Mattheis / Raineri / Russo Fringe Regionalism

When Peripheries Become Regions
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-97409-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 97 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet

This book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies. It examines how regions are practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned, thus offering new avenues for researching regionalism beyond the conventional focus on formal intergovernmental organisations. Two in depth case studies, the Sahara and the Caucasus, provide the real-life application of the concept and the authors use the tensions between competing demarcations of the region, the regional nature of extra-legal economies and the narratives of cross-border identities to steer their empirical approach. Through thorough analysis, the volume applies the concept of fringe regionalism to regions previously neglected by conventional approaches.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattheis, Frank

Raineri, Luca

Russo, Alessandra

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introductory remarks – the case for fringe regionalism.- 2. Producing regional spaces from the margins: Fringe regionalism - a conceptual proposal to recalibrate the study of regions.- 3. The practice of fringe regionalism - evidence from the Caucasus and the Sahara.- 4. Towards a wider application of fringe regionalism – comparisons and transfers

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Mattheis is Research Fellow at the Institut d’études européennes (IEE), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Associate Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), University of Pretoria, South Africa. Luca Raineri  is Research Fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Italy. Alessandra Russo  is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.