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Last updated: 11/09/08

What does the project examine?

SPHERE

Space, Place and the Historical and contemporary articulations of regional, national and European identities through work and community in areas undergoing economic REstructuring and regeneration

What does the project examine?

The project examines how:

• ‘new’ identities might emerge, and older ones survive;

• processes of economic change and regeneration impact on the significance of place as central to people’s sense of history and feelings of belonging;

• the arts, literature and media have functioned to establish understandings of place;

• communal and collective organisations affect the preservation or renewal of historical identities;

• associative collective action and political participation within these regions and localities have survived.

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