ESR 8

Project: Framing the governance of core-periphery relations in Germany and Romania

ESR 8: Alexandru Brad (Host: IfL)

Description: What is regional development and how should it be done? At some point, this meaning-making question is likely to be faced by policy makers, politicians, economic agents, various interest groups, and publics with a stake in the matter. The answer to this, while shaping a line of argument, a guide of intervention, or an identity, also creates a field of contestation, both in theoretical debates and policy practices. With this project, I seek to provide an account of the travel, shaping, and implementing of normative ideas (which stem either from theoretical reasoning, or from policy learning, or emerge from daily practices) into regional development policy responses to current socio-spatial processes of polarisation and peripheralisation.