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Purpose In today's globalized world, countries are becoming increasingly multiethnic. This raises questions about the different dimensions of consumers' territorial identities, and how these dimensions are differentiated, interrel...
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Purpose In today's globalized world, countries are becoming increasingly multiethnic. This raises questions about the different dimensions of consumers' territorial identities, and how these dimensions are differentiated, interrelated and interlinked. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Using qualitative interviews, this paper investigates how (40) respondents from two different ethnic minorities in a country that is not necessarily considered multiethnic perceive these dimensions of territorial identity (ethnic, regional and national) as a constituent element of their own person and of their behavior. Findings The authors highlight that these three dimensions of territorial identity co-exist as independent entities; they are distinct but interrelated and interconnected. Furthermore, idiosyncrasies in the ethnic sub-samples are investigated and described. These are related to the connection to the country of residence (being born there vs having immigrated there). Finally, avenues for future research, such as expanding the concept of territorial identities and its connection to consumer behavior, are suggested. Originality/value The authors extend the bipolarity commonly used in territorial identities (global vs local or ethnic vs national) to three conceptually independent dimensions. The authors explore the relationships between these dimensions of territorial identity and show that they may not conflict but, instead, co-exist.
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Historical regions remain the most common basis for the formation or promotion of regional identities in Europe. However, regions and regional identities are in the process of constant formation and can change significantly in lin...
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Historical regions remain the most common basis for the formation or promotion of regional identities in Europe. However, regions and regional identities are in the process of constant formation and can change significantly in line with new conditions. In this paper we focused on the changes of the spatial spread of identities with historical regions in Ukraine in comparison to the initial boundaries of those. The results show that identities with historical regions are markedly adapting to modern administrative boundaries. At the same time, the symbolic value of historical regions constitutes an essential element of identity building in contemporary administrative regions.
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This paper introduces a way to study the reproduction of (the identity of) a region through the concept of perceptual region. Perceptual region-revised here in light of the institutionalization of regions theory and thus comprehen...
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This paper introduces a way to study the reproduction of (the identity of) a region through the concept of perceptual region. Perceptual region-revised here in light of the institutionalization of regions theory and thus comprehended as the subjective image of a region in the mind of an individual person-connects certain 'European' and 'American' regional traditions. Investigating the institutions imprinted in perceptual regions exposes on what basis people construct regions and what (re)produces such regions. This case study deals with the perception of the Bohemian-Moravian boundary in the minds of 454 borderland inhabitants, surveyed with questionnaires. Among the revealed institutions of the former administrative regions of Bohemia and Moravia, there are various formal/homogeneous and functional regions as well as their boundaries-they all reproduce the examined regions. Besides demonstrating that regions are multiple realities (where both space and time matter), social constructs, and dynamic processes, the article discusses the interrelationship of the abovementioned region types and highlights perceptual regions as essential for the region's existence. Furthermore, it suggests that focusing on ordinary people's perceptions may develop knowledge not only about the concept of region but also the concepts of the regional identity of people, resistance identity, and regionalism.
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The media play a vital role in defining the spatial reality in which we live. Broadcasting stations, television programmes and newspapers transform all topics of interest by placing them within a regional context. In Germany, the ...
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The media play a vital role in defining the spatial reality in which we live. Broadcasting stations, television programmes and newspapers transform all topics of interest by placing them within a regional context. In Germany, the federal states' public broadcasting stations exist to provide a regional framework for news and entertainment. Most strikingly, certain television series present narratives of a region's history which override its current territorial shape. This article examines similar television series from three regional public German broadcasting stations focusing respectively on the histories of Mitteldeutschland (Middle-Germany), Bayern (Bavaria) and Brandenburg. Based on the qualitative analysis of data derived from these programmes, it is argued that simulated authenticity linked to a rhetoric of naturalization are crucial elements in policies of 'top-down regionalization'.
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Three survey studies, carried out in Ukraine between 2013 and 2017, investigated the regional differentiation and mutual relationships between different types of identities: local, national, transnational, and non-spatial. Theory ...
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Three survey studies, carried out in Ukraine between 2013 and 2017, investigated the regional differentiation and mutual relationships between different types of identities: local, national, transnational, and non-spatial. Theory of uncompleted national identity in Eastern, as compared to Western Ukraine, was used to account for the observed differences in the strength of national identifications within Ukraine. In the next step, two competing hypotheses were tested: (1) predicting that weaker national identities in the east of the country are compensated by stronger local, transnational, or non-spatial identities (compensation hypothesis) and (2) predicting a positive correlation between different identities, that is, overall weak identities in the east and overall strong identities in the west of the country (synergy hypothesis). The data points to synergy effects among national (Ukrainian), local, and some non-spatial identifications (family, gender, and age generation), although some nonlinear effects, suggestive of compensation, were also obtained.
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Norway's regional structure is under debate as questions about territorial boundaries, scale, scope of tasks and responsibilities, anddecision-making structures have become an issue in Norwegian politics. This tendency of changing...
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Norway's regional structure is under debate as questions about territorial boundaries, scale, scope of tasks and responsibilities, anddecision-making structures have become an issue in Norwegian politics. This tendency of changing the scale of public action withregard to governmental structures, economic politics, welfare, and civic society has been termed 'new regionalism'. New regionalismoften comes under criticism of being too neo-liberalistic or too economically orientated, leaving in its wake debates of democraticaccountability and the neglect of 'soft factors' (i.e. socio-culture, identity, consciousness, and participation). In this article theauthors investigate whether new democratic or semi-democratic regional organisations as advocated by new regionalist schemesrequire identification amongst the local population in order to be successful and enduring governmental structures. Further, it isshown how too simplistic understandings of the social processes, and their inherent power aspects, involved in the implementationof the new regionalist development scheme 'Mountain Region' distort the undertaking. The authors find that a more complexrelational and contextual understanding is in demand, one in which regionalisation is not only recognised as a process whichdiffuses across time-space, but also takes an asymmetrical place across society's social fabric, and one where 'soft factors' such as'regional identity' are not sidestepped.
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This paper introduces a new dataset on regional authority in 42 democracies for 1950-2006 and formulates five hypotheses. First, an S-curve effect describing a logistic association between the population of a country and its regio...
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This paper introduces a new dataset on regional authority in 42 democracies for 1950-2006 and formulates five hypotheses. First, an S-curve effect describing a logistic association between the population of a country and its regional authority. Secondly, a heteroskedasticity effect, in which the variance in regional authority among larger countries is greater than that among smaller countries. Thirdly, an identity effect, in which the allocation of authority to a jurisdiction is influenced by the relative strength of a population's identity to the community encompassed by the jurisdiction. Fourthly, a democracy effect, which leads democracies to have higher levels of regional authority than dictatorships. Fifthly, an integration effect, which removes a potential economic cost on regionalization by providing a transnational frame for economic exchange.
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The number of anti-Muslim hate groups in the U.S. nearly tripled between 2015 and 2016. In addition, the number of hate crimes committed against members of the religion jumped 67% in 2015 alone. Addressing the rise in anti-Muslim ...
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The number of anti-Muslim hate groups in the U.S. nearly tripled between 2015 and 2016. In addition, the number of hate crimes committed against members of the religion jumped 67% in 2015 alone. Addressing the rise in anti-Muslim prejudice is critical. We examined (N = 406) the role of regional identification in predicting anti-Muslim attitudes. That is, identification with the American South, a more conservative and religious part of the country with a history of slavery and violent secession movements, predicted anti-Muslim attitudes. This relationship was mediated by conservation values. For Southerners who strongly identified with "the South", the endorsement of values related to a general resistance to change led to greater anti-Muslim attitudes. Anti-Muslim bias may lie in perceptions of threat: for strongly identified Southerners, the Muslim faith is viewed as a societal threat.
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Research which has highlighted the symbolic power of rural landscapes to picture English national identity has tended to homogenise those rural landscapes, eliding the role of regions in the construction of national identity. This...
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Research which has highlighted the symbolic power of rural landscapes to picture English national identity has tended to homogenise those rural landscapes, eliding the role of regions in the construction of national identity. This paper argues that the construction of a unique regional identity for the Cotswolds was informed by and itself informed the construction of English national identity in the first half of the 20th century. This paper examines one aspect of this relationship; the use of gardenesque imagery to construct both the nation and the region, focusing particularly on the 'garden of stone' metaphor which recurs in non-fictional rural writing, guide books and poetry about the Cotswolds from around 1900, reaching a peak in the interwar years. This paper examines the religious and secular symbolism of the two components of the metaphor; the garden and the stone. The paper is predicated on the notion that gardens are repositories and generators of meaning and value. Using the language of slow growth, seasonal cycles and continuity along with the motifs of composition and creation, the garden of stone describes an organic community in a reciprocal relationship between people, soil and stone. The idea of organic communities is shown to resonate within representations of both the Cotswolds and English national identity and is also explored in some depth.
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