Mobilizing regions, mobilizing Europe : expert knowledge and scientific planning in European regional development
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Mobilizing regions, mobilizing Europe : expert knowledge and scientific planning in European regional development
(Routledge/European Sociological Association studies in European societies, 15)
Routledge, 2012
Available at 7 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Regional development strategies are becoming more similar all around Europe, even though regional differences are more pronounced than ever and many European regions have become more autonomous actors. This thesis of a peculiar standardized diversification of sub-national space in the modern European Union is the point of departure of this book.
Based upon the analytical premises of Stanford School Sociological Institutionalism, Sebastian M. Buttner studies regional mobilization in contemporary Europe from a new and innovative perspective. He highlights the importance of scientific expertise and global scientific models in contemporary regional development practice, and exemplifies their significance with the example of region-building in Poland in the course of EU integration. This new wave of regional mobilization is not just conceived as an effect of local, national or European politics, but as an expression of a larger conceptual shift in governing society and space.
This well researched and clearly argued book not only provides fresh insights into region-building and regionalization in contemporary European space, but also contributes to the new sociology of Europeanization. It will be an illuminating read for scholars and students in Sociology, European and EU studies, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Geography, Regional Science, Polish Studies and related subject areas.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. A Critical Introduction to World-Polity Research 3. Outline of a Phenomenology of Late Modernity 4. A Phenomenology of the Rise of a 'New Regionalism' 5. The European Script of Regional Mobilization 6. Region-Building and Regional Mobilization in Poland 7. The World-Cultural Make-Up of Polish regions 8. Strategizing all the Way Down: Traces of 'Standardized Diversification' 9. Conclusions: The Spirit and the Limits of World-Cultural Mobilization. Appendix
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