This commentary revisits the main elements of Paasi's ideas about the institutionalisation of regions and bounded spaces. It reviews his analysis of the identity of a region and the regional identity of its residents (as addressed in his TESG 2002 article). Next, it discusses how his work on bounded spaces contributed to the reinvention of border studies in political geography and how his innovative conceptual work grounded in and written from Finland, was inspiring for a whole generation of researchers working at the margins of the Anglo‐American academic world. Finally, it reasserts the enduring value of his heuristic framework in a time where the complexity of social spatialisation and of spatial socialisation has greatly increased.
{"title":"Bounded Spaces – The Enduring Allure of Territorial Identities and the Lasting Value of Paasi's Conceptualisation of the Institutionalisation of Regions","authors":"Virginie Mamadouh","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12647","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary revisits the main elements of Paasi's ideas about the institutionalisation of regions and bounded spaces. It reviews his analysis of the identity of a region and the regional identity of its residents (as addressed in his TESG 2002 article). Next, it discusses how his work on bounded spaces contributed to the reinvention of border studies in political geography and how his innovative conceptual work grounded in and written from Finland, was inspiring for a whole generation of researchers working at the margins of the Anglo‐American academic world. Finally, it reasserts the enduring value of his heuristic framework in a time where the complexity of social spatialisation and of spatial socialisation has greatly increased.","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141797072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Looking theoretically at regions as historically contingent entities that have been evolving over time, this article aims to explore the relationship between the identities of old regions and their symbols through an innovative employment of street names. Methodologically, this study employed Geographic Information System tools, alongside a case study focusing on deinstitutionalised historical regions in the Czech Republic. In this context, street naming practices resulted in different spatial patterns in the symbolic representation of the old regions. It was discovered that regionally named streets perform a different function in terms of the internal and external identity of a region. Hence, our results suggest that the role of street names as actants involved in the reproduction of deinstitutionalised regions is ambiguous and in some ways contradictory. From this perspective, our results are consistent with previous findings that conceptualised deinstitutionalised regions and their boundaries as penumbral entities.
{"title":"Exploring the Role of Street Names in the Reproduction of Deinstitutionalised Regions","authors":"Miloslav Šerý, Jan Daniel, Jindřich Frajer","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12646","url":null,"abstract":"Looking theoretically at regions as historically contingent entities that have been evolving over time, this article aims to explore the relationship between the identities of old regions and their symbols through an innovative employment of street names. Methodologically, this study employed Geographic Information System tools, alongside a case study focusing on deinstitutionalised historical regions in the Czech Republic. In this context, street naming practices resulted in different spatial patterns in the symbolic representation of the old regions. It was discovered that regionally named streets perform a different function in terms of the internal and external identity of a region. Hence, our results suggest that the role of street names as actants involved in the reproduction of deinstitutionalised regions is ambiguous and in some ways contradictory. From this perspective, our results are consistent with previous findings that conceptualised deinstitutionalised regions and their boundaries as penumbral entities.","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141646036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Over the years, much research has focused on industrial relocations between countries resulting from globalisation and industrial modernisation. However, the relocation decisions of individual firms within metropolitan areas remain an insufficiently studied aspect of the relocation literature. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the relocation intentions and locations of high‐tech manufacturing firms at various stages of development in Beijing from the firm life cycle perspective. The results show that larger firms with more employees and higher property income are more willing to relocate. Interestingly, smaller firms do not follow the incubator theory, instead relocating to non‐agglomerated areas. As firms grow, however, they tend to move to areas with higher firm concentration. This indicates that not all industrial clusters in cities function as business incubators. Furthermore, it also confirms the influence of rootedness, regional accessibility and regional policies on the relocation of firms.
{"title":"Exploring Firm Decision‐Making and Location Strategies in High‐Tech Manufacturing Relocation in Beijing: A Lifecycle Perspective","authors":"Peiyuan Zhang, Jiaming Li, Wenzhong Zhang","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12645","url":null,"abstract":"Over the years, much research has focused on industrial relocations between countries resulting from globalisation and industrial modernisation. However, the relocation decisions of individual firms within metropolitan areas remain an insufficiently studied aspect of the relocation literature. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the relocation intentions and locations of high‐tech manufacturing firms at various stages of development in Beijing from the firm life cycle perspective. The results show that larger firms with more employees and higher property income are more willing to relocate. Interestingly, smaller firms do not follow the incubator theory, instead relocating to non‐agglomerated areas. As firms grow, however, they tend to move to areas with higher firm concentration. This indicates that not all industrial clusters in cities function as business incubators. Furthermore, it also confirms the influence of rootedness, regional accessibility and regional policies on the relocation of firms.","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141661498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This brief article dedicates a few subjective considerations to the versatility and afterlives of Paasi's conceptual thinking, enriching the way we perceive spaces and borders in highly differentiated environments and times. I will confess my uneasiness with bounded spaces and explore the origins of that unease. I draw inspiration from feminist geography, which embraces subjectivity, dispelling the myth of objectivity. Although not explicitly referenced by Paasi himself, Paasi's article implicitly poses similar feminist questions: Who gains? Who is overlooked and who loses within bounded spaces and ‘borderless’ orders? For whom are spatial and territorial borders beneficial, and whom do they oppress? I will further examine how the ideas of spaces, borders and boundaries have evolved in my specific interpretation of Paasi's writing. The text will be interspersed with insights into lived experiences of regions, products, brands and people's consciousness, or, as in my case, awkward embodied experiences.
