The Contested Construction of Regions: Geographical Imagination and Everyday Practice

In the course of the history of regional geography the concept of region has progressed from its naturalist and objectivist stage towards a constructivist meaning. Increasingly following the constructivist premises the making of regions has become the major focus of current regional geography - in t...

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Autores principales: Felgenhauer, Tilo, Urrutia Reveco, Santiago
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Departamento de Geografía 2021
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cardi/article/view/34346
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spelling I10-R374-article-343462022-01-10T06:04:03Z The Contested Construction of Regions: Geographical Imagination and Everyday Practice La controvertida construcción de las regiones: imaginación geográfica y práctica cotidiana Felgenhauer, Tilo Urrutia Reveco, Santiago In the course of the history of regional geography the concept of region has progressed from its naturalist and objectivist stage towards a constructivist meaning. Increasingly following the constructivist premises the making of regions has become the major focus of current regional geography - in the course of scientific inquiry and definition, in political and public discourses, and in everyday routine practice. From a constructivist perspective, the paper offers a framework on the different kinds of region-building processes and practices, especially focussing on the involved aspects of coherence and tension. Four of these aspects will be discussed in detail: the ontological designation of the region as either “natural” or “artificial”, normative evaluations of the region-building process as either “top-down” or “bottom-up”, the spatial conception of the region as based on either territorial or relational geographies, and the implicit social relations of region-making, in the sense of coherence and tensions between economic practices (exchange) and cultural coherence (sharing). These four aspects will be shortly illustrated with reference to the example of Patagonia in order to grasp the manifold practices of region-making and to further specify what it means to consider regions as social constructions. A lo largo de la historia de la geografía regional, el concepto de región ha pasado desde una etapa naturalista y objetivista hacia una interpretación constructivista. Siguiendo de cerca las premisas constructivistas, la construcción de regiones se ha convertido en el foco principal de la geografía regional contemporánea: en el curso de la investigación científica, en los discursos públicos y políticos, y en la práctica cotidiana. Desde una perspectiva constructivista, el artículo ofrece un marco sobre los diferentes procesos y prácticas que participan en la construcción de regiones, haciendo énfasis especialmente en aquellos aspectos que muestran coherencias y tensiones. Cuatro de estos aspectos serán discutidos en detalle: el estatuto ontológico de la región como “natural” o “artificial”; las evaluaciones normativas de la construcción de la región como proceso “desde arriba” o “desde abajo”; la concepción especial de la región basada en geografías territoriales o relacionales, y las relaciones sociales implícitas en la construcción de regiones con respecto a las tensiones y coherencias entre las prácticas económicas (intercambio) y las culturales (reciprocidad). Estos cuatro aspectos serán ilustrados brevemente con referencia a la Patagonia a fin de comprender las múltiples prácticas de construcción de regiones y especificar con mayor precisión lo que significa considerar a las regiones como construcciones sociales. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Departamento de Geografía 2021-08-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Doble evaluación por pares y a doble ciegas application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cardi/article/view/34346 Cardinalis; No. 16 (2021): Revista Cardinalis Año IX N°16, 1°semestre de 2021; 190-215 Cardinalis; Núm. 16 (2021): Revista Cardinalis Año IX N°16, 1°semestre de 2021; 190-215 Cardinalis; n. 16 (2021): Revista Cardinalis Año IX N°16, 1°semestre de 2021; 190-215 2346-8734 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cardi/article/view/34346/34743 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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author Felgenhauer, Tilo
Urrutia Reveco, Santiago
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The Contested Construction of Regions: Geographical Imagination and Everyday Practice
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Urrutia Reveco, Santiago
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title The Contested Construction of Regions: Geographical Imagination and Everyday Practice
title_short The Contested Construction of Regions: Geographical Imagination and Everyday Practice
title_full The Contested Construction of Regions: Geographical Imagination and Everyday Practice
title_fullStr The Contested Construction of Regions: Geographical Imagination and Everyday Practice
title_full_unstemmed The Contested Construction of Regions: Geographical Imagination and Everyday Practice
title_sort contested construction of regions: geographical imagination and everyday practice
description In the course of the history of regional geography the concept of region has progressed from its naturalist and objectivist stage towards a constructivist meaning. Increasingly following the constructivist premises the making of regions has become the major focus of current regional geography - in the course of scientific inquiry and definition, in political and public discourses, and in everyday routine practice. From a constructivist perspective, the paper offers a framework on the different kinds of region-building processes and practices, especially focussing on the involved aspects of coherence and tension. Four of these aspects will be discussed in detail: the ontological designation of the region as either “natural” or “artificial”, normative evaluations of the region-building process as either “top-down” or “bottom-up”, the spatial conception of the region as based on either territorial or relational geographies, and the implicit social relations of region-making, in the sense of coherence and tensions between economic practices (exchange) and cultural coherence (sharing). These four aspects will be shortly illustrated with reference to the example of Patagonia in order to grasp the manifold practices of region-making and to further specify what it means to consider regions as social constructions.
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