Thilo Lang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thilo Lang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thilo |
| FAMILY NAME | Lang |
| SIGNATURE | LANG T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6029-4432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nostalgia, Dystopia, and Retrotopia: The Socio‐Spatial Imaginaries of a Mainstreamed Radical Right on “Left‐Behind Places”
Geographers have investigated the multiple factors behind the current polarization of space that has led to the categorization of disadvantaged, structurally weak, or peripheralized places as “left behind.” These places are also considered as the political strongholds of the radical right, which is currently becoming mainstreamed in the public sphere of the Western world. Following a conceptualization of the mainstreamed radical right and its app…
Downhill from here? Why shrinking regions are not necessarily ‘left-behind’
This paper explores the socio-spatial polarisation between thriving agglomerations and de-populating or stagnating, largely rural, areas in Germany, answering the question to what extent shrinking regions can also be seen as ‘left behind’. We find that demographic shrinkage is a challenge mostly for peripheral and rural districts. Our analysis shows no significant link between socio-economic development and population growth, highlighting the imp…
Multiple Geographies of Commons‐Based Peer Production
This article engages from a geographical perspective with commons‐based peer production (CBPP), an emerging socio‐economic activity based on sharing resources and outputs among individuals who collaborate in a non‐hierarchical manner. CBPP was initially used to describe the intangible production of knowledge and information through online cooperation. More recently, this practice grew to include other sectors of production, like hardware developm…
Chinese investments as part of infrastructure-led development: Multi-scalar contestations around Georgia’s flagship infrastructure projects
Drawing on an analysis of major infrastructure projects in Georgia, we propose a reconceptualization of infrastructureled development as constituted by multi-scalar contestations.We illustrate that actors associated with different great powers more often pursue similar rather than significantly different strategies and tend to collaborate when financing and developing particular infrastructure projects.We find that hegemonic rivalry is either sim…
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis
Renewed political concern about geographical inequalities in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 raises questions about the ability of the prevalent pre-crisis model of development to generate more spatially balanced and inclusive economies. In this article, we connect spatial polarisation and the ‘geography of discontent’ to the extended crisis of neoliberal capitalism after the 2008 crisis. The article provides a conjunctural analys…
Theorizing Multiple Geographies: Interrelations of Space and Multiplicity in Geographical Research
Starting from the observation that the notion of "multiple geographies" has gained considerable traction in geographical research in the past years while its theoretical foundations have often remained abstract, in this paper we contribute toward elaboration of multiple geographies as a research perspective, recognizing its potential as a valuable framework for analyzing divergent spatial relations. Initially, we provide an overview of the divers…
Left behind places’: A geographical etymology
‘Left behind places’ has become the leitmotif of geographical inequalities since the 2008 crisis. Yet, the term’s origins, definition and implications are poorly specified and risk obscuring the differentiated problems and pathways of different kinds of areas. This paper explicates the geographical etymology and spatial imaginary of ‘left behind places’. It argues that the appellation and its spatial expression have modified how geographical ineq…
Socio-spatial polarisation and policy response: Perspectives for regional development in the Baltic States
Based on a relational understanding of socio-spatial polarisation as a nested, multidimensional and multi-scalar process, the paper applies a comparative perspective on current trends of socio-spatial development in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Comparing current scholarship and data on demographic and economic processes of centralisation and peripheralisation, we also examine political debates around issues of polarisation in different scholarl…
Visualizing the ‘global knowledge economy
In a structuralist reading, the hegemonies of the global economy are perceived as threateningly fixed. We suggest understanding the global knowledge economy as an always unfinished project of ordering socio-spatial relations. To better communicate the struggles of peripherally located places/companies associated with this process of spatial ordering, we provide a simplified visualization of the global knowledge economy
Institutional Theory, New
Although new institutional theory has turned into a widely accepted framework for actor‐centered studies dealing with organizations, state, and society, it lacks the qualities of a full‐fledged theory. Scholars refer to different disciplinary approaches and traditions in sociology, social psychology, economics, and political sciences with only a few common lines of argumentation. Nevertheless, new institutionalism offers a useful conceptual frame…
