📣 New RSA Blog | Mobile Regions War, State, and the Limits of Return: Left-Behind Places in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991–2013) ✍️ Serap Fišo 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... #RegionalStudies #MobileRegions

📣 New RSA Blog | Mobile Regions Boxed in: National Interests and Local Relations in the Port-City of Durban ✍️ Glen Robbins 📄 regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... Ports do more than move goods. They also reshape regions.

📣 New RSA blog From Village to Region: How Everyday Practices Reconfigure Scale in China’s Local Governance ✍️ @Shize Zhang Regional governance is not just top-down, it is shaped through everyday negotiations and practice. Read more: 📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

📣 New RSA blog ✍️ Palesa Mpofu writes "A Review of Economic Diversification & Structural Change in South Africa." which is one of the most diversified economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet growth remains concentrated in a few regions. Read more here📄 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

📣 New RSA blog Toxic Legacies & the Green Divide: Why Remediation Stalls in Left-Behind Europe ✍️ @gianlucabiggi.bsky.social & @martinaiori.bsky.social Explores how some regions become “ecologically trapped” without the capacity to act. Link: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

📣 New RSA blog Post-2010 Devolution Paradox in Kenya ✍️ Dedan Luvaga What does devolution look like when it unfolds across regions in practice? www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

⏳ Just 2 days left Submit Now! Blog Call: Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure & Policy We invite contributions on movement, connectivity & policy, especially as mobility is being rethought in relation to the movement of lives and energy amid global uncertainty. Read More 👇 #RegionalStudies

🌏 New RSA blog India’s Silent Border Crisis: How Myanmar’s War is Rewriting Citizenship in the Northeast ✍️ Bushra Ali Khan Explores how displacement is reshaping citizenship and governance in Northeast India. 📖 Read more www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... @regstud.bsky.social

Newly published and '#opneaccess 'At the limits of choice: how the Netherlands handles Dublin transfers using behavioural strategies' by Imen El Amouri doi.org/10.1080/2162...

New RSA blog 🌏 📌 Part of Historical Regions series! Living Between Macau & Zhuhai ✍️Siyi Huang How does everyday border-crossing reshape “home” & territory? 🔗 regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🌊 New RSA blog Tested by Time: What End-of-Life Aquaculture Nets Reveal about Regional Governance in Norway ✍️ @rasazuzeviciute.bsky.social Shows how handling, infrastructure, and cost shape EPR implementation in practice. 📖 Read more www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

New RSA Blog Power, Participation, and the Everyday Realities of Development: Lessons from Ghana’s Decent Work Programme ✍️ Benedict Arko Explores how power, incentives, and political change shape participatory development in Ghana. 📖 Read more www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

📣 Blog contributions welcome — early discussions appreciated. 🌍 New RSA Blog | Historical Regions When Policy Changes but Practice Doesn’t: Informal Trading in Johannesburg ✍️ Mamokete Modiba Read more: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

New RSA Historical Regions blog 🧭 Silicon Statecraft: How Historical Geography and Strategic Indispensability are Reshaping Japan’s Semiconductor Supply Chain ✍️ Giosuè Pacchiano 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

The modern boundaries of nation-state. This theme therefore invites contributions that explore diverse perspectives on mobility in transition, whether by choice or by force, @regstud.bsky.social (2/4)

Please feel free to reach out with your ideas or any questions regarding the call. I'd be happy to answer them😊. (4/4)

as well as the infrastructure development and policymaking surrounding it. (3/4) Read more about it here 👇🏼 www.regionalstudies.org/wp-content/u...

Hi everyone, I would like to invite you all for a special series blog call on "Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure and Policy Making" Amid recent tensions & shifting geopolitics,'mobility' has emerged as a multilayered & complex issue that continuously challenges (1/4) @rsablog.bsky.social

Sharing call for contributions to @regstud.bsky.social blog on Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure, & Policy Making We’re looking for short reflections on mobility: movement, migration, public space, rural decline, infrastructure, everyday access, & more. Read More about it below👇: (1/3)

🌟 New RSA Blog: How Typhoons Spread Plastic Pollution: A Scientific Discovery By Taiseer Hussain Nafea 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

📣 📣 The opening plenary for #RSA26 is now complete 📣 📣 The Early Career Plenary Speaker competition winner is: 🎉 @Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 🎉 Kirstin joins a fantastic line up of speakers. For info on the plenary and conference: bit.ly/4atPUlH 😊 🔁

CFP: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/in...

New RSA Historical Regions blog by Jason F. Bell: Uneven Geographies of Industrialisation: Race, Space, and Path Dependence on Gauteng’s Periphery 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Is the UK’s industrial strategy really place based? New @rsablog.bsky.social blog on our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper. Blog here: regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl... paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @prt1969.bsky.social

New RSA Historical Regions blog by Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen: A Short-Lived Union: Lessons from the Troms–Finnmark Merger 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Is the UK’s industrial strategy really place based? New @rsablog.bsky.social blog on our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper. Blog here: regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl... paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social

My afterword "The Material Politics of Labour in Africa" to the SI "Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa" edited is now freely available. @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @rsablog.bsky.social #geosky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DFDSB...

