Peripheralisation: A Politics of Place, Affect, Perception and Representation

Willett, Joanie; Lang, Thilo

doi:10.1111/soru.12161

Cited by 32 publications

(38 citation statements)

References 40 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Bringing together people from different branches, from the automotive and textile industries, from the education sector as well as from cultural institutions such as museums and creative industries has the potential to create a unique regional culture leading to "knowledge exchange, cooperation and collective learning" ( [3], p. 1910) and ultimately to regional renewal. Culture in this sense can be "an active and lived force" ( [44], p. 11) that creates spaces of potentiality and, thereby, shapes the present and future of a region.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Path Renewal or Path Dependence? The Role of Industrial Culture in Regional Restructuring

Görmar

Harfst

2019

Urban Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In recent decades, manufacturing industries in Europe have undergone a deep transformation due to global market competition, automation, and adaptation to globalized production patterns. The impact of deindustrialization and regional restructuring has been particularly strong on regions outside of metropolitan areas, which may be locked in their specific development path and cannot benefit from agglomeration effects. However, scholars are increasingly shifting their attention to processes of regional renewal, emphasizing the strengths and potentials of such regions. Such potentials holds the concept of Industrial Culture which is defined as a particular cultural setting made up of certain intangible assets, such as skills, attitudes, traditions, tangible monuments, and artefacts. Based on the case study of the district of Zwickau, the authors identify three dimensions of Industrial Culture. These cultural, social, and economic aspects can be underscored by different—albeit often overlapping—actions, opening up new development options for the region if embedded in a broad network of regional actors. Industrial Culture can thus be perceived as a strategic concept to form a coherent approach of regional development by integrating various existing activities in a region.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To sum up, culture, and more specifically Industrial Culture, contributes to a place's development in multiple dimensions and opens up new spaces of potentiality [44]. Industrial Culture is a timeand place-spanning concept that may shape a region's identity.…”

Section: The Economic Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Path Renewal or Path Dependence? The Role of Industrial Culture in Regional Restructuring

Görmar

Harfst

2019

Urban Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…All these elements concur in the acknowledgment of the need for an alternative policy agenda, that goes beyond the classical centre‐periphery dichotomy and its related narrative (see in this sense Willett & Lang, ) and poses the challenge of understanding how local entrepreneurs can be effectively aided in their role as innovators and catalysts for processes triggering regional development through tourism.…”

mentioning

confidence: 87%

Local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas between policies and practices

Pezzi

Faggian

Reid

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Discussing the linkages between local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas provides an intriguing starting point for a wider reflection on the role of existing policies and of emerging practices in fostering local development in such territories. Peripheral areas are typically considered as areas relatively far from urban hubs providing essential services, normally suffering from de-anthropisation and marginalisation, though often provided with a wide range of environmental, cultural and social resources. For a few decades now, and particularly since 2000s, we have witnessed the publication of a growing number of scientific research and policy reports aimed at fostering, triggering and sustaining an increasingly timely debate on what to do (if anything) with peripheral areas and lagging-behind regions ((2009) tackling persistent underutilization of potential for development in specific places; two OECD reports (2009a; 2009b) dealing with the disparities between regions that entail underutilizes potential for growth; a Word Bank's report (2009) that acknowledges the unbalanced nature of growth in lagging regions. Two approaches to the question of why peripheral areas are unable to pursue and succeed in exiting their condition, and of how to effectively counterbalance this ongoing process, have emerged (Barca, McCann, & Rodríguez-Pose, 2012): one is the invitation to reflect on the so called "spatially-blind" or "people-based" interventions, that see the implementation of policies that have not been designed to take into consideration the spaces and places of implementation; the other refers to "place-based" interventions, that assume that the local contextwidely understoodmatters, and that adequate degrees of citizenship are warranted by an improvement in peoples' lives and equal access to opportunities.Moreover, the place-based approach, emphasizes another central issue, that of knowledge in policy interventions and particularly of the potentialities provided by relying on the embedded local knowledge, in contrast with the space-blind approaches to regional development, which imply that the state has both the knowledge and the capacity to design policy interventions regardless of the specificities of the geographical contexts (Barca et al., 2012).

show abstract

“…Processes of co‐production and emergence are achieved through the coming together of heterogeneous actants, who have different capacities to act and effect, spatially and temporally. This foregrounds an attentiveness to the distribution of power across assemblages (Bennett ); leading Willett and Lang to recently argue in this journal that ‘assemblages provide a conceptual architecture which can acknowledge the possibilities of agency in peripheries’ (Willett and Lang , p. 260). Assemblages furthermore emphasise process and provisionality.…”

Section: Relational Approaches To Rural Place and Production Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In an attempt to bridge these conceptual gaps, this article follows other recent calls in the realms of rural studies (including Carolan and Stuart ; Marsden ; Willett and Lang ) to consider the value of assemblage thinking as a method for examining the enrolment and remaking of rural localities through and within globalisation processes (Woods ). Assemblage approaches understand the social realm as ‘materially heterogeneous, practice‐based, emergent and processual’ (McFarlane , p. 561), which, when translated into research practice, foregrounds an attention to processes of both stability and change.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage: Researching Place and Production Networks in the Global Countryside

Jones¹,

Heley²,

Woods³

2018

Sociologia Ruralis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article applies an assemblage reading to the contemporary global woollen industry to demonstrate how assemblage thinking has value as a methodology for generating insights into the local impact of global economic restructuring; bridging concerns with the relationality of rural places and translocal production networks. Putting assemblage into research practice, we trace the interactions and interdependencies between human and non‐human, organic and inorganic, technical and natural components of the global wool assemblage from the entry point of Newtown in mid‐Wales. In so doing, we call attention to those critical moments in this schema that may be usefully exposed or explored via the concept of assemblage. Here we consider the agency of non‐human actors, as well as the biological, technological, regulatory and marketing regimes that seek to produce wool as a globally mobile commodity. Through their enrolment in these sets of relations, Welsh farmers are exposed to the effects of spatially dispersed and contingent dynamics. Using the example of wool we develop a broad argument for using a framework of assemblage alongside other critical theories as a means of grasping how rural societies, places and communities are negotiating change in the context of globalisation.

show abstract

Peripheralisation: A Politics of Place, Affect, Perception and Representation

Cited by 32 publications

References 40 publications

Path Renewal or Path Dependence? The Role of Industrial Culture in Regional Restructuring

Path Renewal or Path Dependence? The Role of Industrial Culture in Regional Restructuring

Local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas between policies and practices

Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage: Researching Place and Production Networks in the Global Countryside

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About