Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

✍ Scribed by Thilo Lang, Sebastian Henn, Wladimir Sgibnev, Kornelia Ehrlich (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 363
Series: New Geographies of Europe
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Understanding New Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Uneven Development, Socio-Spatial Polarization and Political Responses....Pages 25-39
Narrating the Diverse Regional Economies of Post-Socialist Apparel....Pages 40-61
Lost in Complexity? Researching the Role of Socio-Spatial Ascriptions in the Process of Peripheralization....Pages 62-79
As Long as the Capital Is Far Away: Multi-Scalar Peripheralization in Central Asia....Pages 80-97
Peripheralization through Planning: The Case of a Golf Resort Proposal in Northern Ireland....Pages 98-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Rural Peripheralization — Urban Polarization? The Significance of Gendered Mobility in Central Germany....Pages 115-134
The Everyday Practices of the Reproduction of Peripherality and Marginality in Hungary....Pages 135-155
Socio-Spatial Polarization and Peripheralization in a Rapidly Changing Region — Building Europe’s Balkan Edge: Tourism Development in Coastal Bulgaria....Pages 156-170
Paths of Socio-Spatial Change in Post-Socialist Cities — Insights from Five City-Regions in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 171-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Cohesion as a Multi-Scalar Challenge: The EU-Wide Perspective....Pages 199-216
Paths of Convergence and Polarization in the Visegrád Countries....Pages 217-234
Measuring Territorial Cohesion: A Macro-Regional Approach....Pages 235-251
Challenges of the Post-Soviet Development of Ukraine: Economic Transformations, Demographic Changes and Socio-Spatial Polarization....Pages 252-269
Uneven Urban Resilience: The Economic Adjustment and Polarization of Russia’s Cities....Pages 270-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Territorial Governance and Core-Periphery Relations: The Implications of European Policy Concepts for Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 287-308
Concept of Polycentric Governance for Fuzzy Soft Spaces as a Challenge for Central European Peripheral Spaces....Pages 309-322
Rural Regions, Globalization and Regional Responses: The Case of Oberlausitz Region....Pages 323-339
Back Matter....Pages 340-352

✦ Subjects

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