Community Motive 🌎🌍🌏Think Local Planet, Act Regionally!: New Journal for 2013 - Call for Editors and Members of the Editorial Advisory Board

TERRITORY, POLITICS, GOVERNANCE

New Journal for 2013

Call for Editors and Members of the Editorial Advisory Board

The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint a team of Editors including an early career editor and members of the Editorial Advisory Board for a new start international journal titled Territory, Politics, Governance to be published by Routledge.

This journal will be launched in 2013, and will have a significant circulation footprint and the potential for far reaching impact, as it will be distributed from Volume 1, Issue 1 with its sister journals, Regional Studies and Spatial Economic Analysis. Territory, Politics, Governance will engage with topics at the interface between the analysis and practice of territorial development, including:

Theories of socio-spatial relations, such as territories, places, scales and networks;
Analyses of territorial governance, politics and policies;
Globalisation, borderless worlds and geopolitical imaginations;
States, political economy and territorial interventions;
Social and political constructions and mobilisations of territorial identities;
Methodological perspectives on territorial politics and policy.

This new journal devoted specifically to Territory, Politics, Governance presents a single platform for a growing, international and increasingly vibrant academic field. Territory, Politics, Governance will become the place to publish theoretically and empirically leading international scholarship, and at the same time deliver policy and political relevance.

The journal will use a fully supported online submission programme (Scholar One Manuscripts) and will be subject to double blind peer review.

The Editorial Team

The journal will be fully owned by the Regional Studies Association and appointments will be made by the RSA Board. The journal management will build on the successful models used for Regional Studies and Spatial Economic Analysis.

Editorial appointments will be for three to five years in the first instance and may be renewable. Members of the Editorial Advisory Board may be appointed on variable length terms. The Editor in Chief will be a member of the RSA Board and will report to the Journals Management Committee. The Editor has editorial control of the content of the journal and will have the confidence of both the Journals Management Committee and the RSA Board to undertake this role independently of external interference.

The Editorial Team will receive financial support from the Regional Studies Association.

For more info: http://www.regionalstudies.org/pdfs/territorycfp.pdf

The Association is seeking two kinds of expression of interest:

Editor in Chief/Co-Editor (Editorial Team)

The Association is seeking to appoint an editor in chief and co-editors including a co-editor in their early career. Individual and team applications are welcome. Application packages should include CVs and a manifesto statement setting out what would be brought to the editorial role, particularly in terms of the journal’s international remit and views on the journal content e.g. sections, review articles etc. Engagement with relevant networks and conferences in the field should be demonstrated. They should also signal any institutional support, including any time allowance for journal work and available university resources.

Members of the Editorial Advisory Board

Applications are welcomed for members of the Editorial Advisory Board. This body works to support the editors and there will be commitment to assist in the identification of key contributors, to solicit articles and to undertake some refereeing. The position is unremunerated. Ideal candidates will be scholars of high standing with experience of publishing. Applications should take the form of a CV and supporting statement setting out qualities and experience for the role.

For more info: http://www.regionalstudies.org/pdfs/territoryinfo.pdf

To Apply: Closing Date: Friday, 14th October 2011

Applications should be sent to the Association’s Chief Executive: sally.hardy@regionalstudies.org

Prospective applicants who wish to have informal discussions are welcome to contact Sally Hardy, Professor Martin Jones (Chair, Journals Management Committee) msj@aber.ac.uk or Professor Gordon Dabinett (Journals Management Committee) g.e.dabinett@sheffield.ac.uk

For more info: http://www.regionalstudies.org/news.asp#newjournal

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Prototype for Global Coding of Political Geographies Library and Data Management – Wikipedia Example

The system is based on a geocode scheme set up for earth that focuses on established political boundaries as a basis for regional grouping of nations, states and localities. It is decimal system based to take advantage of the sort criteria for numbers in computers. It utilized the Sector Group and Region codes of the United Nations and ISO. Geographic information system technology does not solve the problem, but its tools can be used with the geocodes.

