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.
Contributors include: J. Agnew, B.T. Asheim, S. Ayres, A. Beer, I. Braverman, G. Bristow, J. Bryson, I. Calzada, R. Castriota, J. Clark, A. Cochrane, R. Comunian, K.R. Cox, M. Deciancio, K. Dodds, M. Dunford, L. England, J.N. Entrikin, D. Gibbs, M. Glass, J. Harrison, A. Hemmings, Y. Herrera, R. Huggins, B. Jessop, A.E.G. Jonas, A. Jones, M. Jones, R. Jones, J.M. Kanai, D. Kofanov, D.F. Kogler, W. Liu, J. Loughlin, F. Mattheis, S. Moisio, R.L. Monte-Mór, C. Nine, A. Paasi, M. Pace, K. Peters, P. Riggirozzi, D. Rwehumbiza, S. Schindler, A. Shirikov, C. Sohn, D. Storey, N.-L. Sum, K. Terlouw, P. Thompson, I. Turok, L. Van Langenhove, A. Whittle
Contents:
Preface
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?
Bjørn 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, Metropolitanization 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: Implications for Urban and Regional Theory
Roberto Monte-Mór and Rodrigo Castriota
28. The Twenty-first Century Rediscovery of Regional Planning in the Global South
Seth Schindler, J. Miguel Kanai and Deusdedit Rwehumbiza
29. African Urbanization: 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 D. Hemmings
40. Ocean Regions
Kimberley Peters
Index
