Territorial, scalar, networked, connected: In what sense a 'regional world'?

被引:173
作者
Macleod, Gordon [1 ,2 ]
Jones, Martin [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Durham, CSCR, Durham DH1 3LE, England
[2] Univ Durham, Dept Geog, Durham DH1 3LE, England
[3] Aberystwyth Univ, Inst Geog & Earth Sci, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, Dyfed, Wales
关键词
regions; regionalization; governance; regional space;
D O I
10.1080/00343400701646182
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Whilst undoubtedly central to academic and policy-relevant spatial analysis for over a hundred years now, 'the region' has continued to be an elusive category: its various meanings and the implications therein frequently being challenged and modified through paradigmatic shifts in such spatial analysis. Today, amid what is undoubtedly a period of dramatic economic transformation, political restructuring and sociocultural change, a range of often multi-disciplinary approaches to the regional concept exist, informing us, variously, how regions can become competitive economic zones within a global economy, strategic political territories in a complex system of multi-level governance, cultural spaces forged through a politics of identity, or - in an approach that departs quite radically from conventional territorially based readings - spaces constituted out of the spatiality of flow and relational networks of connectivity. Drawing on the experience of a post-devolution UK, this paper critically assesses the respective merits of these various conceptualizations of the region, and offers some remarks about the challenges confronting contemporary regional studies.
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页码:1177 / 1191
页数:15
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