- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (22 Jan 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 041516821X
- ISBN-13: 978-0415168212
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Rethinking the Region: Spaces of Neo-liberalism
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Rethinking the Region is a well-written examination of the complex, yet extremely fundamental theme of the regional definition, including composition and dynamics.
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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.
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" is an extremely valuable contribution to the debate on the nature and role of the (sub-national) region in contemporary Europe. It challenges the idea that regions can be treated as homogenous, undifferentiated entities. The book recasts the region as an internally differentiated and rather arbitrary construct; what the authors call the discontinuous region. In the discontinuous region economic growth is rarely uniform. A region can contain both pockets of growth and areas of underdevelopment. In other words, differential growth patterns and distribution of wealth are not just experienced between regions, but within them too. The book draws attention to the complex (and often contradictory) economic processes that govern regional growth. Regional inequalities are viewed not as an unfortunate product of historical disadvantage or lack of opportunity, but as a structural consequence of neo-liberal growth. The main contribution of the book is to outline the ways in which neo-liberal growth creates pockets of disadvantage at the same time as it rewards economic advantage. Prosperity and disadvantage are thus two sides of the same coin. The conclusion drawn from this analysis is that neo-liberal growth can never "solve" the problem of regional inequalities. This has implications for regional policy both at the national and at EU level.
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Distant Regions
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The great anticipation with which I waited for the arrival of Rethinking the Region was matched only by my disappointment at its focus and take. Readers hoping for the defining treatise on New Regionalism will, like me, be sadly disappointed in this expensive collection of essays on southeastern England. Sure, there are some important jewels amidst the thick jargon and back patting, but those thirsting of the how's and why's of regionalism, particularly in the American tradition, will need to continue to look elsewhere for refreshment.
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