Real Geographies, Real Economies and Soft Spatial Imaginaries: Creating a ‘More than Manchester’ Region
Real Geographies, Real Economies and Soft Spatial Imaginaries: Creating a ‘More than Manchester’ Region
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真实地理、真实经济和软空间想象：创建“超越曼彻斯特”的地区
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2017
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G. Haughton
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S. Hincks;I. Deas;G. Haughton
本文开发了一个框架，分析区域建设过程的时空结构，涉及竞争的空间和试图巩固这些通过机构建设。这里的核心是我们所称的“软空间建筑”在“分阶段”建设区域规划和经济发展中的作用。我们展示了这种理解如何可以用来检查分阶段制定的连续波的区域建设，通过跟踪多个软空间的演变在英格兰西北部。分析揭示了可变的逻辑，演员的联盟，以及用于建立动力和安全的合法性周围的首选的赞助商，倡导者往往促进的理由是，他们在某种程度上反映了“真实的地理"或”真实的经济“的策略。在这种背景下，软空间的概念被认为在关于国家以下治理的当代形式和目的的知识案例中发挥着不可或缺的作用。然而，我们的分析也揭示了过去软空间的持久性及其对建设新软空间的持续影响。由此产生的是对软空间的理解，而不仅仅是表面上的表现。它们可以帮助确定政府投资流向何处以及用于何种政策。
This article develops a framework for analysing region-building processes as spatiotemporal constructs, involving competing spatial imaginaries and attempts at consolidating these through institution building. Central here is the performative role of what we refer to as ‘soft space imaginaries’ in the ‘phased’ building of regions for planning and economic development over time. We demonstrate how this understanding can be used to examine the phased enactment of successive waves of region-building by tracing the evolution of multiple soft spatial imaginaries in north-west England. The analysis exposes the variable logics, alliances of actors, and tactics used to build momentum and secure legitimacy around preferred imaginaries which advocates often promoted on the grounds that they somehow reflected ‘real geographies’ or ‘real economies’. In this context, soft space imaginaries are seen to play an integral role in intellectual case making about the contemporaneous form and purpose of subnational governance. Yet our analysis also exposes the durability of past soft space imaginaries and their continued impact on efforts to build new soft spaces. What emerges is an understanding of soft space imaginaries as more than just superficial representations. They can help determine where government investment is channelled and into what kinds of policies.