Space & Polity is a fully refereed scholarly international journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of the changing relationships between the state, and regional and local forms of governance. The journal provides a forum aimed particularly at bringing together social scientists currently working in a variety of disciplines, including geography, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology and development studies and who have a common interest in the relationships between space, place and politics in less developed as well as the advanced economies.

The following areas are of particular interest:

• state-society relationships and emergent patterns of regional and local governance
• representations and meaning of power and the reterritorialization of space
• state-local/central-local relations
• decentralization
• regionalism
• nationalism
• secession
• the politics of urban and rural restructuring
• federalism and federalization
• local fiscal restructuring
• globalization and local political change
• grassroots mobilization and local politics
• 'new' cultural identities and local political processes
• citizenship and globalization
• redefining territorial sovereignty in the global era
• boundaries and boundary (re)definition