The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions
The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions

Author: Melanie Tatur

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 3322809234

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The study combines the debate on regionalisation with transformation research. It regards the formation of regional actors and institutions not primarily from the perspective of formal organisational structures, but also a consequence of the macro-political transformation regime and region-specific opportunity structures. These structures include evonomic restrictions, historical legacies and cultural resources that are conveyed in present informal mechanisms, personal networks, discourses, and development strategies. The qualitative empirical approach offers a vivid picture of regional developments. The two volumes cover Malopolska and Silesia (Poland), Hajdu-Bihar County (Hungary), Timis County (Romania), and the L'viv and Donetsk regions (Ukraine).

The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions
The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions

Author: Melanie Tatur

Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Published: 2004-04-29

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9783810038142

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The study combines the debate on regionalisation with transformation research. It regards the formation of regional actors and institutions not primarily from the perspective of formal organisational structures, but also a consequence of the macro-political transformation regime and region-specific opportunity structures. These structures include evonomic restrictions, historical legacies and cultural resources that are conveyed in present informal mechanisms, personal networks, discourses, and development strategies. The qualitative empirical approach offers a vivid picture of regional developments. The two volumes cover Malopolska and Silesia (Poland), Hajdu-Bihar County (Hungary), Timis County (Romania), and the L'viv and Donetsk regions (Ukraine).

The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions
The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions

Author: Melanie Tatur

Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Published: 2004-04-29

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 9783810038135

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The study combines the debate on regionalisation with transformation research. It regards the formation of regional actors and institutions not primarily from the perspective of formal organisational structures, but also a consequence of the macro-political transformation regime and region-specific opportunity structures. These structures include evonomic restrictions, historical legacies and cultural resources that are conveyed in present informal mechanisms, personal networks, discourses, and development strategies. The qualitative empirical approach offers a vivid picture of regional developments. The two volumes cover Malopolska and Silesia (Poland), Hajdu-Bihar County (Hungary), Timis County (Romania), and the L'viv and Donetsk regions (Ukraine).

The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions
The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions

Author: Melanie Tatur

Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Published: 2011-12-27

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 9783322809247

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The study combines the debate on regionalisation with transformation research. It regards the formation of regional actors and institutions not primarily from the perspective of formal organisational structures, but also a consequence of the macro-political transformation regime and region-specific opportunity structures. These structures include evonomic restrictions, historical legacies and cultural resources that are conveyed in present informal mechanisms, personal networks, discourses, and development strategies. The qualitative empirical approach offers a vivid picture of regional developments. The two volumes cover Malopolska and Silesia (Poland), Hajdu-Bihar County (Hungary), Timis County (Romania), and the L'viv and Donetsk regions (Ukraine).

EU Enlargement, Region Building and Shifting Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion
EU Enlargement, Region Building and Shifting Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion

Author: James Wesley Scott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 131714029X

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The 2004 entry of 10 Central and Eastern European countries, along with Malta and Cyprus, into the EU has caused a huge shift in the EU's external boundaries. The socio-economic and political transformations that this shift has caused not only suggest new regional development opportunities, but also many potential problems and tensions. While the EU insists that enlargement will not signify 'new divisions', processes of inclusion and exclusion and the imposition of visa restrictions on non-EU citizens could pose obstacles to co-operation, conjuring fears of an emerging 'fortress Europe' that effectively divides the continent. Illustrated with case studies from Central and Eastern European border areas, this book examines capacities for region building across national borders in within the context of EU enlargement, synthesizing the various insights provided by local information and suggesting ways forward for the future development of the EU's 'Wider Europe' strategy.

Surviving Post-Socialism
Surviving Post-Socialism

Author: Sue Bridger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1135107157

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This book focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An interdisciplinary approach is adopted as the contributors engage with questions of gender, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, employment and labour patterns and changing family structures.

The Post-Socialist City
The Post-Socialist City

Author: Kiril Stanilov

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-08-13

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 140206053X

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This book focuses on the spatial transformations in the most dynamically evolving urban areas of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. It links the restructuring of the built environment with the underlying processes and the forces of socio-economic reforms. The detailed accounts of the spatial transformations in a key moment of urban history in the region enhance our understanding of the linkages between society and space.

Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe
Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe

Author: Sebastian M. Buettner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 113645943X

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Regional development strategies are becoming more similar all around Europe, even though regional differences are more pronounced than ever and many European regions have become more autonomous actors. This thesis of a peculiar standardized diversification of sub-national space in the modern European Union is the point of departure of this book. Based upon the analytical premises of Stanford School Sociological Institutionalism, Sebastian M. Büttner studies regional mobilization in contemporary Europe from a new and innovative perspective. He highlights the importance of scientific expertise and global scientific models in contemporary regional development practice, and exemplifies their significance with the example of region-building in Poland in the course of EU integration. This new wave of regional mobilization is not just conceived as an effect of local, national or European politics, but as an expression of a larger conceptual shift in governing society and space. This well researched and clearly argued book not only provides fresh insights into region-building and regionalization in contemporary European space, but also contributes to the new sociology of Europeanization. It will be an illuminating read for scholars and students in Sociology, European and EU studies, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Geography, Regional Science, Polish Studies and related subject areas.