The ‘imaginary’ challenge of remaking subnational governance: regional identity and contested city-region-building in the UK
基于对谢菲尔德城市区域利益相关者的访谈，研究发现历史区域认同在治理重组中持续存在，并与新城市区域想象产生冲突，阻碍了地方治理的重塑。
With the structuring of subnational governance driven primarily by economic goals, an issue that has become increasingly overlooked is that of identity. Drawing on interviews with stakeholders from the Sheffield City Region, the paper builds on Jones and Woods’ framework of 2013 of ‘material’ and ‘imagined’ coherence, demonstrating the ‘imaginary’ challenge of remaking subnational governance in the context of rescaling from regions to city-regions. It shows that historical regional identities can persist even in the absence of associated material components of governance, and that rescaling can create asymmetries between material and imagined coherence, resulting in competing imaginaries that hinder the new subnational arrangements.