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The accident of the region: a strategic relational perspective on the construction of the region's significance
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Abstract What explains the strong performative of the 'region' in academic and popular perceptions? This paper explores this question at two levels, namely that of broader political, economic and social shifts and that of institutional and discursive mediations. The assessment uses an evolutionary perspectiv... view more
What explains the strong performative of the 'region' in academic and popular perceptions? This paper explores this question at two levels, namely that of broader political, economic and social shifts and that of institutional and discursive mediations. The assessment uses an evolutionary perspective based on the Strategic Relational Approach (SRA) and recent institutional-discursive elaborations. Specific attention is paid to question of spatial-scalar configurations and economic versus extra-economic aspects of regional development.... view less
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 1193-1207
Journal
Regional Studies, 41 (2007) 9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701675579
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)