Peripheralisation: A Politics of Place, Affect, Perception and Representation
Recently scholars have started to consider the persistence of peripheries in relation to how they are represented by others outside of the region. Drawing on Foucauldian knowledge/power processes and forms of 'internal colonialism', powerful core regions construct and reconstruct knowledge about peripheries as a weaker 'other'. However this denies agency to passive, peripheral 'victims', compromising their capacity to contest their peripherality.…
Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Left behind places’: A geographical etymology
‘Left behind places’ has become the leitmotif of geographical inequalities since the 2008 crisis. Yet, the term’s origins, definition and implications are poorly specified and risk obscuring the differentiated problems and pathways of different kinds of areas. This paper explicates the geographical etymology and spatial imaginary of ‘left behind places’. It argues that the appellation and its spatial expression have modified how geographical ineq…
Peripheralisation: A Politics of Place, Affect, Perception and Representation
Recently scholars have started to consider the persistence of peripheries in relation to how they are represented by others outside of the region. Drawing on Foucauldian knowledge/power processes and forms of 'internal colonialism', powerful core regions construct and reconstruct knowledge about peripheries as a weaker 'other'. However this denies agency to passive, peripheral 'victims', compromising their capacity to contest their peripherality.…
Socio-spatial polarisation and policy response: Perspectives for regional development in the Baltic States
Based on a relational understanding of socio-spatial polarisation as a nested, multidimensional and multi-scalar process, the paper applies a comparative perspective on current trends of socio-spatial development in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Comparing current scholarship and data on demographic and economic processes of centralisation and peripheralisation, we also examine political debates around issues of polarisation in different scholarl…
Chinese investments as part of infrastructure-led development: Multi-scalar contestations around Georgia’s flagship infrastructure projects
Drawing on an analysis of major infrastructure projects in Georgia, we propose a reconceptualization of infrastructureled development as constituted by multi-scalar contestations.We illustrate that actors associated with different great powers more often pursue similar rather than significantly different strategies and tend to collaborate when financing and developing particular infrastructure projects.We find that hegemonic rivalry is either sim…
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis
Renewed political concern about geographical inequalities in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 raises questions about the ability of the prevalent pre-crisis model of development to generate more spatially balanced and inclusive economies. In this article, we connect spatial polarisation and the ‘geography of discontent’ to the extended crisis of neoliberal capitalism after the 2008 crisis. The article provides a conjunctural analys…
Theorizing Multiple Geographies: Interrelations of Space and Multiplicity in Geographical Research
Starting from the observation that the notion of "multiple geographies" has gained considerable traction in geographical research in the past years while its theoretical foundations have often remained abstract, in this paper we contribute toward elaboration of multiple geographies as a research perspective, recognizing its potential as a valuable framework for analyzing divergent spatial relations. Initially, we provide an overview of the divers…
Institutional Theory, New
Although new institutional theory has turned into a widely accepted framework for actor‐centered studies dealing with organizations, state, and society, it lacks the qualities of a full‐fledged theory. Scholars refer to different disciplinary approaches and traditions in sociology, social psychology, economics, and political sciences with only a few common lines of argumentation. Nevertheless, new institutionalism offers a useful conceptual frame…
Visualizing the ‘global knowledge economy
In a structuralist reading, the hegemonies of the global economy are perceived as threateningly fixed. We suggest understanding the global knowledge economy as an always unfinished project of ordering socio-spatial relations. To better communicate the struggles of peripherally located places/companies associated with this process of spatial ordering, we provide a simplified visualization of the global knowledge economy
Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Institutional Theory, New
Although new institutional theory has turned into a widely accepted framework for actor‐centered studies dealing with organizations, state, and society, it lacks the qualities of a full‐fledged theory. Scholars refer to different disciplinary approaches and traditions in sociology, social psychology, economics, and political sciences with only a few common lines of argumentation. Nevertheless, new institutionalism offers a useful conceptual frame…
