From places to flows? Planning for the new ‘regional world’ in Germany
From places to flows? Planning for the new ‘regional world’ in Germany
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DOI：
10.1177/0969776412441191
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发表时间：
2010-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
J. Harrison;Anna Growe
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作者：
J. Harrison;Anna Growe
近几十年来，描述地区复兴的言论占据了主导地位。然而，尽管该地区举世瞩目，但它在很大程度上仍是一个德尔菲式的概念。例如，在新地区主义正统时期，虽然人们认识到地区采取各种形式，但我们生活在一个‘地区世界’的规范性主张变得狭隘地将地区作为国家以下的政治单位。然而，随着城市区域、跨界区域和欧洲大都市区的出现，一些学者建议在本世纪形成一个美丽的新“区域世界”。随着经济、社会和政治活动越来越多地通过区域空间进行协调，这些空间横跨了20世纪大部分时间盛行的领土地图，文学作品中充斥着对区域和区域主义采取关系方法的理论和政策基础的阐述。然而，关于在政治上建造这些空间的斗争，从而忽视领土和领土政治问题的文章要少得多。考虑到这一点，我们的论文借鉴德国的经验来考虑克服矛盾、重叠和竞争趋势的政治斗争，这些矛盾、重叠和竞争趋势是伴随着而不是取代现有的国家规模组织形式出现的新的区域空间。特别是，我们观察到联邦国家如何利用区域概念的含糊不清来提出领土和关系办法，作为补充备选办法。论文最后将这些发现与正在进行的辩论联系起来，讨论我们作为“区域”研究者应该如何处理区域和区域主义的分析；推测它们在多大程度上形成了进步和有效的空间政策；并询问从更广泛的角度来看，当代国家空间性可以学到什么教训。
Recent decades have been dominated by discourses describing a resurgence of regions. Yet despite its prominence the region remains a largely Delphian concept. In the period of new regionalist orthodoxy, for example, while it was recognized that regions take various forms, the normative claim that we were living in a ‘regional world’ became narrowly focused on regions as subnational political units. Nevertheless, the emergence of city-regions, cross-border regions, and European Metropolitan Regions is leading some scholars to suggest the formation in this century of a brave new ‘regional world’. With economic, social and political activity increasingly orchestrated through regional spaces that cross-cut the territorial map that prevailed through much of the twentieth century, the literature is adorned with accounts advancing the theoretical and policy rationale for relational approaches to regions and regionalism. Yet far less has been written on the struggle to construct these spaces politically, thereby neglecting questions of territory and territorial politics. With this in mind, our paper draws on the experience of Germany to consider the political struggle to overcome the contradictions, overlaps, and competing tendencies that result from new regional spaces appearing alongside, rather than replacing, existing forms of state scalar organization. In particular, we observe how the Federal State is using the ambiguity of the regional concept to present territorial and relational approaches as complementary alternatives. The paper concludes by relating these findings to ongoing debates on how we, as ‘regional’ researchers, should approach the analysis of regions and regionalism; speculates on the degree to which they form progressive and effective spatial policies; and asks what lessons can be learnt about contemporary state spatiality more generally.