In what sense a region? Place hybridity, symbolic shape, and institutional formation in (post-) modern Scotland

Political Geography

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 833-863

  Macleod, Gordon ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHY; POLITICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CULTURAL IDENTITY; ETHNICITY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POST-MODERNISM; STATE BUILDING;

UNITED KINGDOM, SCOTLAND;

EID: 0031773801     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-6298(98)00041-9     Document Type: Article

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