Regions have been regarded as processes, artefacts and discourses, and recently as
'brands' that various stakeholders use in marketing. Discourses on institutional regions are …

We all have our stories to tell. Where we have born, where we have lived and the places we
have visited. The spatial history of our lives reveals much about the ways we identify with …

Regions frame cultural traditions, meanings and performances but in relation to national
imaginaries regions have asynchronous legacies that nourish their distinctiveness. While …

Regions are often understood as social and discursive constructs that are perpetually at the
heart of the politics of spatial distinctions. Although regions transform over time, they are …

Regions and regional identities are today important in academic research, regional planning
schemes, development ideologies and marketing strategies pursued by regional, national …

Regional identity has become an important category in the 'Europe of regions', and one that
is often taken as self‐evident in the relations between a group of people and a bounded …

Much of the literature on nationalism and national identity aims at outlining these
phenomena in very generalized terms and therefore often remains abstract as far as …

This study examines how the past is used in the construction of regional identity narratives in
policy discourses and documents. Despite assumptions that regional identity is based on …

The history of academic disciplines can be examined from several perspectives by using
diverging materials as “evidence”. Archives offer private materials such as personal …

This chapter provides an overview of the research on those aspects of spatial identities that
are pertinent to the discipline of geography. It describes the recognition of several …