Appraising Anssi Paasi's ‘Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World’: Introducing the Forum while Riding the Pendulum of Fixity and Mobility

Ilse van Liempt and Michiel van Meeteren

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2024, vol. 115, issue 4, 455-461

Abstract: The 2024 TESG Forum revisits Anssi Paasi's 2001 article Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World: Deconstructing ‘Regional Identity’. This work expanded Paasi's ideas on the institutionalisation of regions by highlighting the interplay between the social construction of regions and the changing regional identities of individuals and communities in the context of Europeanisation. The article places Paasi's theoretical work on how regions emerge as bounded spaces in the whirlwind of a rapidly globalising world. In exploring the relation between regions and identity, Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World reveals tensions between fixity and mobility. Revisiting this important paper 20 years later makes us realise how the world around us has changed. The tension between mobility and fixity remains but in different imaginaries and power constellations.

Date: 2024
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