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📢 New call for submissions
Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure and Policy Making

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When policy changes but practice doesn’t: Informal trading in Johannesburg - RSA Main Across the world, regions are shaped not only by their present-day borders but also by layers of past governance, political ambition, and entrenched planning legacies. Nowhere is this more visible tha...

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🌍 New RSA Blog | Historical Regions
When Policy Changes but Practice Doesn’t: Informal Trading in Johannesburg
✍️ Mamokete Modiba

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📢 Call open: Mobile Regions
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Silicon Statecraft: How Historical Geography and "Strategic Indispensability" are Reshaping Japan’s Semiconductor Supply Chain - RSA Main In the high-stakes game of 21st-century geopolitics, the map of the future is being drawn on the blueprints of the past. Nowhere is this clearer than in Kyushu, Japan. The recent opening of the Taiwan...

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🧭 Silicon Statecraft: How Historical Geography and Strategic Indispensability are Reshaping Japan’s Semiconductor Supply Chain
✍️ Giosuè Pacchiano

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The modern boundaries of nation-state.
This theme therefore invites contributions that explore diverse perspectives on mobility in transition, whether by choice or by force,
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Please feel free to reach out with your ideas or any questions regarding the call.
I'd be happy to answer them😊.
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as well as the infrastructure development and policymaking surrounding it.
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Hi everyone, I would like to invite you all for a special series blog call on "Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure and Policy Making"
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Warm invites to the RSA community for participation & reshare :)
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Sharing call for contributions to @regstud.bsky.social blog on Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure, & Policy Making
We’re looking for short reflections on mobility: movement, migration, public space, rural decline, infrastructure, everyday access, & more.
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#RegionalStudies #PlasticPollution #Climate #AI

📣 We’re open for May blog submissions on spatial politics, policy innovation, AI, and regional futures — we’d love to hear from you!

The blog shows how typhoons can act as powerful agents that lift microplastics from the ocean and deposit them on land, linking storm intensity to plastic spread and raising questions about climate and environmental resilience.

How Typhoons Spread Plastic Pollution: A Scientific Discovery - RSA Main Tropical storms, such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones, are among the Earth’s most powerful weather systems. They are also born over warm oceans now overwhelmed with our plastic waste. As a resea...

🌟 New RSA Blog:
How Typhoons Spread Plastic Pollution: A Scientific Discovery
By Taiseer Hussain Nafea

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📣 📣 The opening plenary for #RSA26 is now complete 📣 📣

The Early Career Plenary Speaker competition winner is:

🎉 @Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 🎉

Kirstin joins a fantastic line up of speakers.

For info on the plenary and conference:

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CFP: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/in...

This piece unpacks how historical spatial policies and industrial legacies have shaped uneven development in Gauteng’s periphery, drawing on apartheid-era spatial-industrial arrangements and ongoing institutional path dependencies. @jasonfbell.bsky.social.

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We’re seeking May blogs on spatial politics, policy innovation, AI & regional futures.
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Uneven Geographies of Industrialisation: Race, Space, and Path Dependence on Gauteng’s Periphery - RSA Main South Africa’s post-apartheid development landscape remains profoundly shaped by its inherited spatial and institutional architecture. Derived from my PhD study, Bell (2025) argues that underdevelopme...

New RSA Historical Regions blog by Jason F. Bell:

Uneven Geographies of Industrialisation: Race, Space, and Path Dependence on Gauteng’s Periphery

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Is the UK’s industrial strategy really place based? New @rsablog.bsky.social blog on our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper. Blog here: regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl... paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @prt1969.bsky.social

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The 2020 Troms–Finnmark merger was introduced despite 87% opposition — and reversed in 2024. The blog traces how history, identity, and legitimacy shaped the outcome.
If this interests you, we’re seeking new blogs for May on spatial politics, policy shifts, AI, and regional futures.

A Short-Lived Union: Lessons from the Troms-Finnmark Merger - RSA Main In 2020, a merger of the counties of Troms and Finnmark in northern Norway was implemented as part of a nationwide regional reform. Unlike some mergers that took place at the time, this merger was not...

New RSA Historical Regions blog by Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen:

A Short-Lived Union: Lessons from the Troms–Finnmark Merger

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Is the UK’s industrial strategy really place based? New @rsablog.bsky.social blog on our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper. Blog here: regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl... paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social

My afterword "The Material Politics of Labour in Africa" to the SI "Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa" edited is now freely available. @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @rsablog.bsky.social #geosky

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