Call for Proposals for the Regional Studies Association’s
Regions & Cities Book Series
Published by Routledge
Places, Networks, and Uneven Spatial Development
Regions and cities develop unevenly, within and without, and value is created spatially across their unevenness through places and networks. Regions and cities are sub- and supra-national geographies, often with contested, overlapping boundaries, governance structures, and polities. The speed of communication and circulation, migration, and the fundamentally relational character of regions extend their scales and identities. Yet even amidst resurgent nationalisms, regions and cities remain the most compelling units for analysis of land-based socio-political and economic territories.
Today a central issue for regions and cities is the emerging role of algorithmic technologies in producing virtualscapes and hybrid spatialities. How will these technologies impact traditional understandings of landscapes, law, labor, and governance? Territory, territoriality, and sovereignty? Infrastructure? Social and political organization? Shared scales of environment and climate? The current conditions require that we interrogate all our accumulated placed-based knowledge of regions and cities to rediscover what remains vital against what needs to be absolutely reformulated.
The Editor and Editorial board of the Regions & Cities book series invite proposals for monographs or edited volumes that address these complex geographies of uneven spatial development. Issues may include: value chains, green technology and the circular economy, urban mobility and logistics, tourism and brand culture, critical rurality, mega-regions and trading blocks, reshoring/backshoring, austerity, migration, and compelling new horizons for the study of regions and cities.
Please send proposals to Stephen Ramos, Editor-in-Chief, sramos@uga.edu and Kristina Abbotts, Routledge Commissioning Editor, kristina.abbotts@tandf.co.uk by 30th September 2025.
With over 300 series authors and 150 titles, the Regions & Cities book series brings together incisive and critically engaged international and interdisciplinary research, addressing the interest of geographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists and cultural scholars, as well as to policy-makers involved in regional and urban development.
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) is the global community for regional and urban research, development and policy. As a learned society for regional studies, it provides an authoritative voice for researchers, students and practitioners from disciplines including economics, geography, political science, planning, urban sociology, transport planning and other fields. The RSA delivers its charitable aims through knowledge exchange and policy engagement activities, its portfolio of journals and publications, its programme of conferences and events and its worldwide territorial and research networks. The RSA also runs a grant funding programme and recognises good practice in regional studies through its awards. It is an inclusive, diverse and environmental responsible organisation. For more information go to www.regionalstudies.org