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When Regions Collide: In What Sense a New ‘Regional Problem’?

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  • John Harrison

    (Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, England)

  • Anna Growe

    (Albert Ludwigs, Universität Freiburg, Institut für Kulturgeographie, 79085 Freiburg, Germany)

Abstract

Going beyond the territorial/relational divide in regional studies requires researchers to do more than examine the extent to which territoriality and relationality are complementary alternatives. The variety of networked regional spaces means it is intellectually unsustainable to simply relate a single networked regional space to territory–scale without first considering how networked regional spaces interact. Illustrated through the experience of Germany, our paper demonstrates that interaction between different networked regional spaces (eg, city-regions and cross-border regions) is resulting in new networked regional imaginaries (eg, cross-border metropolitan regions). Its overall aim is to show that the production of entirely new networked spaces can assist in overcoming the contradictions present in one configuration of regions, but this only serves to create a new ‘regional problem’ requiring ever more complex configurations of regions.

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  • John Harrison & Anna Growe, 2014. "When Regions Collide: In What Sense a New ‘Regional Problem’?," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 46(10), pages 2332-2352, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:46:y:2014:i:10:p:2332-2352
    DOI: 10.1068/a130341p
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