Conceptualizing the Region - In What Sense Relational?

Regional Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-28

  Varró, Krisztina ^a   Lagendijk, Arnoud ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Regions; Relational and territorial approach to space

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; POLITICAL THEORY; TERRITORIALITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84871524096     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.602334     Document Type: Article

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