Postmodernist territorialism and universalization: "pivotting" regions and "virtual" regions

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  • Sergio Boisier

Abstract

The author of the paper offers as his central thesis a need for a certain degree of flexibility when it comes to setting up structures for the region, be this at national or international level. Such a flexibilizing is here felt to be a need imposed by the speed of the changes being suffered by regions on account of economic globalization and the democratic demands now made upon the regional setup as such. So that such a degree of flexibilizing might be achieved. the paper recommends a renouncing of any directing initiatives and a "from the centre downwards" philosophy when it comes to defining a region that this thinking be replaced by initiatives springing from its social basis which would lead on to defining of the region in terms of neighbouring territories and even of those with no common border or even of different countries. The technological and scientific revolution now under way is seen to call for new ways of understanding the region given that once long-standing limits founded upon territorial neighbourhood and their size no longer hold. Structural complexity is now the over-ridding factor in identifying regions, it is felt. their size being of little at the moment. The paper proposes a new typology for regions in which would figure 'pivotting' regions, these being the smaller units in our present-day political and administrative configuration but at the same time of a sufficient complexity as entities, associative regions which would freely enter into political association and count among them at least one pivoting region and one or more of the political and administrative regions neighbouring this and 'virtual' regions, created by tacit agreement between pivoting regions or associative regions when not sharing common borders. The Columbian Constitution is said here to offer a practical legal framework in which the above suggestions could be accommodated. The Peruvian Constitution is likewise felt to offer regional flexibility whereas that of Chile is. on the contrary, utterly inflexible.

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1994-12-21

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Boisier, S. (1994). Postmodernist territorialism and universalization: "pivotting" regions and "virtual" regions. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (102), 597–608. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/83974

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Vol. II, núm. 102 (1994)

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Copyright (c) 1994 Sergio Boisier

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