Relational regions ‘in the making’
Institutionalizing new regional geographies of higher education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10404530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Harrison (0000-0002-6434-5142, Loughborough University, corresponding author), Darren Smith (0000-0003-0775-1221, Loughborough University), Chloe Kinton (0000-0003-2323-7441, Loughborough University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1020-1034 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regional Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-3404 • E-ISSN: 1360-0591 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00343404.2017.1301663 |
| OpenAlex | W2606508166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 27 |
Relational regions ‘in the making’: institutionalizing new regional geographies of higher education. Regional Studies. This paper advances current debates on relational regions and higher education through a unique focus on the rise of transregional university alliances. It examines the formation of university research and training consortia to make a series of wider arguments about the new spatialities of higher education praxis, the construction of new regional identities and processes of institutionalizing relational regions. Our research shows new partnership working between universities to be conducive to the weakening of fixed regional territories. The paper then illustrates how and why some relational imaginaries are beginning to crystallize into harder institutional forms, before revealing significant political–economic and societal implications arising from new institutional geographies of higher education. Furthermore, our research reveals the concerted theoretical and empirical attention required to develop vocabulary and frameworks better able to comprehend emergent regional worlds. For our part, we distinguish between territorial, archipelagic, de facto and constellatory regionalism to exact more precise interpretations of unfolding configurations of relational regions and a new conceptual perspective on the increasingly complex spatialities characterizing and shaping our globalizing world
De facto · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Embeddedness · General partnership · Higher education · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Regional science · Regionalism (politics · Social science · Sociology · Higher Education Governance and Development · International Student and Expatriate Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |