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New Localism: New Regionalism

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Agency; Geography; Governance; Place; Scale; Space; Territory

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New localism:

Localism initially emerged in the nineteenth century as a local state response to local level development challenges and needs. In the late twentieth century it re-emerged, in a new political-economic context in which local places, as a result of the “hollowing out of the state” from the 1980s and neoliberalism, were obliged to engage in locally driven economic and social responses to prevailing crises (after Goetz and Clarke 1993). This in turn encouraged recognition of the role of unique locality or place-based economic action.

New regionalism:

New regionalism emerged as a response to the demise of Keynesian economics to understand the way that processes of regionalism and regional development occurred in the context of a devolved state. As a result, greater attention is placed on the endogenous characteristics of regions, their resources, capacities, and social capital, in sha**...

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    Sean Connelly & Etienne Nel

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Connelly, S., Nel, E. (2022). New Localism: New Regionalism. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_164

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