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Rethinking the Region
Rethinking the Region argues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980s to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market growth and reconstructed this are as a `neo-liberal' region. The authors argue that a more balanced form of growth is possible - within and between regions as well as between social groups. This book shows that to grasp the complexities of growth we must rethink `the region' in time as well as in space.
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Rethinking the region
Rethinking the Regionargues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980s to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market growth and reconstructed this are as a `neo-liberal' region. The authors argue that a more balanced form of growth is possible - within and between regions as well as between social groups. This book shows that to grasp the complexities of growth we must rethink `the region' in time as well as in space.
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Introduction
One of geography's central objects of study is the region-the place, the specific area. In 'the old days' textbooks on regional geography worked their stately progress through a sequence of regions which seemed to have existed for all time (the eastern seaboard, the Appalachians, the midwest]...;). There was subsequently a period of dominance by quantitative studies and model-builders, which demanded above all consistency and the clarity of boundaries; statistical regions became the requirement (in the UK the 'Standard Regions': the south east, west midlands, east anglia...). More recently we became enmeshed in the continuing debate about localities and locality studies-how to define them and how, even whether, to do them. The question of 'place', at various scales and in various guises, is a widespread topic of concern. And so too are questions of boundaries, borders and spatiality more generally. All this has raised issues of theoretical approach, and even of the nature of theory itself; of the conceptualization of places and of their practical definition; and of what should be studied 'within' them. Today these questions are at the centre of the agenda of economic and social geography, as well as integral to developments in social and cultural studies. While debate goes on, studies continue to be produced from Los Angeles to Lancaster and from Sydney to Sheffield.
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