{"title":"Reading Paasi and Living through Bounded Spaces","authors":"Aija Lulle","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12649","url":null,"abstract":"This brief article dedicates a few subjective considerations to the versatility and afterlives of Paasi's conceptual thinking, enriching the way we perceive spaces and borders in highly differentiated environments and times. I will confess my uneasiness with bounded spaces and explore the origins of that unease. I draw inspiration from feminist geography, which embraces subjectivity, dispelling the myth of objectivity. Although not explicitly referenced by Paasi himself, Paasi's article implicitly poses similar feminist questions: Who gains? Who is overlooked and who loses within bounded spaces and ‘borderless’ orders? For whom are spatial and territorial borders beneficial, and whom do they oppress? I will further examine how the ideas of spaces, borders and boundaries have evolved in my specific interpretation of Paasi's writing. The text will be interspersed with insights into lived experiences of regions, products, brands and people's consciousness, or, as in my case, awkward embodied experiences.","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141660369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper I call for unbounding Paasi's ontological position, while urging for a research agenda that shifts from Deconstructing Regional Identity to Reconstructing geographies of margins. Reconstructing geographies of margins is an agenda for building situated knowledges from experiences of movement historically produced as ‘out of place’ and ‘out of time’ to undo fixity in spatio‐temporal categories of the state but also of social‐scientific analysis. I argue that thinking and sensing from the plural epistemological and ontological positions emerging from such movement (out of one's place and time assigned by oppressive structures of domination) is essential to emancipate the categories of the migrant/refugee/other from scientific and historical ways of knowing that produced it in the first place. This agenda cannot be fixed but must be continuously aimed, as an ongoing perpetual process of unbounding research agendas of mobility, borders and migration from settling into rigid onto‐epistemic positions.
{"title":"Reconstructing geographies of margins: Unbounded spaces in an immobile world","authors":"Kolar Aparna","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12648","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I call for unbounding Paasi's ontological position, while urging for a research agenda that shifts from Deconstructing Regional Identity to Reconstructing geographies of margins. Reconstructing geographies of margins is an agenda for building situated knowledges from experiences of movement historically produced as ‘out of place’ and ‘out of time’ to undo fixity in spatio‐temporal categories of the state but also of social‐scientific analysis. I argue that thinking and sensing from the plural epistemological and ontological positions emerging from such movement (out of one's place and time assigned by oppressive structures of domination) is essential to emancipate the categories of the migrant/refugee/other from scientific and historical ways of knowing that produced it in the first place. This agenda cannot be fixed but must be continuously aimed, as an ongoing perpetual process of unbounding research agendas of mobility, borders and migration from settling into rigid onto‐epistemic positions.","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141659019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper discusses the current relevance of Anssi Paasi's 2002 paper Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World: Deconstructing ‘Regional Identity’. Using Paasi's conceptual tools to analyse the cultivation of a thin regional identity discourse of the metropolitan region Amsterdam, it is shown how the construction of a large upmarket housing estate in the small town of Muiden near Amsterdam is legitimised. Paasi's conceptual tools also help to analyse the use of a traditional thick local identity discourse by the local population. This illustrates the growing importance of thickening resistance identities in reaction to the neoliberal policies promoting globalisation. When Paasi wrote this paper at the turn of the century, the world was opening up, which challenged established identities. Today, we see a revival of thickening identities again.
