Rethinking the Region

Allen, John C.; Charlesworth, with Julie; Cochrane, Allan; Court, Gill; Henry, Nick; Massey, Doreen; Sarre, Philip

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“…In land change science, urbanization and land are predominantly described as a place or as bounded geographical areas. This contrasts with other literatures that argue that places have multiple identities and are networked through social processes (10,17). Placed-based conceptualizations of land use assume sharp and distinguishable boundaries between urban and nonurban.…”

Section: Current Conceptualizations Of Urbanization and Landcontrasting

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Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

Seto

Reenberg

Boone

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate how three key themes that are currently addressed separately in the urban sustainability and land change literatures can lead to incorrect conclusions and misleading results when they are not examined jointly: the traditional system of land classification that is based on discrete categories and reinforces the false idea of a rural-urban dichotomy; the spatial quantification of land change that is based on place-based relationships, ignoring the connections between distant places, especially between urban functions and rural land uses; and the implicit assumptions about path dependency and sequential land changes that underlie current conceptualizations of land transitions. We then examine several environmental "grand challenges" and discuss how urban land teleconnections could help research communities frame scientific inquiries. Finally, we point to existing analytical approaches that can be used to advance development and application of the concept.coupled human-natural systems | land change science U rbanization and land change are two global processes with far-reaching consequences. Although the two are tightly intertwined, their literatures and analytical frameworks were largely developed separately. We argue that these parallel but distinct conceptualizations limit progress in these fields and in sustainability science, specifically given the environmental impacts of urbanization on the land system, and associated social and political challenges. The magnitude and accelerating rate of contemporary urbanization are reshaping land use locally and globally in ways that require a reexamination of land change and urban sustainability. Worldwide, urban populations are projected to increase by almost 3 billion by 2050 (1) and the total global urban land area by more than 1.5 million square kilometers-an area three times the size of Spain-by 2030 (2). Urban economies currently generate more than 90% of global gross value added, meaning few rural systems are unaffected by urbanization (3). Given such trends, we must reconsider how we conceptualize the many connections and feedbacks between urbanization and land change processes. To date, a large body of literature has considered the proximate land changes brought about by urbanization, but the more distant land-use implications of urbanization remain underexamined.In climate science, the concept of teleconnections refers to climate anomalies that correlate over large geographic distances. During warm phases of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, for instance, the incidence of synchronous wildfires increases in the western United States (4). The virtual shrinking of distances between places, strengthening connectivity between distant locations, and growing separation between places of consumption and production are emerging topics in "telecoupled" human-natural systems (5-7) and tropical teleconnections ...

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Section: Current Conceptualizations Of Urbanization and Landcontrasting

confidence: 49%

Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

Seto

Reenberg

Boone

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Suele comúnmente citarse en esta perspectiva que "las regiones no están ahí para ser descubiertas" (Allen et al, 1998) sino, por el contrario, que lo local o lo regional debieran ser entendidos precisamente como ese proceso de construcción basado en las relaciones sociales. La región, en vez de ser un espacio homogéneo, una entidad compuesta por actores con similares y compatibles intereses, puede ser mejor explicada apelando a la descripción de un cuadro compuesto por una serie de actores económicos e institucionales que interactúan a distintos niveles, con divergencias, trayectorias disímiles e interacciones cambiantes.…”

Section: La Perspectiva Relacional Regionalunclassified

Explorando la región: Territorios, escalas y relacionalidades

Fernández

Vigil

Seval

2012

Rev. geogr. Norte Gd.

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RESUMENLa forma de interpretar y analizar la "región" y lo "regional", desde su auge postfordista a la actualidad, ha ido adoptando diferentes perspectivas y pautas metodológico-conceptuales. Desde una concepción "territorialista", pasando por la incorporación de la idea de "escala" como apertura a una dimensión externa, hacia una concepción "relacional" que destaca el resultado de conexiones entre actores dispersos. Enfatizando una dimensión institucional, proponemos una revisión comparativa de las perspectivas señalando sus complementariedades y debilidades para luego avanzar en una síntesis que permita una mejor comprensión de los procesos socioespaciales sobre los que se estructuran las regiones y sus procesos de desarrollo.Palabras clave: Desarrollo Regional, Instituciones, Territorio, Escala, Relacional. ABSTRACTSince posfordism to present, the way to analyze "the region" and "the regional" has been adopting different perspectives and methodological patterns. From a "territorial" view, through the incorporation of the idea of "scale" as a way to open the regional to an external dimension, until the "relational" view that recognize the region as an outcome of a myriad of connections of actors located at different geographies or levels. With an emphasis on the institutional dimension, we review these "regional" perspectives comparatively, highlighting their differences and weaknesses in order to propose a synthesis of some of their elements around the socio-spatial regional process that are usefull to understand regional development.

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“…66 On the contrary, already Foucault himself talks about the liberal ideas of civil society as a counterforce to the state governing too much. 67 As I have tried to show in some of my earlier works, and as Louisa Cadman 68 and Amy Allen 69 demonstrate in some of their publications and Riikka Perälä in her article in this special issue, the relation between government and civil society is far more than straightforward: (A) indeed "government works abundantly through complex networks of civil society," 70 and (B) civil society organizations form a kind of necessary and safe counterbalance, addition, and reflexive politico-moral mirror to the state's institutions, like many classical and neoliberal thinkers have described, but civil society is also a site where different power relations and subjectivities are challenged and new forms of the self, autonomy, identities, social bondings, and doing politics invented. This may enable the creation of new and alternative ways of being and living as well as the contestation of prevailing norms and forms of expertise.…”

Section: Governmentalization Of Civil Society?mentioning

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“…22 Smith's Wealth of the Nations draws an implicit 16 Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 37, 319-322, 327. 17 Ibid., [62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70]270. 18 Ibid., 64.…”

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Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions

Pyykkönen

2015

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This article gives an analysis of Foucault’s studies of civil society and the various liberalist critiques of government. It follows from Foucault’s genealogical approach that “civil society” does not in itself possess any form of transcendental existence; its historical reality must be seen as the result of the productive nature of the power-knowledge-matrices. Foucault emphasizes that modern governmentality—and more specifically the procedures he names “the conduct of conduct”—is not exercised through coercive power and domination, but is dependent on the freedom and activeness of individuals and groups of society. Civil society is thus analyzed as fundamentally ambivalent: on the one hand civil society is a field where different kinds of technologies of governance meet the lives and wills of groups and individuals, but on the other hand it is a potential field of what Foucault called ‘counter-conduct’ – for both collective action and individual political action.

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Rethinking the Region

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Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

Explorando la región: Territorios, escalas y relacionalidades

Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions

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