-regions and city-regionalism / Sami Moisio and Andrew E.G. Jonas

24. Cross-border regions / Christophe Sohn

25. Comparing regionalism at supra-national level from the perspective of a statehood theory of regions / Luk van Langenhove

26. Regional urbanization: emerging approaches and debates / J. Miguel Kanai and Seth Schindler

27. Extended urbanization in Brazil: implications for urban and regional theory / Roberto Monte-Mór and Rodrigo Castriota

28. The 21st century rediscovery of regional planning in the global south / Seth Schindler, J Miguel Kanai and Deusdedit Rwehumbiza

29. African urbanisation: will compact cities deliver shared and sustainable prosperity? / Ivan Turok

Part V: Regions and regionalisms in contexts

30. The 'Europe of the regions' / Julian Clark and Alun Jones

31. Mediterranean "regionalism" / Michelle Pace

32. Sovereignty and regionalism in Eurasia / Dmitrii Kofanov, Anton Shirikov and Yoshiko M Herrera

33. Chinese regionalism / Michael Dunford and Weidong Liu

34. The production of a trans-regional scale: China's 'one belt one road' imaginary / Ngai-Ling Sum

35. Australasian regionalism / Andrew Beer

36. African regionalism / Frank Mattheis

37. North American regionalism / Michael R. Glass

38. Region building, autonomy and regionalism in South America / Pia Riggirozzi and Melisa Deciancio

39. Arctic and Antarctic regionalism / Klaus Dodds and Alan Hemmings

40. Ocean regions / Kimberley Peters

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781785365805 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.