Suspended in time? Peripheralised and 'left behind' places in Germany
| Autor: | J. Royer, T. Leibert |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />French<br />Italian |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Geographica Helvetica, Vol 79, Pp 221-237 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/gh-79-221-2024 |
| Popis: | The term “left behind” has regained attention with the increasing signs of political dissatisfaction in the Global North, e.g. the rise of right-wing populist parties and politicians. In Germany, terms such as abgehängte Regionen (suspended regions) or “structurally weak” regions are often employed as alternatives. However, there is a certain fuzziness in these terminologies, as they often encompass different spatial scales and temporal dependencies and refer to a variety of regions, e.g. deindustrialising cities as well as peripheral and remote rural areas. Our approach conceptualises “left-behindness” as an outcome of peripheralisation. This allows for a theory-based selection of social, economic, and infrastructural indicators to operationalise left-behindness in Germany at the NUTS3 (nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) level with combining a factor analysis and a k-means cluster analysis. The former resulted in four dimensions of left-behindness with distinct spatial patterns, leading to the classification of six regional types, characterised by varying scores for the four dimensions. |
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