Why do regions demand autonomy?

Parks, Judith; Elcock, Howard

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“…Moreover, such work should pay close attention to the cross-cutting positions such as age, gender, language ability, as well as religion, and how these identities intersect with one another, as part of social relations in service delivery. Further, the relative strength of the northeast identity (Parks and Elcock 2000) was a factor in this study (but beyond the capacity of this paper), and future research could explicitly explore how local and regional identities and narratives also interplay with national, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.…”

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Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England

Parks¹,

Askins²

2014

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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The increasing ethnic diversity of the UK has been mirrored by growing public awareness of multicultural issues, alongside developments in academic and government thinking. This paper explores the contested meanings around ethnic identity/ies in community settings, drawing on semi-structured interviews with staff from Children's Centres and allied agencies conducted for a research project that examined the relationship between identity and the participation of parents/carers in services in northeast England. The research found that respondents were unclear about, especially, white ethnic identities, and commonly referred to other social categorizations, such as age, nationality, and circumstances such as mobility, when discussing service users. While in some cases this may have reflected legitimate attempts to resist over-ethnicizing non-ethnic phenomena, such constructions coexisted with assumptions about ethnic difference and how it might translate into service needs. These findings raise important considerations for policy and practice.

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Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England

Parks¹,

Askins²

2014

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…It is very much a project of securing traditions and building identities. Catalonia and Scotland are good examples of this type of regionalism (Keating, 1998, ch.4-8;Parks and Elcock, 2000). The regional mobilization strategy can be summarized as an explanatory thesis in the following way:…”

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Why Regionalism in Sweden?

Olsson

Åström

2003

Regional & Federal Studies

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The regional issue is high up on the political agendas of many European states. The discussion of a stronger position for the 'middle' level of political systems, between the level of municipalities and the central state, constitutes a central part of contemporary European debates. A number of interesting experiments are going on, new regional structures and organizations are being tested under the supervision of national governments. There are also a lot of bottom-up activities within regions with the ambition to strengthen the identity and the position of the regional level in relation to other levels and actors (

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“…In European countries, more factors influence regions to seek recognition and autonomy from established national or multinational states, such as the member states of the EU. Parks and Elcock (2000) argued that demands for autonomy arise from a variety of factors, ranging from cultural discontents arising from the suppression or discouragement of minority languages and identities, to the functional concerns of peripheral regions whose inhabitants feel that their needs and problems are being unfairly neglected by the central government. Such a sense of grievance has long existed in the north-east of England and was fanned by the overtly unsympathetic response of the Thatcher administrations to its economic decline, especially during the early 1980s.…”

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“…Hence, the centre has had to cope with demands from several stateless nations for recognition of their national identities and distinctive interests. Regional identities and cultures may be weaker in the English regions but they are generating increasing demands for regional self-government, albeit with varying degrees of credibility (Parks and Elcock, 2000). Equally, for reasons concerned with the need to promote the English regions' interests in the European Union (EU), significant regional structures of governance including the Government Offices for the Regions (GORs) and the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) have been created by successive governments since 1994.…”

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“…Cultural and functional impulses towards regionalism are discussed, following the work of Foster (1997; 2000). Cultural pressures were important in stimulating the demand for Scottish and Welsh devolution, but they are less important than functional pressures for economic and social regeneration in stimulating demands for regional government in England (Parks and Elcock 2000). In the US, debates about regionalism are conducted almost entirely in functional terms: the need to bring together fragmented local governments, business groups and other stakeholders to negotiate regional programmes of regeneration and development.…”

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Regionalism and Regionalisation in Britain and North America

Elcock¹

2003

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Regionalism: the development of governments and governance structures intermediate between state and local levels has become increasingly significant in the government of both Britain and the United States. Functional issues concerned with the regeneration of rustbelt areas or controlling growth in prosperous areas have resulted in searches for regionalist solutions on both sides of the Atlantic. However, in Britain there are additional pressures from regions with distinctive cultures, as well as from the increasingly influential 'Europe of the Regions'. Demands for regional government and governance may be generated from the bottom up by a region's politicians, business leaders and others but they are unlikely to be successful unless they are encouraged by higher levels of government, at state, national or supranational levels.

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Why do regions demand autonomy?

Cited by 19 publications

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Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England

Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England

Why Regionalism in Sweden?

Regionalism and Regionalisation in Britain and North America

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