This session deals with the region, as several recent works show that the region remains a key notion for socio-territorial organization at different scales (Abels & Battke, 2019; Frémont & Guermond, 2016; Harrison, Galland & Tewdwr-Jones, 2021; Purkarthofer, Humer & Mäntysalo, 2021; Lingua & Balz, 2020; Neuman & Zonneveld, 2021; Paasi, Harrison & Jones, 2018; Perrin, 2022, 2022b; Perrin & Seys, 2019, 2019b).
The objective is to appraise the notion of region today and its significance notably in geography and planning, without excluding approaches and works on region and regionalisation stemming from other scientific fields (sociology, political science, cultural studies, etc.)
In particular, the session intends to address the new forms of regions and regionalisation that emerge at different scales: metropolitan regions, cross-border regions, macro-regions, informal planning regions, among others. The idea is to discuss to what extent these new regional forms interact with more classical or institutional forms of region, in order to respond to actual social needs and policy questions. Another question can be to what extent these emerging regions can stabilise or consolidate. In this way the session should deliver a renewed vision of the evolutive link between geography, planning policies and societies.The session accept communications in English, French, Spanish or Catalan.
References
Abels G., Battke J. (dir.), 2019, Regional Governance in the EU. Regions and the Future of Europe, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar.
Frémont A., Guermond Y. (dir.), 2016, La région de l’identité à la citoyenneté, Paris : Hermann.
Harrison J., Galland D., Tewdwr-Jones M. (dir.), 2021, Planning regional futures, Regional Studies, vol. 55(1).
Lingua V., Balz V. (dir.), 2020, Shaping Regional Futures – Designing and Visioning in Governance Rescaling, Berlin : Springer.
Neuman M., Zonneveld W. (dir.), 2021, The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design, Abingdon : Routledge.
Paasi A., Harrison J., Jones M. (dir.), 2018, Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar.
Perrin T. (dir.), 2022, La région au XXIe siècles, Brussels : Peter Lang.
Perrin T. (dir.), 2022b, Regions and regional planning: Experiences from France and Europe, Abingdon : Routledge.
Perrin T., Seys F-O., (dir.) 2019, La région, vous dîtes ? Le kaléidoscope régional de l’Union européenne, Belgeo, n° 2–2019.
Perrin T., Seys F-O., (dir.), 2019b, Régions en tension, régions en recomposition. Le Sud-Ouest européen en perspective, Sud-Ouest Européen, n° 48.
Purkarthofer E., Humer A., Mäntysalo R. (dir.), 2021, Regional planning: interests, institutions and relations, Regional Studies, vol. 55(5).

Thomas Perrin (1); Rafael Giménez Capdevila (2)
(1) School of architecture of Montpellier / LIFAM and University of Lille / TVES, (2) Societat Catalana de Geografia

 
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