New Regionalism Reconsidered: Globalization and the Remaking of Political Economic Space

By G. Macleod. 2001

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Amid the near frenzied exaltation of economic globalization and a purported decline of the nation state, a range of subnational regional economies and urban metropoles are increasingly being canonized as the paradigmatic exemplars of wealth creation. Indeed, across many of the advanced developed countries a whole host of academics, consultants, influential commentators, politicians and bourgeois interest groups are readily invoking the region to be "the" appropriate site for regulating global capitalism. In a recent article in "IJURR", though, John Lovering disputes this emerging New Regionalism, viewing it to be seriously compromised by several practical and theoretical inadequacies. This article has two principal aims. First, and while sympathetic to the general tenor of Lovering's critique, it offers a rejoinder through some sobering reflections on what might be recovered from the range of New Regionalist perspectives currently vying for attention within critical studies of regional development. Second, it presents a series of future theoretical directions for a geopolitically sensitive regional research agenda, drawing on recent thinking from the new regional geography, globalization and the politics of scale, institutional-relational state theory and the regulation approach. An argument is made that a synthesis of these perspectives might intensify our understanding of the social and political construction of regions, the uneven geography of growth, and the moments of re-scaled "regionalized" state power that now enframe the process of economic governance. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2001.

Subfields: Finance, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks (2020, background): “When pushed to its extreme such as in the ‘new regionalism’ literature (for earlier critiques, see Hudson, 1999; Lovering, 1999; MacLeod, 2001; Ward & Jonas, 2004), it can perpetuate an almost mythical geography of hierarchical world regions in which some ‘learning’ and ‘smart’ regions are seen as…”
Emerging in between: The multi-level governance of renewable energy in the English regions (2007, background): “…as regional policy networks seek to exert greater autonomy over their own development in a globalising world, rather than being subaltern, sub-national administrative tiers transmitting policy and economic development priorities set from above (Storper, 1997; MacLeod, 2001; Herrschel, 2007).”
Cross-Border Regions and Territorial Restructuring in Central Europe (2009, background): “The 1990s saw a sharp rise in CBRs, and along with it the emergence of discussions in geography on 'new regionalism' (MacLeod, 2001) and 'new regional geography' (Paasi, 1999).”
Learning, innovation and regional development: a critical appraisal of recent debates (2002, background): “…policy irrelevance (Markusen, 1999; Martin, 1999b).1 Yet, while Lovering has identified some important limitations of ‘new regionalist’ work, his arguments also tend to exaggerate the coherence of regionalist discourses, eliding the differences between distinct strands of analysis (MacLeod, 2001).”
Trust and Networking in Inter-firm Relations: the Case of Eco-industrial Development (2003, background): “For example, while one criticism of such approaches is the limited role given to the state (see MacLeod, 2001a), accounts of ecoindustrial development do see a key role for the state and most EIP commentators agree that public policy has a central role to play in establishing the framework…”
Market‐based Governance and the Challenge for Rural Governments: US Trends (2006, background): “Under globalization, many geographers have heralded the resurgence of the city as local governments can engage directly with global economic forces to promote their own economic competitiveness (Brenner 1999, MacLeod 2001, Swyngedouw 1997).”
Financialization and the Role of Real Estate in Hong Kong’s Regime of Accumulation (2003, background): “One of the main contributions that regulation theory makes is in the way it attends to the dynamic interface between economic and noneconomic institutions in a rigorous, rather than ad hoc, fashion (MacLeod 2001).”
Introduction: Clusters in Urban and Regional Development (2004, background): “…what has been termed the ‘new regionalism’ in economic geography and related fields have appeared in recent years (see, for example, Lovering, 1999; MacLeod, 2001; MacKinnon et al., 2002; Cumbers et al., 2003b), there remains a marked absence of work which critically evaluates the theoretical…”
The Rise of the “City-region” Concept and its Development Policy Implications (2008, background): “And finally, the city-region framework is considered as the ideal scale for policy intervention in a globalized world (Ohmae, 1995 , 2001 ; Keating, 1998 ; Tomaney & Ward, 2000 ; MacLeod, 2001 ; Scott et al.”
Perspectives on the city‐region (2005, background): “…influences isof a revival in the UK, although this is perhaps better related to the emergence of the so-called ‘new regional-viewed as part of the latest peaking of interest in the ism’ (A and T-J , 2000;regional question, a tendency that extends back over T and W , 2000; ML , 2001) anda century.”
Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: Explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state (2005, methodology): “This is something of a lost opportunity, b; J, 2001b, 2002; J , 2001; ML, 2001a; B et al., 2003; J and ML ,and it could be argued that devolution presents an ideal circumstance in which to develop geographically 2004) this paper will be restricted to drawing out some of the concerns that arise when…”
Beyond Soft Institutionalism: Accumulation, Regulation, and Their Geographical Fixes (2001, background): “…imprints of reflexive capitalism For me the most obvious analytical lacuna is the failure to connect urban ^ regional change with the changing nature and scalar configurations of the state (Brenner, 1999a; 2000; Jones and MacLeod, 1999; MacLeod, 2000; 2001; MacLeod and Goodwin, 1999b).”
New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy (2002, background): “This in no way invokes a “zero-sum” conception of scale (Brenner 1998; MacLeod 2001), nor is it a simplistic argument that the nation-state is withering away.”
From Regional Systems of Innovation to Regions as Innovation Policy Spaces (2010, unknown): “resources of regional governance (Bunnel and Coe, 2001; Fromhold-Eisebith, 2007; Gertler, 2003; Lovering, 1999; MacLeod, 2001).”