Regional Studies
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Regional Studies PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Regional Studies book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Whither Regional Studies
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Andy Pike
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Whither Regional Studies written by Andy Pike and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Business & Economics categories.
Regional studies are at a vibrant conjuncture. ‘Regions’ continue to provide a conceptual and analytical focus for often overlapping concerns with economic, social, political, cultural and ecological change. In the context of increased interest in inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches, ‘regions’ remain an arena in which synthesis across disciplines – economics, geography, planning, politics and sociology – can take place. Yet recent work has raised fundamental questions about how we think about and research ‘regions’ and regional change, ‘development’, governance and regulation. First, emergent conceptual ideas have introduced new thinking about space, place and scale that interprets ‘regions’ as ‘unbounded’, relational spaces. This work has disturbed notions of ‘regions’ as bounded territories and questioned hierarchical systems of scale through more complex, multi-scalar approaches. Second, research methodology has grown in sophistication and sensitivity but remains somewhat polarised between the binaries of positivist, often quantitative, and more theoretically diverse, typically qualitative, approaches. Last, regional governance, policy and politics are wrestling with the conceptual, methodological and political complexities of new modes and geographies of governance and emergent multi-agent and multi-level institutional architectures. This book brings together important voices in regional studies to contribute to and reflect upon these current issues and debates. While we are at an early stage in beginning to think through what such conceptual, theoretical, methodological, governance, policy and political innovations and developments mean for regional studies, the magnitude and resonance of such issues underpin the vitality of research on the region. This book was published as a special issue of Regional Studies.
Whither Regional Studies
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Andy Pike
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Whither Regional Studies written by Andy Pike and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Regional planning categories.
Regional Worlds Advancing The Geography Of Regions
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Martin Jones
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Regional Worlds Advancing The Geography Of Regions written by Martin Jones and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Business & Economics categories.
A key concern in the debate and empirical research on the geography of regions is the evolution of the conceptualizations and practical uses of the idea of ‘region’. This idea prioritises both the intellectual and the practical development of regional studies. This book drives the discussion further. It stresses the complex forms of agency/advocacy involved in the production and reproduction of regional spaces and space of regionalism as well as the importance of geohistory and context. The book moves beyond the territorial/relational divide that has characterized debates on regions and regional borders since the 1990s. The contributors answer key questions from different conceptual and concrete-contextual angles and to motivate readers to reflect on the perpetual significance of regional concepts and how they are mobilized by various actors to maintain or transform the contested spatialities of societal power relations. This book was based on a special issue of Regional Studies.
Comparative Area Studies
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Ariel I. Ahram
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-03
Comparative Area Studies written by Ariel I. Ahram and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-03 with Political Science categories.
In the post-World War II era, the emergence of 'area studies' marked a signal development in the social sciences. As the social sciences evolved methodologically, however, many dismissed area studies as favoring narrow description over general theory. Still, area studies continues to plays a key, if unacknowledged, role in bringing new data, new theories, and valuable policy-relevant insights to social sciences. In Comparative Area Studies, three leading figures in the field have gathered an international group of scholars in a volume that promises to be a landmark in a resurgent field. The book upholds two basic convictions: that intensive regional research remains indispensable to the social sciences and that this research needs to employ comparative referents from other regions to demonstrate its broader relevance. Comparative Area Studies (CAS) combines the context-specific insights from traditional area studies and the logic of cross- and inter-regional empirical research. This first book devoted to CAS explores methodological rationales and illustrative applications to demonstrate how area-based expertise can be fruitfully integrated with cutting-edge comparative analytical frameworks.
Regional Studies
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Regional Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
The Politics Of Knowledge
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : David L. Szanton
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-09-20
The Politics Of Knowledge written by David L. Szanton and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-20 with Education categories.
The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields’ distinctive character and internal heterogeneity as well as the dynamism resulting from their evolving engagements with funders, US and international politics, and domestic constituencies. The authors were chosen for their long-standing interest in the intellectual evolution of their fields. They describe the origins and histories of US-based Area Studies programs, highlighting their complex, generative, and sometimes contentious relationships with the social science and humanities disciplines and their diverse contributions to the regions of the world with which they are concerned.
Regional Studies
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Paul Robert Hanna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Regional Studies written by Paul Robert Hanna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Regionalism categories.
Regional Studies And Rural Development
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jozef Gijsbertus Maria Hilhorst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Regional Studies And Rural Development written by Jozef Gijsbertus Maria Hilhorst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Regional planning categories.
Regional Studies Reader
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Christopher L.. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Regional Studies Reader written by Christopher L.. Brown and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Area studies categories.
Regional Studies Of The United States And Canada
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Kenneth R. Sealy
language : en
Publisher: London ; Toronto [etc.] : Harrap
Release Date : 1968
Regional Studies Of The United States And Canada written by Kenneth R. Sealy and has been published by London ; Toronto [etc.] : Harrap this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Canada categories.