scholarly journals Spaces of regional governance: A periodisation approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1036-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Salder
Keyword(s):  
Economic Structure ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Spatial Strategy ◽  
Regional Economic Structure ◽  
Region I ◽  
Policy Priority ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Tidal Heating ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses regional governance and the relationship between spaces of economic governance and notions of regional economy. The region’s prominence in state spatial strategy has run alongside tendencies for spatial reform in pursuit of optimum spatial articulation of economy. Ongoing spatial reform holds implications for structural interpretation, policy priority and intervention practice. To this extent, regional governance can be understood using a periodisation approach, a response framed through specific temporal arrangements influenced by preceding actions, approaches and outcomes. Such changes however do not occur in isolation of prior spatial iterations, presenting both regional demarcation and practice as a dynamic process. This process involves three concurrent episodes of structuring, casting and disruption, creating a periodisation framework. Focusing on the English region of Greater Birmingham and Solihull and its Southern Staffordshire sub-region, I discuss the evolution of regional governance arrangements and through these interpretation and reflection of regional economic structure. I argue periodisation occurs not in punctuated forms but as a dynamic and historically founded relationship influencing reform, appropriating policy, and selectively interpreting structure for organisational interest. These complex relationships create a form of tidal heating through which regions are in a state of constant flux.

scholarly journals Presentación. Sobre poesía y poetas en la era digital

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Encarna Alonso Valero
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Relationship

El monográfico que presentamos pretende reflexionar sobre las relaciones complejas entre poesía, redes sociales y tecnología en la nueva era digital. Los trabajos que lo componen se agrupan en dos líneas de análisis fundamentales: la primera se centra en la relación entre poesía y redes sociales para estudiar cómo las redes han cambiado nuestra concepción de la poesía, así como la manera de escribirla y de leerla; y la segunda se aproxima a la poesía ligada a lo tecnológico y lo digital, especialmente la e-poetry y la poesía código.The monograph that we present aims to reflect on the complex relationships between poetry, social networks and technology in the new digital era. The works are grouped into two fundamental lines of analysis: the first focuses on the relationship between poetry and social networks to study how networks have changed our conception of poetry, and our way of writing and reading it; the second approaches poetry linked to technology and digital, especially e-poetry and code poetry.

Mobility among older adults: Deconstructing the effects of motility and movement on wellbeing

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothée Cuignet ◽  
Camille Perchoux ◽  
Geoffrey Caruso ◽  
Olivier Klein ◽  
Sylvain Klein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Daily Mobility ◽  
Complementary Role ◽  
Stratified Sample ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Eudaimonic Wellbeing

Daily mobility has been shown to contribute to the wellbeing of older adults, as it promotes healthy and independent living. However, very little is known about how the complex relationships between locations, geographic environments and daily mobility relate to wellbeing. In the current paper, we rely on the concept of ‘motility’– defined as potential mobility– and the concept of ‘movement’– defined as actual mobility– to take a step forwards in disentangling the relationship between mobility and wellbeing. We further examine how both motility and movement relate to two complementary definitions of wellbeing: hedonic wellbeing as a measurement of happiness, and eudaimonic wellbeing as the actualisation of an individual’s human potential. To investigate this relationship, we draw up a conceptual framework stressing pathways linking mobility to wellbeing, which we empirically test using structural equation modelling on a stratified sample of 470 older adults. We first quantitatively confirm that motility is defined by access, competences, appropriation and attitudes to modes of transportation. We then observe that motility has direct effects on eudaimonic wellbeing and, to a lesser extent, on hedonic wellbeing. Part of the motility effects on wellbeing are mediated by movement. Separating mobility into motility and movement stresses the independent and complementary role that potential and realised mobility play in shaping older adults’ wellbeing.

Neomercantilism and international economic stability

1986 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Guerrieri ◽  
Pier Carlo Padoan
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
International Security ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
General Definition ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Foreign Economic Policy ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

In a recent paper, Barry Buzan disputes the widespread theory that associates a liberal international economic structure positively, and a mercantilist structure negatively, with international security. We do not take issue with Buzan's arguments on this point; rather we disagree with some of his assumptions concerning the relationship between mercantilistic policies and the international economic order. Those of Buzan's points that we question represent generally accepted views in the literature on mercantilismBuzan's definition of mercantilism focuses essentially if not exclusively on protectionist trade policies. We prefer a more general definition based on Keynesian and post-Keynesian literature. By including the macroeconomic goals of neomercantilism, this definition accounts for a country's foreign economic policy.

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