Journal Details
Space and Polity
Aims & Scope
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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
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