Regionalism and political society

Benno Werlen

pp. 1-22

in: Lester Embree (ed), Schutzian social science, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

Regionalism and Nationalism are transformative forces of the political landscape at the end of the 20th century. As we all know, they have a high potential of destruction. Why has traditional human geography—as the science of the regional—so little explanatory potential for these social processes? Here I offer some answers and suggest—drawing on the social philosophy of Alfred Schutz—a perspective giving social geography a greater problem-solving capacity in late-modernity.

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