1st Edition
Rethinking the Region Spaces of Neo-Liberalism
By John Allen, with Julie Charlesworth, Allan Cochrane, Gill Court, Nick Henry, Doreen Massey, Phil Sarre
Copyright 1998
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rethinking the Region argues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980s to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market growth and reconstructed this are as a `neo-liberal' region. The authors argue that a more... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Discontinuous Regions; Chapter 1 When was the South East?; Chapter 2 Where is the South East?; Part 2 Regions and Identities; Chapter 3 Identity of Places; Chapter 4 Spaces of Identity; Part 3 Space-Times of Neo-Liberalism; Chapter 5 Self-Defeating Growth?; Chapter 6 Space, Place and Time;
Biography
John Allen, Doreen Massey and Allan Cochrane all work in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University.
with Julie Charlesworth, Gill Court, Nick Henry and Phil Sarre
"Very valuable to all students looking at regional issues" Dr Geoff Walker, West England University
