Call for Papers Regional Studies Association Session(s) Third Global Conference on Economic Geography Seoul, Korea, June 28- July 1 2011
Rebalancing regional and national economies In the wake of the economic downturn of 2007-, the debate about the causes of the crisis and recession has focused upon the unbalanced nature of its economic models and geographies. Explanations have been concerned with the imbalances in international trade and currency flows, sectoral structures between especially financial and other services and manufacturing, the relative sizes and roles of the public and private sectors, the composition of demand between consumption and production as well as its domestic or external orientation, and its socially and spatially uneven geographies. Following this diagnosis of the problems, debate about recovery has focused upon the idea of ‘rebalancing’ as a means of rebuilding new economic models that somehow correct the problematic and disruptive imbalances that generated the crisis. ‘Rebalancing’ has become an international concern for high-income economies such as Australia, UK and Japan, middle-income economies such as Portugal and South Korea as well as emerging economies such as Brazil and China. Yet it is not clear what ‘rebalancing’ might mean, whether and how it can be achieved and how it relates to currently dominant ‘new economic geographical’ models promoting greater spatial agglomeration and concentration of economic activities. These sessions will engage this debate on rebalancing regional and national economies. Potential themes of interest, though not exhaustive, might include: - Conceptualising and theorising rebalancing - Agglomeration and geographical concentration versus dispersal and spatial deconcentration - Researching rebalancing - Spaces and places of rebalancing – relational and territorial approaches - Empirical studies of the economic geographies of rebalancing - Comparative international experiences of rebalancing - Rebalancing: new opportunities for peripheral regions? - The politics and political economy of rebalancing - Institutions and the governance of rebalancing - Policy approaches to rebalancing Depending upon the response, the session organisers will consider publication plans including an edited volume in the Regional Studies Association Regions and Cities Book Series and/or a special issue of the journal Regional Studies. If you wish to participate in this special session please submit your abstract to through the conference website and by e-mail to andy.p...@ncl.ac.uk and mario.v...@campus.ul.pt by 24 January 2011. The conference website is http://www.space-economy.org/conference/index.html The Regional Studies Association website is: http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/ For more information, please contact Andy Pike Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) Newcastle University UK andy.p...@ncl.ac.uk Mário Vale Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território Centro de Estudos Geográficos Universidade de Lisboa Portugal mario.v...@campus.ul.pt
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