Political Geography of Cities and Regions
eBook - ePub

Political Geography of Cities and Regions

Changing Legitimacy and Identity

  1. 174 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Political Geography of Cities and Regions

Changing Legitimacy and Identity

About this book

This monograph presents a novel typology of relational and territorial perspectives on legitimacy and identity. This typology is then applied to two different political and historical contexts, namely the trajectories of the metropolitan region Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the metropolitan region Ruhr in Germany. The historical discussion spans 500 years, providing valuable depth to the study.

Taken as a whole, the book provides a new perspective within the territorial-relational dichotomy and the geographies of discontent debate. Its key insights are that identity and political legitimacy are embedded in history and that both relational and territorial perspectives on these issues are time and place dependent.

This book will be stimulating reading for advanced students, researchers, and policymakers working in political geography, human geography, regional studies, and broader social and political sciences.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. Preface
  10. 1 Introduction: looking beyond national populism
  11. 2 The relational and territorial perspectives
  12. 3 Early modernity and urban autonomy
  13. 4 Industrial modernity: integrating cities in the national territory
  14. 5 Late modernity: from territorial regulation to competition
  15. 6 Metropolitan regions: competitiveness justifying the new institutional framework
  16. 7 Challenging the metropolitan region: local resistance identities
  17. 8 The resurgence of the territorial perspective: universal villagism and localised territorialisations
  18. 9 Conclusion: the cycle of dominance of the territorial and relational perspectives
  19. Index