The geocode system effectively organizes Wikipedia entries as a library management and the geocodes can be used for data aggregation. This has been developed under a Creative Commons license and would benefit from a global network implementation where local users cooperatively related subnational geographic regions and component political geography.

Examples are at the links which follow:

1. Global Geocode Library Use Organizes Wikipedia Pages Geographically

2. Global Geocode Library Use Organizes U.S. State Wikipedia Pages Geographically

3. Global Geocode Library Organizes U.S. Sub-state and Multi-state Region Wikipedia Pages Geographically

4. Why focus on COGs/Regional Councils in the U.S.? "the substate district is essentially an administrative tool of states"

Contact: Tom Christoffel

Community Motive – Three Thoughts by Tom Christoffel, FeRSA, 3/16/09-revised 9/29/09; 9/26/11

Based on my experience as a regional planner and agency director, 1973 -2008, and in recognition of emerging "regional communities," I developed three thoughts about community that relate to the challenge of working across-boundaries as greater or regional communities. The thoughts/theses apply for communities at the scale of bonding or bridging social capital as defined by Robert D. Putnam, which is alternately local or regional. (link below)

As of 2011, considering the global financial crisis brought about by pursuit of the "profit motive," it struck me that this has come to dominate modern life. This is a relatively new invention of civilization and wasn't a concern for most of the time that homo sapiens has been on the planet.

The three thoughts below that had emerged in my experience of working on regional cooperation now represent what I now posit as the "community motive." Concern about "profit" can emerge within an established community over time, but, to my mind the "profit motive" does not exist in the wild.

1) Community precedes cooperation.
2) Community is how life solves all problems.
3) Security is the primary purpose of community.

These three thoughts, theses if you will, are the basis of the "community motive." Following is some exposition about each one.

As I see it, security has always been the priority for humans since the plains of Africa. That's why communities first seek to establish defensible boundaries. After the basics are in place, security focus shifts to the social and economic. Boundaries work like the membrane in the osmosis experiment most of us have seen in a science class. The membrane is a filter that lets the good things pass through, but keeps unwanted things out. (Osmosis -YouTube - 45 sec.)

The evolved political boundaries of today have consequence. The rules change when you cross them. Though marked on the ground and fortified in some instances, they are conceptual, as pictured above, with Universe Man. The boundary divides the space between local, that within, and regional, everything outside, as labeled in the second panel. The third panel repeats the image within, to show, without graphic elegance, that the land on which Universe Man sits is regional at another scale, as determined by other boundaries, and another area that's local. A territory is both local and regional, depending upon the perspective.

Communities of communities, “regional communities” are greater communities organized to solve a problem, be it managing a watershed, strengthening an economic cluster or ensuring peer competition for school sports. Regional boundaries can be imposed for administrative purposes within states, but for these to be a basis for effective cooperation, a greater community sense is needed for that geography among the people. This is true for multi-state and multi-national regional communities as well. The leaders with such a vision can build a regional community by finding that which is already in place.

This is not to suggest that community is easy to build in order to solve problems. In a crisis, humans of any culture, belief or politics can quickly come together and self-organize to save themselves and others. It was the on-the- ground response to the 9/11 attacks that demonstrated to me the deep responsiveness of human community, as well as the fundamental importance of security. Community is how humans have always survived. This, I think, extends to all life forms.

The "community motive" comes into play when there is a problem to be solved. In a monetized civilization, the "profit motive" may be an incentive for some action, but most of the problems of life don't have a check at the end for their solution. They are things that must be done. Because this is the case, humanity has been able to perpetuate. ©

For more on Regional Community and Scale, see the Slideshare box below.

To learn about bridging and bonding social capital, read Chapter 1 of Bowling Alone: the collapse and revival of American community By Robert D. Putnam

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New Journal for 2013 - Call for Editors and Members of the Editorial Advisory Board

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