Re-thinking the region : spaces of neo-liberalism / / John Allen, Doreen Massey and Allan Cochrane with Julie Charlesworth, Gill Court, Nick Henry and Phil Sarre

• Autore: Allen John
• Pubblicazione: London; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• Edizione: 4th rev. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.51; 914.2
• Soggetto topico: Geography; Earth sciences
• Altri autori: MasseyDoreen B CochraneAllan CharlesworthJulie CourtG (Gill) HenryNick SarrePhil
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Cover""; ""Rethinking the Region""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""List of maps and montages""; ""Preface'"; ""Introduction: A space of a neo-liberal heartland""; ""Part I: Discontinuous regions""1. When was the south east?""; ""2. Where is the south east?""; ""Part II: Regions and identities"" ; ""3. Identity of places"" ""4. Spaces of identity""; ""Part III: Space-times of neo-liberalism""; ""5. Self-defeating growth?""; ""6. Space, place and time""; ""Bibliography"; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Rethinking the Region argues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980's to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market growth and reconstructed this are as a `neo-liberal' region. The authors argue that a more balanced form of growth is possible - within and between regions as well as between social groups. This book shows that to grasp the complexities of growth we must rethink `the region' in time as well as
• Titolo autorizzato: Re-thinking the region
• ISBN: 1-134-70388-0; 1-280-18664-X; 0-203-27031-2; 0-203-00750-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809677203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II