Inoperative provinces, immobile regions and the geography of heterogeneous associations: the case of absent territorial border change in estonia
| Autor: | Veiko Sepp |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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05 social sciences
Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Space (commercial competition) Regional geography Estonian language.human_language Geography language Natural (music) Economic geography Economic system Everyday life 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 94:47-63 |
| ISSN: | 1468-0467 0435-3684 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2012.00395.x |
| Popis: | The geography of heterogeneous associations, an approach derived from the tradition of actor‐network theory, is a valuable analytical contribution to the study of sub‐state territorial entities. Shown here in an application to the Maaritsa border change controversy, which took place in Estonia 2001–2003, the approach has several merits compared to now dominant analytical perspectives in regional geography. The rejection of a regional imagination, as the natural way of conceptualizing provinces, is used to demonstrate that Estonian provinces and provinciality are performed, and can be analytically described, through multiple and complex spatialities. First, the inoperative character of provinces in the everyday life of many peripheral households is understood to be the result of incoherence in regional space between rigid administrative and fluid non‐administrative provinciality. Second, the problems with long distance control in the Estonian governmental system, related mainly to the ambiguous ch... |
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