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Multi-scalar geographies of polarisation and peripheralisation: A case study of Czechia

SYSNO ASEP	0477448
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Multi-scalar geographies of polarisation and peripheralisation: A case study of Czechia
Author(s)	Šimon, Martin (SOU-Z)_{RID, ORCID, SAI}
Source Title	Bulletin of Geography. Socio–economic Series - ISSN 1732-4254 Roč. 16, č. 37 (2017), s. 125-137
Number of pages	14 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	PL - Poland
Keywords	polarisation ; peripheralisation ; accessibility
Subject RIV	AO - Sociology, Demography
OECD category	Sociology
R&D Projects	GA15-10602S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
Institutional support	SOU-Z - RVO:68378025
UT WOS	000414672800009
EID SCOPUS	85040448322
DOI	10.1515/bog-2017-0029
Annotation	A key issue in socio-economic geography is to understand how regional and social polarisation shapes the territorial organisation of society. We argue that effects of polarisation are not translated simply and straightforwardly in a whole region, but vary to a large extent with respect to different types of accessibility areas. We applied the time-accessibility framework to classify a territory into urban, peri-urban, rural, and remote rural areas at a national and regional scale. Subsequently, we computed comparative indicators for this territorial classification, measuring three dimensions of peripherality for a period of thirty years. The analysis illustrates how polarisation and peripheralisation works at a detailed spatial level. A case study of the Ústí region shows re-polarisation and bi-polarisation of the region in its path from socialist urbanisation in the 1980s to regional peripheralisation in 2011. The use of the time-accessibility framework allows to assess regional changes within long-term and broader changes of core-periphery relations at national level and thus allows for a better understanding of the different nature of socialist and post-socialist peripheries. Finally, the article offers methodical procedures and tools allowing for a comparable research of polarisation and peripheralisation. Thus, it is responding to the call for more comparative research of peripheral areas in Europe.
Workplace	Institute of Sociology
Contact	Eva Nechvátalová, eva.nechvatalova@soc.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 220 924 / linka 351
Year of Publishing	2018

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