Cartographic Anxiety and the Search for Regionality

Painter, Joe

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“…It is a set of stories about how parts of a regional economy might work, placed next to a set of policy ideas which might just be useful in some cases. (LOVERING, 1999, p. 384;original emphasis) These arguments have been developed and extended by others (MACLEOD, 2001a(MACLEOD, , 2001bHADJIMICHALIS, 2006aHADJIMICHALIS, , 2006bHARRISON, 2008HARRISON, , 2010PAINTER, 2008) and the present paper will return to issues of 'regional method'. New regionalist thinking on what one might want to call 'socio-spatial relations' has, in turn, been challenged by relational approaches to space, where -building on the work of MASSEY (1991,1994) above -geographies are made through stretched-out and unbounded relations between hybrid mixtures of global flows and local nodal interactions that are interconnected (for a summary, see MURDOCH, 2006).…”

Section: Towards 'New Localities': the New Regionalism And Relationalmentioning

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New Localities

Jones¹,

Woods²

2012

Regional Studies

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JONES M. and WOODS M. New localities, Regional Studies. During the mid-to-late 1980s, 'locality' was the spatial metaphor to describe and explain the shifting world of regional studies. The paper argues that the resulting 'localities debate' threw this baby out with the bathwater and rather than invent new concepts to capture socio-spatial relations in the twenty-first century, the paper urges a 'return to locality' to enlighten regional studies. The paper offers three new readings of locality, which when taken together constitute the basis for thinking about regions, society and space through the lens of 'new localities'. It further suggests that for locality to have analytical value it must also have both an imagined and a material coherence, and it puts a 'new locality' framework to work in research on devolved regional economic and social geographies. New localitiesLocality Region Relationality Devolution WalesDe nouvelles localités, Regional Studies. Du milieu à la fin des années 1980, la notion de 'localité' constituait la métaphore pour décrire et expliquer l'évolution des études régionales. L'article affirme que 'le débat sur la notion de localité', qui en a résulté, a jeté ce bébé avec l'eau de bain et, plutôt que d'inventer de nouveaux concepts afin de capter les relations socio-géographiques du vingt-et-unième siècle, l'article prône en faveur d'un 'retour à la notion de localité' pour améliorer les études régionales. Cet article fournit trois nouvelles appréciations de la notion de 'localité' lesquelles, prises ensemble, constituent le bien-fondé des opinions sur les régions, la société et l'espace dans l'optique des 'nouvelles localités'. De plus, on propose que la notion de localité doit avoir une cohérence à la fois imaginaire et réelle pour justifier une valeur analytique, et on met en branle un cadre de 'nouvelle localité' dans la recherche au sujet des géographies économiques et sociales régionales dévolues. De mediados a finales de los ochenta, la 'localidad' era la metáfora espacial preferida para describir y explicar el mundo cambiante de los estudios regionales. En este artículo sostenemos que el 'debate de localidades' resultante acabó tirando el grano con la paja; en vez de inventar nuevos conceptos para captar las relaciones socioespaciales en el siglo XXI, aquí instamos a 'volver a la localidad' para esclarecer los estudios regionales. En este artículo ofrecemos tres nuevas lecturas de localidad que juntas constituyen la base para reflexionar sobre las regiones, la sociedad y el espacio a través del objetivo de las 'nuevas localidades'. Además sugerimos que para que el concepto de localidad ofrezca un valor analítico, también

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Section: Towards 'New Localities': the New Regionalism And Relationalmentioning

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New Localities

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Woods²

2012

Regional Studies

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“…As Painter (2010Painter ( : 1094 reflects regarding the related concept of territory, regions (and other spatial entities) can be seen as "porous, historical, mutable, uneven and perishable... a laborious work in progress, prone to failure and permeated by tension and contradiction... never complete, always becoming". Thus conceptualized, processes towards regionalization go on all the time at all sorts of geographical scale levels (see Painter, 2008;Paasi, 2002a;Paasi, 2002b) making it a distinctly trans-scalar concept 1 that more than anything highlights the manipulation of scale (Law, 1999) and the production of new scale units.…”

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When Soft Spaces Harden: The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

2012

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“…Regionalisms are ideologies that represent and naturalize regions as the proper scale for understanding and acting upon political, economic, social and cultural projects. These ideologies are often represented through various and sometimes competing cartographic technologies and artifacts (Painter 2008). Regionalization describes the historically contingent and contested political, economic, and social processes through which regions are continuously produced and reproduced (Jonas 2013, Neumann 2010, Pred 1984, Paasi 1991, Pred 1984.…”

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Environmental Justice and Regional Political Ecology converge in the other California

London

2016

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article illuminates the value of the concept of the region in political ecology and environmental justice studies by presenting three arguments about the role of regions in environmental justice social movements engaged in climate change mitigation in California's San Joaquin Valley. First, regional planning agencies and environmental justice advocates are engaged in conflicts over not only the content of regional climate change plans, but the very definitions of region and the authority used to put these regional visions into action. Second, regional organizing provides environmental justice movements with new opportunities to address regional economic patterns and to negotiate with regional planning agencies, both of which influence local manifestations of environmental injustice. Third, regional strategies raise significant dilemmas for these movements as they try to sustain engagement across extensive spatial territories and engage with a broad set of policy and economic protagonists. Together, this analysis demonstrates that a dynamic approach to regions, regionalism, and regionalization can assist political ecology and environmental justice scholars in their common aim of understanding the co-production of social and environmental inequity and collective action to change it.

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Cartographic Anxiety and the Search for Regionality

Cited by 112 publications

References 59 publications

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When Soft Spaces Harden: The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

Environmental Justice and Regional Political Ecology converge in the other California

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