Regions as social constructs: the gap between theory and practice

Abstract

Over the past decade and a half spatial concepts have come to play an increasingly significant role in the theoretical literature on society. This is in large part tied to the rise of structurationist thought and other related theories of society (see Giddens, 1976; 1985a; Bhaskar, 1979). In their efforts to carve out a middle ground or dialectical synthesis between the polarities of structure and agency, proponents of these theoretical perspectives have focused attention on local context as the realm within which people experience, interpret, and incrementally reconstitute social structures. The growing recognition of the role of uneven development and regional transformation in the dynamics of modern capitalism has spurred thinking about spatial constructs as well; regional differences assume a central role in explanations of social, economic, and political change in the

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