The Region as a Concept: Traditional and Constructivist View
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F17%3A10364105" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/17:10364105 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.14712/23361980.2017.17" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14712/23361980.2017.17</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23361980.2017.17" target="_blank" >10.14712/23361980.2017.17</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Region as a Concept: Traditional and Constructivist View
Original language description
The main goal of this article is to assess and compare the various understandings of the concept of the region. The aim is to characterize the concept of a region as well as how its meaning has changed through geographical history, to mention the most important personalities and how they understood the concept of region. The article presents two different ways of looking at a region: 1) the region in the sense of traditional regional geography; 2) the region in the new regional geography (region understood as a social construct). The article then compares the two approaches and outlines both their advantages and their disadvantages. The first section presents a brief overview of how the understanding of the concept of region developed. The following part focuses on development of the concept of region as a social construct, especially in the context of the development of new regional geography, cultural turn and new regionalism. Finally, the article emphasizes the essential complementarity of the two approaches and briefly proposes a more complex scheme of analysis of a region.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GBP410%2F12%2FG113" target="_blank" >GBP410/12/G113: Historical Geography Research Centre</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Geographica
ISSN
0300-5402
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
52 (2017)
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
208-218
UT code for WoS article
000457213900007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85036454765