Rescaling Regional Identities: Communicating Thick and Thin Regional Identities

Terlouw, Kees

doi:10.1111/j.1754-9469.2009.01064.x

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“…We think we are too small to have our own branding and we don't have any unique selling This layering of identities (Terlouw, 2009) was mentioned by another respondent in the context of accumulating sufficient critical mass in the eyes of external target audiences, particularly with regard to China:…”

Section: Critical Massmentioning

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Contingent self-definition and amorphous regions

Dinnie

2017

Marketing Theory

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This article explores the concept of contingent self-definition, whereby place brands employ flexible self-definitional approaches in constructing their place brand architecture. Adopting a view of regions as social constructs, the article builds on and extends previous work on place brand architecture by identifying the underlying factors that drive contingent self-definition decisions. Based on an empirical study of professionals tasked with managing region brands in the Netherlands, 11 factors are identified as drivers of contingent self-definition by place brands. These factors are grouped into four thematic categories: (i) external perceptions, (ii) proximity, (iii) brand relationships, and (iv) politics and power. A dynamic approach to place brand architecture is advocated, foregrounding the amorphous character of regions as social constructs that defy reification solely as fixed territorial-administrative spaces.

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Section: Critical Massmentioning

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Contingent self-definition and amorphous regions

Dinnie

2017

Marketing Theory

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“…The EU-induced focus on the different administrative territories embedded in different nation states increases the role of national sensitivities and differences in national identities. At the border, the specific and shared problems related to crossing the border generated a limited and very specific but shared 'thin' regional identity (Terlouw, 2009). To avoid these conflicts, PAMINA generated, for instance, many feasibility studies (Beck, 1997, p. 258;Fuchs & Beck, 2003, p. 71).…”

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Border Surfers and Euroregions: Unplanned Cross-Border Behaviour and Planned Territorial Structures of Cross-Border Governance

Terlouw¹

2012

Planning Practice and Research

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The rise of cross-border relations is frequently linked to the decline of the nation state and the emergence of new forms of European governance. This article challenges some of the assumptions behind the policies stimulating regional cooperation along the national borders within the EU. It questions the assumption that regional cross-border governance is necessary for cross-border relations to develop. The article argues that the institutionalization of different territorial nation states with different social regulations not always hinders, but frequently stimulates cross-border relations. However, the territoriality of the EU planning practice of stimulating regional cross-border cooperation frequently hinders cross-border governance. The territorial administrative logic of cross-border cooperation and its governance drift away from the border, where cross-border behaviour is concentrated. The emergence of cross-border governance is further complicated while cross-border behaviour depends on national and international regulations outside the control of the midsized Euroregions. People living close to the border can sometimes profit from these differences. The fluid and fragmented groups of these border surfers are difficult to incorporate in the governance of territorial Euroregions. This article shows that unintended consequences of the EU planning practice of stimulating cross-border cooperation sometimes hinder the emergence of cross-border governance.

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“…The construction of a regional identity discourse linking traditional rural elements with the future oriented agribusiness sector was instrumental in averting this threat for the whole region (Terlouw 2009;Terlouw and van Gorp 2014). Later a new threat emerged.…”

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Transforming identity discourses to promote local interests during municipal amalgamations

Terlouw

2017

GeoJournal

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This paper discusses the different ways in which local identities are used in two Dutch municipalities. Like all local administrations these Dutch municipalities have to deal with external forces by plotting their own course between closing-off and opening-up. Local identities are used not only for resisting external threats like municipal amalgamations, but also to attract external resources. It proved useful to distinguish between primary identity discourses based on the widely recognised dominant characteristics of the local community, and secondary identity discourses based on how communities within a municipality have over time learned to deal with these different primary local identities. During an amalgamation this secondary identity discourse disappears with the old municipality. The disappearance of the protective shield of a secondary identity discourse can threaten the underlying primary local identities, and can bring local identities into the centre of the local political debate. A perceived external threat frequently changes the character of these local identities. They can become more inward oriented, focus more on their historical roots and their differences with others; they 'thicken' into resistance identity discourses. In other cases the secondary identity discourse of a municipality is too weak and indistinct to support the primary local identities of its communities. Municipal amalgamation can then help to promote a new more attractive secondary, 'thin' regional identity discourse based on a selection of characteristics used in established primary local identity discourses.

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Rescaling Regional Identities: Communicating Thick and Thin Regional Identities

Cited by 52 publications

References 14 publications

Contingent self-definition and amorphous regions

Contingent self-definition and amorphous regions

Border Surfers and Euroregions: Unplanned Cross-Border Behaviour and Planned Territorial Structures of Cross-Border Governance

Transforming identity discourses to promote local interests during municipal amalgamations

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