scholarly journals CUSTOM-MADE PATCHWORK LANDSCAPE: ENTREPRENEURIAL AND PRIVATE REGIONALISM / PAGAL UŽSAKYMĄ PAGAMINTA MOZAIKA: VERSLO IR PRIVATUS REGIONALIZMAS

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-302
Author(s):  
Ilze Miķelsone
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology

Regional identity as a subject of invented tradition is continuously updated in whole Europe; this process is especially regular in cultures of small populations, such as Latvia. It is a multilayered term, which involves a continuously changing main value-focus and numerous disciplines, including architecture. One of the ways to look at it realistically is to analyze the visually represented main hegemonic values and processes in society. Appropriate platform for this is provided by agglomeration expansion – fusion spots of the urban and the rural, thus creating a characteristic local landscape. The aim of this article is to clarify core impacts on the regional identity formation of the landscape of Riga region as observed today. Methodology is based on the case study of Mārupe County, using RES (residential) landscape inventory, urban-morphology, photo-analytical and rhetoric problem-definition methodology. Major findings lead to a conclusion of unbalanced role between the state intervention and free trade system, based on the neoliberal ideology intensified in the transition – economy zone. Thus regional spatial identity has mostly failed following any professional standards, but has rather developed as clusters with residential function, mostly under the strong impact of the market economy and entrepreneurship. Regioninis identitetas kaip naujai išrastos tradicijos samprata yra nuolatos atnaujinama visoje Europoje; šis procesas yra ypač dėsningas tokių nedidelių šalių, kaip Latvija, kultūrose. Tai daugiasluoksnis reiškinys, apimantis besikeičiančias, į vertybes orientuotas disciplinas, taip pat ir architektūrą. Vienas iš būdų į tai žiūrėti realistiškai – analizuoti vizualiai reprezentuotas pagrindines hegemonines vertybes ir procesus visuomenėje. Tam tikrą platformą šiam reiškiniui teikia aglomeracijos plėtra – miestietiškumo ir kaimiškumo sintezė, kurianti charakteringą vietinį kraštovaizdį. Šio straipsnio tikslas – išsiaiškinti nūdienos Rygos regiono kraštovaizdžio esminį poveikį regioninio identiteto formavimui. Metodologija yra pagrįsta Mārupe apygardos tyrimu, kuriam naudotas RES (gyvenamojo) kraštovaizdžio aprašo, miestų morfologijos, fotoanalitinis ir retorinis problemos įvardijimo metodai. Tyrimo rezultatai veda prie išvados, kad valstybės įsikišimo vaidmuo ir laisvoji prekybos sistema, pagrįsta neoliberalia ideologija, nėra subalansuoti ir tai sustiprėja pereinamosios ekonomikos zonoje. Taigi regioninis erdvinis identitetas ne tikslingai grindžiamas profesionaliais standartais, o vystosi daugiau kaip gyvenamosios paskirties zonos, stipriai veikiamos rinkos ekonomikos ir verslo.

scholarly journals Conjunctures on “ASEAN Citizenship” 1967-2017: Identities, Ideas, Institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-89
Author(s):  
Adonis Elumbre
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Core ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

In 2015, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was said to have set in motion a regional community with “peace, prosperity, and people” at the core of its transition towards deeper integration. In 2017, it marked its 50th year - a narrative arc in Southeast Asian history that has arguably defined the region’s contemporary period. What then could be the next for the organization? This paper explores one of those ideas that has been floating around about ASEAN’s future in relation to its people-oriented vision. In particular, it enquires into the abstracted and non-legal notion of “ASEAN citizenship” through identification of conjunctures in the development of the organization. While ASEAN’s lack of a legitimating policy on regional citizenship is understandable given its normative frameworks of intergovernmentalism and non-interference, the paper contends that this notion has already been discursively defined and constructively pursued from within the organization. The resulting narratives on regional identity formation and on ideas and institutions that articulate and generate potential elements of regional citizenship seek to capture aspects of this slippery yet lingering presence of “ASEAN citizenship,” and hopefully contribute to the evolving conversations on the nature and future of ASEAN as it enters a new era.

