A growing trend among policy-makers is to regard place branding as a crucial component of
regional development strategies. Alongside this shift in policy, research on place branding …

Assemblage thinking as methodology: commitments and practices for critical policy
research. Territory, Politics, Governance. The concept of assemblage has captured the …

Peck J. Cities beyond compare?, Regional Studies. Calls for more substantively multipolar,
comparative and cosmopolitan modes of urban theory-making have been circulating for …

Smart city initiatives have been adopted by cities worldwide, proposing forward-looking,
technological solutions to urban problems big and small. These policies are indicative of a …

There is today a global recognition that we live in an 'urban age'of near-planetary
urbanization where cities are at the forefront of all sorts of agendas. Yet little attention is …

Geographers and urban studies scholars tend to rely on policy mobilities approaches to
explain processes of policy spread, whereas political scientists and public policy scholars …

David Bell and Kate Oakley survey the major debates emerging in cultural policy research,
adopting an approach based on spatial scale to explore cultural policy in cities, nations and …

Foregrounding the region. Regional Studies. This paper scrutinizes the everlasting but
transforming significance of the concept of region for regional studies and social practice …

Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from
broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and …

'Border'has been a key category for social scientists since the 19th century when modern
state-building and nation-building processes began to intensify in Europe. It is well known …