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Rolling blog open (February & March). Warm invitations for contributions! 😊
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🌟 New RSA blog! by Palesa Mpofu
Economic Diversification & Structural Transformation in South Africa’s North West Province.

Explore why diversification matters for resilience, jobs, and inclusive growth:
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Economic Diversification and Structural Transformation: The Case of South Africa’s North West Province - RSA Main
Economic diversification involves shifting away from a dominant sector to cultivate multiple industries that generate diverse income streams. Relying heavily on a single resource sector increases an e...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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🌟 New RSA Blog:
My PhD Journey: Why Spatial Inequality?
Zhiwu Wei reflects on how his rural upbringing and interdisciplinary research path shaped his PhD: & how GeoAI and comparative regional work are redefining spatial inequality research.

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My PhD Journey: Why Spatial Inequality? - RSA Main
One moment in 2025 has felt like a rare stroke of cosmic luck. In May, I was honoured to serve as the Early Career Plenary Speaker at the opening session of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Annu...
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December 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🌟 New RSA blog — Extended Summer Series!
What if “region” isn’t a map, but mobility, caste networks, water, memory, and vernacular space?

Harsh Singhal explores how communities in Rajasthan reimagine regional identity from the ground up.

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From Dhani to Region: Reimagining Spatial Identity through Mobile and Marginal Communities in Rajasthan - RSA Main
The notion of ‘region,’ as interpreted by planners and policymakers, is frequently administrative and formal, delineated by jurisdictional boundaries and quantified through statistical metrics such as...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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🌟 New RSA blog!
Life events—not just infrastructure—drive the biggest shifts in commuting, with big implications for low-carbon transport.
By @conorodriscoll99.bsky.social
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#Transport #Climate #Planning #RSA #HistoricalRegions
Planning for Real Lives: Accessibility, Life Events, and the Path to Low-Carbon Commuting - RSA Main
Our reliance on cars is one reason why domestic transport is the UK’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2024). Using alternatives, like walking a...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🌟 New RSA blog!
What Life Really Looks Like: Women Labourers in Sangamner
By Pranav Sharma.

Insights from 500+ women show the gap between official data and lived labour in Maharashtra.

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What Life Really Looks Like: Women Labourers in Sangamner - RSA Main
Around one-quarter of the world’s labour force works in agriculture. In many low- to middle-income countries, labour in agriculture is one of the highest contributors. As WOTR notes in its article, wo...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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🎉 Announcing the 2025 RSA Best Blog Award!
Congrats to Ayush Srivastava & Asma Sayyad (TISS, India) for:
Tide and Territory: Vernacular Regionality in Maharashtra’s Koli Fishing Communities.

Read: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🎥 Award: youtu.be/XRwmi2AzUU0?...
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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New RSA blog by @Riley Wenjia Ding:
Quyu (区域) and the many lives of “region.”
How a single term shifts across language, policy and scale—from districts to cross-border imaginaries.

Read: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

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Quyu (区域) and the Many Lives of “Region”: Language, Policy and Scale Perspective - RSA Main
Regional studies often treat the region as a sub‑national unit, and it spans from neighbourhoods to cross‑border macro‑regions. In Asia, this elasticity is intensified by language. Words that look equ...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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New RSA blog: What the EU can learn from Australia — 5 lessons on competitiveness, community, innovation & identity.
By Anastasiia Konstantynova.
What’s one lesson Europe should borrow?👇
Link: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Therefore join me in this webinar & feel free to ask questions about academic writing & publishing avenues. Event is free & open to all.
Here's link: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...

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November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Hi everyone, so this is happening & I would be really glad to have you all join me in this conversation.
Academic writing is tough & publishing tougher. However there are avenues that are a middle grounds of academic publishing where all ideas are open for discussion & writing is flexible.
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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New RSA Blog 🚨
Productivity, Geography & Firm Survival — Lessons from Spain’s COVID-19 crisis

Findings from @Sabine D'Costa & Adelheid Holl:
• Productive firms survive more
• Geography shapes competitiveness
• Crisis policies shift survival patterns

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Productivity, Geography, and Firm Survival: Lessons from Spain’s COVID-19 Crisis - RSA Main
Why do some firms weather crises while others disappear? And what role do productivity and geography play in determining who survives? These questions are at the heart of understanding how economies r...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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New RSA blog 🌿
Rural Mayors as Climate Actors, Potentials & Constraints

What does a local climate agency look like when expectations are high and resources are limited?

