Hi there
apologies for any cross-posting and to people who have submitted
abstracts already.
This is the final call for papers for the joint Regional Studies
Association/ Economic Geography Research Group session 'in
celebration of the ordinary region'
The deadline is the end of this week.
regards
Paul.
"In celebration of the ordinary region"
Call for papers, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2003
Venue: The RGS-IBG, 1 Kensington Gore, London
Date: Wednesday 3 - Friday 5 September
This is a joint session of the Economic Geography Research Group
(EGRG) and the Regional Studies Association (RSA).
Convenors are Dr Paul Benneworth (EGRG) and Sally Hardy (RSA).
One of the consequences of the resurgence of the region in economic
geography in the last two decades has been a huge amount of attention
being paid to successful and exemplar regions. This has skewed the
way that the idea of the region has developed, both in terms of the
consolidation of regional development theory but also the way
'regional units' are regarded by policy makers. This phenomenon is at
its most common in policy discourses, with the rise of 'Silicon Valley
fever' the most obvious manifestation of this. Equally, theoretical
developments have wrestled with the thorny issue of meaningfully
explaining uneven regional development in terms of observations
derived from the best regions.
In this session, jointly organised with the Regional Studies
Association, we highlight the ideographic diversity and relative
autonomy in the way key actors in peripheral regions develop. For
this session, we specifically seek papers which critically explore,
critique and deconstruct accepted theories and conceptualisations in
contemporary economic geography and which situate the subaltern region
as an actor with agency within a radical geographical political
economy. We welcome all papers in economic and regional development
geography which take decentred or non-deterministic approaches to
understanding processes of regional development and socio-economic
change, highlighting their linkages to and anchors in global
processes. We particularly welcome papers building commonalities
between core and peripheral regions at any scale, to address three
questions:-
. How are places building resistance to neoliberalising projects and
coalitions with other similar spaces?
. How resilient are these spaces of dependence, and how successfully
can they support regional economic development? And
. How - as geographers - can we conceptualise and theoretically affirm
these counter-hegemonic spaces?
Offers of paper should be sent by 28th February 2003 with a short
abstract (150-500 words) to:
Paul Benneworth: [log in to unmask]
Sally Hardy: [log in to unmask]
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