Peripheralisation: A Politics of Place, Affect, Perception and Representation
Recently scholars have started to consider the persistence of peripheries in relation to how they are represented by others outside of the region. Drawing on Foucauldian knowledge/power processes and forms of 'internal colonialism', powerful core regions construct and reconstruct knowledge about peripheries as a weaker 'other'. However this denies agency to passive, peripheral 'victims', compromising their capacity to contest their peripherality.…
Socio-spatial polarisation and policy response: Perspectives for regional development in the Baltic States
Based on a relational understanding of socio-spatial polarisation as a nested, multidimensional and multi-scalar process, the paper applies a comparative perspective on current trends of socio-spatial development in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Comparing current scholarship and data on demographic and economic processes of centralisation and peripheralisation, we also examine political debates around issues of polarisation in different scholarl…
Visualizing the ‘global knowledge economy
In a structuralist reading, the hegemonies of the global economy are perceived as threateningly fixed. We suggest understanding the global knowledge economy as an always unfinished project of ordering socio-spatial relations. To better communicate the struggles of peripherally located places/companies associated with this process of spatial ordering, we provide a simplified visualization of the global knowledge economy
Left behind places’: A geographical etymology
‘Left behind places’ has become the leitmotif of geographical inequalities since the 2008 crisis. Yet, the term’s origins, definition and implications are poorly specified and risk obscuring the differentiated problems and pathways of different kinds of areas. This paper explicates the geographical etymology and spatial imaginary of ‘left behind places’. It argues that the appellation and its spatial expression have modified how geographical ineq…
Chinese investments as part of infrastructure-led development: Multi-scalar contestations around Georgia’s flagship infrastructure projects
Drawing on an analysis of major infrastructure projects in Georgia, we propose a reconceptualization of infrastructureled development as constituted by multi-scalar contestations.We illustrate that actors associated with different great powers more often pursue similar rather than significantly different strategies and tend to collaborate when financing and developing particular infrastructure projects.We find that hegemonic rivalry is either sim…
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis
Renewed political concern about geographical inequalities in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 raises questions about the ability of the prevalent pre-crisis model of development to generate more spatially balanced and inclusive economies. In this article, we connect spatial polarisation and the ‘geography of discontent’ to the extended crisis of neoliberal capitalism after the 2008 crisis. The article provides a conjunctural analys…
Theorizing Multiple Geographies: Interrelations of Space and Multiplicity in Geographical Research
Starting from the observation that the notion of "multiple geographies" has gained considerable traction in geographical research in the past years while its theoretical foundations have often remained abstract, in this paper we contribute toward elaboration of multiple geographies as a research perspective, recognizing its potential as a valuable framework for analyzing divergent spatial relations. Initially, we provide an overview of the divers…
Multiple Geographies of Commons‐Based Peer Production
This article engages from a geographical perspective with commons‐based peer production (CBPP), an emerging socio‐economic activity based on sharing resources and outputs among individuals who collaborate in a non‐hierarchical manner. CBPP was initially used to describe the intangible production of knowledge and information through online cooperation. More recently, this practice grew to include other sectors of production, like hardware developm…
Nostalgia, Dystopia, and Retrotopia: The Socio‐Spatial Imaginaries of a Mainstreamed Radical Right on “Left‐Behind Places”
Geographers have investigated the multiple factors behind the current polarization of space that has led to the categorization of disadvantaged, structurally weak, or peripheralized places as “left behind.” These places are also considered as the political strongholds of the radical right, which is currently becoming mainstreamed in the public sphere of the Western world. Following a conceptualization of the mainstreamed radical right and its app…
Downhill from here? Why shrinking regions are not necessarily ‘left-behind’
This paper explores the socio-spatial polarisation between thriving agglomerations and de-populating or stagnating, largely rural, areas in Germany, answering the question to what extent shrinking regions can also be seen as ‘left behind’. We find that demographic shrinkage is a challenge mostly for peripheral and rural districts. Our analysis shows no significant link between socio-economic development and population growth, highlighting the imp…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic system (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works)