Transferal From EEG to MEG

Abstract

In human geography the literature on the politics of local development is a fairly recent one. It emerged in part as a critical response to earlier work in sociology and political science in the United States. Central to it has been the theme of a tension between fixity and mobility. Agents are to varying degrees locally dependent. In virtue of fixities in social relations, the continuing flow of value through them is of central importance. The ever-changing character of the wider economic geography threatens that flow, and hence those values. This is the necessary condition for the formation of local growth coalitions, aiming at securing the conditions of continuing growth. The recognition of their significance has precipitated interest in cognate topics including local governance, the politics of scale, and the ideologies of local development through which growth coalitions try to defuse opposition to their plans. There are continuing yet creative tensions in the literature between the claims of universality and particularity. Initially there were difficulties in extending essentially American frameworks to the British case. Study of the topic in other countries, however, means that these tensions will continue to be a source of innovation in thinking about it.