TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bialasiewicz,Luiza
AU  - Giaccaria,Paolo
AU  - Jones,Alun
AU  - Minca,Claudio
TI  - Re-scaling ‘EU’rope: EU macro-regional fantasies in the Mediterranean
SN  - 09697764
AV  - HT395 EUR 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - sage
KW  - Re-scaling ‘EU’rope
KW  - EU macro-regional fantasies
KW  - Mediterranean
KW  - Europe, Mediterranean
N2  - This article engages with the most recent spatial fantasy for the making of ‘EU’ropean space: the idea of trans-European macro-regions, currently in vogue in the policy literature. In particular, we focus on the imaginings of a Mediterranean macro-region as the latest incarnation of the macro-regional fad, but also as a useful prism for reflecting on some of the underlying conceptual as well as political and geopolitical challenges of the on-going remaking and rescaling of ‘EU’ropean space. We argue that, although there exists by now a vast literature by geographers and other scholars that engages with the production of ‘EU’ropean spaces through regionalization, the policy literature generated by EU ‘macro-regional experts’ appears to entirely ignore these debates, professing an understanding of regions that is a conceptual pastiche at best, and that entirely occludes the political and geopolitical implications of region-making within, at, and beyond ‘EU’rope’s borders
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776412463372
ER  -