Includes bibliographical references and index.

A new new regional geography / Martin Jones -- Writing regional cultural landscape : cultural geography on the Norfolk Broads / David Matless -- Regions rock : heavy metal and the role of music in the construction of regional identity for the British Midlands / Jesse Heley and Marc Welsh -- On parochialism / John Tomaney -- Mapping cultures of regional perception and conception : a cultural cartography from northeast Brazil / Jörn Seemann -- Regionalists and excursionistes : Catalan "regions" and national identity / Venetia Congdon -- A radical new regional geography : notes on a revolution / James Riding -- The crisis at the centre of the United Kingdom (UK) : exploring Scottish independence and democratically disruptive regions / Philip Johnstone -- From "fly frontier" to "cotton country" : social change and agrarian transformation in the northwest of Zimbabwe / Nicholas James -- Intertwined spatialities : discursive construction(s) of central germany / Roger Baars and Antje Schlottmann -- Regions, regionalisms, and identities : towards a regional mess / Kaj Zimmerbauer -- City-region building and geohistorical matters / David Beel, Martin Jones, and Ian Rees Jones -- Radiant copenhagen : reimagining regions through digital fiction / Rune Graulund, Kristoffer Ørum, and Anders Bojen -- Tracktivist topographies : mapping in the marches and marching on the map in rural activist walking performance / Jess Allen -- Animating terroir in the French Alps / Rory Hill -- Performing landscape using a locative media deep map app : a Cornish case study / Lucy Frears, Erik Geelhoed, and Misha Myers -- Extractive geographies, immersive lives : performative explorations of labour and materialities in the Southern Peak District / George Jaramillo -- What's next for regional geography? / John Agnew.

Writing regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the end of the twentieth century. From then on writing regions as they were experienced phenomenologically, or arguing culturally, historically and politically with regions, was deemed to be old-fashioned. Yet the region is, and always will be, a central geographical concept, and thinking about regions can tell us a lot about the history of the discipline called geography. Despite taking up an identifiable place within the geographical imagination in scholarship and beyond, region remains a relatively forgotten, under-used and in part an under-theorised term. Reanimating Regions marks the continued re-invigoration of a set of disciplinary debates surrounding regions, the regional and regional geography. Across 18 chapters from international, interdisciplinary scholars, this book writes and performs region as a temporary permanence, something held stable, not fixed and absolute, at different points in time, for different purposes. There is, as this expansive volume outlines, no single reading of a region. Reanimating Regions collectively rebalances the region within geography and geographical thought. In renewing the geography of regions as not only a site of investigation but also as an analytical framework through which to write the world, what emerges is a powerful reworking of the geographic imagination.

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