📣 New RSA Blog | Policy Industrial Policy is Becoming Territorial ✍️ Naoki Fujiwara & Andrew Stevens Industrial policy is no longer only about which industries to support—but also where growth happens. Read more on it here:📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... @regstud.bsky.social

Industrial Policy is Becoming Territorial: Comparing the UK's IS-8 and Japan's Emerging 10-Block Cluster Strategy - RSA Main

Industrial policy is back, not least in the UK, with a new Prime Minister entering office committed to a substantial reboot of the country’s economic model. Across advanced economies, geopolitical unc...

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📣 New RSA Blog | Research From Mythology to the Modern World: The Diachronic Influence of Minoan Civilization ✍️ Efthymios Georgiou How does an ancient civilization continue to shape a region today? Read more here 👇 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... @regstud.bsky.social 🔁

From Mythology to the Modern World: The Diachronic Influence of Minoan Civilization - RSA Main

A Cultural Tourism–Oriented Perspective Crete is the largest island in Greece, positioned at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and has historically served as a strategic point along major ...

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📣 New RSA Blog Who Gets to Imagine the Region? ✍️ Muzamil Farooq Economic geography has long explained why places become locked into particular development paths. But who gets to imagine their futures? Read about it here! 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... @regstud.bsky.social

Who Gets to Imagine the Region? - RSA Main

For most of its modern history, economic geography has been a discipline of the rear-view mirror. We have been very good at explaining why places get stuck. Path dependence, lock-in, the weight of inh...

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New RSA Blog Who Really Gains from French Public Innovation Support? Read more about it in the blog by ✍️ Raphaël Chiappini & Sophie Pommet here 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... @regstud.bsky.social

Who Really Gains from French Public Innovation Support? - RSA Main

Innovation policy is often designed as if geography does not matter. Public agencies often allocate public financial aid to innovative firms based on project quality and firm characteristics, but rare...

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📣 New RSA Blog | Policy Ethnic Conflict, Civil War, and Regional Growth in Former Yugoslavia ✍️ Stefan Nikolić Why do some regions recover from conflict more slowly than others? Read about it here📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... @regstud.bsky.social

Ethnic Conflict, Civil War, and Regional Growth in Former Yugoslavia - RSA Main

Why do some regions recover from violent conflict more slowly than others? And how long do the economic effects of conflict persist across space? These questions remain central to regional development...

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📣 New RSA Blog | Mobile Regions Flows of Return: Taobao Villages and the Remaking of Rural China ✍️ Sofia Leoni What happens when return migration reshapes the countryside? Read more!👇 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Flows of Return: Taobao Villages and the Remaking of Rural China - RSA Main

In 2008, something cracked in China’s growth model. The global financial crisis hit export-oriented manufacturing hard: factories slowed, orders collapsed, and millions of migrant workers suddenly fou...

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📣 New RSA Blog | Research The Critical Challenges of GeoAI ✍️ Devika Jain 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

📣 New RSA Blog | Policy Reframing Mobility through Partnership: What SDG17 Reveals About Refugee Integration ✍️ Jessica Hadjis van Thiel & Shivani Singh Mobility is about more than movement. 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... #RegionalStudies #Policy #SDG17

📣 New RSA Blog | Mobile Regions War, State, and the Limits of Return: Left-Behind Places in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991–2013) ✍️ Serap Fišo 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... #RegionalStudies #MobileRegions

📣 New RSA Blog | Mobile Regions Boxed in: National Interests and Local Relations in the Port-City of Durban ✍️ Glen Robbins 📄 regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... Ports do more than move goods. They also reshape regions.

Boxed in: National interests and local relations in the port-city of Durban - RSA Main

The importance of ports in the elaborate systems that enable the global mobility of goods has been a critical focus for nation-states and for globalised business interests. As a result, port developme...

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📣 New RSA blog From Village to Region: How Everyday Practices Reconfigure Scale in China’s Local Governance ✍️ @Shize Zhang Regional governance is not just top-down, it is shaped through everyday negotiations and practice. Read more: 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

From Village to Region: How Everyday Practices Reconfigure Scale in China’s Local Governance - RSA Main

From Village to Region At first glance, Houhai looks like a familiar story of regional development in China. A small fishing village on the southern coast of Hainan becomes a booming surf-tourism dest...

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📣 New RSA blog ✍️ Palesa Mpofu writes "A Review of Economic Diversification & Structural Change in South Africa." which is one of the most diversified economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet growth remains concentrated in a few regions. Read more here📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

A Review of Economic Diversification And Structural Change in South Africa - RSA Main

Economic history and background The discovery of gold in 1886 triggered the ‘Gold Rush’ on the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The Gold Rush was characterized by a boom in gold exports, and by the end ...

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📣 New RSA blog Toxic Legacies & the Green Divide: Why Remediation Stalls in Left-Behind Europe ✍️ @gianlucabiggi.bsky.social & @martinaiori.bsky.social Explores how some regions become “ecologically trapped” without the capacity to act. Link: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

📣 New RSA blog Post-2010 Devolution Paradox in Kenya ✍️ Dedan Luvaga What does devolution look like when it unfolds across regions in practice? www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Post-2010 Devolution Paradox in Kenya - RSA Main

Foundations of Devolution in Kenya Devolution refers to the constitutional transfer of administrative, political, and fiscal power to lower levels of government (Counties in Kenya). The Kenyan 2010 Co...

