Fringe Regionalism

Frank Mattheis is Research Fellow at the Institut d’études européennes (IEE), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Associate Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), University of Pretoria, South Africa.Luca Raineri is Research Fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Italy.Alessandra Russo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.

• 1. Introductory remarks – the case for fringe regionalism.- 2. Producing regional spaces from the margins: Fringe regionalism - a conceptual proposal to recalibrate the study of regions.- 3. The practice of fringe regionalism - evidence from the Caucasus and the Sahara.- 4. Towards a wider application of fringe regionalism – comparisons and transfers