Multi-scalar geographies of polarisation and peripheralisation: A case study of Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0029" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0029</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0029" target="_blank" >10.1515/bog-2017-0029</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Multi-scalar geographies of polarisation and peripheralisation: A case study of Czechia

Original language description

A key issue in socio-economic geography is to understand how regional and social polarisation shapes the territorial organisation of society. We argue that effects of polarisation are not translated simply and straightforwardly in a whole region, but vary to a large extent with respect to different types of accessibility areas. We applied the time-accessibility framework to classify a territory into urban, peri-urban, rural, and remote rural areas at a national and regional scale. Subsequently, we computed comparative indicators for this territorial classification, measuring three dimensions of peripherality for a period of thirty years. The analysis illustrates how polarisation and peripheralisation works at a detailed spatial level. A case study of the Ústí region shows re-polarisation and bi-polarisation of the region in its path from socialist urbanisation in the 1980s to regional peripheralisation in 2011. The use of the time-accessibility framework allows to assess regional changes within long-term and broader changes of core-periphery relations at national level and thus allows for a better understanding of the different nature of socialist and post-socialist peripheries. Finally, the article offers methodical procedures and tools allowing for a comparable research of polarisation and peripheralisation. Thus, it is responding to the call for more comparative research of peripheral areas in Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-10602S" target="_blank" >GA15-10602S: The Socio-Spatial Disadvantage of Inhabitants in Peripheral Rural Regions</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bulletin of Geography. Socio–economic Series

ISSN

1732-4254

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

37

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

125-137

UT code for WoS article

000414672800009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85040448322