Economy Territory Identity

Written before the war in the Balkans and the Maastricht Treaty, but noting long-term trends anyway, nine essays by sociologists, geographers, and political scientists from eastern and western Europe and the US, delve into the conflict between the globalization of economics and the survival of individual cultures. Developed from a symposium at the July 1990 congress of the International Sociology Association in Madrid. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book provides a multi-disciplinary study of territory, identity and space in a devolved UK, through the lens of spatial planning. It draws together leading internationally renowned researchers from a variety of disciplines to address the implications of devolution upon spatial planning and the rescaling of UK politics. Each contributor offers a different perspective on the core issues in planning today in the context of New Labour’s regional project, particularly the government’s concern with business competitiveness, and key themes are illustrated with important case studies throughout.

Examining the effects of economic and political restructuring on regions in Europe and North America, the main themes here are: international economic restructuring; political realignments questions of territorial identity; and policy choices and policy conflicts in regional development.

This book emanates from an interdisciplinary dialogue conducted among researchers from nine countries and two continents, Europe and America. The contributions, based on original case studies, underline the capacity of social and solidarity-based economy to elaborate original inputs to social, economic and sustainable local development.

This book analyses the role of crisis or "conflicts" within socio-economic systems and advocates the concept of a "conflict-free" system as the landmark of global economic development.

The study of territorial politics has enjoyed a renaissance in the last thirty years. Scholars have questioned the state-centric assumptions upon which mainstream social science has been built, pointing to the territorial (re)distribution of power across and within states. This Handbook brings together leading scholars to demonstrate how territory has shaped institutional structures, public policies, elections, political parties, and identity across the world. Offering theoretical, comparative and empirical insights, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of territory on modern political, economic and social life.

Within geopolitics, a discipline enjoying a renaissance, ten academics from eight countries expound upon the fluid role of the state in a world simultaneously impacted by globalization and the resurgence of national and ethnic identities. They assess boundaries as social processes; new territorial dimensions (e.g. a treaty of silicon?); and move beyond borders to regional identity (in the Middle East), and pseudo-states (such as the Trans-Dniester Moldovan Republic) as harbingers of a new geopolitics. Contains abstracts of studies first appearing in a special issue of Geopolitics--formerly Political Geography Quarterly --(3/1, Summer 1998; Cass, ISSN 1465-0045). Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR