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Border encounters
Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of European borderlands shed light on the questions of how, and to what extent, the border context influences the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.
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City-regions in prospect? : exploring points between place and practice
\"City-Regions in Prospect? Exploring the Meeting Points Between Place and Practice is a collection of essays and case studies that explore the \"city-region\" as both an evolving concept and a growing area of experiential knowledge. At the book's most basic level, it explores the \"city-region\" as a concept that captures the growing relevance and importance of cities in a rapidly urbanizing world. Looking more specifically at cities in Canada, the US, and England (Ottawa, Calgary, Manchester, Sheffield, for example), Jones et al outline how the city constructs and governs itself to respond to global needs, the logic behind this development, and the consequences involved in such aspirations. It sketches out new pathways for thinking about and acting upon municipal growth and governmental expansion to the effect of providing a better understanding of both the relationship between concepts and practice, and the actual interplay between the \"city-region\" and the global arena.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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City-Regions in Prospect?
How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing area of planning practice. Contributors raise critical questions about the ways in which governance reform is being reshaped and whether current trends towards rescaling and rebounding cities actually address local challenges of urbanization and globalization. These essays highlight the tensions and uncertainties between the city-region as a concept and the experiences of local communities when municipal policies are applied. Proposing a challenge to scholars and municipal leaders to account for flexibility, adaptability to local contexts, social robustness, and community engagement, City-Regions in Prospect? Captures the growing relevance and importance of cities in a rapidly urbanizing world.
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The Security Governance of Regional Organizations
The Security Governance of Regional Organizations assesses the effectiveness of regional organizations as regional or global security providers, and examines how policy preferences, resources, capabilities, institutional mechanisms and economic and political cohesion link with collective action behaviour in four security policy functions. It investigates how regional organizations meet the new security threats or respond to strategic geopolitical changes and what adaptations they make in the process. Divided into three parts and using a common analytical framework, the book explains the changing security agenda in ten key regional organizations, each organizational chapter:
identifies the nature of threats within the region
examines the historical development and the degree of institutionalization
assesses the level of governance
explores the context of interaction
investigates the compliance with the norms of the system of governance.
This collection contributes to the ongoing reconceptualization of security and definition of security governance, and explores whether regional security governance processes are unique or similar and whether some organizational experiences can be seen as models for others to follow. It combines a coherent theoretical framework with strong comparative case studies, making it ideal reading for all students of security studies.
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Critical regionalism : connecting politics and culture in the American landscape
The idea of \"\"region\"\" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for \"\"hicks,\"\" certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnected from everywhere else. In \"\"Critical Regionalism\"\", Reichert Powell explores this trend and offers alternatives to it. Reichert Powell proposes using more nuanced strategies that identify distinctive aspects of particular geographically marginal communities without turning them into peculiar \"\"hick towns.\"\" He enacts a new methodology of critical regionalism in order to link local concerns and debates to larger patterns of history, politics, and culture. To illustrate his method, in each chapter of the book, Reichert Powell juxtaposes widely known texts from American literature and film with texts from and about his own Appalachian hometown of Johnson City, Tennessee. He carries the idea further in a call for a critical regionalist pedagogy that uses the classroom as a place for academic writers to build new connections with their surroundings, and to teach others to do so as well.
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A quiet evolution : the emergence of indigenous-local intergovernmental partnerships in Canada
\"Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cross-Border Governance in the European Union
This volume attempts to draw debates on governance, at both of these levels, into spaces of cross-border regionalism in Europe today. Embodying both supra-national and sub-national dynamics of contemporary forms of governance, cross-border regions (or euregions ) enable observation of the fitful progress and contradictions of the multilevel polity that is contemporary Europe. Including case studies from throughout the EU as exemplars of specific \"border regimes\", the volume identifies the practical and theoretical importance of governing in Europe's new cross-border territories as part of a newly reinvigorated 'regional question'. In Europe's euregions , it is argued, issues of democracy, identity, sovereignty, citizenship and scale must be rethought, when a border runs through it. This book utilises a diversity of perspectives and a range of selected case studies to examine modes of governance emerging across the nation-state borders of Europe. It will interest students and researchers of European Union borders.
Part I: Governing the Absent (Non-) Border 1. Anke Struver , 'We are only allowed to re-act, not to act' : Eurocrats' strategies and borderlanders' tactics in a Dutch-German cross-border region. 2. Henk van Houtum and Martin van der Velde , De-politicising labour market indifference and immobility in the European Union. 3. Jouni Hakli , Governing the mountains: cross-border regionalization in Catalonia 4. Odile Heddebaut , The EUROREGION from 1991 to 2020: an ephemeral stamp? 5. Enza Lissandrello , Cross-border region Espace Mont Blanc : a territorial 'not-yet'? Part II: Governing the March 6. Ann Kennard , Cross-border governance at the future eastern edges of the EU: a regeneration project? 7. Petri Virtanen , Euregios in changing Europe: Euregio Karelia and Euroregion Pomerania as examples. 8. James W. Scott , the Northern Dimension: 'multiscalar' regionalism in an enlarging European union. 9. Noralv Veggeland , Post-national governance and transboundary regionalisation: spatial partnership formations as democratic exit, loyalty and voice options? Part III: Governing the Postcolonial Limes 10. James Sidaway , The choreographies of European integration: negotiating transfrontier cooperation in Iberia. 11. Olivier Kramsch , Towards a Mediterranean scale of governance: 21st century urban networks across the 'Inner Sea'. 12. Barbara Hooper , Ontologizing the borders of Europe
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