Review paper

Foregrounding the region

Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 19 - 30
Published: Nov 7, 2016
Abstract
Foregrounding the region. Regional Studies. This paper scrutinizes the everlasting but transforming significance of the concept of region for regional studies and social practice. After tracing the changing meanings of this category, it highlights one characteristic aspect of the progress of the academic conceptualizations of the region: recurrent iterations of critiques regarding various forms of essentialism and fetishism. The main focus then...
Paper Details
Title
Foregrounding the region
Published Date
Nov 7, 2016
Volume
51
Issue
1
Pages
19 - 30
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