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Record Nr.

UNINA9910338053003321

Autore

Mattheis Frank

Titolo

Fringe Regionalism : When Peripheries Become Regions / / by Frank Mattheis, Luca Raineri, Alessandra Russo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

ISBN

9783319974095

3319974092

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 pages)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

320.4049

Soggetti

Regionalism

Political science

International organization

Governance and Government

International Organization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introductory remarks - the case for fringe regionalism -- 2. Producing regional spaces from the margins: Fringe regionalism - a conceptual proposal to recalibrate the study of regions -- 3. The practice of fringe regionalism - evidence from the Caucasus and the Sahara -- 4. Towards a wider application of fringe regionalism - comparisons and transfers.

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies. It examines how regions are practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned, thus offering new avenues for researching regionalism beyond the conventional focus on formal intergovernmental organisations. Two in depth case studies, the Sahara and the Caucasus, provide the real-life application of the concept and the authors use the tensions between competing demarcations of the region, the regional nature of extra-legal economies and the narratives of cross-border identities to steer their empirical approach. Through thorough analysis, the volume applies the concept of fringe regionalism to regions previously neglected by



conventional approaches. Frank Mattheis is Research Fellow at the Institut d'études européennes (IEE), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Associate Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), University of Pretoria, South Africa. Luca Raineri is Research Fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Italy. Alessandra Russo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.