Reanimating Regions: Culture, Politics, and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780367874087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 314 str.

James Riding; Martin Jones

Opis

Reanimating Regions marks the continued reinvigoration of a set of disciplinary debates surrounding regions, the regional, and regional geography. Across 18 chapters from international, interdisciplinary scholars, this book writes and performs region as a temporary permanence, something held stable, not fixed and absolute

Spis treści

List of Figures 

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

 

Introduction: A New New Regional Geography

Martin Jones

Part I: Culture

1 Writing Regional Cultural Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads

David Matless

2 Regions Rock: Heavy Metal and the Role of Music in the Construction of Regional Identity for the British Midlands

Jesse Heley and Marc Welsh

3 On Parochialism

John Tomaney

4 Mapping Cultures of Regional Perception and Conception: A Cultural Cartography from Northeast Brazil

Jörn Seemann

5 Regionalists and Excursionistes: Catalan ‘Regions’ and National Identity

Venetia Congdon

Part II: Politics

6 A Radical New Regional Geography: Notes on a Revolution

James Riding

7 The Crisis at the Centre of the United Kingdom: Exploring Scottish Independence and Democratically Disruptive Regions

Philip Johnstone

8 From ‘Fly Frontier’ to ‘Cotton Country’: Social Change and Agrarian Transformation in the Northwest of Zimbabwe

Nicholas James

9 Intertwined Spatialities: Discursive Construction(s) of Central Germany

Roger Baars and Antje Schlottmann

10 Regions, Regionalisms and Identities: Towards a Regional Mess

Kaj Zimmerbauer

11 City-Region Building and Geohistorical Matters

David Beel, Martin Jones and Ian Rees Jones

Part III: Performance

O autorze

James Riding is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Space and Political Agency Research Group/RELATE Centre of Excellence at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Martin Jones is Professor of Human Geography and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Staffordshire University, UK.