Regional Studies Association One Day Winter Conference "Contested Regions: Territorial Politics and Policy "

Contributions are invited which focus primarily, although not necessarily exclusively, on one or more of the following themes: - Remapping of regions and localities and the implications of this for multilevel governance, policy success or policy failure; - Global comparative perspectives on models of regional and metropolitan governance; - New sites and forms of regional conflict: inter-regional, intra- regional, and in-between regional; - The role of territorial politics in regional strategies for economic development and state redistribution; - Cooperation, disputes and political struggles around borders /boundaries/ sovereignty; - The politics of local and regional infrastructures; models and practices of decentralisation and the impacts of this on territorial justice