本文讨论了安西-帕西（Anssi Paasi）2002 年发表的论文《移动世界中的边界空间》（Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World）的现实意义：解构 "地区认同"》一文的现实意义。本文利用 Paasi 的概念工具分析了阿姆斯特丹大都会地区薄层区域身份话语的形成，说明了在阿姆斯特丹附近的小镇 Muiden 建造大型高档住宅区是如何合法化的。帕西的概念工具还有助于分析当地居民对传统的厚重地方认同话语的使用。这说明，针对促进全球化的新自由主义政策，加厚抵制身份认同的重要性与日俱增。帕西在世纪之交撰写这篇论文时，世界正在开放，这对既有的身份认同提出了挑战。今天，我们再次看到加厚身份认同的复兴。
{"title":"Regional Identities in a Re‐Territorialising World: From thinning cosmopolitan to thickening resistance identities","authors":"K. Terlouw","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12643","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the current relevance of Anssi Paasi's 2002 paper Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World: Deconstructing ‘Regional Identity’. Using Paasi's conceptual tools to analyse the cultivation of a thin regional identity discourse of the metropolitan region Amsterdam, it is shown how the construction of a large upmarket housing estate in the small town of Muiden near Amsterdam is legitimised. Paasi's conceptual tools also help to analyse the use of a traditional thick local identity discourse by the local population. This illustrates the growing importance of thickening resistance identities in reaction to the neoliberal policies promoting globalisation. When Paasi wrote this paper at the turn of the century, the world was opening up, which challenged established identities. Today, we see a revival of thickening identities again.","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141680183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This contribution aims firstly to contextualize the author's article Bounded spaces in the mobile world: Deconstructing “regional identity” and, secondly, to give a response to four invited comments on that article published on this forum. This paper is organized as follows. After the introduction, the geographical and conceptual contextualization of the TESG article and the scientific links behind the article will be discussed. These are followed by a response to four comments.
{"title":"Revisiting “Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World”: A Contextualized Rejoinder","authors":"A. Paasi","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12644","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution aims firstly to contextualize the author's article Bounded spaces in the mobile world: Deconstructing “regional identity” and, secondly, to give a response to four invited comments on that article published on this forum. This paper is organized as follows. After the introduction, the geographical and conceptual contextualization of the TESG article and the scientific links behind the article will be discussed. These are followed by a response to four comments.","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141687025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neighbourhood reputation is an elusive but much discussed and studied concept that greatly influences people's perceptions of and attitudes towards the residential areas of a city. The temporality related to neighbourhood reputation is a less studied topic. The emergence of a place‐based reputation is a complex social, spatial, temporal, and cultural process that is affected by the neighbourhood's residents and visitors, local and social media, and non‐residents who are knowledgeable about the area. We based our study of reputation on interviews with focus groups, city officials, and politicians. According to the interview data, neighbourhood reputation is articulated through four temporal discourses: the past, presentation, representation, and the future. Ultimately, underlying these four temporal discourses we found causes for neighbourhood reputation and stigmatisation that we named as narrative cores.
{"title":"The Narrative Cores of Neighbourhood Reputation as Revealed by Temporal Discourses","authors":"Hanna Heino, Tuomas Honkaniemi, Ilkka Luoto","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12628","url":null,"abstract":"Neighbourhood reputation is an elusive but much discussed and studied concept that greatly influences people's perceptions of and attitudes towards the residential areas of a city. The temporality related to neighbourhood reputation is a less studied topic. The emergence of a place‐based reputation is a complex social, spatial, temporal, and cultural process that is affected by the neighbourhood's residents and visitors, local and social media, and non‐residents who are knowledgeable about the area. We based our study of reputation on interviews with focus groups, city officials, and politicians. According to the interview data, neighbourhood reputation is articulated through four temporal discourses: the past, presentation, representation, and the future. Ultimately, underlying these four temporal discourses we found causes for neighbourhood reputation and stigmatisation that we named as narrative cores.","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140660851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ben Eyre, Oiara Bonilla, Marc Brightman, Stefan Voicu
Sustainable finance ‘thought leaders’ call for metrics as the key to aligning investment with sustainability objectives and harnessing the market for ‘good’. In this article, we consider how measurement is used in sustainable finance through three case studies of financial instruments described as bonds (green, forest, and impact) and develop Sally Engle Merry's concept of ‘indicator literacy’ as a contribution to critical geographies of sustainable finance. Through ethnography, we explore how labelling financial products as sustainable (and therefore moral) increasingly relies on claims to achieve measurable outcomes and how attention to spatial and scalar dynamics illuminates what this leaves out.
{"title":"Beyond the ‘tyranny of metrics’? Indicator literacy in sustainable finance","authors":"Ben Eyre, Oiara Bonilla, Marc Brightman, Stefan Voicu","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12625","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainable finance ‘thought leaders’ call for metrics as the key to aligning investment with sustainability objectives and harnessing the market for ‘good’. In this article, we consider how measurement is used in sustainable finance through three case studies of financial instruments described as bonds (green, forest, and impact) and develop Sally Engle Merry's concept of ‘indicator literacy’ as a contribution to critical geographies of sustainable finance. Through ethnography, we explore how labelling financial products as sustainable (and therefore moral) increasingly relies on claims to achieve measurable outcomes and how attention to spatial and scalar dynamics illuminates what this leaves out.","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140695590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: An Urban Impasse","authors":"T. Blokland, Gabriel Feltran, Nina Margies","doi":"10.1111/tesg.12620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23136,"journal":{"name":"Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140761204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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