Week 8

Question 1

Semiosis:

Answer 1

A sign is anything that communicates a meaning, that is not the sign itself, to the interpreter of the sign

Question 2

Region as..

Answer 2

Region as: a process; time space specific; a domain of power relations

Question 3

Gieryn and place and identity (2000) –> place and identity have elastic boundaries

Answer 3

means that place can be your favroite armchair, but also a building or a state or nation

Question 4

Swyngedouw:

Answer 4

analysing the world from a given geographical scale, such as the local, regional, national or global, seems […] to be deeply antagonistic to apprehending the world in a dynamic, process- based manner

Question 5

Hollowing out the nation state (Jessop)

Answer 5

the central government has become hollowed out as power is devolved to state and local governments (Stoker 1998)
Non profits, private firms, local governments form a network of dependence –> related to institutional thickness, and turn, related to neo endogenous development

Question 6

Neal (2011):

Answer 6

Regions and Metropolitan areas are the competitive units, not nations. (2011). E.g. san francisco, new york

Question 7

New Regionalism 2 points

Answer 7

1. place-based innovation network and multi-level governance
2. Use endogenous knowledge, human capital, place-based assets, mobile capital

Question 8

Old Regionalism define

Answer 8

1. regional application of fixed policies
2. fixed capital
3. industrial location factors such as resources

Question 9

Politics of memory

Answer 9

• organisation of collective memory by political agents;
• Norms and values in society are collective memory (and this is something that you can influence)
• may determine the way history is written and passed on
• influences social norms, culture, identity
  (paasi and scott)
• Regions can be malleable depending on marketing and collective memories.

Question 10

Politics of memory example

Answer 10

karelianism - russia and Finland shared region and history

Vogtland (stoffelen)

Question 11

Sticky regions

Answer 11

Zimmerbauer and Suttari

• -> regions ‘holds onto’ both human and nonhuman actants even after it loses its status in the legitimate regional structure. Due to this stickiness, deinstitutionalization is never complete — otherwise all regional consciousness would disappear entirely.
• -> related to politics of memory