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Experienced Regions and Borders: The Challenge for Transactional Approaches

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  • Maano Ramutsindela

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Ramutsindela M. Experienced regions and borders: the challenge for transactional approaches, Regional Studies . This paper appreciates the intellectual value of relational thinking but cautions that dismissing 'region' as a meaningful territorial entity and concept, and asserting that borders are irrelevant in a supposedly borderless world, severely limits one's understanding of how both regions and borders are constructed, interconnected and experienced on the ground where they become 'real' to people. The paper affirms the region-border nexus as a promising theoretical avenue for analysing the ways in which regions are not only social constructs that are contingent and contested, but also having a material basis that profoundly shapes human consciousness and action.

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  • Maano Ramutsindela, 2013. "Experienced Regions and Borders: The Challenge for Transactional Approaches," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(1), pages 43-54, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:47:y:2013:i:1:p:43-54
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.618121
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