In this paper on Area Development & Policy, we suggest that Africa’s ‘Port Race’ shapes and is shaped by: - A new extractivist paradigm of capital accumulation - The growing embrace of state-led development - Infrastructural visions of connectivity and modernity DM for link to a free copy! 📚

Here we are! Did you miss the first RSA conference on regional development in South America? Stay tuned! Today we launch the call for the second edition 🥳 any idea of the location? Sergio Palomeque Igor Tupy Regional Studies Association @an_bel_mar YSI Urban and Regional Economics Carlos Bianchi Renato Garcia

Nice thread here by Zoltán Elekes on the new paper entitled 'Regional resilience and the network structure of inter-industry labour flows' (with Gergo Toth & Rikard Eriksson) rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Are you interested in promoting knowledge exchange in the field of regional studies and regional science, and developing your editorial skills? We are looking for a new and enthusiastic editor for the RSABlog More info at regionalstudies.org/news/2024-rsa-… Deadline: 10 July 2024.

🌟Submit your abstract or closed #Special #Session for #RSAWinter Conference 7-8 November, London. ➡️Driving Regions Forward: Transitioning to Brighter Regional Futures For more information, view the CfP & to submit: 💻bit.ly/WCRSA24 🔁🎡💂

🚨The next Regional Studies Association Annual Conference is taking place at the Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal. For more info, please click the link in the post below. 🔽🇵🇹🔽

We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Area Development & Policy Best Paper Award goes to @DianaMitlin for her #openaccess paper 'The contribution of reform coalitions to inclusion and equity: lessons from urban social movements.’ doi.org/10.1080/237929…

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Area Development and Policy Best Referee Award has been awarded to Nicholas Phelps, Nicholas A. Phelps regionalstudies.org/news/2024-area…

Congratulations to our CEO @DianaMitlin, whose paper on urban reform coalitions has been named Area Development & Policy's best paper of 2024! 🎉 Read our summary here 👇 african-cities.org/new-paper-driv…

🏆 We're delighted that ACRC’s CEO @DianaMitlin has been awarded the best paper of 2024 by Area Development & Policy for “The contribution of reform coalitions to inclusion and equity: lessons from urban social movements”.

🖼️A brand new Regional Studies, Regional Science (RSRS) #OpenAccess Regional Graphic has just been published! A very effective bi-variate mapping of mobility vulnerability and recovery across Florida neighbourhoods following Hurricane Ian From J. Wang; Y. Hu; L. Duan & G. Michailidis doi.org/10.1080/216813…

🏞️ Here's a new research article published Regional Studies, Regional Science (RSRS) on inclusive growth and rural diversity in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Check out this #OpenAccess work from researchers at the James Hutton Institute doi.org/10.1080/216813…

In the latest Regional Studies Association #StudentSummerSeries #Blog, PhD student Kirsten Clarke discusses the shift in mobility across the #UnitedKingdom related to the increase in #RemoteWorking from the #COVID19 pandemic regionalstudies.org/news/sssblog20…

Join us on 4th Sept, 12.00 BST, 16.30 IST for the next #RSAInternational Hour, which focuses on India. You can find more information & the registration link here: bit.ly/RSAIHour #RSAInternational #RSAWebinar

Are you attending #EURegionsWeek? We have again partnered with ERSA & AESOP to organise the session below, with speakers Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Dimitris Ballas (dimitris-ballas.bsky.social) & Franziska Sielker [email protected] this is not a session to be missed. More information & registration: bit.ly/3YvQqdc

Read the #openaccess article in Area Development & Policy : Beyond the spatial fix: towards a finance-sensitive reading of the Belt and Road in Serbia by Imogen Taotao Liu doi.org/10.1080/237929…

In the #OpenAccess article, 'Capitalism qua development in an era of planetary crisis', Joel Wainwright examines the nature of capitalism qua development, that is, capitalism being taken as development, amidst planetary crisis. doi.org/10.1080/237929…

In their article 'Still a work in progress: the ongoing evolution of the role conception underlying China’s Belt & Road initiative' the authors argue that the BRI constitutes a unilateral change of China’s role conception for global economic governance. doi.org/10.1080/237929…

Don’t miss the new Regional Studies - @regionalstudies.bsky.social Special Issue curated by @afaggian, Sandro Montresor & @albmarz about how the determinants and impacts of combining green 🌱and digital 🖥️innovations vary across regions.👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…