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Rural Mayors as Climate Actors: Potentials and Constraints of Local Agency - RSA Main
Rural areas are vulnerable to climate change but also contribute to it through their close ties to the natural environment through agriculture, forestry, tourism and resource extraction. Unsurprisingl...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Crises, Communities & Business Resilience in Nigeria

How do family-run firms survive overlapping crises?
New RSA Blog by Tolu Olarewaju, Saul Estrin & Tomasz Mickiewicz explores kinship, cooperation & resilience.

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Crises, Communities and Business Resilience in Nigeria - RSA Main
Nigeria’s business environment has been defined by overlapping crises—economic shocks, political instability, and community-level disruptions. For example, in 2015, Nigeria entered a prolonged downtur...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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🌏 New RSA Blog: South East Asia as a Global Economic Corridor by Sreedevi RS
ASEAN’s MPAC 2025 links trade, mobility & innovation — but can growth stay inclusive?

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October 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Our latest @safety-nets.bsky.social project blog is out. We reflect on spatial inequalities and disability benefit reforms. And the pickle UK gov changes might create for subnational and devolved authorities.
October 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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New RSA Blog 📉
“The Growth Gamble” explores how UK welfare reform, deindustrialisation & regional divides intersect.
By Sioned Pearce, @haylesben.bsky.social, Mhairi Ross & @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social.

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The growth gamble: Do we need to loosen the tie binding devolution with economic outcomes in England? - RSA Main
Earlier in 2025, the UK government announced a commitment to reduce spending on disability benefits by restructuring entitlements and eligibility to various health-related benefits. It claims through ...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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New RSA Blog 💻
Digital tools helped UK SMEs survive Covid-19 — but only in urban areas.

Sabine D’Costa & @ioramashvili.bsky.social show why rural firms saw no boost, calling for place-based digital strategies.

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👀 New RSA calls soon!
October 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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We've got a stellar set of speakers this term at @ihr.bsky.social. Come along an immerse yourself in the latest early modern history research! #EarlyModern 🗃️
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We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs! Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House
September 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Well done on this constructive contribution with some very useful basic advice.
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Many thanks to @regstud.bsky.social and @rsablog.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts on designing better maps in academia. And to @cchlebna.bsky.social for encouragement and feedback.
September 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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New RSA Blog 🗺️ Maps are powerful tools — but do we use their full potential?

@jakobeder.bsky.social reflects on why visual literacy matters in geography & shares 5 simple tips for designing clearer, more engaging maps.

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Putting Graphicacy Back into Geography: Why it Matters How We Design Maps for Science Communication - RSA Main
Tools play a crucial role in research and the visual representation of regions. In this piece by Dr Jakob Eder, we explore mapping (graphicacy) and discuss its application and potential improvements f...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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For centuries, Mumbai’s Koli fishing communities shaped life by the tides 🌊🐟. Their Koliwadas are more than hamlets, they’re vernacular regions of caste, craft & ecology.
Read Ayush Srivastava & Asma Sayyad’s RSA Summer Series blog 👇
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Found this interesting?
September 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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New RSA Blog 🌍✍️ by Johanna Schnabel (@jos38.bsky.social) : Can Devolution Reduce Regional Inequality in the UK?
From “Levelling Up” to “Power Up Britain,” devolution is central, but structures alone aren’t enough. Read more 👇

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Found this insightful!!
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Job Opportunity!

University of Florida - Assistant Professor in Brazilian History

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September 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🌍 New Blog from Summer Series!
Colonial Planning and Customary Chief Land Rights in Kinshasa’s Peripheral Communes
Read about Kinshasa’s urban Story by Alex N Kalenga: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
Dec rolling submissions open!
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Colonial legacy and customary chief land rights in the context of Kinshasa peripheral communes - RSA Main
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest-growing megacities, with over 15 million inhabitants according to the latest census (The World Bank Gr...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM