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INTERPENETRATING PROCESSES: HUMAN AGENCY AND THE BECOMING OF REGIONAL SPATIAL AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES
Author(s) -
Pred Allan
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1985.tb00854.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , structuring , restructuring , economic geography , sociology , geography , political science , social science , law
Three critical questions are addressed through the juxtaposition of aphorisms, propositions, and empirical fragments pertaining to early nineteenth century enclosures in Skane and the industrial restructuring Ciudad Juárez. What about the role of human agency in the production and day‐to‐day perpetuation of economic landscapes, places and regions? What about structuring processes and history in regional science? How is the unbroken flow of concrete, fine‐grained human activity within the region related to more macrolevel processes?