The triumph of the placeless

Jones, Calvin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-2330 2024. The triumph of the placeless. Regional Studies 58 (3) , pp. 654-667. 10.1080/00343404.2023.2236638 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Although three centuries of industrialisation and growth have led to unimaginably better lives for most people, economic, well-being and health outcomes differ widely across places, both between and within polities. We suggest that policy to reduce such differences and ameliorate their impacts requires a consideration of the role of ‘placeless’ agents in shaping places – here, subnational regions. Prior economic development at macro-scales has rewarded and empowered placeless agents: firms, people and institutions which rely for well-being, identity and profits not on a specific place, but rather on a type or types of place. Their choosy mobility and lack of embeddedness means interactions with specific places are functionally narrow, voluntary, self-interested and potentially problematic for embedded actors, and for the health and viability of the places within which they operate. We operationalise this concept by developing notions of economic, socio-cultural and civic placelessness, make some suggestions for measurement, and assess a number of government policies developed in the region of Wales that are in part reactions to the incursion and impacts of the placeless.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	1360-0591
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	11 July 2023
Date of Acceptance:	5 July 2023
Last Modified:	20 Mar 2024 16:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/160949

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