💬 What should RSABlog explore next? Share your ideas! 📣 Our poll is live on LinkedIn 👉 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Eager to hear from you: @regstud.bsky.social @rsa-regions.bsky.social @financeandspace.bsky.social @rsaeurope.bsky.social @rsa-adp.bsky.social @rsa-tpg.bsky.social

New RSA blog by Prescott C. Ensign: The Future of Canada’s Historical Prairie Region — how the region’s collective past provides insight into economic diversification, infrastructure, and climate change. Read it here 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Call for session proposals: Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL): Reconciling Challenges in Landscapes, 7-13 September 2026, Ghent & Spa, Belgium. (This is my favourite conference). www.geography.ugent.be/pecsrl2026

Over the past year, we’ve journeyed through vernacular and historical regions across continents. As we wrap up this month’s blogs, we’re looking ahead — and we’d love your early input on where the RSA Blog should go in 2026. 🔍✨

“A place-sensitive approach focuses on building local capabilities, strengthening institutions & supporting forms of innovation that align with regional strengths rather than trying to recreate Silicon Valley-style clusters.” New @rsablog.bsky.social www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Very interesting angle on industrial policy and the North-South divide.

New @rsablog.bsky.social ‘Beyond Agglomeration.’ Time to go beyond agglomeration as an organising principle in industrial strategy & take place seriously. @regionalstudies.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🚀 New RSA blog by @dgbailey.bsky.social Beyond Agglomeration: Towards a Rethinking of Industrial Strategy? It’s time to move beyond agglomeration as an organising principle in industrial strategy & take place seriously. www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🚀 First blog in our Historical Regions series is live. Why does a celebrated democracy like Ghana still govern from the center? Isaac Asante-Wusu unpacks how colonial legacies, party politics entrenched centralization—despite decades of democracy. 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🌟 New RSA blog: The Human Flourishing Geographic Index (HFGI) offers a new way to study regions—tracking happiness, belonging, purpose, and well-being at fine spatial and temporal scales across the U.S. By Stefano Iacus & Devika Jain 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🌟 New RSA blog! by Palesa Mpofu Economic Diversification & Structural Transformation in South Africa’s North West Province. Explore why diversification matters for resilience, jobs, and inclusive growth: 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🌟 New RSA Blog: My PhD Journey: Why Spatial Inequality? Zhiwu Wei reflects on how his rural upbringing and interdisciplinary research path shaped his PhD: & how GeoAI and comparative regional work are redefining spatial inequality research. 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🌟 New RSA blog — Extended Summer Series! What if “region” isn’t a map, but mobility, caste networks, water, memory, and vernacular space? Harsh Singhal explores how communities in Rajasthan reimagine regional identity from the ground up. 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🌟 New RSA blog! Life events—not just infrastructure—drive the biggest shifts in commuting, with big implications for low-carbon transport. By @conorodriscoll99.bsky.social Read: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... #Transport #Climate #Planning #RSA #HistoricalRegions

🌟 New RSA blog! What Life Really Looks Like: Women Labourers in Sangamner By Pranav Sharma. Insights from 500+ women show the gap between official data and lived labour in Maharashtra. 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🎉 Announcing the 2025 RSA Best Blog Award! Congrats to Ayush Srivastava & Asma Sayyad (TISS, India) for: Tide and Territory: Vernacular Regionality in Maharashtra’s Koli Fishing Communities. Read: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... 🎥 Award: youtu.be/XRwmi2AzUU0?...

New RSA blog by @Riley Wenjia Ding: Quyu (区域) and the many lives of “region.” How a single term shifts across language, policy and scale—from districts to cross-border imaginaries. Read: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... #RegionalStudies #Regions #China #Quyu

New RSA blog: What the EU can learn from Australia — 5 lessons on competitiveness, community, innovation & identity. By Anastasiia Konstantynova. What’s one lesson Europe should borrow?👇 Link: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Therefore join me in this webinar & feel free to ask questions about academic writing & publishing avenues. Event is free & open to all. Here's link: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee... @regionalstudies.bsky.social @rsa-regions.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social

Hi everyone, so this is happening & I would be really glad to have you all join me in this conversation. Academic writing is tough & publishing tougher. However there are avenues that are a middle grounds of academic publishing where all ideas are open for discussion & writing is flexible.

New RSA Blog 🚨 Productivity, Geography & Firm Survival — Lessons from Spain’s COVID-19 crisis Findings from @Sabine D'Costa & Adelheid Holl: • Productive firms survive more • Geography shapes competitiveness • Crisis policies shift survival patterns 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

New RSA blog 🌿 Rural Mayors as Climate Actors, Potentials & Constraints What does a local climate agency look like when expectations are high and resources are limited? Read: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Crises, Communities & Business Resilience in Nigeria How do family-run firms survive overlapping crises? New RSA Blog by Tolu Olarewaju, Saul Estrin & Tomasz Mickiewicz explores kinship, cooperation & resilience. 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...