Whither Regional Studies?

Regional studies are at a vibrant conjuncture. 'Regions' provide a conceptual and analytical focus for often overlapping concerns with economic, social, political, cultural and ecological change. This book features important voices in regional studies.

Last, regional governance, policy and politics are wrestling with the conceptual, methodological and political complexities of new modes and geographies of governance and emergent multi-agent and multi-level institutional architectures.This book brings together important voices in regional studies to contribute to and reflect upon these current issues and debates. While we are at an early stage in beginning to think through what such conceptual, theoretical, methodological, governance, policy and political innovations and developments mean for regional studies, the magnitude and resonance of such issues underpin the vitality of research on the region. This book was published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Editorial: Whither Regional Studies?
Andy PikeRegions and Regional Uneven Development Forever? Some Reflective Comments upon Theory and Practice
Ray HudsonBeyond the Territorial Fix: Regional Assemblages, Politics and Power
John Allen and Allan CochraneTerritorial, Scalar, Networked, Connected: In What Sense a 'Regional World'?
Gordon MacLeod and Martin JonesThe Accident of the Region: A Strategic Relational Perspective on the Construction of the Region's Significance
Arnoud LagendijkObservational Equivalence? Regional Studies and Regional Science
Philip McCannPower in Firm Networks: What it Means for Regional Innovation Systems
Susan Christopherson and Jennifer ClarkThe Polycentric State: New Spaces of Empowerment and Engagement?
Kevin MorganWhat Kind of Local and Regional Development and for Whom?
Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose and John Tomaney