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⏳ Just 2 days left Submit Now! Blog Call: Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure & Policy We invite contributions on movement, connectivity & policy, especially as mobility is being rethought in relation to the movement of lives and energy amid global uncertainty. Read More 👇 #RegionalStudies

🌏 New RSA blog India’s Silent Border Crisis: How Myanmar’s War is Rewriting Citizenship in the Northeast ✍️ Bushra Ali Khan Explores how displacement is reshaping citizenship and governance in Northeast India. 📖 Read more www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... @regstud.bsky.social

Newly published and '#opneaccess 'At the limits of choice: how the Netherlands handles Dublin transfers using behavioural strategies' by Imen El Amouri doi.org/10.1080/2162...

New RSA blog 🌏 📌 Part of Historical Regions series! Living Between Macau & Zhuhai ✍️Siyi Huang How does everyday border-crossing reshape “home” & territory? 🔗 regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Living between Macau and Zhuhai: The Shift, Drift and Dilution of Territories and Borders - RSA Main

The two cities of Macau and Zhuhai, located on the south-east coastline of China, have long been entangled. Both were administered by Xiangshan County for centuries before Macau came under Portuguese ...

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🌊 New RSA blog Tested by Time: What End-of-Life Aquaculture Nets Reveal about Regional Governance in Norway ✍️ @rasazuzeviciute.bsky.social Shows how handling, infrastructure, and cost shape EPR implementation in practice. 📖 Read more www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Tested by Time: What End-of-Life Aquaculture Nets Reveal About Regional Governance in Norway - RSA Main

Regions are often treated as spatial units where environmental policies are implemented and evaluated. In practice, they also function as implementation systems, in which responsibility is carried for...

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New RSA Blog Power, Participation, and the Everyday Realities of Development: Lessons from Ghana’s Decent Work Programme ✍️ Benedict Arko Explores how power, incentives, and political change shape participatory development in Ghana. 📖 Read more www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Power, Participation, and the Everyday Realities of Development: Lessons from Ghana’s Decent Work Programme - RSA Main

Participation has become a central promise in development and regional planning. Policymakers and international bodies increasingly argue that involving citizens in shaping development leads to better...

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📣 Blog contributions welcome — early discussions appreciated. 🌍 New RSA Blog | Historical Regions When Policy Changes but Practice Doesn’t: Informal Trading in Johannesburg ✍️ Mamokete Modiba Read more: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

When policy changes but practice doesn’t: Informal trading in Johannesburg - RSA Main

Across the world, regions are shaped not only by their present-day borders but also by layers of past governance, political ambition, and entrenched planning legacies. Nowhere is this more visible tha...

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New RSA Historical Regions blog 🧭 Silicon Statecraft: How Historical Geography and Strategic Indispensability are Reshaping Japan’s Semiconductor Supply Chain ✍️ Giosuè Pacchiano 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Silicon Statecraft: How Historical Geography and "Strategic Indispensability" are Reshaping Japan’s Semiconductor Supply Chain - RSA Main

In the high-stakes game of 21st-century geopolitics, the map of the future is being drawn on the blueprints of the past. Nowhere is this clearer than in Kyushu, Japan. The recent opening of the Taiwan...

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The modern boundaries of nation-state. This theme therefore invites contributions that explore diverse perspectives on mobility in transition, whether by choice or by force, @regstud.bsky.social (2/4)

Please feel free to reach out with your ideas or any questions regarding the call. I'd be happy to answer them😊. (4/4)

as well as the infrastructure development and policymaking surrounding it. (3/4) Read more about it here 👇🏼 www.regionalstudies.org/wp-content/u...

Hi everyone, I would like to invite you all for a special series blog call on "Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure and Policy Making" Amid recent tensions & shifting geopolitics,'mobility' has emerged as a multilayered & complex issue that continuously challenges (1/4) @rsablog.bsky.social

Sharing call for contributions to @regstud.bsky.social blog on Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure, & Policy Making We’re looking for short reflections on mobility: movement, migration, public space, rural decline, infrastructure, everyday access, & more. Read More about it below👇: (1/3)

🌟 New RSA Blog: How Typhoons Spread Plastic Pollution: A Scientific Discovery By Taiseer Hussain Nafea 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

How Typhoons Spread Plastic Pollution: A Scientific Discovery - RSA Main

Tropical storms, such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones, are among the Earth’s most powerful weather systems. They are also born over warm oceans now overwhelmed with our plastic waste. As a resea...

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📣 📣 The opening plenary for #RSA26 is now complete 📣 📣 The Early Career Plenary Speaker competition winner is: 🎉 @Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 🎉 Kirstin joins a fantastic line up of speakers. For info on the plenary and conference: bit.ly/4atPUlH 😊 🔁

CFP: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/in...