Rethinking Change in Old Industrial Regions: Reflecting on the Experiences of North East England

By Ray Hudson. 2005

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The author reflects upon regional economic change and the ways in which this is conceptualised and understood, drawing heavily but not exclusively on some thirty years of research on economy, politics and society in the North East of England. The principal question that this paper addresses is: how are the long periods of continuity, punctuated by occasional major shifts in developmental trajectory and the region's place in the global economy, to be understood? The author seeks to answer this question by exploring the extent to which continuity and change in the region's developmental trajectory can be understood in terms of evolutionary and institutional concepts and the varying engagement of the state with issues of socioeconomic development and change. The value of theoretical plurality in seeking to understand uneven development in capitalism is demonstrated and the limits to public policies that seek to address regional problems indicated.

Subfields: Finance, Political Science and International Relations

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Path Renewal in Old Industrial Regions: Possibilities and Limitations for Regional Innovation Policy (2015, background): “…in the field of regional studies with the particular problems, challenges and strategies for renewal of old industrial regions (BOSCHMA and LAMBOOY, 1999; COOKE, 1995; HASSINK, 1993; HASSINK and SHIN, 2005; HUDSON, 1989, 2005; KAUFMANN and TÖDTLING, 2000; MORGAN, 1997; TRIPPL and OTTO, 2009).”
New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition (2020, background): “The relevance of this perspective in relation to energy landscapes and infrastructures is clear: research on energy imaginaries, for example, shows that there are continually evolving ways of producing meaning and identity in relation to ‘new’ and ‘old’ energy spaces (Kuchler and Bridge, 2018), whil”
Towards the Resilient Region? (2010, background): “More typical for old industrial regions are experiences of weaker adaptation shaped by entrenched path dependency and protracted decline, including the continued economic weaknesses and long-run marginalisation of North East England (Hudson 2005) and the post-transition rationalisation of steel and ”
Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Political Economy, and Adaptation (2009, background): “…2006), there has been a tendency for path dependence to be treated in an oversocialized manner whereby specific “carriers of history” (institutions, habits, technologies, and firms) impart strong, self-reinforcing continuities upon broader trajectories of regional economic evolution (Hudson 2005a).”
The 1.5°C target and coal sector transition: at the limits of societal feasibility (2018, unknown): “…on the socio-economic challenges faced by so-called ‘old industrial regions’ (Boschma & Lambooy, 1999; Cooke, 1995; Eckart, Kowalke, & Mazeland, 2003; Hudson, 2005), which includes some case studies of coal mining regions (Baeten et al., 1999; Harfst, 2015; Harfst & Wirth, 2011; Jonek Kowalska,…”
Regional industrial path development in different regional innovation systems: A conceptual analysis (2014, background): “…examples of how negative functional, cognitive and political lock-in result in stagnation, economic downturn and decline of industrial paths (see, for instance, Grabher 1993; Tödtling and Trippl 2004; Hudson 2005; Trippl and Tödtling 2008; Birch et al. 2010; Hassink 2010; Simmie and Martin 2010).”
How to Turn the Fate of Old Industrial Areas: A Comparison of Cluster-Based Renewal Processes in Styria and the Saarland (2009, background): “1 The innovation dilemma of old industrial areas There exists a considerable body of literature on the evolution of OIAs, documenting their rise, fall, and, occasionally, revitalisation in recent years (see, for example, Chapman et al, 2004; Cooke, 1995; Cooke et al, 2004; Hudson, 2005; Sadler, 2004”