Assessment of the Impact of State Regulation of Retail Trade Networks Development on the Wholesale Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 775
Author(s):  
V.P. CHEGLOV ◽  
S.V. MKHITARYAN ◽  
L.A. DANCHENOK ◽  
O.V. RYKALINA ◽  
T.A. TULTAEV
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Trading Systems ◽  
Retail Chains ◽  
The Impact

The article is dealing with the issues of state regulation of the consumer market, where the interests of producers, wholesale intermediaries, and retail trade are traditionally encountered. The authors consider the features of state regulation of the formation and development processes of multi-object and omnichannel trading systems in Russia in the context of the country's entry into the global economy, the opening of the domestic market for foreign business structures, and commodity imports in a situation with a small business that is not fully established. The results of the conducted study complement the experience of the international community in regulating system formation in trade. The article analyzes significant differences in the state intervention mechanisms in the economic relations of retail chains and their suppliers, as well as the impact of stricter legislation on wholesale trade, and its place and role in the commodity distribution system. The authors prove that excessive regulation of the retail market causes negative consequences in its adjacent segments, justify the upcoming redistribution of the market between large retail chains and specialized wholesale companies in favor of the former ones, show the development prospects of the distribution, and the impact of this process on small retail businesses, as well as formulate proposals for optimizing approaches to regulating the transformation of the trade sector in the transition economy.

Name as a regional brand

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 768-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Semian ◽  
Pavel Chromý ◽  
Zdeněk Kučera
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Local Action ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
National Network ◽  
Territorial Differentiation ◽  
Territorial Approach ◽  
Regional Brand ◽  
Action Groups ◽  
Academic Debate

Abstract The article addresses denominations of specific regions, Local Action Groups (LAGs), in Czechia, and contributes to the academic debate regarding: relationships between formation of regions, their symbolic shape and regional identity; formation of regions by means of regional development. A set of 179 LAG names registered in the database of the National Network of Local Action Groups in the Czech Republic as of March 2014 are examined. LAG names are first analyzed in terms of the phenomena that constitute their essence, and subsequently their territorial differentiation is discussed. The analysis affirms the importance of territorial approach towards regional denomination. It has equally been affirmed that region naming strategies are spatially fragmented. Nevertheless, the territorial differentiation of names of LAG regions mirrors the elementary spatial patterns traditionally reproduced in the Czech context, namely west-east gradient of development level, distinctions between historical lands and differences between inland and borderland resettled after WWII.

scholarly journals Ugra Book Publishing as a Part of the Regional Cultural Policy

2011 ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
Ludmila E. Kovaleva
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Khanty Mansi Autonomous

The paper deals with the interrelation of regional development, regional identity and cultural policy. The points of view of domestic and foreign authors on the specified questions are cited. A role of book publishing in the course of regional identity formation is shown on the example of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area — Ugra.

Comparative Regionalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Balogun
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
World Order ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Democratic Stability ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Comparative Regionalism

The study of regionalism has experienced numerous transformations and focal points. Comparative regionalism has emerged as the next wave of scholarship on regional cooperation and integration in international relations. What differentiates comparative regionalism from this earlier scholarship? There are three research themes that characterize the field of comparative regionalism: (a) an empirical focus on regional identity formation as a way of distinguishing between autonomous regions, (b) decentering Europe as the main reference point of comparative regionalism, and (c) defining what is truly “comparative” about comparative regionalism. These research themes emerge in a global context, where regional cooperation and integration are being tested from all sides by events such as Brexit in Europe, elusive global cooperation in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and challenges to democratic stability across the globe. While the development of regionalism has primarily been concerned about the defining of regions and the world order context in which regional cooperation emerges and sustains itself, the interrelated themes of regional identity formation and the decentering of Europe in comparative regionalism drive the comparative regionalism agenda, giving substance to the identification and measurement of the “local” and other context-specific mechanisms of regionalism. While these three themes are helpful in discerning the state of the comparative regionalism research agenda, they also have some limitations. While comparative regionalism is progressive in its integration of constructivist ideas of identity formation, its project of withering Eurocentrism, and its methodological flexibility, comparative regionalism research would be well served to incorporate more reflexive and interpretivist research practices and methods, particularly to serve the goal of offering new knowledge and theories of regional cooperation in the Global South that are not tethered to Europe.

