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View article: Place leadership in the geography of opportunities: survival of small industrial localities when industrial giants fall
Place leadership in the geography of opportunities: survival of small industrial localities when industrial giants fall Open
This article focuses on place leadership in non-core localities struggling to renew their opportunity spaces when local industries giants fall. The research questions are as follows: What does it take in non-core localities to connect to t…
View article: Regions and the search for spatial justice: a question of capacity?
Regions and the search for spatial justice: a question of capacity? Open
View article: An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School
An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School Open
The European Union (EU) functions as a productive power in the process of expanding the global knowledge economy. As such, it contributes to the planetary organic crisis – as opposed to its claim of countering it. In making this argument, …
View article: Towards critical geoeconomics?
Towards critical geoeconomics? Open
This intervention paper discusses the recent paper on the history of geoeconomics by Mallin and Sidaway. Some notes are made on the conceptual potential of critical geoeconomics vis‐à‐vis contemporary geopolitical scholarship. A particular…
View article: Publisher Correction: A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business
Publisher Correction: A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business Open
View article: A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business Open
View article: Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states Open
View article: In What Sense a Geopolitical Knowledge-Based Economy?
In What Sense a Geopolitical Knowledge-Based Economy? Open
View article: Reclaiming the knowledge society from “urban economization”: thinking with the Frankfurt School
Reclaiming the knowledge society from “urban economization”: thinking with the Frankfurt School Open
Since the 1990s, much political capital has been invested to develop advanced capitalist states as knowledge-based societies. In this paper, we first discuss how this development has been characterized by knowledge-based economization, i. …
View article: Aluerakenne, alueellinen erivertaisuus ja Suomen aluekehitys
Aluerakenne, alueellinen erivertaisuus ja Suomen aluekehitys Open
In this paper we draw on the work of Doreen Massey and David Harvey and think with the concept of spatial structure. We divide the concept into three constitutive elements: uneven geographical development (materiality), the discursive prod…
View article: Economizing imaginaries of city-regionalism as politics of city-regionalization
Economizing imaginaries of city-regionalism as politics of city-regionalization Open
In this chapter, we seek to provide some conceptual clarifications regarding the interrelationship between the concepts of ‘city-region’, ‘city-regionalism’ and ‘city-regionalization’. These relations have not been properly addressed in re…
View article: Territorial Cohesion of What and Why? The Challenge of Spatial Justice for EU’s Cohesion Policy
Territorial Cohesion of What and Why? The Challenge of Spatial Justice for EU’s Cohesion Policy Open
Over the past two decades, both academics and policy makers have discussed the meaning of territorial cohesion in the context of the European Union (EU). This debate on the meaning and content of territorial cohesion is becoming increasing…
View article: Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures
Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures Open
In this extensive introductory chapter, we introduce the reader to some basic information and concepts underpinning geographical approaches to the state. We first make a rudimentary mapping of some of the geographical approaches to the sta…
View article: State power and the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Finland
State power and the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Finland Open
This paper first discusses some of the basic spatial features of the COVID-19 crisis in Finland. Second, it considers the role of the state and state power in response to the pandemic and explores some of the geopolitical aspects of COVID-…
View article: The start-up state: Governing urbanised capitalism
The start-up state: Governing urbanised capitalism Open
This paper assesses the mutating role of the state in today’s flourishing technology hubs in major cities and metropolitan areas across the globe through a comparative lens. Conventional wisdom associates the contemporary phenomenon of hig…
View article: Re‐thinking geoeconomics: Towards a political geography of economic geographies
Re‐thinking geoeconomics: Towards a political geography of economic geographies Open
Geoeconomics is a contested concept. What seems common to recent attempts to define the concept of geoeconomics is that it is almost invariably discussed with relation to geopolitics. In this paper, I seek to provide a reading of “geoecono…
View article: Governing political spaces through “future work” – commentary to Jones
Governing political spaces through “future work” – commentary to Jones Open
This reflections article is a comment upon Rhys Jones’ paper (in this issue) which deals with the geographies of the governance of the future. I suggest that the constant production of governmental imaginaries dealing with the future shoul…
View article: Re-conceptualising Territorial Cohesion Through the Prism of Spatial Justice: Critical Perspectives on Academic and Policy Discourses
Re-conceptualising Territorial Cohesion Through the Prism of Spatial Justice: Critical Perspectives on Academic and Policy Discourses Open
This chapter’s authors conduct a critical review of academic and policy engagements with the concept of territorial cohesion as the guiding principle for the European Union’s regional policies. The authors discuss the limitations of the id…
View article: Political geographies of globalization
Political geographies of globalization Open
This chapter elaborates upon political geographies of globalization. By this we refer to the different political discourses and related imaginaries, policy practices and regimes of governance through which globalization can be understood a…
View article: City-regions and city-regionalism
City-regions and city-regionalism Open
The terms city-region and city-regionalism are today widely used by urban managers, planners, representatives of businesses associations and international organizations, real estate and property developers and state officials and politicia…
View article: Kaupungin ja yliopiston vuorovaikutus Suomessa
Kaupungin ja yliopiston vuorovaikutus Suomessa Open
Today, both universities and cities are often defined as multidimensional knowledge enterprises and as suppliers of different forms of capital that constitute the modern knowledge-based economy. However, what seems under-studied in the com…
View article: Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy
Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy Open
We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves …
View article: Towards Geopolitical Analysis of Geoeconomic Processes
Towards Geopolitical Analysis of Geoeconomic Processes Open
In his article, Antto Vihma seeks to develop a geoeconomic approach that draws from Edward N. Luttwak’s conception of inter-state competition, and suggests that a more nuanced reading of Luttwak provides a way forward. In this essay, I fir…
View article: The state as a space of health: on the geopolitics and biopolitics of health-care systems
The state as a space of health: on the geopolitics and biopolitics of health-care systems Open
The historical transformations of state spaces have recently been theorized and conceptualized from multidisciplinary perspectives and in various spatial and temporal contexts, but less research has been concerned with the entanglement of …
View article: Huomioita aluepolitiikan tutkimuksesta ja sen tulevaisuudesta
Huomioita aluepolitiikan tutkimuksesta ja sen tulevaisuudesta Open
View article: On the socio-technical practices of the European Union territory
On the socio-technical practices of the European Union territory Open
We examine the constitution of the European Union territory in socio-technical practices. We argue that calculative practices are central in the constitution of the European Union territory but that these practices need to be understood as…
View article: Towards transnational spatial policies in Finland
Towards transnational spatial policies in Finland Open
State spatial transformation is one of the key topics in contemporary human geography and social sciences more broadly. Its centrality as a research foci stems from the changing spatiality of the political economies of the world over the p…