Regions and nations: frenemies – or just enemies?

Erica Schoenberger

Chapter 15 in The Value of Place, 2025, pp 227-241 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: We are in a time of pulling apart: national and regional social and economic institutions that once offered some common ground – for example, education, social security, public health systems – have become sites of intense conflict. In the US, the current state of political polarization has a striking geographic reflection. Regions, always distinctive, are increasingly defined by absolutely disconnected world views and political antagonism. The relationship between region and nation has always involved contradiction and conflict. What happens to regions – and to our idea of regions – in a time of political extremism the likes of which we have not seen since the 1930s? This chapter tries to think through the implications of this question.

Keywords: Welfare sciovinism; Penal populism; Work fare; Poverty; Welfare regimes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035347919
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