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European Spatial Planning Between Competitiveness and Territorial Cohesion: Shadows of Neo-liberalism
- Source :
- European Planning Studies. 18:1301-1315
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2010.
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Abstract
- This paper analyses the use of the concept of territorial cohesion in policy documents produced by the European Union. It is an idea celebrated in community documents, such as cohesion reports, the Territorial Agenda of the European Union and the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion; after more than a decade of political debate, the concept is about to gain a legitimate institutional role, after being included in the Lisbon Treaty, and is among the competences that the EU shares with other member states. At first, territorial cohesion seems to oppose the logics of neo-liberalism by reinscribing welfare problems and policies in spatial terms. However, using the analytical framework of cultural critics, and intending cohesion to be a discourse carried on by a community of European scholars and policymakers, the research will discuss the conceptual relationship between competitiveness and territorial cohesion in European policies and narratives.
- Subjects :
- Green paper
Neoliberalism (international relations)
Geography, Planning and Development
neoliberalism
territorial cohesion
Cohesion (linguistics)
Politics
Economy
Political science
European integration
European spatial planning
media_common.cataloged_instance
European union
Treaty
Spatial planning
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14695944 and 09654313
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Planning Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....96dca2d8d6e78dca7c277204da2c3a58