TERRITORIAL IDENTITY IN SOCIAL SPACE

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Irina F. PECHERKINA ◽  
Anastasia A. KOSHKINA ◽  
Roman R. KHUZIAKHMETOV
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Territorial Identity ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Rural And Urban

The article examines modern theoretical and empirical problems of territorial identity in rural and urban social space. The relevance of these problems is determined by the fact that application of the theory of social identity can be used as a “heuristic lens” for the study, operationalization and verification of identity formation processes in their interconnection with social changes in socio-cultural and geographical contexts. The article uses identity process theory and social representations research as theoretical basis adopting concepts of “status symbols” and “status value”, various components of which can be operationalized in questions about identity contents, its structure and internal processes, as well as motivational principles that individuals are guided by. The empirical basis is the study of territorial identity in 2006-2021, conducted by a research team of sociologists of University of Tyumen. Evidence of the importance of identity processes in the verbalization of social representations about territory image is obtained from the respondents’ evaluations of the symbols of their settlement, region, country and world as a whole. The analysis of the obtained data on the territorial identity of the Tyumen region, Russia in 2006-2021 shows residents’ attitude to the region. It is revealed that there is a positive dynamics of emotional connection to one’s place of residence, defined as a positive territorial identity («I am glad that I live here»), which appears in an increase in the corresponding share among respondents (from 31% in 2006 to 43% in 2021). The development of regional identity is associated with respondents’ higher professional status, higher social well-being, and relatively higher income. Meanwhile downward trend of territorial identity of the residents of rural areas and smaller cities is detected in their general unwillingness to connect the future of their children with the settlement of their birth and current residence.

The Gaithers and Southern Gospel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan P. Harper
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
American South ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Community Norms ◽  
The American South ◽  
Using Data

This ethnography examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaithers’ Homecoming video and concert series. The Homecomings re-present the “southern gospel” subgenre of gospel music—a musical style popular among white evangelical Christians in the American South and Midwest. The book explores how the Gaithers negotiate the tension between preservation and modification of community norms as they seek simultaneously to maintain and expand their audience, and to initiate and respond to ideological shifts within their fan base’s culture. Using data he collected from his immersion in the Homecoming catalogue, his attendance of numerous concerts and tapings, and his extensive conversations with Homecoming fans and the Gaithers themselves, Harper reveals the Homecomings to be a crucible of American religious, racial, sexual and regional identity formation.

scholarly journals De dynamiek van geslachtsmarkering in de Noord-Brabantse dialecten

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristel Doreleijers ◽  
Marjo van Koppen ◽  
Jos Swanenberg
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Variation Patterns ◽  
Speech Data ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
High Level ◽  
Masculine Gender

Abstract The present paper discusses gender marking, i.e. the morphological marking of masculine, feminine and neuter lexical gender in the adnominal domain, in Brabantish dialects spoken in the southern Dutch province North-Brabant. Gender markers belong to the most salient features of North-Brabantish, but with a process of dialect levelling well on its way for at least fifty years, knowledge of lexical gender is fading away. This study delves into these variation patterns. The results of a quantitative analysis of written questionnaires (mainly filled out by elderly dialect speakers, N=700) triggered us to conduct a small in-depth study of speech data from adolescents in the Eindhoven region (N=15). Based on these data, we argue that there is a high level of heterogeneity when it comes to adnominal gender marking.In this paper, we aim at describing and categorizing the various types of variation. The data includes omissions of the traditional Brabantish masculine gender marking, indicating that speakers are converging towards Standard Dutch. However, the data also reveals that in 30% of all utterances speakers apply gender marking in multiple ways. We find three types of variation: 1) masculine gender marking is only partly applied in comparison to the traditional rules of dialect grammar (compromise-constructions), 2) masculine gender markers appear in noun groups where they should not appear according to the dialect grammar (e.g. feminine, neuter, plural), so-called hyperdialectisms, and 3) speakers use innovative gender marking constructions: accumulate forms with two masculine suffixes, so-called hypermarkings. Based on previous research, we argue that typical dialect features, such as gender markers, are part of a regional speech style and play an important role in identity formation. As shibboleths of such a speech style, gender markers are over-generalized by speakers who want to profile themselves as ‘genuinely’ Brabantish. Also, individual patterns of gender marking indicate that salience in non-canonical sentence structures (e.g. focus) might be an important factor when it comes to emphasizing a deviation from the standard language, in line with (regional) identity construction through the use of shibboleths. Future research is necessary to validate these initial findings.

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