This conference is organised within the framework of the two working research groups: “Regionalisation around the world”, from the International College of Territorial Sciences (CIST), and “Regional integrations” from the Cluster of Excellence “Territorial and Spatial Dynamics”, known in French as LabEx DynamiTe. These groups bring together researchers working on regionalisation and regional integration around the world.
In academic readings of globalised space, relatively scant attention is paid to large-scale regions – in the sense of groupings of neighbouring countries, typically featuring greater interaction between societies situated in the same part of the world, whether or not these groupings are institutionally formalised. Yet the conference organisers consider the region as a key form of global space in today's and tomorrow's world. They posit that the tensions at play in several world regions point not to their short-term failure but, on the contrary, to the slow and sometimes arduous maturing of the shift to a territorial form that is more appropriate than the nation-state for coping with the demands of globalisation.
This conference is part of an initiative that began in 2016 with the drafting of a critical dictionary of regional integration (coordinated by Nora Mareï and Yann Richard), to be published in 2018. The group of several dozen authors - most of them geographers - engaged in writing this dictionary were prompted by a number of observations: the lack of a dictionary dedicated to regional integration, whereas there is an abundance of dictionaries on globalisation; a persistent haziness in the definition of the notions; geographers' low profile in a field of research largely dominated by other disciplines: a surprising fact, given geographers' proven expertise in the study of regional issues. The conference will pursue this interdisciplinary discussion.
Committees
Organising committee:
Pierre Beckouche
Anne Bouhali
Marion Gentilhomme
Nora Mareï
Yann Richard
Scientific committee:
Nacima Baron, Paris Est University
Pierre Beckouche, Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Anne Bouhali, University of Picardie
Nathalie Fau, Paris Diderot University
Sylvain Kahn, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po Paris
Nora Mareï, CNRS, Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Yann Richard, Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Frédéric Santamaria, Paris Diderot
Hervé Théry, CNRS, Sao Paulo University
Key dates and deadlines
Launch of the call for paper: mid-April 2018
Deadline for submission of proposed papers to the organising committee: July 15 2018
Organising committee's reply to the authors of papers: October 15 2018
Opening of on-line registrations: January to March 2019
