Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories

Edited by Anssi Paasi, Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland, John Harrison, Department of Geography and Environment, Loughborough University and Martin Jones, formerly Executive and Department of Geography, Staffordshire University, UK.

'As a keyword, the region is one of the more difficult ones to define. This fascinating anthology does an admirable job presenting a multi facetted and colourful palette of definitions of and debates on the concept. The Handbook assembles classical and up-to-date, tested and groundbreaking conceptual and empirical writing on the region and regionalism and will serve as an invaluable resource to students of the matter world wide.'--Roger Keil, York University, Canada

• Contents:Preface1. New Consolidated Regional GeographiesAnssi Paasi, John Harrison and Martin JonesPart I History, Theory and Key Concepts2. Evolution of the Regional ConceptJohn Agnew3. Territory and TerritorialityDavid Storey4. Geography of Experience: Place and RegionJ. Nicholas Entrikin5. Scale and Territory, and the Difference Capitalism MakesKevin Cox6. New RegionalismGillian Bristow7. Relational Thinking and the RegionAllan Cochrane8. The TPSN Schema: Moving Beyond Territories and RegionsBob JessopPart II Region, Territory and Economy9. Economic RegionalizationAndrew Jones10. Regional Innovation and Growth Theory: Behavioural and Institutional ApproachesRobert Huggins and Piers Thompson11. Learning Regions – a Strategy for Economic Development in Less Developed Regions?Bjørn T. Asheim12. Divisions of Labour, Technology and the Transformation of Work: Worker to Robot or Self-employment and the Gig Economy?John R. Bryson13. The Geography of Knowledge Creation: Technological Relatedness and Regional Smart Specialization StrategiesDieter F. Kogler and Adam Whittle14. Creative Regions: from Creative Place-making to Creative Human CapitalRoberta Comunian and Lauren England15. Sustainable RegionsDavid GibbsPart III Region, Politics and Identity16. Territory and GovernanceJohn Loughlin17. Territorial Rights and JusticeCara Nine18. Regional Governance and DemocracySarah Ayres19. Political Regionalism: Devolution, Metropolitanization and the Right to DecideIgor Calzada20. Regions and Cultural RepresentationRhys Jones21. Regional Identities: Quested and QuestionedKees Terlouw22. Military-to-Wildlife Geographies: Bureaucracies of Cleanup and Conservation in ViequesIrus BravermanPart IV Urbanization and New Forms of Spatiality23. City-Regions and City-RegionalismSami Moisio and Andrew E.G. Jonas24. Cross-Border RegionsChristophe Sohn25. Comparing Regionalism at Supra-National Level from the Perspective of a Statehood Theory of RegionsLuk van Langenhove26. Regional Urbanization: Emerging Approaches and DebatesJ. Miguel Kanai and Seth Schindler27. Extended Urbanization: Implications for Urban and Regional TheoryRoberto Monte-Mór and Rodrigo Castriota28. The Twenty-first Century Rediscovery of Regional Planning in the Global SouthSeth Schindler, J. Miguel Kanai and Deusdedit Rwehumbiza29. African Urbanization: Will Compact Cities Deliver Shared and Sustainable Prosperity?Ivan TurokPart V Regions and Regionalisms in Contexts30. The ‘Europe of the Regions’Julian Clark and Alun Jones31. Mediterranean ‘Regionalism’Michelle Pace32. Sovereignty and Regionalism in EurasiaDmitrii Kofanov, Anton Shirikov and Yoshiko M. Herrera33. Chinese regionalismMichael Dunford and Weidong Liu34. The Production of a Trans-Regional Scale: China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ ImaginaryNgai-Ling Sum35. Australasian RegionalismAndrew Beer36. African RegionalismFrank Mattheis37. North American RegionalismMichael R. Glass38. Region Building, Autonomy and Regionalism in South AmericaPia Riggirozzi and Melisa Deciancio39. Arctic and Antarctic RegionalismKlaus Dodds and Alan D. Hemmings40. Ocean RegionsKimberley PetersIndex