Regional Studies Association - Contested Regions: Territorial Politics and Policy - 2011 Conference Papers

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Regional Studies Association
One Day Winter Conference

Contested Regions: Territorial Politics and Policy
25th November 2011, London

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Plenary Session Morning
Plenary PM
Assembling regions - spatiality, practice, performativity
Conceptualizing regions
New sites of urban-regional contestation
Regional divides and territorial politics
Regional justice - development, welfare, quality of life
Remapping city regions - the politics of defining, designating, delimiting
Territorial politics of innovation 2 - smart growth strategies
The politics of local and regional economic performance
The politics of local and regional infrastructure
Transborder regional cooperation

**Plenary Session Morning**
Name	Title of Presentation
Anssi Paasi	Regional complexity, governance and the region: problematizing 'bounded regions'
Andy Jonas	Spaces of collective provision: 'old' territorial politics in a 'new' economy
Roger Keil	Suburban Governance and the Regional Question: The Canadian Perspective

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**Plenary PM**
Name	Title of Presentation
Kevin Morgan	Political Geographies and the Public Realm
Allan Cochrane	Relational Approaches to Regions and the Place of Politics

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**Assembling regions - spatiality, practice, performativity**
Name	Title of Presentation
Markus Idvall	The Maritime Öresund Region: Planning and Living the Swedish-Danish Border Area
Alexander Hamedinger	Understanding City Regional Governance – the Integration of ‚Space‘ into Governance Theory
Arnoud Lagendijk and Krisztina Varró	Evolving spatial imaginations and European innovation policies

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**Conceptualizing regions**
Name	Title of Presentation
Martin Jones and Gordon MacLeod	The Territorial Antinomies of UK Devolution
John Harrison and Anna Growe	From places to flows? Planning for the new 'regional world' in Germany

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**New sites of urban-regional contestation**
Name	Title of Presentation
Stefan Hartman	Contested spatial developments: a peri-urban perspective
Heather M. Hall	Contested Regionalisms and the Politics of Regional Economic Development Strategies in Northern Ontario, Canada
Tomasz Kaczmarek and Łukasz Mikuła	Urban-suburban relation in Polish metropolitan areas. Between conflict and cooperation

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**Regional divides and territorial politics**
Name	Title of Presentation
Chatzigiannis Emmanouil and Desli Evangelia	"What Evidence of Economic Convergence among EU regions?"
Prof. Anca Dodescu, Ph. D.	Regional Disparities and Regional Growth and Development Policies. Challenges for Romania in the context of Economic Crisis and European Integration

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**Regional justice - development, welfare, quality of life**
Name	Title of Presentation
Susana Suárez Paniagua	The Human and Territorial Development Approaches: Similarities, Differences and Integration.
Prof. Anca Dodescu, Ph. D. and Lavinia Chirilă	Contested regions in remapping Romania’s regionalization. Do economic aspects matter?

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**Remapping city regions - the politics of defining, designating, delimiting**
Name	Title of Presentation
Justyna Danielewicz, Ph.D and Maciej Turala, Ph. D	An overview and critical assessment of methods for identifying functional areas of metropolitan cities in Poland
Dr Marie-France Gaunard-Anderson	New challenges for a border region and its metropolitan area at the beginning of the new French territorial reform.
Antonio G. Calafati and Paolo Veneri	From cities de jure to cities de facto: Remapping the Italian Urban System
Stephen Little and Thomas Kaiserfeld	Science Policy and Regional Policy: resolving tensions and building regional capacity

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**Territorial politics of innovation 2 - smart growth strategies**
Name	Title of Presentation
Dr. Karsten Rusche	Fishing for inhabitants - interregional competition in local housing policy
Roger H. Normann and Hans Garmann Johsen	Understanding multi-level approaches to regional policy implantation: the research design challenge
Mikel Navarro, Mari Jose Aranguren and Edurne Magro	Smart Specialisation Strategies: the case of the Basque Country

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**The politics of local and regional economic performance**
Name	Title of Presentation
Stephen Syrett and Marcello Bertotti	Reconsidering private sector engagement in sub-national economic policy: the case of the City Growth Strategy
Mário Vale	Rebalancing the Portuguese economy: the limits of territorial politics

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**The politics of local and regional infrastructure**
Name	Title of Presentation
Derek Jan Fikkers	Regional broadband infrastructures: exploring the nine pitfalls

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**Transborder regional cooperation**
Name	Title of Presentation
Stefanie Dühr	Macro-regional cooperation in the European Union: challenges for territorial and functional governance
Beatrix Haselsberger	Key Challenges for the Future of Cross-border Regions
N. Bellini and U.Hilpert	Europe's changing geography as a result of trans-regional cooperation
Jānis Balodis	Transborder region cooperation programmes in Latvia: structure, oppurtunity and challenge of development

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