1st Edition
Local Identities and Politics Negotiating the Old and the New
By Kees Terlouw
Copyright 2017
154 Pages
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Routledge
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10 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
152 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
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The relation between identity and space is strong and generates many conflicts. Most people attach great importance to their local community and its identity. The possibility of change can cause turmoil and become fertile ground for staking new identities. Understanding how these changes can take place is important to the future of community cohesion across the world.
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1. Introduction
2. Local identities conceptualised: from fixed facts to flexible discourses
3. Measuring local identity
4. Local identities analysed: change for the better or the worse
5. Municipal amalgamation and changing local identities on Goeree-Overflakkee
6. Katwijk: "A city which has remained a village"
7. Conclusion: the divergent use of local identities
Biography
Kees Terlouw is a political geographer at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
"Terlouw’s book is well written, informative, and rich in details regarding the research communities. Since local and regional identities are today an increasingly interdisciplinary research topic, the book can be recommended to both academic researchers and planners dealing with identity issues."
Local Government Studies, Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu, Finland
