1st Edition
Reanimating Regions Culture, Politics, and Performance
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
Biography
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.
'This is a welcome and provocative collection which reveals a resurgence of regional geography, from a spectrum of perspectives. Drawing on a range of detailed case studies, the authors show why regions matter, on the ground, and in the mind, as a locus of social and economic life, a lens on prevailing geographical processes and patterns, and as a resource for imagining alternative, possible worlds.' — Stephen Daniels, Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham and editor of Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities, and The Iconography of Landscape
'Through a refreshingly-diverse and contemporary set of chapters, this book fully delivers on its title and its promise. Reanimating Regions gathers a distinctive and international set of voices and perspectives. If the fortunes of 'the region' as a conceptual frame and substantive topic have risen and fallen through time, then here we see a strong and fresh case made for regionality as cultural form, political crucible and performative inspiration.' — John Wylie, Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Exeter and author of Landscape
'Region – both as a generic idea and a tool used in governance, classification and distribution – has become increasingly significant during the last few decades. At the same time regional identities and political regionalism have gained popularity at and across various spatial scales, displaying the meaning of regions for economic and cultural life, social reproduction and related struggles. This exciting book brings together an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars and artists who open novel perspectives on what regions are and do, and how we should understand their functions and power in the contemporary globalizing world.' — Anssi Paasi, Professor of Geography, University of Oulu and author of Territories, b
