Configuring the New 'Regional World': On being Caught between Territory and Networks

Harrison J. Configuring the new 'regional world': on being caught between territory and networks, Regional Studies. Recent years have witnessed a tremendous appeal in debating the relative decline in 'territorially embedded' conceptions of regions vis-à-vis the privileging of 'relational and unbounded' conceptions. Nevertheless, the most recent skirmishes have seen some scholars emphasize how it is not the privileging of one or other that is important, but recognizing how it is increasingly different combinations of these elements that seem to be emerging in today's new 'regional world'. Here emphasis is being placed on a need to analyse how the different dimensions of socio-spatial relations (for example, territory, place, network, scale) come together in different ways, at different times, and in different contexts to secure the overall coherence of capitalist, and other, social formations. The purpose of this paper is to make visible the politics of transformation in North West England by uncovering the role and strategies of individual and collective agents, organizations and institutions in orchestrating and steering regional economic development. For it is argued that the unanswered question is not which socio-spatial relations are dominant, emerging or residual in any given space-time, but understanding how and why they are dominant, emerging or residual. The paper suggests the answer to this and other questions is to be found at the interface between emergent spatial strategies and inherited socio-spatial configurations. 区域 领域 相关性的 网络 空间 Harrison J. 配置新的"区域世界"：领土与网络，区域研究。近年来，"领土嵌入式"理念与日益受到垂青的区域 "相关与无界"概念之间存在着激烈的讨论。然而，在近期的小规模碰撞中已出现部分学者不再强调支持某一方或反对另一方的观点，而是开始认识到在目前新"区域世界"中正出现越来越多上述要素的组合。重点在于有必要分析不同的社会－空间关系（例如，地区，地方，网络，尺度）是如何以不同方式、在不同的时间以及语境下进行组合，以保证资本主义以及其他社会形态的连续运转。本文的目的在于显像英格兰西北部转型的政治性通过解释个体以及集体行为者以及组织与机构在策划和督导区域经济发展中的作用。有待解决的问题并非是哪种社会经济空间关系在某特定时空占主导、出现或残留，而是需要了解他们是如何及为何占主导地位、新兴发展或残留。本文表明，这一问题与其他问题的答案通过综合新兴的空间战略与后继社会经济空间结构得以解答。 Région Territoire Relationnel Réseaux Espace Harrison J. La configuration du nouveau 'milieu régional': être coincé entre des territoires et des réseaux, Regional Studies. Au cours des dernières années on a porté un grand intérêt à discuter du déclin relatif des notions de régions 'ancrées dans les territoires' par rapport aux notions 'relationnelles et sans bornes'. Néanmoins, les escarmouches les plus récentes ont vu des spécialistes soulignent qu'il ne l'est ni l'un, ni l'autre qui importe, mais reconnaître que ce sont